Award BIOS

The Award BIOS - With M.I.T - Intelligent Tweaking

Unlike some of the BIOSs that are used in "brand name" desktops and in most laptops, the Award BIOS seems to be feature packed. The details of the BIOS options and the screens can be found  in the motherboards owners manual, so there is no point in repeating them here.

An ITX format PC - Small Desktop Media PC - SDMPC

At the present time there are a few Atom based ITX motherboards and now AM2+ (AM3) and 775 socket boards are coming onto the market.

An investigatory exercise was made to see the viability of a Quad Processor based SDMPC

The requirements here are for a small media computer that has one HDD (possibly a 2.5" SSD) - just for booting, an intregal video chipset and enough USB and/or external SATA connections for external drives.

There is no requirement for an optical drive (BD) as all the media is to be stored on external SATA drives in docking station.

Zotac ITX Motherboards

There seem to be 3 different Intel boards and 1 AMD. The preference was for AMD
Saw a mention of a DFI (a company) unleashing an Intel lga 1156 socket p55 chipset based mini itx board in Q1 2010  - decided to go with the Zotac


Zotac GF8200-C-E Motherboard

This was ordered with an AMD Phenom II X4 CPU. The CPU, at 140W, will have to be used on the Windows 7 box as the ITX board has a recommended 65W maximum TDP for its processor. It is not known at the present time whether the AMD 550 (95W) will be safe to use on the ITX I may have to re-source for a lower TDP chip.

• Bin Selection of Processors for low TDP 
• HTPC - Home Theatre PC

Trend Micro - WTP

I first came across Trend Micro due to observations of visits to my website. The server logs were shown WTP add-on in the browser identification string.

• The Trend Micro WTP plug-in

RTMP - Real-Time Message Protocol

I am approaching this in a rather backwards manner. Having been interested in this from the perspective of wanting to be able to download from BBC iplayer, having managed to access the service in Canada (first using Tor and now via a VPN), I am now in the process of working out the inner workings of RTMP.

This page represents an on-going research project into the downloading of media streams from the Internet. This started off with the analysis of get_iplayer and the techniques used to download BBC programming. It is being extended with a goal of having the capability to capture other UK TV such as Channel 4 (4OD) and other international feeds.

Many pages relating to this project were located on my website tempusfugit.ca - these are currently being migrated to this blog.

All posts related to streaming media downloads:

• Using the RTMP library
• The useage of the RTMP/FLVStreamer module by get-iplayer.pl
• get_iplayer development on tempusfugit.ca
• RTMP - Real-Time Message Protocol - The soecification

AMI BIOS

American Megatrends Inc

• The business of BIOS mods
• Unlocking Insyde H2O