Version 0.7 Released with crashes fixed
Sorry it’s been so long since doing a release. This one is just a quick fix for the crash when trying to encode around 3 files. I’ve been able to successfully encode over 30 files, so I think the...
View ArticleVersion 0.8 Released with better Metadata search
Well version 0.7 fixed the crashing problems, but introduced some instability in the metadata search feature. So I’ve gone through and fixed those problems. Along the way I’ve added better error...
View ArticleWhat’s been happening with VideoMonkey?
It’s been a long time since anything has been going on with the project, so I thought it was high time to get out some news. Truth is, I’ve been really busy at work and haven’t had time for Video...
View ArticleFresh FFMPEG and Google
I always want to use the freshest version of ffmpeg for every Video Monkey release. But doing that has proven difficult over the entire lifetime of the app. Many times I have used Google to try to...
View ArticlePardon Our Dust
This is the new Video Monkey site. It’s fresh, but not quite complete. You’ll find the source code on github now, by clicking on the Source Code menu item above. Downloads are not yet available here,...
View ArticleMoving Day!
Welcome to the new Video Monkey website. It’s taken weeks to get it ready, but everything is up and ready to go. This move was prompted by SourceForge getting hacked, preventing me from accessing much...
View ArticleVideo Monkey 0.9 is (finally) here
It’s been longer than I had hoped to get the new release out. But the move is complete and 0.9 is up and waiting. If you already have Video Monkey installed you can simply run the app and select Video...
View ArticleVideo Monkey 0.10 Solves Problems on Leopard
Many of you were experiencing problems with 0.9 not working at all on Leopard. That was because I was cleverly trying to make Video Monkey into a 64 bit application. I was hoping for super-fast...
View ArticleVideo Monkey is Now Hosted at marrin.org
A few of you may have noticed me moving bugs over to my new bugzilla database. I’ve never liked github’s issue tracker, so I hope this will make it much easier to keep track of bugs. The downside is...
View ArticleVersion 0.11 Released, fixes many format bugs
Here is the promised 0.11 release with several bug fixes for annoying problems, like the inability to create files for the 1st generation Apple TV, and not being able to make full size MPEG-4 files....
View ArticleVersion 0.12 fixes Leopard compatibility problem
I just switched to Lion and didn’t install the 10.5 (Leopard) SDK. Consequently the 0.11 release of Video Monkey used the Lion SDK and the result wouldn’t run on Leopard. All that should be fixed now,...
View ArticleVideo Monkey repository back at github
There’s been a lot of rework of the Video Monkey website over the last few weeks. I’ve moved servers, redesigned the site and moved things around a bit. That’s all done now, and I hope things are back...
View ArticleVideo Monkey and 64 Bit
All Macs sold today support 64 bit instructions. There are lots of advantages to 64 bit. For instance, it can handle more data at one time which makes many operations run much faster. This is...
View ArticleVideo Monkey 0.13 Released with Long Awaited Custom Encoding
The big feature in this release is the custom settings panel. Just go to the Output Pane of the File Info Panel and you’ll see several check boxes. Click one and you can adjust that parameter. I’ve...
View ArticleQuick release of 0.14 to fix a few issues
The 0.13 release introduced a couple of bad bugs. The first was that the fastest encoding speed stopped working. This is due to the newer version of ffmpeg. I failed to fix the fastest encoding...
View ArticleNew version of mediainfo wreaks havoc with version 0.14 Matroska files
Well, I’m finding that “updating” Open Source tools is something of a fools errand. I’m happy with the better performance, access to advanced filters and less buggy behavior of the new version of...
View ArticleVersion 0.15 is now available to fix Matroska errors
Please download the 0.15 version of Video Monkey via the usual channels. This should fix the problem where MKV files were getting a bad framerate and therefore not encoding video. Please post comments...
View ArticleMovie Metadata Retrieval is Broken
I’m sorry to say that as of September 15, 2013, themoviedb.org has switched to a new format of data downloads. So that feature of VideoMonkey no longer works. I’m working on the problem and hope to...
View ArticleVideo Monkey v0.16 Released – theMovieDB is Back!
I’ve update VM to use the v3.0 API of theMovieDB. So you can once again get movie metadata. And it does a better job of fetching data in the background so metadata fetches should feel a bit snappier....
View ArticleVideoMonkey 0.17 released, TheTVDB works again
TheTVDB used to be forgiving in how you requested search results by not requiring your API Key. They took that away recently, which made search for TV shows stop working. Thanks to all those who...
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