Steve Caplette

Recently I've been looking for an Android media app so I can cast very large .mkv video files from network storage (Synology NAS) to a Chromecast.   I have tried various android apps but most can't handle huge video files residing on a network share. Having loved VLC media player since

When following the vlc android compilation instructions on Ubuntu 18.04.1, I ran into this issue here. I found that you can get one of two error messages depending on whether it is the first or second time running ./compile.sh. I automated the fix instructions from the above

Just signed up for Cloudflare. They have a plan that will protect one website for free. Appears to be active now. We'll see how it goes.

Apparently there is no native Powershell command to retry a CmdLet. I found a few examples online but thought I'd try my own. function Retry-Command { Param([String] $CommandName, [hashtable] $CommandArgs = @{}, [int] $MaxRetries=3, [int] $SleepSeconds=2 ) $retrycount = 0 $CommandArgs.ErrorAction='Stop' while ($retrycount++ -lt $MaxRetries) { try { &$CommandName @CommandArgs return