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iFlicks 2?

This app has been great for me. I wish I knew about it last year! It's been saving me loads of time while ripping the 15 season long TV show ER.

I have done most of my collection of videos to this point manually and it took a long time to get all the metadata by hand.
 
Che Castro said:
So I just bought the new iflicks 2 , so far so good
There a new option to check a box that says "optimize for streaming , do I have to use this ?
I mainly do mkv's that are h264 to put in iTunes for ATV streaming
The only difference I notice when ticking this box is that it takes longer to muxed a file
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It's definitely worth checking it if you indeed stream your MP4 / M4V / MOV files to your ATV. For local (non-ATV) playback, there's virtually no difference.

I've written several articles on optimizing these kinds of video streams with extensive benchmark data - see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1496052/ for two of them, in this very forum.

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charlien said:
If you are looking for an alternative I'd recommend IVI. I'm quite happy with it.
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Or Subler. It also has auto metadata lookup - and is free.
 
Menneisyys2 said:
It's definitely worth checking it if you indeed stream your MP4 / M4V / MOV files to your ATV. For local (non-ATV) playback, there's virtually no difference.

I've written several articles on optimizing these kinds of video streams with extensive benchmark data - see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1496052/ for two of them, in this very forum.

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Or Subler. It also has auto metadata lookup - and is free.
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I'm skimming through your post (interesting info) but I'm not sure if I missed something. Optimizing, does it reduce quality or does just allow ATV to buffer more?
 
ziggie216 said:
I'm skimming through your post (interesting info) but I'm not sure if I missed something. Optimizing, does it reduce quality or does just allow ATV to buffer more?
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No quality reduction at all as it "just" reorders the container's blocks. It, however, vastly reduces buffering.
 
I've had this annoying problem for a while. Anything i throw att flicks 2 is considered a TV-series. I have to change everything manually to get the right DVD-cover and info. How do I fix this?
 
My only issue with iFlicks is that sometimes when just adding metadata to a movie, for some reason it deletes the movie, and adds 2 entries into iTunes. And when this happens, I get a green checkmark instead of an orange checkmark in the iFlicks screen. It doesn't happen all the time, but enough times to be a little annoying. Still haven't figured out what causes it...
 
quick iFlicks 1 question. I just installed the app on a new mac. I swear on the previous mac once the conversion was done it would send the converted files to iTunes and the originals to the trash.

However that is not the case currently on my new mac. Any ideas as to what causes this?

Thanks.
 
AppleDApp said:
quick iFlicks 1 question. I just installed the app on a new mac. I swear on the previous mac once the conversion was done it would send the converted files to iTunes and the originals to the trash.

However that is not the case currently on my new mac. Any ideas as to what causes this?

Thanks.
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Do you have 'send to iTunes' selected in the overall settings?
 
stridemat said:
Do you have 'send to iTunes' selected in the overall settings?
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Have a look at my settings. I think I may have fixed it under the Quicktime tab, Move original file to trash was not check.

EDIT Seems to work however it also trashes the my video folder which is part of my script. Any ideas to prevent that from happening?
 

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hey guys
which h.264 profile level do you use? As fas as I know it shouldn't be higher than 4?
 
I've used iFlicks 2 for a while now but recently I am downloading some files on .mp4 and running them on iFlicks to get subtitles added and metadata with the iTunes Compatible setting. The thing is after they are added to iTunes they only have like 6 or 10 minutes of video. Then the video ends. lol

I tried the HD1080 setting and same thing, these h264 .mp4 movies just get zapped to a few minutes but with full file size (2.6gb).

Anyone have the same ?
 
These are all reasons I run my MKVs through MP4tools then use iflicks to rename and add metadata. Not a single problem yet.
 
one thing i did notice when using apple tv 2 preset to convert my mac slows down, surfing the internet is choppy
it uses a lot of resources , i have 16GB of ram and an ssd

the first iflicks doesn't have this problem

anybody else ?
 
Che Castro said:
one thing i did notice when using apple tv 2 preset to convert my mac slows down, surfing the internet is choppy
it uses a lot of resources , i have 16GB of ram and an ssd

the first iflicks doesn't have this problem

anybody else ?
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Try watching a YouTube video...it becomes awful choppy. I do my conversions at night so that is not necessarily a bad thing, but I could see how I could be annoying otherwise.

This is with a 2.66Ghz i5.
 
ZeRoLiMiT said:
I have been using flicks 1 and works amazing! I don't see whats good about 2.0 that would make me buy the other! stick with 1
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I quite like the square tv show cover art. Matches the iTunes files in my library. It does also seem to encode quicker, though that could just be a placebo.

SandboxGeneral said:
I do too, or get it started when I'm leaving for a while when I don't need the iMac for anything.
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Great minds and all that ;)
 
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