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UPDATE: Andy has already released an update.  Get the binary here.  I have updated the screenshot below. Andy has posted yet another great tool on his site: Commercial Viewer.  This tool loads a video file and its associated EDL commercial file and lets you modify the values to fine-tune the commercial segments.  This isn’t a [...]

I’ve been testing out the new release of Handbrake to convert my SageTV recordings, and I couldn’t get the file to load to my iPhone via iTunes.  Thanks to G-Spot, I remembered that ABC shows are 60fps here in DC, and the iPhone tops out at 30fps.  A freaking error message would have been nice.

I was researching Blu-Ray players, when it occurred to me it would be much easier to just get a BD drive for the PC, rip the disc to the SageTV server, and play it back from there.  However, Sage does not appear to support this natively yet, either in the client or the extender. One [...]

Looks like Windows 7 will support DivX and XviD, in addition to H.264 and MP4.  It’s about time.

Mediamote (iTunes link) is a remote control app that allows the iPhone to control VMC. Not much to look at or in the description: “Mediamote is a remote control for Windows Media Center.” Some more screenshots would be nice.  I’m curious how much data is pulled under the REC’D TV, Guide, Live TV, and DVD [...]

I have posted an updated method.  I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU USE IT INSTEAD!  I leave the below for posterity…   NOTE: mencoder is not cutting commercials properly on my system.  Everything else is working fine.  I’ll post an update when I get it working. Here is how I’m converting SageTV recordings to iPhone-compatible (and Touch/iPod-compatible) [...]

I finally got around to rebuilding my HTPC (does anyone call them that anymore?) yesterday, so now I need to set my sights on getting file conversions working again.  I’m pretty set on using DTb for file monitoring and processing control.  For transcoding, I was going to use VLC (or possibly Handbrake), but I might [...]

Way back when, I setup Expression Encoder to convert my DVR-MS files to WMV (for size and portability).  One thing I found was the command-line switch to make the conversion run at close to real-time, even for HD.  While I assume this will work with the new WTV format (and EE 2, for that matter), [...]

Regular expressions are the bain of my existence when it comes to DTb.  This isn’t because of any particular failing in DTb – Andy has made it extremely flexible by allowing regex.  Mostly it’s because I don’t have a lot of experience with using them (beyond the occasional search in TextPad), and I didn’t have [...]

Edit: Here is another. Just stumbled across this batch metadata importer tool. I need to give it a try, as I’ve got a few hundred TV shows and movies (pretty much all kids’ stuff) recorded and converted that is floating around in Sage.