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• can I take the audio track from a video in one language and use it to replace the audio on a different file?

  I’m trying to reduce the size of my video collection because I’m running out of storage. My strategy is to look for smaller sized files to replace very large ones. When that fails, I am using handbrake to rencode. Its working, but very slowly due to my ancient computer. Redownloading is the much faster method. Some titles, which were originally released as non-english, have existing small files, but the English audio is only available less commonly as a huge file. Is it possible to redownl...

• what's the simple way to map services to subdomains instead of specifying the port number?

  I have a bunch of services running on my LAN, mostly from a single Debian machine. I access them at URLs like devicename.lan:portnumber. I would like to change to servicename.devicename.lan. How it works now: The router (openwrt) sets a static IP per device and the port number is selected by the application or system unit running it. What is the absolute simplest way to accomplish this? I don’t mind if it is managed by the router or by the server machine itself. Hoping for something that can...