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... but can a Fire Stick or something similar read decrypted Blu-ray folders on HDD? Or ISO files? I don't think so. No*? It can if you put Kodi on it and use your network. I hope you're not cavemaning it with USB. If so, you should change that first. The Nvidia shield is near trash. I've had two 2...

You recommended using two devices, but I'd like just one. Everyone wants just one device. ... the Google Play Store no longer works, nor does the YouTube app. This is why I recommend the Firestick 4K, because it's the longest supported streaming device that exists (all generations still are today)....

TLDR; Get the "AM6B Plus" instead and use another device for streaming apps. I have 2 vanilla Homatics, which is the same thing with the exception that the Dune branded one has a IR receiver. However, you can solder in a IR receiver into the vanilla Homatics if you want IR, which I've done...

That's an easy fix to get a higher output power supply. I have six 212Vs that are waiting for new enclosures because a higher power supply doesn't solve the 212V's power problem with my Kanguru USB 2.0 enclosures or Kanguru USB 3.0 enclosures. Out of the 4 different UHD 5.25 models I have, the 212V...

Get a 212V if you can. It should be noted that this drive has a very high power requirement compared to others, especially the BU40N which is listed as 2 A. I can testify to this because the 212V is the only drive I have that won't reliably work in my cheap "Kanguru" USB enclosures due to...

... lasts longer than an SSD. Incorrect, writable filesystems have the ability to heal themselves. I've burned out quite literally several thousand CDs and about a thousand DVDs and when or if I read one today I never trust that they read error free, it's hit or miss. The oldest "media" C...

FWIW, I tried comparing plain h265 streams using mkvmerge and mkvextract and I did get a match after remuxing the video in mkvtoolnix missing 1 subtitle (the source file has 2), I also got a match with a Dolby Vision video stream. Mkvextract can't write to stdout, so if you use these 2 tools expect ...

The only thing to watch for is that the file is written correctly. It has been reported that MKVtoolnox has had a few problems in the past with either file writing or reading certain streams correctly. I've experienced this with a couple Dolby Vision web files (Ted Lasso and Bad Monkey). I'd argue t...

... a powerful router to handle 4k ... Not really, only WiFi 5 (802.11ac) 5.4GHz is required. If needed, just mix in a 5.4GHz WiFi 5 "mini repeater". It might work fine straight to the Ugoos through a couple walls, but I've never tried it. * You _CANNOT_ use the 2.4GHz compatibility/IoT b...

... to handle mounting the ISO... If you're going to mount it, use a .zip and not a .iso file and mount that. If you must have a drive letter you can mount the .zip with "subst". If it has to be a symlink I *think* you can use "mklink" prior to that. I can't test this, but as fa...

The image should be identical representation fo the disc. I don't think it is here, I think that's a hang over belief from the CD-ROM days where ripping was treating the drive as a block device and bytes were read "raw" and the LBA was replicated to combat the lazy copy protection of magi...

see guide below... I keep forgetting to bring up a issue with that guide so here: That guide does not mention the Linux bugs that are now present in the recent makemkvcon's. I know this because someone asked me a couple months ago on how to do it and I referred them to that guide and of course they...

A lot of Blu-ray movies/tv shows are 1 big .m2ts file per movie/episode, so keeping a complete disc image is only a burden for players that you can't make a single file playlist for. Granted some disc images are chunked .m2ts files, like the UHD of Gladiator 2000, but these discs seem to be an extre...

Ali Express ... will refund you if it turns out to be a fake... This is not an objective fact, it's 50/50 at best. AliExpress uses what e-bay uses which is what they both call "deliberation". The reality is that it's not deliberation but corporatism, meaning the burden of proof is solely ...

This was never a Matroska container problem, it's a player problem. Safest way is to copy the frame to duplicates in the quantity of $seconds * $framerate and join them back. I think you *might* be able to do this with ffmpeg in place, but dumping the frames to a bmp (or whatever) then globing them...