How to piss me off with online video sharing websites
The idea of sharing an internet connection with strangers can be really annoying, not that I have a choice, but was forced to because the landlord says so, I do have the option of acquiring my own telephone line but it is going to cost me a bomb.
Long story short, the situation was made worst when I am forced to share the internet connection with 7 people in the house; the best part is the broadband connection quota for every month capped at 40GB. That is like 170MB for each person per day, which is hardly enough. The 40GB cap per month is the ceiling quota from the company.
Since the broadband internet connection is limited to 40GB per month, why can’t these users be more considerate? Is it a must to watch funny videos online, multimedia sites such as YouTube really annoys me, especially video streaming sites that uses torrent technology.
I found a few ways to block Azureus, but could not find a solution towards the much more popular p2p video streaming software known as ppstream.com, its a Chinese video streaming website that utilize p2p technology and it is really killing the bandwidth. As much as I would like to scream ‘Go back to China’, but that is somewhat rude. (No racism here, I’m Chinese but not from China)
Buying a new VPN modem is out of the question, it is just way too expensive and why should I be the one paying for the hardware? P2P technology, it is a love hate relationship. God help me.
Tags: Azureus, Block, Broadband, Filter, P2P, URL, Video, Video Streaming, YouTubeHow to Rip or Compress DVD to Fit Into a 700MB CD and iPod Touch
How to Rip a Movie for your iPod with HandBrake? Handbrake has a list of tutorials on how to rip a movie to your iPod or fit to a DVD movie to a 700MB CD. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, it has a relatively user friendly interface, and is available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
What makes Handbrake different from other DVD ripper is the various output format, unlike other video encoder or compressor, Handbrake can compress a DVD movie for your iPod, not only does it keeps the quality of the output video to the highest, file size are small as well, here is the list of features:
Supported sources:
- Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
- PAL or NTSC
- AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
Outputs:
- File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
- Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
- Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
Tags: 700MB, Compress, DVD, Encode, Fit, iPod, iPod Touch, Movie, PDA, Rip, Video
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