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iPod Changing from 'Movie' or 'Music Video' to 'TV Show'
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It's not illegal if you rip them from your store-bought DVDs.Chundles said:
Edit: Just tried the suggested tags. I think "Type" has to be "TV Shows" for iTunes to see it as such.
Counterfit said:
Yes it is illegal. Breaking the copy protection of a DVD and/or encoding it to another format is most definitely illegal under the DMCA. Totally different story for CD's but ripping DVD's unless they are your DVD's of your footage that you shot is 100% illegal.
I use "TV Show" as the type tag and it works perfectly.
Chundles said:
You do realize that not everyone lives in a country like the USA, and therefore is not necessarily governed by a law like the DMCA right?
In some countries people still have fair use laws and guidelines in place which allow you to transfer content from one storage medium to another.
Chundles said:
How does one legally obtain movies?
PS: You also neglect the possibility of digitizing televised TV shows.
Besides, I believe that reverse engineering of DVD encryption is legally justified on the grounds of interoperability, that is compatibility with iPod.
RaoulDuke said:
Counterfit however, does live in the USA and as such is indeed bound to the DMCA laws. So my statement stands.
And yes I do realise that not everybody lives in the USA. Did you see under my picture? I had to read some of Counterfit's blog to find out where he came from before I told him it was illegal, I'm not just sprouting incorrect advice mate.
Next time pay attention.
savar said:
1. buy them on DVD/VHS
2. you said it yourself, kinda. TiVo-ToGo now allows you to take the shows (or movies) you've recorded and convert them so that you can put them on your ipod. this may, however, be windows only, so i'm not sure.
asherman13 said:
I was talking about digital video, of course. My point is if Apple won't let us tag TV shows because they're "illegal", then why let us tag movies? Its just really ridiculous not to allow users to organize content however they want, and the fact that my family guys eps are "movies" and not TV shows means I I can't navigate through them easily.
Its the same thing as cell phone companies that cripple BT on phones so you don't go around putting your own content on the phone -- they want to force you to go through their network, even if that means less overall functionality.
Lostify 0.2
Hi folks,
Lostify 0.2 has been released. It includes the latest version of AtomicParsley (which fixes the "extra underscore in iTunes" bug), includes an easier-to-use user interface, and supports setting specific tags to be automatically be used across as many files as you want. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
Lostify 0.2
Hi folks,
Lostify 0.2 has been released. It includes the latest version of AtomicParsley (which fixes the "extra underscore in iTunes" bug), includes an easier-to-use user interface, and supports setting specific tags to be automatically be used across as many files as you want. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
Lostify 0.2
Ah well... seems I'm not much for testing, doesn't it?starnox said:
--edit-- Okay, I reproduced the error message, and I'll get that fixed tonight.
As far as the locked settings not being saved... right now it only saves them if you click Apply, not Skip. Does that explain what you're seeing? If so, does it make sense? Now that I think about it, maybe it should just always save the locked settings, regardless of whether you Apply them to the current file or Skip it.
so, i've got a bit of an odd thing goin' on. i lostified the final two episodes of the 2nd season of The West Wing from my DVD's, and now my ipod shows two diff. tv shows for the west wing, and both have the exact same episodes and seasons under them. what i mean is, i have a repetitive menu for this particular tv show, after lostifing two episodes. anybody know any particular reason why this is happening? it's not so much a problem as it is a nuisance...
EDIT could be caused by something in Lostify? otherwise i'll start a thread...
EDIT could be caused by something in Lostify? otherwise i'll start a thread...
asherman13 said:
asherman13 -- this is probably related to a bug that was fixed in AtomicParsley, which is used by Lostify. The way it used to embed text values in the mpeg-4 files (in previous versions) actually had an invisible garbage character at the end. This has been fixed in the latest release, so the garbage characters are no longer inserted--but this means that iTunes and the iPod can sometimes understand as different shows what should be the same. As to why all episodes show up under each show on the iPod, I have no idea... but what happens in iTunes??
It is unfortunate, but the only way to work around the problem (if you see something like asherman13 describes) is to re-apply the tags using Lostify 0.2 or AtomicParsley 0.7.6. It was in anticipation of problems like this that I added the checkbox at the bottom left of Lostify. That, combined with the new field locking feature, should make it relatively easy to clean up files with problematic tags.
Hope it works out!
starnox -- try Lostify 0.2.1 (same link as above) -- it has the Applescript error corrected, and it remembers changes to locked fields regardless of whether you click Apply or Skip. Let me know if it works for you!starnox said:
Cheers!
The AtomicParsley site says: "The core of AtomicParsley is low-level, independant of Quicktime and should be easy to port to other platforms."
What exactly does this mean? I'm not very savvy with using Mac programs on windows (if indeed that is what it implies), so how would I "port" AtomicParsley to work on Windows on my PC?
What exactly does this mean? I'm not very savvy with using Mac programs on windows (if indeed that is what it implies), so how would I "port" AtomicParsley to work on Windows on my PC?
Video Preview
I have been using Lostify to modify my video files and was wondering if there is any known way to change the associated artwork that is displayed under the video section of iTunes. I have a bunch of family guy episodes and they are all the same and difficult to see what is what.
Probably can't be done but it doesn't hurt to ask.
I have been using Lostify to modify my video files and was wondering if there is any known way to change the associated artwork that is displayed under the video section of iTunes. I have a bunch of family guy episodes and they are all the same and difficult to see what is what.
Probably can't be done but it doesn't hurt to ask.
You can either:
Get Info on the file, then you can edit/add an image to the Artwork pane (as you would for a music file)
Or:
Find a suitable frame when the video is playing, ctrl/right-click on the player and choose "Set Poster Frame" and that will be used as the 'artwork'.
Get Info on the file, then you can edit/add an image to the Artwork pane (as you would for a music file)
Or:
Find a suitable frame when the video is playing, ctrl/right-click on the player and choose "Set Poster Frame" and that will be used as the 'artwork'.
FWIW, the more videos I add to iTunes, the less useful I find the "thumbnail" style view of the Videos section. I don't know whether everyone has noticed or not, but you can switch the video listing to a list-style view (see the upper-right corner of the listing), and then everything becomes much easier to see: you don't have to rely so much on the cover art to pick one episode from another.mustard said:
Sorry if everybody already knew this.
"Porting" refers to the process a programmer goes through when he takes software that was written for one architecture (such as the Mac, or Linux), and adapts it to run on another architecture (such as Windows). It is not something that an end-user/non-programmer can typically do. So you have to understand "easy" in very relative terms.ToastMaster said:
I figured as much but
I am aware of the list view but it just bugs me when I am not using list view because with the family guy episodes because they all have this blurred streak from the intro and I would rather it be consistent and at least show a clear picture.
norville said:
I am aware of the list view but it just bugs me when I am not using list view because with the family guy episodes because they all have this blurred streak from the intro and I would rather it be consistent and at least show a clear picture.
mustard said:
You can actually set your own pictures for movies. Just start playing a video and pause it on the frame you want to be your thumbnail picture then Ctrl or right click on the actual video (In the the "Now Playing" box or window) and click set poster frame, that frame should now be your thumbnail pic
It's what I've done with all my videos including all my episodes of Family Guy.. it's kinda fun at first finding the best frame for the episode
but if you have lots videos it can take a while