iFlicks beta 1.3.5
Jendrik Bertram
Jas
> I have just released a new beta, which includes some major changes regarding encoding of videos. As always you can download the beta fromhttp://www.iflicksapp.com/download/iFlicks-beta.dmg
nant
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Jendrik Bertram
On 03.04.2011, at 16:29, nant wrote:
> Would be great if you could continue supporting Leopard/32bit. I'm running my media on modified ATV, 1st generation, which is 32bit only, and can't run the new beta.
I'll try to make iFlicks compatible with Leopard before releasing the stable version. It might just be, that some minor features might not be available.
> Also, is there (or planned) a command line version of iFlicks for scripting?
You can use Apple Script together with iFlicks for this.
Cheers,
Jendrik
> Regards,
>
Jendrik Bertram
Jendrik Bertram
Inigo Saez
Rob Lembke
Jendrik Bertram
Steve Mulcahy
Is there a mode similar to 'Flatten to Quicktime' which will just
convert the audio track to aac and remux the mkv to mov?
I tried using 'iTunes compatible' but it seems to convert the video.
Admittedly, it takes around 20 minutes to complete, which is pretty
impressive, but I'd like to leave the video in my mkvs fairly
untouched if they are h.264.
Thanks,
Steve
> I have just released a new beta, which includes some major changes regarding encoding of videos. As always you can download the beta fromhttp://www.iflicksapp.com/download/iFlicks-beta.dmg
Jendrik Bertram
Was the file you were processing located on your local hd? How big was it?
steve mulcahy
Steve
Jeaz
First off, I gotta say big thanks for writing such an awesome app,
I've used it for ages for meta-data coding and really love it.
I saw that you with this beta should compete with HB for performance
and after running a few tests I say you are at least close enough to
replace HB.
However, I have one problem and that's with the presets.
I'm still running on a aTV 1G while waiting for it to be released in
my country and thus convert all my mkv to support it it, usually 720p
and around 2300kbit/s. More will cause a stutter on the aTV.
In your presets you have would fit Apple TV, iTunes Comp. and aTV2.
Now, the aTV preset is set to 540p which is too low and the other two
keeps the data rate too high so video can't play the aTV.
Also, ran across a "bug" or what have it, but since 1.3.4 (still there
in 1.3.5) it refuses to auto tag my videos as HD. I can do it
manually, but videos that before used to be considered HD by iFlicks
are now branded SD, and since I'm using folder actions and try to do
things on auto, it causes problems.
Finally, a feature request. I prefer grabbing cover art from
http://getvideoartwork.com since it has iTunes original artwork. Now,
I understand adding a million different sources for grabbing artwork
isn't fun but maybe add support for scanning an "artwork-folder" where
it'll look for a image with a name that fits the video, and use it
instead. Not a major hassle though, so if it's very easy to implement,
then it would be swell, if not I'll still love ya.
Kind regards
Jeaz
> I have just released a new beta, which includes some major changes regarding encoding of videos. As always you can download the beta fromhttp://www.iflicksapp.com/download/iFlicks-beta.dmg
Corentin Cras-Méneur
I tested the latest beta and noticed a few things tat I thought had to
be reported:
- If you select the iTunes tabs in the Preferences, it immediately
launches iTunes (even if all you want to do is make sure it will NOT
add to iTunes).
- I also selected the "iTunes Compatible" preset: I had mp4 videos
that did not require transcoding. When I pressed the Start button,
iFlicks started re-encoding the files instead of simply saving a new
copy with the metadata. On this topic, I would love it if the metadata
could simply be appended to the original file…
- I imported files that had titles in French. All words were
capitalized (which typographically is incorrect for French). I'd
rather have iFlicks leave the title as it was. Some words had accented
letters. The result was even weirder: rêve became RêVe (I suspect it
treated the accented letter as a space).
Beside that, the new version seems to be working fine for me :-)
Corentin
Jendrik Bertram
On 13.04.2011, at 17:37, Jeaz wrote:
> Hey,
>
> First off, I gotta say big thanks for writing such an awesome app,
> I've used it for ages for meta-data coding and really love it.
Thanks.
> I saw that you with this beta should compete with HB for performance
> and after running a few tests I say you are at least close enough to
> replace HB.
> However, I have one problem and that's with the presets.
> I'm still running on a aTV 1G while waiting for it to be released in
> my country and thus convert all my mkv to support it it, usually 720p
> and around 2300kbit/s. More will cause a stutter on the aTV.
> In your presets you have would fit Apple TV, iTunes Comp. and aTV2.
> Now, the aTV preset is set to 540p which is too low and the other two
> keeps the data rate too high so video can't play the aTV.
The problem you are experiencing might not just be related to the bitrate of the files for Apple TV 2. The Apple TV 2 preset uses some features that can cause stutter on the old Apple TV.
If you are willing to run some more test, I can send you a version which uses a higher resolution for the old Apple TV preset. From what I am aware of, the old Apple TV doesn't support full 720p (at 30fps) though.
> Also, ran across a "bug" or what have it, but since 1.3.4 (still there
> in 1.3.5) it refuses to auto tag my videos as HD. I can do it
> manually, but videos that before used to be considered HD by iFlicks
> are now branded SD, and since I'm using folder actions and try to do
> things on auto, it causes problems.
> Finally, a feature request. I prefer grabbing cover art from
> http://getvideoartwork.com since it has iTunes original artwork. Now,
> I understand adding a million different sources for grabbing artwork
> isn't fun but maybe add support for scanning an "artwork-folder" where
> it'll look for a image with a name that fits the video, and use it
> instead. Not a major hassle though, so if it's very easy to implement,
> then it would be swell, if not I'll still love ya.
I would love to support getvideoartwork. The problem is that parsing the website is error prone and something I am not really willing to so. Due to this I tried talking to them about implementing an API (see http://getvideoartwork.com/index.php?topic=761.0 ), but sadly it went nowhere.
> Kind regards
> Jeaz
>
> On 1 Apr, 08:28, Jendrik Bertram <jend...@iflicksapp.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have just released a new beta, which includes some major changes regarding encoding of videos. As always you can download the beta fromhttp://www.iflicksapp.com/download/iFlicks-beta.dmg
>>
>> All presets for encoding videos have been redone and improved. Even encoding of mkv videos should have a speed similar to HandBrake now.
>> Please test this extensively to make sure the resulting videos are working as promised.
>>
>> This version is know almost feature complete and I will focus on stabilizing iFlicks and fixing the remaining bugs. This will hopefully also allow me to push updates with smaller fixes more frequently.
>>
>> Thanks again for all your support. I appreciate it.
>>
>> Jendrik
>
Jendrik Bertram
On 16.04.2011, at 20:01, Corentin Cras-Méneur wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I tested the latest beta and noticed a few things tat I thought had to
> be reported:
> - If you select the iTunes tabs in the Preferences, it immediately
> launches iTunes (even if all you want to do is make sure it will NOT
> add to iTunes).
This happens because iFlicks has to talk to iTunes in order to get some of it settings and available playlists. There is not much I can do about this.
> - I also selected the "iTunes Compatible" preset: I had mp4 videos
> that did not require transcoding. When I pressed the Start button,
> iFlicks started re-encoding the files instead of simply saving a new
> copy with the metadata. On this topic, I would love it if the metadata
> could simply be appended to the original file…
This is really a bug in the latest beta. Will be fixed soon.
> - I imported files that had titles in French. All words were
> capitalized (which typographically is incorrect for French). I'd
> rather have iFlicks leave the title as it was. Some words had accented
> letters. The result was even weirder: rêve became RêVe (I suspect it
> treated the accented letter as a space).
I don't think this was caused by iFlicks itself. Have you checked the capitalization of the title on TMDB/TVDB?
> Beside that, the new version seems to be working fine for me :-)
>
> Corentin
>
Phil Spitler
I have my iFlicks set up to look at a folder and it's working great.
I have two issues right now.
Firstly, iFlicks is trying to convert everything that goes in the folder so I end up with lots of unwanted files such as sample movies and files it tries to create from subtitle files etc.
I would love to be able to tell iFlicks to only look for certain file extensions such as mkv and avi. I am guessing this should be somewhat easy to add in the automater script. Also, it would be great if it ignored anything with "sample" in the title.
Also, iFlicks keeps crashing on me (I sent the crash report through the gui this morning). It only seems to happen when it is taking files from my watch folder and I'm guessing this problem would go away if we only tried to encode video files.
A feature request would be to also make the watch folder be a little more intelligent, again maybe this is just done through the script. But I would love to have the option to encode mkv and avi files to the AppleTV2 preset but if it found an mp4, simply add the metadata. Right now I just re-encode everything.
Thanks for the great product.
Phil
Nathan
Phil mentioned it... "I have my iFlicks set up to look at a folder and it's working great."
How do I set this up?
Is it fully automated?
Currently I have all .mkv, .avi, mp4, etc, files that I download moved to a folder via hazel.
I would love it if they were then automatically tagged & encoded via iFlicks!
Does it look at your folder every couple of hours or it it continually looking?
Does it eat up CPU power/resources if looking 24/7?
Thanks
nathan
Phil Spitler
Choose the folder you want to watch, add a folder action and look for the iFlicks one.
Pretty simple.
Phil
Nathan
Don't you still have to hit the start button?
Corentin Cras-Méneur
On Apr 18, 4:33 am, Jendrik Bertram <jend...@iflicksapp.com> wrote:
[…]
> > - I imported files that had titles in French. All words were
> > capitalized (which typographically is incorrect for French). I'd
> > rather have iFlicks leave the title as it was. Some words had accented
> > letters. The result was even weirder: rêve became RêVe (I suspect it
> > treated the accented letter as a space).
>
> I don't think this was caused by iFlicks itself. Have you checked the capitalization of the title on TMDB/TVDB?
same issue systematically.
Trying with the just word Rêverie itself does it.
Corentin
Jendrik Bertram
Jendrik Bertram
Will do. Thanks for reporting.
Jendrik Bertram
On 19.04.2011, at 19:12, Phil Spitler wrote:
> Hi,
> I have my iFlicks set up to look at a folder and it's working great.
>
> I have two issues right now.
>
> Firstly, iFlicks is trying to convert everything that goes in the folder so I end up with lots of unwanted files such as sample movies and files it tries to create from subtitle files etc.
>
> I would love to be able to tell iFlicks to only look for certain file extensions such as mkv and avi. I am guessing this should be somewhat easy to add in the automater script. Also, it would be great if it ignored anything with "sample" in the title.
I think this should really done in the folder action script. Just have a look on the internet how to filter the extensions from filenames. It should be fairly easy to do.
> Also, iFlicks keeps crashing on me (I sent the crash report through the gui this morning). It only seems to happen when it is taking files from my watch folder and I'm guessing this problem would go away if we only tried to encode video files.
I'll check the report. Thanks.
> A feature request would be to also make the watch folder be a little more intelligent, again maybe this is just done through the script. But I would love to have the option to encode mkv and avi files to the AppleTV2 preset but if it found an mp4, simply add the metadata. Right now I just re-encode everything.
You'll have to do this through the script for know, but I am planning on extending rules support in iFlicks to do this. That way you will also be able to check for the video resolution and other things to automatically choose a preset.
> Thanks for the great product.
>
> Phil
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