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Once you have added channels, Plex Media Server for Mac will begin streaming your selected video content for you to enjoy. Here you can add and manage your own videos, or add channels to begin viewing online video content. Once you have installed the app, launch it and you'll be taken to the Plex homepage. The application runs as an in-browser extension that allows you to plug into the feature and content of the Plex website. With Plex Media Server for Mac you can watch free online video content straight from the archives, manage your own videos, add your own channels, and more. Yes, there are motherboards with two LAN ports.For users who are not just looking for a simple video management solution but a total online video content solution, this app could prove useful. Plex Media Server runs on your Mac, PC, or compatible NAS device and serves your media to all of your Plex clients, including Plex-enabled mobile devices and 2011 LG Smart TVs. ![]() The combination of centralized library management, streaming of online content, and powerful transcoding functionality provides an unrivaled level of flexibility and ease of use. For example, as of today, people seem to be having more difficulty getting Z390 to work than Z370. Plex Media Server seamlessly connects your Plex clients with all of your local and online media. My iPhone and iPad also plays everything without the need to transcode.įor your hackintosh, chipset choice is important. If/when I decide to move to 4K content, I would just upgrade my Apple TV to a 4K version and, again, eliminate the need to transcode. The Apple TV plays everything without the need for any transcoding. Personally, I run Plex server on my NAS (Atom C2550 CPU) and use an Apple TV 4 (not the 4K version) as a client. Look for some low end, low power CPUs with Quick Sync and 4K should not be a problem. In such a scenario, you might be better off upgrading the Plex clients with hardware that can play 4K content without transcoding. As far as I know, the i9-7980XE doesn't have Quick Sync. Platform (Windows/macOS/Embedded RPi/Embedded Intel): Windows Steps to reproduce Browse into TV library wait 5-15 minutes Current behavior Plex player. I don't know if Plex server utilizes Quick Sync for transcoding. Even an i9-7980XE (an 18 core CPU) only scores 27862 in PassMark and may still not be able to transcode two streams simultaneously. ![]() Transcoding four 4K videos simultaneously, will require some really serious horsepower. That was over 3 years ago and I continue to use the basic macOS installation, albeit updated from El Capitan to Sierra to High Sierra to Mojave.Īccording to the Plex support page, transcoding 4K to 1080p will require 12000 to 17000 PassMark score per stream. ![]() Slow Transfer speeds from SMB shares - Mac OSX 10. This is exactly what I did when I transitioned from my old Mac Pro to a hackintosh. We backup to Windows server 2019 share and was not able to log in to share till we enabled SMB 1. It's much easier and avoids having to do a clean install of macOS, reinstalling all the apps, and configuring everything again. But I think it's easier to just transplant the drives from your Mac Pro to the hackintosh. The difference between it and the i7-8550U seem negligible.Īs for whether you can Time Machine to the hackintosh, I've personally never tried it, but others have reported success. If your current Xeon is enough for your transcoding needs, I think either of these CPU options would also suffice. The i7-8700T with a 35W TDP or an i7-855U with a TDP of 10W both meet the 8000 PassMark score requirement and would save you a ton of electricity when compared to your current Xeon. Assuming that your server is on 24/7, it only makes sense to use the most energy efficient components as possible. Therefore, for four 1080p streams, you will need at least an 8000 PassMark score. 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The use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work 1.Ĭreative performance stands in contrast to, say, routine performance. We tend to think of creativity as a trait that takes someone outside the norms of everyday behavior.Ī typical definition of creativity would be: ![]() Install LinuxLive USB Creator on your MS Windows computer.įrom Windows, install then run the LinuxLive USB Creator program and follow theĭepends on the boot mode for the machine you want to boot with the USB flash drive, choose one of the following methods to setup Clonezilla Live on your USB flash drive using GNU/Linux: If you already have LinuxLive USB Creator installed on your computer then The same as the boot menu created in method A. 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I guess I assumed Disney's movie had long-ago made the book irrelevant. It's now printed in over 300 languages and continues to be one of the best-selling books ever published. Outside of religious texts, The Adventures of Pinocchio is the most translated book in the world. ![]() It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. The first half was originally a serial in 18, published as "The tale of a puppet", and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. Le Avventure di Pinocchio = The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi Since its first full-length publication in 1883, 'Pinocchio' has been translated in over 260 languages and is one of the most popular children's stories ever told. In 1881 'Pinocchio' was originally introduced as a newspaper serial in the children's section. Collodi continued to write political and humorous novels until 1876, when he began to write children's books. In 1848 he enlisted to fight in the Italian War of Independence and founded the daily satirical newspaper 'Il Lampione'. Can Pinocchio turn his life around? And will he ever see his "papa," Geppetto again?Ĭarlo Collodi (1826–1890) was born Carlo Lorenzini on November 24, 1826, in Florence, Italy. ![]() She even promises the puppet that if he learns to be good, to study, and to work hard, he will become a real boy. But Pinocchio also befriends a good Fairy who loves him and wants to help him escape his misfortunes. Of course, Pinocchio gets into trouble along the way.įrom the villainous Cat and Fox, who try to steal his gold coins, to the gigantic Dogfish, a terrifying sea monster that swallows him, Pinocchio encounters menacing characters who often lead him to trouble. And marvel as he becomes the unwitting star of a circus show and lives a life of ease in the "Land of Boobies," where boys can play all day and never have to go to school. ![]() And when he lies, Pinocchio's nose grows longer! Follow this mischievous puppet as he goes to the "Field of Miracles", where he plants gold coins to try to make his wealth grow. Pinocchio has a good heart, but he is disobedient and lazy and often has poor judgment. He soon leaves his maker and commences a journey of misadventures. Carved by a poor man named Geppetto, Pinocchio is a wooden puppet that comes to life. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowing yet inspiring adventures. A timeless classic to be read over and over. ^ Thèse de doctorat d'ethnologie "Essai d’anthropologie visuelle & sonore d’un "rite élémentaire" - Film de recherche "La joie du feu" - Ethnographie de la permanence d’une praxie ontologique pyrobate & de la croyance afférente en Europe orientale" Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, U.F.Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria Archived at the Wayback Machine London: Equinox ISBN 9781845539764 "Ethnography, Historiography, and the Making of History in the Tradition of the Anastenaria" (PDF). Nestinari Nunataks on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, are named after the Bulgarian folkloric ritual of Nestinari. In 2009, the ritual was entered in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists and the National Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage "Living Human Treasures - Bulgaria" on the application of the Regional historical museum Burgas. The rituals survive in more authentic form in five villages of northern Greece: Ayia Eleni, Langadas, Meliki, Mavrolefke, and Kerkini and in six Bulgarian villages in the Strandzha Mountains: Balgari, Gramatikovo, Slivarovo, Kondolovo, Kosti, and Brodilovo. In the 20th century the ritual became commercialized and is performed for tourists in the seaside resorts of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast by people who have little to do with the original tradition. The head nestinar's house was sacred, because it housed the stolnina (столнина) – a small chapel where icons of several saints were arranged, as well as a sacred drum used specifically for the ritual and believed to cure the drummer if he was ill. In Bulgaria, the right to perform the ritual was hereditary and the head nestinar was succeeded only by his or her son or daughter, and only when he or she was too old or ill to continue performing it. Other ethnographers, however, have argued that the Anastenaria are vestiges of ancient practices of cults of Dionysus. The villagers who braved the flames to rescue them were unharmed, being protected by the saints. The ritual is also performed in January, during the festival of Saint Athanasius, and fire-walking is done indoors.Īccording to some myths the custom originated in the Middle Ages when the church of Saint Constantine in their original home in Kosti, now in Bulgaria, caught fire, and the voices of the saints calling for help could be heard from inside. After dancing around it in a circle, individual anastenarides dance over the hot coals as the saint moves them. In the evening a fire is lit in an open space, and after dancing for some time in the konaki, the "anastenarides" go to it carrying their ikons. The rules about the nature of the beasts to be slain are precise, but differ from village to village. On the morning of the Saints' day, May 21, the gather at the konaki and proceed to a well to be blessed with holy water, and sacrifice animals. After some time they believe that they may be "seized" by Saint Constantine and enter a trance. Here, on the Eve of the saints' day, May 20 Saint Constantine and Saint Helen, they gather to dance to the music of the Thracian lyre and drum. ![]() Įach community of the Anastenaria has a special shrine known as the konaki, where their holy icons are placed, as well as the "signs" of the saints ( semadia), votive offerings and red kerchiefs attached to the icons. ![]() The festival culminates with a firewalking ritual, where the participants, carrying the icons of saints Constantine and Helen, dance ecstatically for hours before entering the fire and walking barefoot over the glowing-red coals, unharmed by the fire. Each of the festivals lasts for 3 days and involves various processions, music and dancing, and an animal sacrifice. The two major events in this cycle are two big festivals, one in January and particularly one in May, dedicated to these two saints. The central figures of the tradition are Saint Constantine and Saint Helen, but all the significant days in this cycle coincide with important days in the Greek Orthodox calendar and are related to various Christian saints. ![]() The Bulgarian and Greek villages perform a unique annual ritual cycle, which begins on May 21 and ends on May 23 every year. The communities which celebrate this ritual are descended from refugees who entered Greece from Eastern Thrace following the Balkan Wars of 1911–12 and the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. The Anastenaria ( Greek: Αναστενάρια, Bulgarian: Нестинарство, romanized: Nestinarstvo), is a traditional barefoot fire-walking ritual with ecstatic dance performed in some villages in Northern Greece and Southern Bulgaria. |
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