Yet where are VLC's encoding abilities? Sigh.![]()
Handbrake?
Yet where are VLC's encoding abilities? Sigh.![]()
It's working, but the recommendations are absolute rubbish. Much worse than genius for music.
It uses the cnID number to identify what a movie is. Since Handbrake encodes do not have a cnID tag, they cannot be used by Genius for recommendations.
With some codecs, yes its terrible. Same with Quicktime vs. VLC.
Embarrassing that free VLC is 10X better than Quicktime.
Yet where are VLC's encoding abilities? Sigh.![]()
Sadly I have to admit, Quicktime sucks. Any time I play a non-Apple codec, Quicktime stammers (even on my Octo Mac Pro). I have Flip4Mac installed, yet the only decent player is VLC.
Perian not helping? I haven't had any need for VLC for quite a while.
iTunes manages with user added music, but I guess that has more metadata to identify the song with in the first place.
Sounds like it could be handy having a utility that adds the cnID for all movies in iTunes that are also in the iTunes movie store.
Cheers, Ed.
Just checked, working for me
I'd be curious to see a poll here on how many people actually use the Genius feature in iTunes.
There is a large contingent of Season Pass subscribers that would like to be able to download the content that they've already purchased. The 8.1 update broke Season Passes for a lot of users, and here is the response from support:
" Unfortunately, this has been brought to Apple's attention as an iTunes Application problem. It can be fixed by going to an earlier version of iTunes.
Apple is currently working toward a resolution for the issue you have reported. You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available."
I use it to create playlists and I think it works well. I don't use it for purchase recommendations.
All these iTunes movie store upgraded are nice, but when are they finally going to get the Star Wars movies already?!
Can something really be said to be a movie store if it doesn't sell Star Wars?
With some codecs, yes its terrible. Same with Quicktime vs. VLC.
Embarrassing that free VLC is 10X better than Quicktime.
Yet where are VLC's encoding abilities? Sigh.![]()
I thought they said they would update them? Kind of lame they haven't.
I love Genius for songs. And I like the Netflix "recommends" feature. Maybe this would be just as nice, I just can't say. But I know I never once felt like I this was something that was really "missing".
Is anyone else having trouble updating their apps in i tunes?