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Version 0.8 Released with better Metadata search

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:12:18 -0700

Well version 0.7 fixed the crashing problems, but introduced some instability in the metadata search feature. So I’ve gone through and fixed those problems. Along the way I’ve added better error reporting and improved the usability quite a bit. Now when you search using the search box (because the name of the show was not found in the filename) it will still use any season/episode information. This helps because many shows are in a folder with the show name, but each episode file just contains the sXXeXX string. You can also now use the search box to search on multiple files. So you can select all your files, enter the search box and it will give you the right season and episode for each.

Some shows have each season in a separate folder and only the episode number is in the filename. Video Monkey now handles these, too. Just select all the files, enter the show name in the search box, and Video Monkey will set the show name and the episode number. You just need to set the correct season on one file, right click on the “Season:” label and select “Use this value for all files”. Now you have the right show name, season and episode, and you’re ready to encode!

Enjoy, and as always please report any problems you find.

Version 0.7 Released with crashes fixed

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:44:17 -0700

Sorry it’s been so long since doing a release. This one is just a quick fix for the crash when trying to encode around 3 files. I’ve been able to successfully encode over 30 files, so I think the problem is gone. I hope to get on with some of the bugs and add support for XBox encoding and others.

Version 0.6 Released

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:58:45 -0800

There’s a new release of Video Monkey available. This is mostly to get rid of the automatic metadata search function, which was causing problems when the metadata search sites went down. Now by default automatic search is turned off. To search for metadata, open the Info panel, select the metadata pane and select the search menu at the bottom of the pane. Here you will find options to search for metadata on the currently selected file(s) or on all files in the list. You can also check the auto-search on load item to enable the old behavior. I still have a bit of work to do to improve the robustness of the search feature. But this should prevent annoying delays when loading files.

I’ve also added a preferences panel. It only has two values currently. You can set your default search site and the number of threads to use for encoding. You can use this both to reduce the number of CPUs you use, if, for instance, you have a new 16 core Mac Pro and want to reserve some CPU power for other tasks. Or you can use it use more threads than you have CPUs to see if that gives you any better performance. The auto setting will use the same number of threads as you have CPUs.

This release also adds a progress bar to the dock icon. Thanks to Lars Koerkemeier for the implementation.

To get the new release you can select Check for updates... on the Video Monkey menu, or download it here.

Version 0.5 Released, with Snow Leopard Support

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:59:02 -0700

Check out the new 0.5 release of Video Monkey. This release is mainly to support the upcoming Snow Leopard release. But it includes a couple of important bug fixes to make Video Monkey work better.

You can update by going to the Video Monkey menu and selecting Check for updates... or by downloading it from here.

See How The New Metadata Feature Works

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:36:05 -0700

I’ve added a blog entry about the new metadata feature. Check it out so you can get the most out of this cool new feature.