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Internet Tablet Video Converter updated: now also for Mac

Thu, 2008-05-08 11:57

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Guest blogger: Victor Brilon, Internet Tablet Video Converter team.

Nokia Internet Tablet Video Converter has been updated and we're thrilled to bring you this latest version. This latest release includes several major updates, including:


  • A version for OS X that'll run on Tiger and Leopard on Intel and PPC platforms. This is our first release for the OS X platform, so we are eager to hear your feedback on how it could be improved

  • The codecs for the Windows version have been updated and hopefully we've fixed the bugs that the community has reported to us

  • The Developer API has been updated based on user feedback. It now supports Python, Perl, and Java as programming languages to access the API. We're very interested in seeing what the community can cook up using this feature.


Download here.

Thanks to our great Internet Tablet community, we've made some really good changes to this software and we hope you like it as much as we do. Please report any bugs you find at https://bugs.maemo.org.

Thanks,
Victor

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Submitted by on 11-05-2008 02:01.

Fink installs all it's unix ports into /sw/. If this is strictly unix s/w then perhaps you might considering doing the same; if it's a real OS X app, it should be self-contained in it's 'app' directory thing (don't know exactly how those things work, but there you go), installing fonts in the /Library or ~/Library directories as appropriate.

Thanks.

Max.

Submitted by on 21-05-2008 17:32.

Hi Michel S,

Unfortunately mencoder is not an option for a product that Nokia develops due to licensing issues with codecs. Sorry.

Submitted by on 13-05-2008 15:18.

Hi guys -- thanks for the feedback. It's very gratifying to see people actually being interested and passionate about a product that I worked on :)

As I said earlier, we made an engineering decision to install all the extra stuff into /usr/local as that's the standard UNIX place for non-system files. I suppose we could install into /sw or /opt, but I am not sure I see the difference there to be honest. Also, the reason we don't install into a user's personal directory is that we have to account for the case of a particular machine is used by more than one user.

One more thing on this topic: the reason we don't install inside the actual .app directory and localize it is that there are actually several different binaries that are contained within this app and if they're launched from the .app dir, they each get their own icon on the Dock -- not a very good user experience.

I'll take your feedback back to our engineering team and we'll look at ways of making this better for the next release. In the meantime, I encourage you to post bugs/enhancement requests at https://bugs.maemo.org. That way we can track all the requests through thei full lifecycle.

Thanks again,
Victor

Submitted by on 23-05-2008 00:07.

Long time Victor...How have you been my old friend?

Submitted by on 23-05-2008 00:09.

Computer stuff...I should have guessed. I knew you would grow up and be all about computers or music.

Submitted by on 08-05-2008 13:19.

The mac version has an installer that installs two fonts and a binary in /usr/local/bin. That's a little more than I'd like being pushing into various system locations for a program like this.

-Jonathan

Submitted by on 08-05-2008 14:24.

Jonathan,

By UNIX standards, /usr/local/bin is the place where non OS-level binaries need to go. Where would you suggest those files be installed instead?

Submitted by on 08-05-2008 18:55.

Victor,

This is a single user program, I can't imagine any sort of "UNIX standard" that would say that a user binary needs to go into a folder owned by root.

Either way, this is a single user program for macos X, which can run a binary from anywhere (with the right permissions). There is no reason why it can't be included in the application package. This is what apple recommends, and makes uninstalling much easier.

As to the fonts, they can go in the user font folder, rather than clogging up the system fonts.

It seems like the simpler solution is just better.

-Jonathan

Submitted by on 08-05-2008 23:04.

Thank you so much for releasing this. Though I also like MPEGStreamclip for some of my transcoding, I was about ready to try the Nokia converter for the mobile handsets to see if I could get any usable output for the N800.

I have a couple of questions and observations. I saw in the known issues the item about QuickTime not transcoding MPEG1 or 2 files. I have the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component installed, but I noticed your application refuses to even open the files. I was wondering if having that component installed gives you the codecs necessary to properly convert files from MPEG2 to MPEG4 and if you'd perhaps consider a check for its presence?

Also, I would really like it if the information button provided more detailed information about the converted file, such as resolution, or perhaps a reminder of what the target resolution will be. I'm assuming that's fixed for things going to the Internet Tablet anyway.

Submitted by on 09-05-2008 08:02.

It's great that Nokia are now developing apps directly for OS X - Really good news.

From earlier comments though, it seems that the installer is a bit intrusive. Can anything be done about this? Like making additional libraries available within the single application bundle - as opposed to installing into the system...

Submitted by on 09-05-2008 18:46.

Excellent news :-)

Now perhaps we can have NSU and Map Loader for us poor Mac users ;-)

Pretty please ???

Simon

Submitted by on 09-05-2008 12:23.

Now Nokia's got a Mac prog..

One step closer to Linux compatibility then :) Woo!!

Submitted by on 09-05-2008 16:03.

It's great that Nokia's confirming their support for other OSes, hopefully we'll see more of it including desktop Linux.

Incidentally, Nokia have made apps for the Mac before, for use with their phones and smartphoes:

http://europe.nokia.com/A4423133

Submitted by on 16-05-2008 05:09.

Seconding (thirding?) the request for a Linux client. Granted that multimedia-wise, Nokia will need to use a different framework for doing video conversions, but GStreamer is maturing very nicely, and Mencoder is also an option.

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Submitted by on 20-08-2008 16:07.

Convert from what to what?

A little documentation as to which formats are supported, will be awesome?

Submitted by on 31-08-2008 03:56.

I want to see rented dvd movies in the N800, will I be able to do it with this Nokia Internet Tablet video converter application?

Submitted by on 09-09-2008 10:11.

> A little documentation as to which formats are supported, will be awesome?

From a codec standpoint, we support whatever the native Windows platform supports as we just use the OS-level codecs.

Submitted by on 24-09-2008 15:55.

I wanted to research this subject and write a paper. Your post what a thousand words would not. Nice job.

Submitted by on 01-02-2009 17:45.

Hello. And Bye. :)

Submitted by SandraBalok on 18-01-2011 02:56.

Many thanks for Mac OS.
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