Comments on: Beyond TV Hearts iTunes and iPhone

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:27:55 +0000

I am having a small problem that I cannot figure out. When I set showsqueeze to H.264 it makes two copies of the H.264 video. It runs through the entire process twice which ties up myu computer for twice as long as it should. Any suggestions as to why it does this?
Thanks

By: James Boritz

James Boritz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:52:10 +0000

I hope you are still monitoring this blog entry.

I have a couple comments:
- The H.264 plugin needs to be activated. This is not mentioned above and even though I can access the iTunes setup page http://:8129/SetupITunes.aspx before activating the plugin and link the podcasts in iTunes it didn’t really appear to work.

I am a little confused by the responses above because of the multiple pathways to getting shows converted and experimenting takes days (while waiting for things to happen). It would be great if you could provide the URL used for the various settings to disambiguate. So far I have one show that worked and two with green screens.

Questions:
- On http://:8129/SetupShowSqueeze.aspx do I need to have Automatic Showsqueeze enabled?
- Does the format need to be set to H.264 or does the SetupITunes.aspx take care of that?
- Does the Intelligent Quality Selection here have any impact on what happens for iTunes conversion?
- How do I convert something that is already recorded?

Thanks.

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:03:32 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

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By: zack

zack — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:34:35 +0000

The green video happens when “intelligent quality select” from showsqueeze is on. This happens when showsqueeze is used instead of “itunes conversion”

To ensure that you’re using the correct itunes conversion, go to that settings page in the ViewScape and then enable automatic conversion there. Alternatively, go to a specific show in the viewscape library and choose to send to itunes there.

By: Be a Good Daughter

Be a Good Daughter — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:39:57 +0000

Great article.
I guess you’ll check out my blog..
Sayonara

By: Earl Baugh

Earl Baugh — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:09:58 +0000

I’m trying to figure out what happens when you tell Beyond TV to run show squeeze on files to H.264 format why you can’t play them back with iTunes or Quicktime (on Windows OR Mac OS X). In some cases it shows just a green screen, othertimes it crashes.

Additionally, I see how to convert to iTunes during a recording (as part of the convert to iTunes) which is separate from Show Squeeze. What’s the real difference here?

My goal is that I want to be able to edit out commercials and make my own DVD’s (and thought I could use iMovie) but I’m finding show squeezed programs (to h.264 format) crash anything but Beyond TV for playback. As is I may have “lost” some stuff, at least in terms of being able to edit and make the DVD’s I wanted.

(I put in a support request, and replied to the first msg, but any further answers have been extremely slow in coming…)

I’m also in the trial period and trying to decide if this is worth it or not.

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By: SG

SG — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:32:21 +0000

You don’t need the itunes integration to watch shows in mpeg4 on other devices. I have a profile set up for showsqueeze that converts videos into the right settings for my palm lifedrive - works very well.

The DVD burning plugin is very well done BTW. I had to burn a DVD for a friend and I turned on the trial version. It was so easy to use compared to dragging the files into a DVD editor and mastering a DVD that I ended up buying it. I only wish we did not need to buy a unique license for each client.