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We are quickly becomming a Great Wolf Lodge family... we've got several times over the last couple years, and I only forsee more going forward for the next...

<p>We are quickly becomming a Great Wolf Lodge family&hellip; we&rsquo;ve got several times over the last couple years, and I only forsee more going forward for the next 5-8 years or so. We also travel to see family every now and then and so when we do I&rsquo;m in charge of kid&rsquo;s entertainment&hellip; Normally we use a simple setup for each kid that basically consists of an old android phone with syncthing and VLC&hellip;</p> <p>In my homelab I host an instance of tdarr which is a tool batch processing media files - say you have a folder of tv shows encoded in h.264 and you want to re-encode to h.265 for space savings - tdarr is a great tool. So what I do is configure a &ldquo;library&rdquo; in tdarr (basically a folder of media), and then I hand-select the tv shows or movies the kids might want for the trip into that folder. tdarr compresses the media quite a bit and then that folder is also the syncthing back-end so the compressed media is just automatically updated and synced to the phones when on our home network.</p> <p>This has allowed me to put almost anything the girls might want onto hand-held devices that fit in their backpacks and will work without an internet connection!</p> Nic Payne https://pype.dev