Great utility, Andrew! Works perfect with the You Tube links I have thrown at it, really helps make the 770 more useful. One of the most frustrating things is when I go to a site and can't load a video...now I can :)

So will your converter handle Quicktime videos?

Again, thanks for giving us the use of your server for this fantastic utility...

It handles QuickTime, might be depending on the version. I've just uploaded one of the samples using Sorenson on my Mac and the result will convert.

It's running mplayer from Subversion so it should even handle WMV9 using the prototype code.

About a fifth of the YouTube videos I've tested fail, I've no real clue why.

Making the "you're in a queue" message automatically refresh would be an obvious enhancement. I'm also thinking about email notification about when it's ready, what do you think?

That would be awesome! This is definitely a great tool. Thanks a million. Quick question though. Do you think you could have the converter automatically convert a top 10 list from Google Video and YouTube and have links to each of the converted videos, or would that be too much strain on the server?

The top 10 from both services, complete with thumbnails would indeed be very cool. I look forward to someone producing some code ;-). From a strain-on-the-server point of view, it'd be better to convert them once and make the results available rather than lots of people encoding them all separately.

As for email notification, I'll investigate that later today.

The Flash video oddness seems to be specific to the x64 platform. I'll raise it on the ffmpeg list.

OK, I've downgraded the version of mplayer to 1.0pre8 and previously broken Flash videos now seem to be working.

This will be at the expense of the latest WMV codec work, but I think the FLV support is more important, looking at the usage so far.

Feedback, as ever, welcome.

Cheers,

Andrew

Man, it's popular!!

Please wait

Your video is in the queue, there are currently 16 items in the queue. Please check again shortly.

-- so do I just sit on that page and keep hitting the link or what?

Edit: Maaaaan, what are people converting that takes so long? My YouTube vids zip through! Whatever is ahead of me must be huge! There goes the bandwidth!

Well, we have to contend with other users now...after trying it out on my Windows Mobile Treo 700wx and getting great results, I couldn't keep the secret. I asked Andrew if I could post on TreoCentral and share the site, because WM5 has the same silly Flash limitations as the 770. I didn't want to bombard his server and have him freak out!

Don't worry, it's new and people are trying it out...the queue will go down, just leave that page open and refresh it every once in a while. Good thing there is a 50MB limit...in fact, it might be better to have a smaller limit. I haven't seen many large YouTube videos, most are probably between 2MB-10MB.

So YOU are to blame!! Queue is at 22!! We should NOT have to compete with Treo owners! Let them go elsewhere, dammit.

Of course the queue is now empty.

I'll look at lowering the maximum size if it gets unmanageable, or introducing a "premium" service somehow.

We Treo users are tired of being treated like second-class citizens ;)

Yeah, I spilled the beans...I'm hoping both communities can help to improve the service, I definitely think it has many possibilities...