Easy setup path to browsing / playing DVD's from NetRemote?

[kurtlewis]

I've seen a few threads on the topic but no clear setup path for us n00b's on how to set up browsing DVD's ripped to HD in NR and getting them to play back in ZP by clicking an icon.
I have ZP, JRMC11 and DVD Profiler installed, LDJ does not seem to work on G4, i'm not sure how to set this all up. There is nowhere in DVD profiler to link the DVD's to the corresponding IFO file on HD. Now, remember I am just a humble n00b, so any sort of 'how to' doc and links to NR / G4 files, maybe an example ccf would be stellar!!! Is it possible to do this without G4 and just NR, do I have to use G3 to get LDJ to work, etc etc...

many thanks in advance-

[Rob H]

Hang fire for a little while and I'll see what I can do to get LDJ going in G4

[kurtlewis]

Thanks, great news-
I understand you are the brain behind LDJ- when you have time and after the G4 build is finished, would it be too much to ask for a 'walk through' guide to setting up / using LDJ with Profiler and NR? maybe an example ccf for us poor and lowly n00bs to cut / paste? :D

[Rob H]

The G3.3 version has a PDF (?I think) manual which covered most of the setup issues - most of that should still apply to the G4 version, although I'm intending to make the configuration of LDJ a little bit simpler.

[kurtlewis]

I have G3.2.9 but never saw that pdf- have a link or can you post?

I can always roll back to G3 and u/g after the support is out for G4- That is one of the main reasons I wanted to use Girder and NR, so I could library and access all of my ripped DVD's- It's such a cool feature.

[Rob H]

It's included in the LDJ install

[kurtlewis]

apologies if this sounds like a dumb question, but which install? I've come across 5 of them, different versions- Can you direct me to the best one?

[Rob H]

This one - http://www.promixis.com/download.php?ID=694

[Rob H]

BTW I think it requires G3.3 not 3.29

But, if you have G4 then you already have a license for G3.3

[kurtlewis]

many thanks, I appreciate your time. Boy, that was a bit scary not being able to pull up your site for two days...heh- Must have been fun for you guys as well :) Congrats on the upgrade.

I have a humble suggestion for making changes like this in the future (this is coming from someone who manages IT and Ops for 12 very large websites, so I know)

1. buy a good software-based load balancer, I prefer NetScaler - pricey though. F5 makes a decent one too. You need a software-based model for these types of features because a hardware-based load balancer is just a glorified switch.
2. Using this load balancer's admin interface, set up your current web servers as a 'resource pool' for the incoming traffic VIP. Your external VIP is mapped via the load balancer to the 'resource pool' it is assigned to.
3. set up your new web servers with the new code as a 'new resource pool'
4. when it's time for cut-over set the incoming traffic VIP to point to the new pool of resources, it takes 10-30 minutes for a complete site cutover. When sessions die in the old pool of web servers, customers pick up a new session on the new servers.
5. the external traffic VIP stays the same so you never have to change any dns records.

So,
-no messing with DNS... this is the worst way to cut sites over
-aol and cox cache page content until you call them / tell them to flush your url from their big cache servers. Be sure and write 'no cache' header tags into your site pages. This info can be obtained by contacting AOL's NOC.

-we cut sites over to new code / server farms all of the time, I hope this helps.

-Kurt