[Tfug] Nice score at WorldCare..

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Bowie Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> After 3 days, I've gotten around to installing OS X 10.5.6 on this thing,
> adding another 2TB worth of SATA to it, making this thing a media server for
> the whole house, and part-timing it as a Tivo-to-AppleTV transcoder. It's
> now chewing through about 500GB worth of TV shows, and dumping the results
> into my iTunes library so I can use it anywhere.
>
> There are plenty of really, really nice things about OS X, even though it's
> a closed platform. It's heresy to say it here, but that's the truth of it.
> In a closed system, you benefit from interoperability and well-defined
> standards. Everyone knows the rules from the developers down to the users,
> and everyone plays the same game, accordingly.
>
> All the apps related to burning/ripping/transcoding in OS X all know the lay
> of the land, so to speak, so everything you would want to do is generally a
> breeze to do. There's a common backbone to everything. Instead of a Rube
> Goldberg contraption glued together with the aid of a shell script requiring
> the user to install 30 different packages of 5 different types with 100
> different dependencies, all in an effort to convert from format A to Z, you
> just have one or two apps that are coherent in their approach to the
> problem, and deliver their results in a format everything already
> understands natively. It's drag and drop at that point. It ceases to be an
> "MP2/MP4/DivX/XviD/AVI/WMV/FLV-to-BIN/CUE/VOB/DVD/VCD" issue. It just works.

What did you find to transcode $random-media to something iTunes
likes?  I actually was going down this path a few months ago and
failed to find anything that wasn't some OSS app that was easier to
use on the commandline and over in Linux too.

-- 
Tom