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Originally Posted by Spinball

Just wanted to post a note here to thank the folks who pointed me to Floren Munteanu's Sphinx solution which is now installed at www.AVForums.com.
I was so impressed that I made a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkVHcqfEBQ (choose the HD version).
Thanks, guys.

I'm curious, did he suggest that you post here?

Originally Posted by Spinball

Ok it was every day when I last used it. Have things changed since then? Apologies if so. Please let me know and I will change the video.
As I understand it, though the Sphinx reindex in the free solution was quite server intensive and took a while?

No. I run it every hour and don't even notice the load, either from indexing or from searching. I could probably run it every five minutes with no problem.

Originally Posted by Spinball

(By the way there is need to be offensively defensive about the free solution - we used it for ages and I'm not running down the efforts that people have put in for free).

I think people are not so much defensive about the free solution as annoyed at TECK for continually advertising his paid solution for personal profit in a thread devoted to the free solution. He had a bunch of posts in this thread deleted some time ago for advertising, and since then you're the second or third person to bump the thread and e-mail everyone watching it to advertise his solution as well.

Nothing wrong with paid solutions for those who have trouble with the free ones, but I don't think this is the place to repeatedly advertise them, which is what's been happening in this thread over the past few months. It's off-topic, this thread is about the free hack. People can put this stuff in their signatures if they want to advertise it, or run Google ads, or mention it as an option when they're giving free help or otherwise posting on-topic.