Owners of a shiny new AppleTV who are also fans of obscure foreign TV shows like Life on Mars or Doctor Who Series 3 might be interested in VisualHub.
VisualHub is a $23 video converter that transforms popular BitTorrent formats (DivX, XviD, AVI, all forms of MPEG) to MP4 format — which play nice on the AppleTV or video iPods.
VisualHub can batch process files and automatically add them to iTunes. It offers encoding up to 720p and claims to be much faster than QuickTime Pro.
For Windows users, there’s Videora AppleTV Converter, a free video converter designed especially for the AppleTV.
When combined with Videora, a file search and download program, video can be automatically found, downloaded and converted for the AppleTV using BitTorrent and RSS, according to the site. This must be the killer app for AppleTV — if it works. I’m downloading it right now to find out.
Anyone tried it?
6 responses to “Convert BitTorrent Video for AppleTV”
Guys, you can also convert video for iPods using iSquint. It’s by the same company and does the same thing. There are two differences.
1. It’s free, not $23.
2. It’s got limited output options – just iPod / iTunes MPEG-4.
But, uh, it’s FREE. :)
I resent that Dr Who is calld obsucre. It’ one of the UK’s highest rating shows and enjoys a huge fan base world wide and inface screesn on the US Sci-Fi Channel. But yes A way to slickly download is is great.
I agree with Adrian – ‘Life on Mars’ was an extremely popular TV show from the world’s most respected broadcaster – the BBC. How can you possibly describe it as obscure? Is anything that isn’t American obscure and foreign?