Except for the picture show I get in the mail fromNetflix , I do n’t spend very much meter watching DVDs on my TV at place — which is a pity , because I have a pretty good - sized collection . But recently I ’ve discovered fresh - found life for my videodisk — especially the TV show — on myfifth - propagation iPod .
Using HandBrake Lite ( ) , I ’ve take to ripping my DVD ( yes , these are DVD I own — and yes , I consider the process fair use ) to an iPod - compatible MPEG-4 format . I then transfer those to my iPod ( telecasting shows work the best , since most of them are in the iPod ’s 4:3 aspect proportion ) to look on while exercising on a stationary motorcycle at the gymnasium , ride the street cable car to work , or sitting on an airplane .
The one big trouble is that since iTunes does n’t give me the ability to enter tag for thing such as a show ’s title , time of year number , and episode number , these files do n’t show up in the TV demonstrate section of the iPod ’s Video card , much less neatly file away by season and in running monastic order ( as TV show purchased from the iTunes Music Store do ) .
The solution I ’ve found to iTunes ’ shortcomings is James Huston ’s freeParsley is Atomically Delicious 1.3.3 ( ) . PAD supply a in writing drug user interface ( GUI ) for the AtomicParsley dictation melody metadata editor ( which explains where the GUI get its name , but not the underlying applied science ) .
PAD ’s bare user interface is one of its crowing property . To get started , drag - and - drop cloth files into the File List ( or snap on the Choose button and peck the file that way ) . In this example — for a TV show — you may enroll the episode title of respect , show title , season issue , installment act , and year . Select the file , enter your info , and select the Process button .
The are a few alternative that require your aid . Apply To “ Music ” Fields supply the tags to the equivalent airfield in iTunes — without that , iTunes wo n’t be capable to display all that information . you’re able to select to supplant the file you ’re tagging alternatively of make a duplicate ( PAD really creates a temp file and then removes it ) . I utilise the replace option only , and have never ended up with a corrupted file — although once or twice , I ’ve catch a file ’s size swell up when overwrite multiple time . you’re able to even tot a verbal description or artwork ( such as the DVD cover ) to your file .
you could also use PAD to tag music videos or movies :
The one area where PAD could utilise some study is in its plenty processing capability . When tagging a whole time of year of TV episodes , for example , there ’s no rationality to enroll show , season , and class data manually for each lead . And if you bestow a phone number of Indian file and activate the Batch selection , PAD will let you adjust those tatter for all the files at once . But there are two problems . Since you ca n’t enter installment title for items in a heap , those will be escape . you could remedy that by naming your files in the Finder before add up them to PAD and choose Rename Files free-base On Your Title in PAD ’s preferences ; but this method only work on in Batch mode . Although somewhat of a hassle , that solve one job . ( And if you choose the Add Episode Number to TV show option , PAD will add ascend numbers before each file so they will be in guild in the Finder . )
But that leads to the giving job . If you turn on the batch central processor and work on a bunch of files , PAD mechanically fill up in the episode bit . That ’s a good thing — or at least it would be if the data file were in the right order in the File List . But PAD arranges files alphabetically , and there ’s no elbow room to prepare them by hand , either by tot up them in the proper chronological succession or by drag on them around in the File List . The solution I ’ve found is to number the sequence data file name before tote up them to PAD — but that fetch us back to the naming problem . you’re able to combine names and numbers—“01 Crimes of the Hot , ” “ 02 Jurassic Bark , ” and so on — but then the episode names in iTunes and on the iPod will have numbers in front of them . If that does n’t nettle you , it ’s a fair to middling workaround ( but it does pester me , so I go back and remove the numbers singly in a second pass , either in PAD or in iTunes ) .
Although PAD is n’t the only GUI for work with AtomicParsley on the Mac , it ’s by far my favorite . I findLostifyto have confuse naming fields , it has no batch CPU , and it does n’t let you overwrite a file.vID Infiltr8has a nice interface and some nerveless feature ( such as customizable nonpayment playing area values ) , but also lack flock processing and is mostly a hack of an MPEG-4 sound tagger . PAD has made order where before there was only topsy-turvydom — well , a smart playlist on my iPod with my videos in the order I added them to the iPod , but that ’s chaos to me . And If there were a good manner to process multiple files from a television serial , it would be nearly head ache - free .
Parsley is Atomically Delicious requires Mac OS X and is a Universal Binary .
