After documenting problems that I had with AtomicParsley and HandBrake files was a frustrating experience.
It happened to me every time but did not happen to others all of the time.
What finally appears to be be the problem is easily avoided, if you don’t use the AppleTV preset.
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So there’s this iPhone 3.0 “event” tomorrow, where Apple tells you what they are planning.
Will there be a new iPhone? We don’t know.
When is iPhone 3.0 available? We don’t know.
Here’s what I hope will be in there.
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One of the nice things about DVDs are the extras, such as “Commentary” tracks where people involved with the production (such as the director, actors, etc) will tell you about the movie, tv, show, etc.
But how do you get that if you want to convert them into an AppleTV compatible format?
The answer is easy. And complicated. [Read On…]
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SuperDuper! is a superb backup program for the Mac.
It does one (major) thing: It duplicates your hard drive to another hard drive.
mount-or-unmount-for-superduper.sh is a shell script which automates the process of mounting and un-mounting a hard drive to use with SuperDuper.
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Update 2009-03-15: See update below.
AtomicParsley is a very cool little program that will allow you to apply metadata to video files on the commandline.
However, it appears that you only get one shot at applying metadata with it, or else the file will be left without video.
Here is what I mean and how to re-create this (apparent) bug:
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I ripped The Wire: Season 1 using HandBrake’s “AppleTV” present, and was left with one file where the video was fine but the audio was not.
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I bought the West Wing DVD set from Amazon last year while it was on sale.
While I love the series, the DVD set itself is a giant pain.
The DVDs themselves are printed with nothing on them except a number (1-45)
That number tells you nothing about what episodes are on that DVD, or even what season. (When you put the DVDs into their little “briefcases” it will be clear what season they are from, but that’s hardly helpful when just looking at a single DVD.)
So I made my own, and decided to post it here in the hopes that others might find it useful.
Note: After the DVD number is something like “WEST_WING_S1_D7” - that is how the DVD will appear if you load it into a computer. It should also be the folder name which would be created if you ripped the DVD to your hard drive unless you used an app which tried to give you a “pretty name” which may or may not be accurate.
Warning: if you use RipIt I suggest that you do not have it automatically fetch names for these DVDs, as it gave me some confusing names. The names below are the “canonical” names.
I realized only too late (after I had ripped them already) that this list would be greatly improved if it included the “Handbrake names”. For example, “WEST_WING_S6_D4-2.m4v” is episode s06e12: “365 Days”.
Adding that info to this list could make it easier to come up with a script which would go through all the output files, rename them, and add the necessary metadata to them. It would also make it easier to process VIDEO_TS folders using HandBrakeCLI if someone wanted to do that.
It’s too late for me to track down all that info, but if anyone else is getting ready to rip them and wants to keep a list, I’d gladly add the info here.
Or if you want to make your own list, I’d gladly link to it.
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I use Apple’s Backup.app every day to backup my:
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I bought the MPEG-2 Quicktime Playback Component several years ago.
Why? Well, read the above link, but basically it allows me to play MPEG-2 files in Quicktime.
What can I say, I’m a simple man. [Read On…]
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Log of stuff I tried when trying to run OS X on an Eee PC 1000HA. [Read On…]
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