I am working on the next version of the software. I am moving away from it being a dedicated application for SageTV and more towards an application that can funnel a variety of video sources into the iPod. I will be adding the ability to indicate whether a video source is either a TV Show, Music Video, Movie, Home Video or Other. If it is designated as a TV show, playlists will be generated for each show. It will be able to take TV shows from any source (i.e. TiVo or downloaded BitTorrent TV content) as long as the naming convention is Showname - EpisodeName.xxx. If the source is designated as a Music Video, Movie, Home Movie or Other, it will be put into the appropriate playlist (playlists for each will be created).
I will also be adding the ability for users to specify all encoding parameters for FFMPEG. This will allow those non-iPod users to adjust the encoding parameters specific for their application.
Let me know if you have any other ideas.
Geoff
posted by Geoff Gerhardt @ 7:45 PM
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many may have already stated the obvious, but this is an amazing tool. I am using it as my all purpose converter for my iPod. I welcome the new direction and features you are adding. I don't know how much time/effort you are putting into this project but it is greatly appreciated. It's making my iPod an indispensable tool !
I think this is an excellent utility and a fine piece of work. I've blogged about it recently on my learning and media technology weblog.
I do find a few things awkward about the interface, or maybe I don't entirely understand it.
-- If I want to transcode a few programs but not others, I don't sem to have any control over what's transcoded or in what order. I only want a subset of my recorded programs on my iPod, but I can't seem to control what goes and what does not.
-- On a related note, if I have multiple directories of SageTV recordings (some programs seem to go in the place I specified in the setup, others go into the program's installation directory), only some of the programs end up in the queue. I have no influence of what goes in or what does not.
Some control over the selection process would be good.
Nevertheless, this is great stuff!
Larry
Thanks for the comments guys, and thanks Larry for blogging about the software - I see I've been getting hits from your blog.
Regarding your comments about not being able to control what gets transcoded. If you have the "Enable iPod video library management" check box checked, by default, any new programs will not get transcoded until you specify how many you want to keep. Once you specify a number to keep, the software will transcode the latest shows.
This software was setup to work with SageTV. If the software you are using to generate video does not name the same way as SageTV does, it may have some issues. I have finished a version that opens this up. For each video source, you can designate it as a TV Show, Movie, Music Video or Home Video.
Please email (geoff.gerhardt@gmail.com) me if you are still having probs figuring it out. I'm glad to get feedback about the UI, sometimes the way I organize things in the UI seem right to me, but are awkward to someone who first uses the software.
Geoff
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