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Media Storage
The ContentCentre media storage server uses Hard Disk drives
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consumption, noise and vibration. In capacities over 3TB storage is
distributed across two or three drives which are combined in to a
single logical volume.
Depending on type, the ContentCentre losslessly stores media in
standardised formats ready for delivery to ContentPlayers and other
playback devices. The media is shared across the network through
read-only SMB/CIFS shares called Movies, TV Shows, Music and
Pictures. An additional overall SMB/CIFS share called Files provides
read and write access to all of this media, which is useful for
applications where the user may want to delete or rename the media.
The advantage of storing and presenting media over a network in
this way is that it makes the ContentCentre highly compatible with
the majority of multimedia playback devices. It also means that the
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device for all of the multimedia in the home.
When the ContentCentre detects that optical media has been
inserted it uses a number of algorithms in combination with online
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which contain the main video together with all the supplemental
audio soundtracks and subtitles. When disc capture is complete the
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ContentPlayer.
Audio media is captured in the lossless FLAC format in subfolders
according to artist and album. FLAC not only provides a highly
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media tagging and high bitrates that other lossless formats cannot.
By implementing this the ContentCentre even has support for
capture of media from higher resolution DVD Audio discs.
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