Filed under: Apple TV
Free Apple TV utilities
The folks at MacMerc have compiled a list of six free, must-have utilities for the Apple TV. We know how much everyone loves hacking their Apple TVs, and now you can join in fun.- Video Flash Downloader will allow you to pull video directly from YouTube (or other flash-based sites).
- iSquint encodes video for the iPod, which the Apple TV can also use.
- TiVo Decode Manager will change the files on a Series 2 TiVo into Apple TV-friendly MPEG format. It also preserves metadata.
- Copernicus is a screen capture application that, we guess, will let you watch yourself work on tv. Because you're that darn good.
- HandBrake rips DVDs into MPEG 4 format (among others).
- Lostify is a meta tag editor, which you can use with the files you capture with your TiVo or EyeTV.
[Via AppleTV Hacker]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Leonard Nimrod said 2:08PM on 4-09-2007
Wouldn't these be "iTunes utilities for better AppleTV support"?
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Andrew A said 2:10PM on 4-09-2007
Shouldn't HandBrake be MediaFork now as well?
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Andrew A said 3:02PM on 4-09-2007
Nevermind, looks like they've merged... not sure which one is the real one. Oh well.
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Donald Burr said 4:04PM on 4-09-2007
MediaFork is definitely the one to get. Yes, they are both still available from the same web site; however, the developer of Handbrake has stated that he is no longer going to be maintaining it.
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avixe said 4:22PM on 4-09-2007
Handbrake was the original project. After the developer seemed to abandon it, the forums forked the project and called their new one Mediafork. Shortly after that happened, the original Handbrake developer returned, and everybody merged everything back into the Handbrake name. That said, I don't think a new release of HB has yet been created, so the newest version is still called Mediafork.
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james Fancher said 7:16PM on 4-09-2007
Flash video downloader didn't work for me. Behind a very locked down corporate router and it failed when it went looking for videodownload.com. Oh well back to fishing thru the activity log to find the movie URL. BTW iSquint works great for converting for iPod.
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icruise said 10:43PM on 4-09-2007
I couldn't get Flash Video Downloader to work either, even though going directly to videodownload.com did work fine. Has anyone had any success in converting flash videos for the iPod? I've tried using FFMPEGX, but it always gives me two files: one for the video and one for the audio (and quicktime can't open the audio file). If anyone has done it, what settings did you use?
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