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I have written about this previously, but I am getting more adept at it as I progress. I thought you might like to hear the instructions that I have to offer.
You can do this easily with FileZilla or MaZEdit 3.0.
Let's look at using FileZilla as most everyone can access and run this application.
Assuming that you have your AZBox set up and cooperating/communicating with FileZilla, we will take off from that point.
Open your FileZilla application program and connect to your AZBox.
The upper right panel named "REMOTE SITE" is your AZBox. Locate the first folder shown with the "?/" and left click on that folder. It will open the main directories. Search for the folder named "DATA" and left click on it. It will open the directories within that folder. Locate the "MOVIES" folder and and right click on it. In the sub-menu that opens, click on "CREATE NEW DIRECTORY". You will see the path and filename with the "NEW DIRECTORY" highlighted. Here you may edit the name of the directory.
Type in any name you wish to call this new directory. For example: WESTERNS, SCI-FI, DRAMA, COMEDY, etc. Press enter and the new directory will be created.
If you do not create sub-directories in this way, all of your DVD titles will appear individually in the one huge directory called MOVIES and will make it harder to navigate when you start filling it up with hundreds of movies.
Creating these sub-directories will allow you to organize your movies into categories so that they are easier to navigate and locate. I have not found a way to organize the movies after the fact (you cannot move them around once they are in place like using drag and drop or cut and paste on your PC).
Let's say you want to transfer a comedy DVD to your AZBox HDD. Click on the COMEDY directory so that that folder's contents opens in the "FILENAME" box just below the "REMOTE SITE" box on FileZillas panel.
Insert your DVD and allow your PC to scan it. If it automatically opens a DVD player application, close that or at least minimize it. Then, on the FileZilla panel to the left, where it shows "LOCAL SITE" which is your PC's drive listings, click on the DVD drive of your PC to open the contents of the DVD and view them.
Locate the file folder "VIDEO_TS" and right click on it. You will have a menu that allows "ADD FILES TO QUEUE". Select that option and the files of the folder will be added to the queue list at the very bottom of the FileZilla screen.
In the tool bar at the top of the screen, click on TRANSFER and select PROCESS QUEUE. FileZilla will start transferring the DVD's "VIDEO_TS" folder to the directory that is open on the AZBox HDD.
The transfer process will take almost as long as the movie is in length. It seems to transfer the movie bit by bit as if you were watching it play. So be prepared to wait until it is complete before viewing it.
You may go back to your AZBox and use the remote to access other movie titles in the MOVIE directory and watch them or watch your satellite TV programs or You Tube while the transfer process is underway. It doesn't seem to like it if you try to watch the file you are transferring (it slows it down considerably), but you can do nearly anything else that you please.
When the file is done transferring to the AZBox's HDD, you need to rename the file as it will be listed as "VIDEO_TS". Click on the filename and rename it as the movie title the way you want it to be shown. If you do not do so, the next movie title that you transfer will simply overwrite the previous one with the name "VIDEO_TS". It will not create a new title automatically for you, it simply overwrites what is in the "VIDEO_TS" folder without prompting you if you want to do so.
If you have any troubles with copy protection codes, try installing SlySoft ANYDVD on your PC. It will run in the background. Not a very expensive program and it will allow your system to ignore these codes.
When you wish to watch your DVD titles, simply click on the AZBox's remote HOME button, scroll to MOVIE and select the MOVIE folder. Find the sub-directory for the movie category you want (i.e. WESTERNS) and press OK. Highlight the movie you wish to watch, press the CHECK button on the remote to select the movie nd then press OK. A store-bought DVD will be presented identically as if you were playing the DVD in a DVD player. So all the start menu features will be in tact as it will be a bit for bit copy of the original DVD.
I have been trying to delete and omit some of the extraeneous files, like subtitles and scene selections, blooper files, director cuts, actor interviews and language options so that it just plays the movie and the movie alone (trying to save space on my HDD) but everything seems to be interconnected somehow and dependant upon the other files being present. The best I have been able to do so far is cut out most everything down to the basic movie itself, but then it doesn't play quite right. The movie has several "divisions" and the transistion between each division causes the screen to go blank during a scene for about 1-2-3 seconds and then restart where it left off. It just isn't quite right, if you know what I mean. So I leave most of the files in tact to avoid this quirk. Maybe I will get it down pat someday so that I can reduce the space the DVD takes up on the HDD.
I can delete quite a few files, like the alternate language copies of the movie, and save a good amount space, but the rest of the files I must leave in tact or else the movie doesn't play correctly.
Well, that is pretty much all there is to the whole thing. Hope you enjoy playing with it all.
RADAR
You can do this easily with FileZilla or MaZEdit 3.0.
Let's look at using FileZilla as most everyone can access and run this application.
Assuming that you have your AZBox set up and cooperating/communicating with FileZilla, we will take off from that point.
Open your FileZilla application program and connect to your AZBox.
The upper right panel named "REMOTE SITE" is your AZBox. Locate the first folder shown with the "?/" and left click on that folder. It will open the main directories. Search for the folder named "DATA" and left click on it. It will open the directories within that folder. Locate the "MOVIES" folder and and right click on it. In the sub-menu that opens, click on "CREATE NEW DIRECTORY". You will see the path and filename with the "NEW DIRECTORY" highlighted. Here you may edit the name of the directory.
Type in any name you wish to call this new directory. For example: WESTERNS, SCI-FI, DRAMA, COMEDY, etc. Press enter and the new directory will be created.
If you do not create sub-directories in this way, all of your DVD titles will appear individually in the one huge directory called MOVIES and will make it harder to navigate when you start filling it up with hundreds of movies.
Creating these sub-directories will allow you to organize your movies into categories so that they are easier to navigate and locate. I have not found a way to organize the movies after the fact (you cannot move them around once they are in place like using drag and drop or cut and paste on your PC).
Let's say you want to transfer a comedy DVD to your AZBox HDD. Click on the COMEDY directory so that that folder's contents opens in the "FILENAME" box just below the "REMOTE SITE" box on FileZillas panel.
Insert your DVD and allow your PC to scan it. If it automatically opens a DVD player application, close that or at least minimize it. Then, on the FileZilla panel to the left, where it shows "LOCAL SITE" which is your PC's drive listings, click on the DVD drive of your PC to open the contents of the DVD and view them.
Locate the file folder "VIDEO_TS" and right click on it. You will have a menu that allows "ADD FILES TO QUEUE". Select that option and the files of the folder will be added to the queue list at the very bottom of the FileZilla screen.
In the tool bar at the top of the screen, click on TRANSFER and select PROCESS QUEUE. FileZilla will start transferring the DVD's "VIDEO_TS" folder to the directory that is open on the AZBox HDD.
The transfer process will take almost as long as the movie is in length. It seems to transfer the movie bit by bit as if you were watching it play. So be prepared to wait until it is complete before viewing it.
You may go back to your AZBox and use the remote to access other movie titles in the MOVIE directory and watch them or watch your satellite TV programs or You Tube while the transfer process is underway. It doesn't seem to like it if you try to watch the file you are transferring (it slows it down considerably), but you can do nearly anything else that you please.
When the file is done transferring to the AZBox's HDD, you need to rename the file as it will be listed as "VIDEO_TS". Click on the filename and rename it as the movie title the way you want it to be shown. If you do not do so, the next movie title that you transfer will simply overwrite the previous one with the name "VIDEO_TS". It will not create a new title automatically for you, it simply overwrites what is in the "VIDEO_TS" folder without prompting you if you want to do so.
If you have any troubles with copy protection codes, try installing SlySoft ANYDVD on your PC. It will run in the background. Not a very expensive program and it will allow your system to ignore these codes.
When you wish to watch your DVD titles, simply click on the AZBox's remote HOME button, scroll to MOVIE and select the MOVIE folder. Find the sub-directory for the movie category you want (i.e. WESTERNS) and press OK. Highlight the movie you wish to watch, press the CHECK button on the remote to select the movie nd then press OK. A store-bought DVD will be presented identically as if you were playing the DVD in a DVD player. So all the start menu features will be in tact as it will be a bit for bit copy of the original DVD.
I have been trying to delete and omit some of the extraeneous files, like subtitles and scene selections, blooper files, director cuts, actor interviews and language options so that it just plays the movie and the movie alone (trying to save space on my HDD) but everything seems to be interconnected somehow and dependant upon the other files being present. The best I have been able to do so far is cut out most everything down to the basic movie itself, but then it doesn't play quite right. The movie has several "divisions" and the transistion between each division causes the screen to go blank during a scene for about 1-2-3 seconds and then restart where it left off. It just isn't quite right, if you know what I mean. So I leave most of the files in tact to avoid this quirk. Maybe I will get it down pat someday so that I can reduce the space the DVD takes up on the HDD.
I can delete quite a few files, like the alternate language copies of the movie, and save a good amount space, but the rest of the files I must leave in tact or else the movie doesn't play correctly.
Well, that is pretty much all there is to the whole thing. Hope you enjoy playing with it all.
RADAR
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I'm with BJ on the simplicity of playing content over a home network. I've played DVD movies on my AZ that were still on the DVDs and used the DVD drive on my computer to do that. If you have your computers DVD drive shared on the network you can navigate back to it from the AZ and play a DVD from your computer to the AZ without ripping it from the original DVD.
Some other things I've done is to use a DVD ripper to convert DVDs to MPEG then uploaded them to the AZ HDD. I recently got a full set of Boston Legal and I ripped those and uploaded them to the AZ HDD so I wouldn't have to have the computer on while watching those episodes.
And on another note, it might not be a bad idea to have backup copies of stuff on different HDDs in case you have a drive failure. With those files on both your computer and your AZ HDD (if you have one) you do have them backed up.
But yeah, theres a bunch of ways to play movies/music, etc across a home network on your AZ IF you have file sharing enabled, which can be a whole new can of worms with Windows Vista and 7.
Some other things I've done is to use a DVD ripper to convert DVDs to MPEG then uploaded them to the AZ HDD. I recently got a full set of Boston Legal and I ripped those and uploaded them to the AZ HDD so I wouldn't have to have the computer on while watching those episodes.
And on another note, it might not be a bad idea to have backup copies of stuff on different HDDs in case you have a drive failure. With those files on both your computer and your AZ HDD (if you have one) you do have them backed up.
But yeah, theres a bunch of ways to play movies/music, etc across a home network on your AZ IF you have file sharing enabled, which can be a whole new can of worms with Windows Vista and 7.
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That's the route I would take. A high quality AVI rip is roughly 1/4 the size of an average DVD, mpeg even smaller. Even though these days hard drives are bigger, no need to fill them up sooner
I use DVD Fab for my DVD backups. It and ConvertXtoDVD are 2 of the best software purchases I have ever made and handle all of my DVD creation/manipulation needs. DVD Fab also lets you strip out anything you want, all the way to just the movie. I've used it to make many high quality rips and videos for my phone.
That's the route I would take. A high quality AVI rip is roughly 1/4 the size of an average DVD, mpeg even smaller. Even though these days hard drives are bigger, no need to fill them up sooner
I use DVD Fab for my DVD backups. It and ConvertXtoDVD are 2 of the best software purchases I have ever made and handle all of my DVD creation/manipulation needs. DVD Fab also lets you strip out anything you want, all the way to just the movie. I've used it to make many high quality rips and videos for my phone.
That's the route I would take. A high quality AVI rip is roughly 1/4 the size of an average DVD, mpeg even smaller. Even though these days hard drives are bigger, no need to fill them up sooner
I use DVD Fab for my DVD backups. It and ConvertXtoDVD are 2 of the best software purchases I have ever made and handle all of my DVD creation/manipulation needs. DVD Fab also lets you strip out anything you want, all the way to just the movie. I've used it to make many high quality rips and videos for my phone.
FYI, I had problems with my AZ playing back AVI files that were 2GB or larger, ie, it wouldn't do it? THAT is the reason I use MPEG now. I also DO NOT have a HD TV so the quality of the MPEG format is as good as I need. Oh, and I use WIN X DVD Ripper Platinum and it also works great.
But yeah, sounds like you've got a handle on that home network stuff also! Man, I just love this technology stuff, don't you!
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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My year was almost up and we got the new bill for a year of service for $ 360.00 insane sat radio is becoming like cable!!! i logged into my acct and hopped onto chat and told the rep that i wanted to cancel. she understood my concern and went quiet for a few minutes. i figured that she was canceling my service. she comes back and said that she seen that i have been a sub since 07 and then offers me the same package for a year for 120.00 with taxes and fee's!!! i grabbed it. after almost having a stroke 
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Mrs. Foxbat reminded me it's that time of the year to do the Cancel Tango
The A.I. agent appears to be better than in the past. It got to the acceptable price quicker than previous years, no human operator involved. $5/mo and I still have over $50 in SiriusXM credit from my FordPartner benefits.
The A.I. agent appears to be better than in the past. It got to the acceptable price quicker than previous years, no human operator involved. $5/mo and I still have over $50 in SiriusXM credit from my FordPartner benefits.
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Stumbled across this ... http://www.gaspricewatch.com/USGas_ZipSearch.asp
I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
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USA National Gas Temperature Map
State By State Gasoline Taxes
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I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
Added these to this post...
USA National Gas Temperature Map
State By State Gasoline Taxes
Gas Buddy
Ethanol Free Stations
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Here in Indiana, the difference between Regular and Premium is usually a dollar, but some charge even more:
Ok, I'm bored .... actually - to be more precise - I'm bored of eating the same rotation of 9 or 10 meals that are currently my "go-to" meals. My wife works the long hours - I work from home as and when i feel like it ... which means i generally do most of the cooking ... and so by default - i also make out the shopping list ...
We cook at home 5 or even 6 nights a week - but we always seem to fall back on the same old tried and tested "quick and easy but tastes ok" meals. Week in week out.
Pot Roast - mash and Peas.
Spaghetti
Chicken Pasta in cheese sauce.
Curry & rice
(these are some of mine)
Now it's not that I'm not adventurous in the kitchen ... I'll try anything once or twice ... but we all do it. Unless your name is Martha Stewart or Rachel Ray .. we all eventually fall back on our 8-10 favorite "meals"
So i thought - if we shared some of our own go-to meals with each other ... we might be able to add a few "new" ones to our own arsenal of meals.
So again - I ask you ...
What's for dinner tonight ?
Please give me something new to add to my rotation ... its our weekly shop tomorrow - so i want to pull together a few idea's and try and eat a meal each day next week that I've never had before .. or at least something that is not on my current "go-to" meal plan.
What meal do you always seem to fall back on in your house ? Maybe its something that I've never tried or not had in a while. I need inspiration !! I've got a blank shopping list in front of me - and nothing sounds good .. HELP !
We cook at home 5 or even 6 nights a week - but we always seem to fall back on the same old tried and tested "quick and easy but tastes ok" meals. Week in week out.
Pot Roast - mash and Peas.
Spaghetti
Chicken Pasta in cheese sauce.
Curry & rice
(these are some of mine)
Now it's not that I'm not adventurous in the kitchen ... I'll try anything once or twice ... but we all do it. Unless your name is Martha Stewart or Rachel Ray .. we all eventually fall back on our 8-10 favorite "meals"
So i thought - if we shared some of our own go-to meals with each other ... we might be able to add a few "new" ones to our own arsenal of meals.
So again - I ask you ...
What's for dinner tonight ?
Please give me something new to add to my rotation ... its our weekly shop tomorrow - so i want to pull together a few idea's and try and eat a meal each day next week that I've never had before .. or at least something that is not on my current "go-to" meal plan.
What meal do you always seem to fall back on in your house ? Maybe its something that I've never tried or not had in a while. I need inspiration !! I've got a blank shopping list in front of me - and nothing sounds good .. HELP !
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Smoked some salmon on the grill while enjoying some Blue Moon beer. Kinda cool tonight so I fired up the heaters. Here in FL, we fire up heaters once the temps get below 60 
As for the salmon, I seared them first, then flipped them off to the side not over the coals and brushed on some lemon pepper marinade followed by some salmon seasoning. Threw some hickory chips on the coals and then closed the vents to about 10% airflow. Yum.
As for the salmon, I seared them first, then flipped them off to the side not over the coals and brushed on some lemon pepper marinade followed by some salmon seasoning. Threw some hickory chips on the coals and then closed the vents to about 10% airflow. Yum.
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America’s Fastest-Growing EV State Isn’t California—Not by a Long Shot
New data shows electric vehicle adoption is increasingly driven by state policies, electricity prices and charging access—not federal incentives
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The number-one US state for EV growth, according to the June 22 Yardi report?
Oklahoma.
It has no ZEV mandates and "minimal" incentives, Yardi says, but also has cheap electricity, high multi-car household rates (so, for example, a non-Lightning Ford F-150 pulls their trailers), and a consumer base willing to switch.
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Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
US EV sales are rising again. Here’s why the recovery is set to last.
Even though sales tanked last year after the end of federal incentives, the American EV sector is on the mend as drivers face sky-high gasoline prices.
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Direct YouTube Link - Microsoft Defender Arriving on Linux
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Time for another AWESOME video from Ham Radio 2.0!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDeuQ1SLkQU
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Direct YouTube Link - LIVE!
Ham Radio 2.0 Website
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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Was thinking same thing. It should be a good week for sec shorts and roll callThey ought to have fun with this…