Inhouse network upgrade

December 4th, 2008

Darn you Boxee… You’re costing me quite a lot of money:

  • To enable wireless streaming of DVDs I hasd to upgrade my network to the Draft n, so I added a Dlink 655 wireless router
  • To be able to store all my ripped DVDs, I just bought a QNAP TS-509 Pro together with 5x the Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda (in a RAID 5 setup), giving me 5495.47 GB of storage space.

I’m now hacking my QNAP to support extraction of .iso images (so I can also download backup copies of my movies). This was a bit harder than I initially tought (mount -t iso9660 was not supported), so, in short:

  • Install & enable ipkg
  • Install cdrtools, perl (& vim while you’re at it)
  • Download the uniso script from Morphix and patch it to get it working (diff)

    I now can start downloads, extract iso’s and stream all my ripped DVDs from my AppleTV using Boxee! Now I just need to find two more AppleTVs for cheap :)


    This entry was posted on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 10:08 and is filed under Gadgets.

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