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But to push the envelope, there needs to be daring topics, ones that may have some swear words and some tits, and, well, some violence. IFLICKS 2 ADD IMAGE SERIESThere are plenty of comedy series that are family friendly. And Downton Abbey was far from controversial. Friday Night Lights was a brilliant series, that ran on a network. IFLICKS 2 ADD IMAGE TVWest Wing is one of the best series ever on TV (IMHO), and it was a network show. But in today’s television climate, it’s difficult. This said, there’s no reason why excellent TV can’t be family friendly. (I’m a fan of that sort of post-apocalyptic thing like Stephen King’s The Stand.) To be fair, I’m not a fan of gratuitous violence, and I gave up on Game of Thrones early on, and tried, really tried, to stick with The Walking Dead for a while, but couldn’t go on. If you really don’t want sex and violence – as they prohibit in apps they sell – then stop selling it. What’s the difference? You’re selling the stuff either way. It’s interesting how Apple has no problem selling and renting movies and TV series that are not family friendly, but draws the line at putting the company’s name on such content. Of course, with something like The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones, these daring elements have been taken to excess, becoming parodies of themselves, but if Apple thinks they can do a Disney and have any presence in original series content, I can’t see that it will go very far. There are plenty of such series on TV, cable, and on Netflix and Amazon, but they aren’t the ones that get the mentions in the press about “the golden age of television.” It’s the series like The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire, and others, that get noticed, not because they are not family friendly, but because the broke barriers and went places that others didn’t dare. “Family friendly” TV series don’t do very well today, at least not with critics. As MacRumor reports, show runner Bryan Fuller, who was slated to run Apple’s Amazing Stories series, has left the project.įuller is said to have wanted to turn “Amazing Stories” into a Black Mirror-style show, while Apple is aiming for a more family friendly series. It costs $5.Apple has launched a number of projects creating original video content – apparently, “TV” series for now – but there is already some sand in the works. It costs $5 and would seem to be a perfect app other than that most of the reviews says it sucks, running at a a maximum of 15 frames per second for video and rendering audio sometimes unlistenable. Amazingly, Apple approved an app called YXPlayer which supports DIVX/XVID. Worth a quick mention here is one even simpler way to play AVI files on the iPad. The instructions for batch processing can be found in this MacRumors forum post. I couldn't make it work, but I am currently working on a combined shell-script and Automator workflow to take care of everything from download to conversion, triggered by an RSS feed. ![]() IFLICKS 2 ADD IMAGE FULLNow, it is possible, apparently, to automate Avidemux to process a folder full of images instead of opening them by hand, one at a time. Sync with the iPad and you're good to go. In this case, the fastest way is to pick "Flatten to QuickTime Movie" from the top-left pop-up, which effectively just sinks the metadata into the file and then iFlicks can send the result to iTunes. your file doesn't have some really weird naming convention) then the metadata will be just right, down to the video kind being correctly set (in this case, TV Show instead of Movie). IFLICKS 2 ADD IMAGE MOVIEHere it is in action (I have my Mac set up to automatically launch iFlicks when a new movie hits a certain folder): It parses the file name and then searches the internet, grabs the data and adds it to the file. ![]() IFlicks will convert video, but its main purpose is adding metadata. But that's not very elegant, right? Who wants a file called .Tide.MP4 sitting it their library, with no cover art, no plot synopsis and no polish? For this, you need something like iFlicks. ![]()
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