Posts By: Jon Scaife

0Stark Covers LogoAlternative covers for StarkCovers

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A very quick one to drop in a link to some altern­at­ive cov­ers I’ve made for Stark­Cov­ers which are avail­able from the [int­link id=“741” type=“page”]downloads[/intlink] page.  The basic reas­on for these is that I liked the look of the 3D cov­ers, but found the angle of them suf­fi­ciently severe as to make it dif­fi­cult to tell what some films were.  I’ve basic­ally twis­ted them to a dif­fer­ent angle and replaced the 3D3 cov­ers with this new ver­sion.  Simply replace the con­tents of the ori­gin­al 3D3 folder with the con­tents of the linked archive.
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0ClownBD LogoReauthoring BluRay streams

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I like hav­ing my movies stored on a serv­er as I can use Media Cen­ter Mas­ter to down­load metadata, trail­ers, the IMDB rat­ing, etc, which is use­ful when I have people round for a movie ses­sion.  Con­sequently I have recently been adding some of my Blu Ray col­lec­tion to my Media Serv­er via the handy Any­DVD HD.
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0Images by Name Studios LogoNew IBN Studios upload

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A user called “Chip­monkery” has uploaded a new stu­di­os pack to the [int­link id=“2659” type=“post”]IBN project[/intlink].  This doubles the pre­vi­ous num­ber of stu­dio images.  Hope­fully it will include many (or at least some) of the icons I lis­ted in my [int­link id=“78” type=“post”]earlier post[/intlink].  I will update that post accordingly.

0Images by Name Studios LogoMissing studios from IBN project

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Below is a list I’m slowly com­pil­ing of Movie Stu­dio logos that are miss­ing from the [int­link id=“2659” type=“post”]Images By Name project[/intlink]. I hope to even­tu­ally loc­ate sources for them all and at a con­veni­ent point will sub­mit them to the project.

Crossed-out items are now included in the avail­able down­loads.  Grey items are items that are altern­at­ive names for exist­ing stu­di­os — these can be added by duplic­at­ing the rel­ev­ant folder and renam­ing it.

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0PSU LogoLow power PC — new or old PSU

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I have a serv­er that oper­ates 24.7. It occurred to me that I may be able to save some money on elec­tri­city bills if I could reduce its power con­sump­tion. It already has a low power AMD Sem­pron LE-1100 CPU so the power draw of the sys­tem should be quite low, but the PSU is quite old and not espe­cially effi­cient. This got me think­ing about Power sup­plies designed for low power sys­tems. There are plenty of 80+ cer­ti­fied PSU’s out there with 500+ watt rat­ings, but are these actu­ally worth the invest­ment for a low power system?
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0Media Center Master LogoAdvanced post-processing with Media Center Master

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I use Media Cen­ter Mas­ter and Stark­Cov­ers to man­age the metadata for all my loc­al media on my HTPC.  I like to have HD movies and DVDs use a dif­fer­ent style of cov­er in stark to the style used by low qual­ity files.  The fol­low­ing com­mand script accom­plishes this (and a bit more)…
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