I have just received a new External Hard Drive from Amazon to try and keep up with a spiraling amount of Media I seem to be collecting, what with the Media centre recording TV, the digital movie archive, digital photos and the HD video from our Digicam we have more media than most.
I have blogged before about windows 7 and how I have bought copies for all the machines we own, the media centre included. I have this setup as a home network so that all the media stored on the media centre is accessible via every machine and as such is accessible wherever you are in the house.
Up until Windows 7, the HD media from the Sony HD Camera had to be converted in order to be viewed, now Windows 7 can play these in their native format, which is msts. This is whey I have bought the new drive so that I can archive all our digital video within the media centre system.
The next challenge is to be able to share some of this media to family and friends. Photographs and Videos are a great way of letting family who are spread out around the country and even internationally, but the big question is how.
In the past I have setup Gallery2 on one of my servers and used that as a gallery for photographs, the problem with that is keeping it updated, uploading the pictures and sorting them into the gallery was always a time consuming task and one that I never kept on top of.
I have been experimenting with Youtube for some time now. On one of my other blogs (On the allotment) I upload videos to Youtube in the format they come out of the camera (M2ts) Up to now this has been a very much one off thing every now and then, but I am looking to see if I can use YouTube with a private video stream to upload many more of my videos straight out of the camera.
The first problem I have experienced is that when uploading from the media centre it powers down in the middle of an upload. I am not sure how to stop this without turning off the power management all together, something that I do not want to do.
The next problem I now have is one of backup. Until now I have uploaded all my Digital photos to Amazon S3 currently standing at around 50gb of data. I would like to do a similar thing for the digital videos, however, this will dramatically increase the data that will be stored as there is currently around 100gb of video data. My current thinking is that the cost of backing this up to Amazon S3 will be relatively low and compared to the value of this data to us as a family keeping it safe from fire or other loss can not be measured.
I am also looking at getting a BluRay writer, I have been holding off until now as I do not like to be an early adopter for this sort of technology, back in the days when Writable CD’s first hit the market, I could have filled all the cafes in England with coasters that I burnt! I have read that they are now fairly stable and the price of the media is coming down all the time.
BluRay would only be a feasible backup method if I could Geolocate the disks somewhere else and can guarantee that those disks do not get damaged.
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