My kids could play Minecraft together with the Android pads using wifi, but with PC version, we have to set up a server for them to play. There are many tutorials on the internet, but I found the easy way to set up home server for the kids and me playing together. The instruction is …
Yesterday, I bought a blu-ray DVD movie from Fry’s for $8. It was an old ghost movie, I need to encode it to MKV and MP4 for my Media Portal 1.2.3 and Thrive to play. I actually don’t have a blu-ray player. Things have changed for the better since the last time I wrote an …
To make sure all Tablets and iPads can play our MP4 successfully, we use Handbrake 9.8 to convert our MKV to MP4. The quality comes out great, the size is 1280×720 @ 1.3GB for 90 minutes movie.
If we converted a 3D movie to watch on 3D TV and we decided to watch in 2D TV, we need to convert it back from 3D to 2D. We need a fast computer like i5 or i7 to run efficiently, it would take 90+ minutes to convert 1080p 3D to 2D. All we need …
If we have a music video DVD and we like to extract a song from the DVD to MP3 to listen to sometimes, we can do it with a few free software out there. With a fast multi-cores i5 or i7, the task will be very fast. We need a back up software to extract …
