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First Episode of NerdTV Released
kurosawdust writes "The first ever episode of Robert Cringely's long-awaited NerdTV is now available for download. This episode features Andy Hertzfeld, member of the original Macintosh team who always has a few good stories to tell. Episode 1 is available in MP4 Video (whole episode and smaller-sized snippets) MP3, Ogg, AAC, and good old-fashioned text transcript (for those of you who watch your TV in vi, like God intended). NerdTV is released under the Creative Commons license."
It could really well be NerdRadio, since there is absolutely nothing happening on the screen but that guy's lips moving.
For +1h.
Save your bandwidth and get the Ogg audio version.
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Bob mentioned bittorrent when he talked about NerdTV in July. He explained that people downloading NerdTV via bittorrent would only seed the last one or two episodes, and that he would instead build a distributed network similar to Akamai.
From the article: "so the real heavy lifting for NerdTV will be done through a network of distributed servers I've created as a kind of "poor man's Akamai." My distribution cost using this system, by the way, works out to be approximately ONE PERCENT of Akamai's retail price, which shows how much profit there is in that business, or should be."
A latent existence
it started out downloading at a good pace, as it continued it slowed to almost a crawl, i canceled it...
i will check back in a few days
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Here's the direct links to the content:
Entire video
MP3 Audio
WinCE is not a hard realtime system. That's quite enough to exclude it from lots of mission-critical applications.
Here is the torrent... unfortunately there are no seeds at the moment though.
Found here, the link seems to be hidden by default.
Here's the official torrent. /. crowd will quickly change that ;-)
No seeds as yet, hopefully the
The software used to control anything in aeroplanes is written to the Common Criteria standard. It is mathematically proven to do only what it is asked, when it is asked to do it. No off-the-shelf OS, be it Windows or *nix based, could ever be certified to do that.
Well, I can't recommend a self contained unit because I have yet to find one that meets my needs. Nothing seems to play ALL the stuff I have and most importantly, many of the solutions out there are difficult to use or have significant limitations. I can, however, recommend a piece of software that can be "hacked" to make it whatever you want.
My network setup is simple. I have a server on my network that holds (4) categories of media. Pictures, movies (SVCD, DiVX, XViD, etc), TV shows (same as movies), and Music collection (mp3). I also play the occasional internet radio station. I wanted ONE box next to my TV that allows me to play all of the above through my home theatre, thus freeing me from burning DVD's to play on my Philips 642.
So anyway, I decided to use a standard computer with S-video out and digital audio out. Both video and audio go directly into my home theatre receiver. The HTPC computer is controlled by a $29 streamzap remote control. Now the trick to this whole deal is finding an interface that I can use with a remote (this is the wife test!). I don't want to use a mouse or keyboard at all. (sidenote: have you ever tried to use windows using nothing more than a remote? good luck.)
After, literally, 6 months of searching, I accidentally found this. I am not associated with these guys in any way shape or form but I can say that their software is pretty slick. Basically, it's a Tivo-like frontend that you can customize A LOT. There are plug-ins to do all kinds of things, like weather and news. And best of all, it's designed for use with a remote so you don't need a mouse or keyboard at all. So after about 4 hours of customizing, I have it setup to do the following:
- everyday (at 4am), it goes out to my shared media folders and imports any new items in those folders into the Meedio library. Movies, TV shows, pictures, and music. Note: it only imports new items since the last import. And for movies, I have many movies that are (2) files. Meedio will combine the two files into one entry, which is nice.
- for movies, it goes out and auto-downloads cover art and IMDB info
- everyday, it downloads weather info (including animated radar)
- everyday, it downloads the Streamcast radio stations and organizes them by genre and bitrate
- While I don't have it setup, you can also install a TV module and make it a PVR. I have TiVo so I didn't need this functionality. But it's there if you want it.
The net result is that I have ALL of my stuff integrated into Meedio. So when I run Meedio, I can play ANY of my media on my network shares. And Meedio will use the codecs installed on the local machine so playback is not an issue. Since everything I want to play is inside the Meedio library (which updates everyday, per above), I haven't needed to burn a DVD or transfer a file since I installed it.
All in all, it's a pretty cool setup and I don't forsee needing to change it for quite sometime. I have yet to find a "glitch" with it except that some of the navigation within Meedio is counter-intuitive. But fixing that is as simple as editing an xml-based config file. And this shouldn't be a problem for anyone who is a power-user or better.
With a download manager pulling in 4 chunks at once, I was getting around 17 kbps a few minutes ago. I switched to the torrent someone else posted earlier. It's now maxing out my T1. :-)
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
Can anyone recommend a good dedicated piece of hardware for watching IPTV stuff on a real TV?
Bonus points if HDTV support is baked in.
Recipe:
1 Apple PowerBook/mini or other product with DVI outputs
1 HDTV with DVI inputs
1 DVI cable
Optionally garnish with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
Enjoy!
Yes, folks should feel free to use this (fast host, and i've survivded slashdotting before, easily). Mirror of mp4: Nerd TV MP4 Episode 1
We just put up the *real* torrents. The other nerdtv.net torrent file was never intended for public consumption.
/ video/NTV001/ntv001.mp4.torrent/ video/NTV001/NTV001.m4a.torrent/ video/NTV001/ntvjuicy001.mp4.torrent/ video/NTV001/ntvnerdy001.mp4.torrent/ video/NTV001/NTV001.ogg.torrent/ video/NTV001/NTV001.mp3.torrent
Use these:
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net