Travel Entertainment For Kids
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 5-8 years or so. We also travel to see family every now and then and so when we do I’m in charge of kid’s entertainment… Normally we use a simple setup for each kid that basically consists of an old android phone with syncthing and VLC… 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 “library” 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. This has allowed me…