Comments on: iVideo

By: harringg

harringg — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:22:49 +0000

@EnKayTee

Does my workflow seem normal? Should it take “forever”, at least overnight, and still not get everything on my HDD?

By: EnKayTee

EnKayTee — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:55:33 +0000

Personally I’ve given up on yFlicks – there’s a new version promised (but only from second hand info) and the app is unusable for me in its current state. I’ve been using iVideo for a couple of months now and it works fine for what I want. Mike seems to be committed to its development (more so than Many Tricks seem to be with yFlicks at any rate). At this discount, I’d say it’s definitely worth it…

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:43:31 +0000

@gryphonent: Do you think there is going to be a new version of yFlicks? Those guys have known about the issue with crashing when “Enable access for assistive devices” is checked for over a year, and it still isn’t fixed. They’ve been completely absent from their forums for months, and apparently don’t usually respond to emails either.

I’d like to see yFlicks updated too, but they haven’t given me a reason to believe that their company even exists anymore.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:38:42 +0000

@gryphonent – I gave up on yFlicks because I found it to be so flaky and unstable. It seemed to re-scan a folder from scratch every time I opened it, then usually crashed half way through. I may give this a look.

By: harringg

harringg — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:12:39 +0000

@Mike

If that’s how it works, I’ll pass. I ran it again last night, it seemed to stop at 342 this time. I left it until morning, it was stopped at 568. I pressed continue, and my total was now 709 when done.

I added a single video to my desktop (iShowU screencast, 10 seconds test video). So now I should have 710 when all said and done.

I went to File->Find my movies and let it run for about 30 minutes, and this time it reported 1139 when done. Do I need to let this scan for a few days before it will get ALL the files on my HDD?

It also gave me errors on import the last time, saying a movie “took too long to import”, it was a 38 MB file that plays fine in the Finder.

MacBook Pro
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
10.5.5
120 GB Internal drive

By: gryphonent

gryphonent — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:33:24 +0000

Hoping for a new version of yFlicks instead. iVideo seems a bit basic and unstable.

By: Mike McFadden

Mike McFadden — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:48:44 +0000

Hi harringg,

The search is automatic and will begin importing when all the movies are found. I guess the Continue button is actually a Skip button since it stops the search early and only imports the files it found up to that point. If you want to add new movies later, run a search again and only new files will be found and imported. You can also drag and drop specific files onto the main window if you don’t want to add every movie on your computer.

You can play movies by pressing return or enter. Escape will take you back to the list of movies when you are finished.

By: harringg

harringg — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:25:53 +0000

Looks promising however, it’s sort of confusing on import. Says progress found 53 videos, and the continue button is flashing. I press continue, and it runs through it’s import scan and now I have 67 videos.

I ran it again, and it went to 72 videos before it seemed to be done, I pressed continue and it did it’s import and now I have 141 videos.

Should I choose import, let it run overnight, and see what I get in the morning?

Also, does it autoupdate with new movies, or do I have re-import everytime?

A feature request would be when a video is selected to be able to play it with the space bar. I see Cmd-P will do that, and Space with pause it once playing, but I think Print when I think Cmd-P