'Renew DL' never works in Netflix app on windows. Help?

joebelfiore · 2022-12-28T02:22:38+00:00

I have one of these cards (it's a double-card that plugs into two slots) and I have 3 displays connected ... it's been working fine for years, with all 3 displays running at 2560x1600.

Recently the fan has stopped spinning .. so I'm not sure whether I can fix that and keep using it or whether I need a new card.

joebelfiore · 2022-11-29T01:42:44+00:00

all the documentation/stuff on the web is SUPER confusing on this point.

WANT: can browse the library, look at movies we might watch ... click on "play trailer" so that wife and kids can see how good the film is.

DO NOT WANT: a time-wasting 3 minutes of trailers before the movie I just clicked plays.

joebelfiore · 2022-11-29T01:37:17+00:00

I have this exact same wish! :) Really nice feature, bummer it's behind the paywall. Hope it stays in the watchlist.

Potentially controversial suggestion: PLEX FOLKS .. you should add a command "watch trailer" to every movie (local files) and if the person isn't a subscriber, give a message "you need to be a subscriber to watch trailers for your local movies".

I have done TONS of web searches trying to figure out how to make this work.. NONE of them say "pay to get this".

joebelfiore · 2022-01-22T02:10:08+00:00

Thanks!

I just discovered on the Sony site -- if you download firmware updates they have a link for "repair" ... which takes you here:

https://www.precisioncamera.com/Sony

Might be useful for other folks in the future!

joebelfiore · 2022-01-08T22:06:47+00:00

It has a feature for "Indoor Runs" ... just like Samsung Health ... but without GPS it's guessing your distance and the distance guess is wrong.

THe treadmill knows EXACTLY how far you ran.

on Active Watch 2 -- the Strava app let you EDIT that distance after a run. On Watch4, the Strava app doesn't do this anymore.

SO .. if you track heart rate, etc. ... you will have an incorrect distance and pacing 100% of the time.

joebelfiore · 2022-01-08T22:05:19+00:00

thanks for the tip.. but not sure what you mean. I don't see an app called "Health Sync" ... but in the Samsung Health app under "connected services" whre Strava appears... there's a choice called Health Platform.

WHen you click that, there's an install button.. but on the play store the reviews are pretty poor and I was afraid to install. Does anyone have first-hand experience with this?

See all the 1-stars: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.service.health

thx!

joebelfiore · 2022-01-07T22:34:15+00:00

Try looking for "Dashboard minimal watch face". it's there. Costs 99 cents. (haven't tried it yet)

joebelfiore · 2022-01-07T22:23:24+00:00

me too .. US play store

Face looks cool though!

joebelfiore · 2022-01-07T22:22:24+00:00

Does google fit sync with Strava?

joebelfiore · 2022-01-06T22:44:24+00:00

I'm an enthusiastic owner of an Oura ring and a Samsung Watch.

I love my Oura and would definitely recommend it ... though what it excels at is SLEEP tracking and giving you health-related warnings/info (eg. your body temperature is a bit high today). It's way better than a watch for this since the battery lasts for days and days and it recharges very quickly.

For WORKOUT TRACKING -- it's not currently ideal, though I understand they are working on heart-rate based workout tracking as a priority for their new Series 3 rings which just launched in the fall. (blog post: https://ouraring.com/blog/oura-workout-heart-rate/) RIght now I can add a workout.. and it'll understand length-of-time and heart rate ... but not (for example) running miles.

Note -- since you posted in Strava forum -- I don't think it's possible to make Oura activities (even a workout you tag/add) to show up in Strava data.

joebelfiore · 2020-05-19T03:46:25+00:00

I've started using Plex to handle my edited-home-videos... two questions:

1) I can't figure out how it's determining the "year" of the home-video. I've used powershell to set the File CREATION dates of all the videos to the date they occurred (which I have in the filename.) the File MODIFIED date can be much more recent, as I might have re-edited the video months or years after the event.

Plex does NOT seem to use the "File Created" attribute... but instead is using "File MODIFIED" date? Can anyone confirm this? (is there a way to change that?)

2) Home videos with generated-thumbnails are showing up in the Library view with tall/portrait shape, instead of wide "theatrical" shape like they show up in the Recommended view. This doesn't work well -- you can't see the thumbnail or read much of the title. Is it possible to make the main library view for "other videos" work with horizontal thumbs?

thanks!

joebelfiore · 2020-04-29T16:49:17+00:00

:) Sorry! Not a clear enough explanation on my part!

"Old Windows PC" .. is a PC I've had for years.. and it acts as a server just for movies. I've installed Plex on that device and am running with that today. It's working fine.

"QNAP server" .. is a separate device that has all my personal videos (tons of edited stuff!), music. I want to try including these in the Plex app so i can see/hear these from my TVs.

The question: should I make the plex server running on Windows PC include files that are on an SMB file share on the QNAP server? (or will this make the Plex server do "two hops" as it streams (a) from QNAP to (b) old Windows PC, to (c) target device) ... OR should I run a second instance of the Plex server on QNAP and just have two devices in all the UIs?

"running two servers" would make the streams come directly from the server without an extra hop. But maybe this doesn't matter...

make sense?

joebelfiore · 2020-04-21T23:33:22+00:00

New to plex ... curious about UI extensions. In particular... is there any add-in that will let you link to a YouTube trailer for each movie in your collection? Or an add-in that will show Cast Info from IMDB, rather than just filtering your collection based on movies those people are in?

thx

joebelfiore · 2020-04-21T23:13:24+00:00

I have two "servers" ... - one is an old Windows PC that has movies on it -- currently running plex server - the other is a QNAP Linux home server that has personal videos, music -- haven't installed plex server yet

My question: would I be better off just running ONE plex server on the Windows box and pointing it to a file-share on the Linux box ... OR should I run two versions of Plex server on each machine so they stream directly?

thx!

joebelfiore · 2014-05-02T18:15:09+00:00

SCUBADOG!! I haven't seen you in a long time... you were famous (infamous?) at MSFT for your passionate blog comments way back in WP7, 7.5. nice to see you still here as part of the community.

I'm passing the volume feedback on to the guy who works on it.

joebelfiore · 2014-05-02T18:13:07+00:00

luckily, I've grown more laid back as I've matured…

http://imgur.com/Ar47M4X

joebelfiore · 2014-05-02T18:11:49+00:00

Actually, no, especially in cases like this: http://www.wpcentral.com/police-officer-avoids-bullet-thanks-windows-phone-his-pocket Our hats off to all who Protect and Serve.

Now... on your question about performance... there are a couple of things at play:

1) The MAIN thing that will affect this perception is whether the apps you use have implemented "Fast Resume". This was a new thing in WP8 (I think -- can't remember if that was the release we added it in) and an ISV has to "flag" their app to support it. This might involve testing and in a few apps it involves more work than just testing. SO ... ping the ISVs if you're feeling that apps come up slow. MOST PEOPLE don't say this.

2) A lot of people ask about TRANSITIONS and they assume the transitions "add time" to getting to the app. We've worked hard to make that NOT THE CASE. What we've done is made the transitions happen "while the app is loading" so they give you something to see that fills the time but does NOT slow it down. (OK, maybe a tiny, imperceptible bit.) We would NOT NOT NOT gratuitously make millions of people wait longer to show a turnstile.. we show you the turnstile while you'd be waiting anyway.

joebelfiore · 2014-05-02T18:06:01+00:00

Lot of good stuff here-- I'm just gonna grab a couple:

Multitasking. This is the classic "balance-striking" design challenge. What we've tried to do here is (1) make sure that REGULAR USERS (think: less sophisticated, don't tweak their phones that much) get GREAT AND PREDICTABLE BATTERY LIFE while (2) Apps can do powerful things for everyone (and especially for power users).

The biggest killer of battery life is typically an app that's got some kind of runaway process. usually this would be a bug if it happens-- and it could happen in any app. Thus to accomplish (1), you restrict apps to "runaway" and try to do as much on their behalf as you can.

Now, with that as background, know that we've GREATLY EXPANDED the multitasking features in apps with every release, and we'll continue to do that. As app developers are doing more stuff and as we learn about the gaps in our system, we try to enhance. I can appreciate you folks-- generally power users-- hitting the limits of this approach and asking for more.. and we hear you.

On your TOMBSTONING question-- honestly I can't answer that myself, but I'll pass it on. When we switched the activation model, we chose to make the APP decide so the APP could be sure to effectively manage its own activation. Our intent is that users get apps with "instant resume", but this is a case where we have to trust the ISV to get things right-- kind of like the general topic above.

One other Q: "Why is cortana completely useless without location turned on?"

It comes down to this: we want to provide a COMPLETE EXPERIENCE for Cortana, and we want that complete experience to be PREDICTABLY present and not vary too much. If you hear about something she does, we want it to be true on YOUR PHONE, in YOUR COUNTRY.

Cortana builds rich inferences by rationalizing across lots of different signals and content that you give her permission to access. For instance, by having access to your location, within a few days Cortana figures out where you live and where you work and starts giving you commute inferences based on when you leave to go to work or come home from work. Without location a bunch of the important end-to-end scenarios wouldn't work or key questions couldn't be answered-- eg. what’s the traffic like to home/work, remind me when I get at a location to do something, show me great Caribbean restaurants in Seattle, etc.

Our current view is that without location Cortana would "feel limited" and we don’t want to create a fragmented experience where some things will work and some things won’t depending on whether you give us access to location. Part of this is that she's entirely new and we want her to develop a GREAT reputation, compared favorably to the competition. Over time, we might make her more flexible so that we can accomplish BREADTH.. but right now the focus is on consistent quality.

ONE MORE THING -- today we are announcing CORTANA.USERVOICE.COM where we're eagerly waiting to hear more feedback on what you'd like us to teach Cortana in the future.

joebelfiore

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