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Episode: 963
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Title: HPR0963: How I cut the cord part 3
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0963/hpr0963.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 05:40:13
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Hello Hacker Public Radio.
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Brockton Bob here again with Todd III of my series on how I cut the cable cord.
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In this episode I'll talk about how I use my external western digital high drive to
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save all my favorite TV episodes of the shows I like.
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Now in episode 2 I told you that I have the Net Gear digital entertain alive as my second
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set top box with the Roku 2 XD being my first set top box.
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Now the great thing about the Net Gear box is that it has two USB ports.
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By the way the Roku box has one USB port but it doesn't support many video codecs so
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I don't really use it.
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I stick with the Net Gear box.
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The Roku box only supports MP4 video whereas the Net Gear box supports almost every video
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codec around.
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I like the AVI codec because it saves a lot of space on my hard drive and the picture quality
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is pretty good.
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Now how do I get my favorite programs on my box?
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Well I go to a website called easytv.it.
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So that's www.easytv.it.
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Now this site has only television series and some documentaries for download.
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On this site you scroll through the shows by the day that they are uploaded or you can
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click on the search bar that has a drop down list of all the shows that are offered.
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If you click on the show and hit the enter key you are presented with a list of all the
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episodes for the current and past seasons.
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So I like dirty jobs so I download the episodes and put them in a folder that is labeled
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what season they are.
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I have all the episodes starting with season 1 all the way up to the current episodes.
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Now these episodes are all uploaded by members as soon as the new episode is released.
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So if you cut the cable cord and most of the shows are on easytv for download in minutes
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after they air.
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Using this website you can create a vast library of tv and cable tv series.
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One thing you do need to have is a bit torrent quiet.
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I use transmission myself on a Linux Mint laptop.
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On all the episodes I download it all I do is plug my hard drive into my laptop and
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copy them to the hard drive putting them in their respective folders.
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Then the next step is to plug into your Net Gear box and start it up.
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When you plug it in and start it up you will see your USB drive listed and all you have
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to do is click on the browse button of all your folders and pick an episode to play.
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By the way all the episodes from easytv have the commercials removed which is I like
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that.
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That's nice.
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A side note on some of the episodes.
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Some of the episodes you might want were not uploaded in the codec you want.
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So how would you fix them?
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Well I use Linux so I use the program ffmpag.
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This is a terminal program meaning you run it from the terminal.
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I know a lot of people don't like to use the terminal especially new uses.
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I use this program in the terminal to convert everything to the avi codec.
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If you don't use the terminal or if you don't run Linux have no fear there is a GUI
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program that runs on Linux and Windows.
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It's called Winff.
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You can download that and it will easily convert everything you want to any format you want.
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It's got presets all you do is click on the presets and hit go.
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So hopefully this short series will help you out.
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I hope you give it a try.
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If you need help just google anything I've talked about you'll find it on the web.
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In a future episode I plan on telling you how to get ffmpag on your Linux computer and
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I plan on doing a few easy commands to convert videos to the codec you want.
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So thanks for listening.
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