In reply to a post by cyclic999:

I think that whatever you use is going to take hours, especially if QuickTime is involved

Estimated 6 hours to import one file, and I've got 13 of 'em just for this one series, probably just as long to export again...

It's time to re-think the options

Yes probably the headers, don't know if this is quicker than iMovie but try save as QT movie then redo the terminal exercise.

I can only "save as" if I buy QuickTime Pro

I may end up doing just that in the end, but I'll try setting up the series as a "compilation" in iTunes. It seems to work for playback on the Mac, but Apple TV doesn't seem to use the same grouping/sorting information, so I may have to pull a few fast ones here and there

I read somewhere that Pro might be free after the next OS X update. Some seem to think that'll only be an option with Snow Leopard

That's handy to know (even if just a rumour!), thanks.

Didn't Apple charge for upgrading from QT6 to QT7 as well?

Visual Hub is excellent Bill and it might be going slow because you may need to change the decoding from Quicktime to FFmpeg. To do this, click on the 'Advanced' tab and then check the 'Force' box and chance the encoding to the abovementioned FFMpeg or even VLC if that works. Oh, you might need to download and install FFmpeg too!

It worked for me.

I think the real trouble is that I want to decode/encode about 6GB-worth of mp4 files in around 15 minutes... as nobody is going to lend me a Cray XMT I'll have to think of another way of doing it

I've got it pretty close to what I wanted to do by somewhat unorthodox use of some of the iTunes info fields, many of which aren't really relevant to movies but still work

Thanks for the tip though- I tried downloading the VH documentation, but it seems it's no longer available

http://www.microwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/ELGTV...

Interesting

El Reg gave it the thumbs up. Interesting indeed!