Just in time for the Big Day, March 31, I bought an Apple TV.
While I’m really enjoying the convenience, my experiences have not been as glowing as most of the other reviews I’ve read. I’ll explain more later, but first, a bit of background…
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In the lead-up to today’s grand experiment, yesterday I was conducting some preliminary experiments using Xgrid.
I’ve got a lot of video I’ve recorded digitally that I would now like to have in an iTunes-friendly H.264. VisualHub, which is the program I generally use for conversion does a nice job of it. Further, it does it rather fast (at least on my MacBook), rendering down 30 minutes of video in around 20 minutes.
One of the things that’s always intrigued me about VisualHub is that it is Xgrid-enabled. Xgrid is a nifty little Apple technology that clusters OSX computers into a distributed computing platform. I’ve completely ignored this feature of VisualHub because everybody knows you need an OSX Server to control an Xgrid cluster, don’t they?