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Apple HD movies on your MCE

Last post 08-31-2008, 10:33 AM by babedieboe. 60 replies.
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  •  03-01-2006, 7:12 AM 96839 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    This will come in a update tomorrow

    Have some extra features added already

    So stay tuned  and come back for a updated program download then.

  •  03-02-2006, 6:03 PM 97051 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    I have run your program and downloaded some trailers and I have a few questions.

    1.) I cannot play the video within Media Center, or at all for that matter.  I have installed FFdShow and the Matroska Splitter.  Also, I have run the registry patch to change the .mp4 association.  Is there anything more I need to do to make it work?  I can see the files, just can't play them.

    2.) Is there any possible way to choose which trailer you want to download?  When I was downloading them, it said there were about 150 that it was going to download.  Now I don't want to see all those trailers, I probably want to see maybe half of them.  Is there a way to select which trailer you want to see and download just that one.  I would be happy with doing that outside of Media Center.  Ideally, in the future, it would be great to run this program within Media Center. 

    This looks like a great start though and thanks for all the time you have put into it.  I hope I can get this up and running soon so I can experience some HD trailers!  Thanks.

  •  03-02-2006, 8:21 PM 97060 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    I was having problems too, I downloaded and redownloaded the Haali splitter and the FFdShow decoder about 50 times. Finnally I quit on it and found this :

    http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Satsuki_Decoder_Pack.htm

    This sounds ridiculous because the Satsuki Pack has the same Haali splitter and FFdShow decoder I was trying to install seperatly, but through the power of magic???? it worked (don't ask me how/why). I did run into problems playing AVI files through WMP after this Satsuki pack but if you  configure the file associations within FFdShow everything will work for you.

    ***Make restore point before installing Satsuki***

     

  •  03-03-2006, 3:48 AM 97091 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    Wow-  Nice little app.  I downloaded it, clicked on it and forgot I had it running.  Came back to work today and I have 60 HD trailers on my hard drive. Very cool.
  •  03-03-2006, 4:41 AM 97093 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    The app is now updated whit new futures Hope you like it

     

    PS: For playback dont use the Satsuki Pack but use this one muche better and dont **** up your PC.  http://packs.matroska.org/latest/Matroska_Pack_Full.exe

  •  03-03-2006, 9:46 AM 97132 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    Sounds nice, I'm going to try the update version right away!

    Live to win, Dare to lose
  •  03-06-2006, 8:17 PM 97524 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    Having a hard time downloading 720P trailers with the new application. I am not using the scheduler, I ran the app once overnight got my trailers, now (three days later) I want to run the app again to pick up any new trailers and all I get is "Scanning". What am I doing wrong?

    -By the way very impressed with the new build

    Thanks

  •  03-07-2006, 3:45 AM 97546 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    Strangely i have the same problem. It just says scanning and doesnt download any nwe trailers. Just efter i installed the new version it downloaded one trailer but thats all.

    BTW: The new features look nice - more info when downloading and the possibility to automaticly download the trailers. Its a very nice app.

  •  03-07-2006, 4:54 AM 97548 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    The thing is that if you have alredy all the new movies in your folder and there are no new trailers on the apple site Then the app will only do the scanning and not return whit a status message I will fix this in the new version But I am going to Cebit tomorow so havent got any time before monday So look again then for a new version.
  •  03-07-2006, 12:43 PM 97617 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    Has anyone had any luck playing these trailers via the XBOX360 MCE? I'm able to see them but when I pick it it wont play them I can play them on my pc via MCE though
  •  03-10-2006, 3:56 PM 98057 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    I love this little app.  Started pulling down trailers and I was viewing them in MCE in now time.

    Just a couple of things:

    1. Is there a way for the program not to re-download a trailer once I've viewed and deleted it?  I view a trailer, decide I don't want to keep it, delete it, and it gets downloaded again.
    2. The app downloads jpegs (posters) along with the mp4s, but the jpegs don't download fully.  Alot of times they are only partial downloads and I end up with a partial image.
    3. Some mp4 files don't seem to download fully before the app goes off and downloads something else.  No message to let me know there was a problem downloading and I end up with partial files.  Don't realize it until I watch the trailer and it ends partway through.

    Now, if I can just get 720P files to play properly on my AMD64 3800+ X2, 2GB Ram, 128MB Nvidia 6600 vidcard, I'd be happy (rhe video lags the audio).  480P plays great, but I would think that my hardware is more than capable of 720P MP4.

    Thanks for the app.

  •  03-11-2006, 8:00 AM 98141 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    Thanks for this helpful application.

    I have encountered one problem using the mp4 component.

    I get the following error message "Cannot import *mp4.reg: The specified file is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor"

    I have tried opening regedit and importing mp4.reg but without success. I don't know what part of the windows registry to import this to.

    Thanks for your assistance to a newbie.
  •  03-13-2006, 12:25 AM 98342 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    About the partial download I dont know why this happens as I have never hade that problem my selfe But I will look in to it and see if there are some problems there.

    About redownload It is possible to do. But need some extra coding then The easy way is to keep the movie or make a 1kb file by the same name as the movie and it will skip it.

    About the 720p that is often the problem when playing this size. Cant really see a fix for that tho so.........

  •  03-13-2006, 12:31 AM 98343 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    save this in a text file and rename the file to mp4.reg and it will work:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\.mp4]
    "Permissions"=dword:00000020

  •  03-13-2006, 7:00 AM 98369 in reply to 93083

    RE: Apple HD movies on your MCE

    Decline,

    Thanks for the reply.

    About the partial download, is there a time-out value on downloads?

    About the redownload, since the app also downloads the poster jpegs and when the mp4 is deleted from within MCE it leaves the jpeg, if the app sees the jpeg it doesn't do a redownload? (as a possible suggestion)

    About the 720P, that was more a gripe on my end to myself out-loud.  Looking at upgrading from a Nvidia 6600 to the new Nvidia 7600GT, that might help out a bit.

    Again, thanks for this handy app.  I used to have to download these Quicktime trailers manually for viewing on MCE, and you've now made this SO much easier.

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