I sometimes complain about Channels, but honestly, they are BY FAR, the most responsive SW company out there.
I mentioned a few months ago that one remaining serious omission in functionality was downloads (eg to fill up your iPad with content when you go flying or camping or otherwise off the grid) and, what do you know, today we get that functionality
Hearty thanks to everyone involved!
[So what's my next complaint? Someone needs to look at the UI's for comskip!
The basic functionality is great BUT
- the iPad UI allows you to see the "beginning/middle/end" images blown up; the web UI does not allow that, all you get is the small thumbnails. (At least, on Safari, when I click them they do not expand)
- the time stamps displayed in the web UI are content-0 based, that is the one minute (or whatever) before the "official" start time of the content is counted as negative time. But the times used in the compskip files, eg video.ffsplit are absolute-0 based. This seems like an unnecessary distinction, and it's always tripping me up if I have to manually edit the video.ffsplit
- in a PERFECT world (of course this is a lot more work...) I would not have to manually edit the video.ffsplit because there'd be a kickass editor built into the web and iPad UIs...
As, at least, a first step towards that, it would be nice if the sorts of coarse modifications that the web/iPad UI provide (toggling segments on and off) were to propagate to the set of comskip log files, rather than just being stored in Channels internal database. ]