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by Bob
Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:59 pm
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: What is a PNG file and why use them?
Replies: 4
Views: 13479

photoshop cs5 can save transparent png's fine, although i've never tried opening one with it. i save everything as psd and export what i need to use


Doesn't save opacity info properly, so it's still borked. There's ways around it, but not by default, so a little bit of a chore if you're creating ...
by Bob
Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:53 pm
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: The Pirate Bay - busted ?
Replies: 12
Views: 30467

Isohunt.co has put up a bit of a bay skin to it...not as convenient though, nor is kickass, but they'll have to do.
by Bob
Sun May 18, 2014 10:50 pm
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: What is a PNG file and why use them?
Replies: 4
Views: 13479

And they're massively smaller than raw or TIF.

Though Adobe had for the longest time a bug that wouldn't see the transparent layer properly. Anyone know if that got fixed in the latest version?
by Bob
Sun May 18, 2014 10:47 pm
Forum: Aja's Kitchen
Topic: What makes the perfect burger?
Replies: 3
Views: 13372

Gotta have bacon and pickles....and a chilly mayo :)
by Bob
Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:22 am
Forum: Aja's Kitchen
Topic: Banana Loaf
Replies: 2
Views: 11165

Be good with some dried cranberries or raisins chucked in too... :)
by Bob
Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:49 am
Forum: General TV
Topic: Christmas Specials?
Replies: 2
Views: 9824

Just read that the beeb seems to be mostly repeats and no new Donaldson animation this year :(

But yeah, hoping for some good comedy ones.
by Bob
Fri Dec 06, 2013 2:54 pm
Forum: General TV
Topic: Christmas Specials?
Replies: 2
Views: 9824

Christmas Specials?

So are there any decent looking specials on the horizon?

What are folks looking forward to seeing this month?

I'm hoping there will be another Julia Donaldson adaptation as the kids loved the Gruffalo and the Room on a Broom that was done over the years.
by Bob
Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:03 pm
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: Help with Serviio streaming VLC created mp4 files?
Replies: 5
Views: 19083

Yeah, it seems that VLC is missing that web optimised option in the options. So it puts the header info at the end of the file, which is the cause of the problem as you can't stream them then.


Shame as it's pretty quick and comes up with nice and small files when it converts them.
by Bob
Wed Nov 13, 2013 5:22 pm
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: Help with Serviio streaming VLC created mp4 files?
Replies: 5
Views: 19083

I've now tried Freemake Video Convertor....both off of filehippo.com

This one can at least keep original audio/video bit rate and other settings and just convert the movie so that it works.

It's not drag and drop though so a bit clunky to use and it's not nearly as past as AVC above but requires ...
by Bob
Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:13 am
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: Help with Serviio streaming VLC created mp4 files?
Replies: 5
Views: 19083

The files play fine on the computer, they just don't stream via Serviio, or anything else to Upnp devices.

The Android app popped up a error message about a missing url info in the file.

Bit of googling and found AVC - https://www.any-video-converter.com/support/ had a option to "flatten" and move ...
by Bob
Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:33 am
Forum: Aja's Kitchen
Topic: Good Food on a Tight Budget.
Replies: 9
Views: 38505

https://agirlcalledjack.com/

That's another good one that's been doing the rounds.....food for a fiver a week kind of theme.

Lot of veg dishes, but worth a punt, some decent ideas in there.
by Bob
Mon Nov 04, 2013 7:26 pm
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: Help with Serviio streaming VLC created mp4 files?
Replies: 5
Views: 19083

Help with Serviio streaming VLC created mp4 files?

My googling is failing for a answer, so perhaps you lot who play around with encoding files might have some idea.

Basically had some files that I used VLC to re-encode into mp4 format, does a great job, much smaller files. Plays on the computer fine.

Serviio as a DNLA server to stream the content ...
by Bob
Sun Nov 03, 2013 12:51 am
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: Free VPN's?
Replies: 1
Views: 9026

Free VPN's?

Playing around with a few, but always looking out for more.

Hola Unblocker is a good desktop plugin for browsers, with scripts to work for BBC iPlayer, but it's rubbish on Android.

Expat Shield, hit or miss but currently working on Windows desktop for BBC, but has a lot of advertising ...
by Bob
Sun Nov 03, 2013 12:44 am
Forum: Aja's Kitchen
Topic: Good Food on a Tight Budget.
Replies: 9
Views: 38505

https://ohsheglows.com/categories/recipes-2/

Might be old hat to some, but rather liked this :)
by Bob
Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:33 pm
Forum: Tech news, tips and help
Topic: dd-wrt
Replies: 3
Views: 10809

What VPN are you doing for the router side?