I tried the videos I have and it did it for me to. However, I think the 10 sec. is it creating a video preview, and then it gets queued with the rest of your media files to go through some transcoding..

Kind of annoying that it requires the user to try to view it for it to build the preview, if the rest of your files are already batched to be "previewed" shouldn't the videos just be part of the batch?

Heya Christopher,
yeah, I figured it out, but I think a lot of people might be confused by the process. Also, I have a quick feedback re: thumbnails. It would be great if the user could specify an amount of time into their movies to do the thumbnail OR allow users to define it per movie. Problem with the thumbnails now is that it uses the first 10 seconds of the clip/movie. If it's a full movie, then all you get is black and maybe the studio logo. Kind of useless..

Just my .02$

Nice, it seems my web interface got upgraded but my drive is not available. Pogoplug 1.0.0.1, UI Version: 2.0.0, Service Version: LINUX connect-server - 2.0.0 and I can see the drive in Settings with correct size/usage. But back in Library the spinning thing only shows and never actually loads the drive.

Why do I have Pogoplug 1.0.0.1? It's the older brick plug.

@begunfx

Thanks as always for the feedback.

-christopher

When you say "After you trigger full transcode of your movie, it happens very quickly"....I think this means about 30 seconds. My 143 MB short clip of a home movie is at 8 min and 60% during the "transcoding process". I haven't even tried one of my movies (I converted all of my movies to .mp4 so they were available on my iphone), how long will it take?!?! My generation needs instant gratification, no more waiting!! (just kidding, but it kind of sucks that I was able to view my movies using the app just fine and now after the update, I can't...)

UPDATE: On first movie, 1 hr 29 min into transcoding, 33% done. NOOOOOO! This process take waaaaaay toooo long. Also, have gotten RPC 600 error a couple of times, are they updating the website right now? Or is the transcoding messing this up??

UPDATE 2: still on first movie, 2 hrs 39 min only 59%, Not cool!!

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-christopher

And my answer is to reflash my Pogoplug with newer software from the start. I guess something got broken when my Pogoplug was upgraded from firmware v1 to v2. I sure hope no one else has my issue though.

We are working on adding more viewing optons for advanced users. I'll get back to you shortly with our proposed changes and a timeline for pushing them out. We do run a beta program where we preview new features - the people on this thread would be great additions. Send me an email if you are interested (jed@cloudengines.com).

First, thanks for all of the great feedback. The background for a lot of the new video features was to help people who know nothing about video formats and transcoding and didn't understand why their videos would not play in the web Flash player, or on their iPhone. The idea was to transcode all videos to a standard format (h.264) at a bitrate that most peoples upload bandwidth could handle. The processor in Pogoplug is fast (1.2Ghz), but ARM processors in general do not have a lot of the support (floating point, separate video processing, ...) your desktop processor has. We are hitting around 10fps for HD video which is great for this chip, but clearly not at real-time rates. The summary is, the new solution will work great for an average person with lots of home videos who doesn't understand video. We have a few changes that we already have in beta and should be able to push out to production early next week. This will put back some of the original functionality where you can play your original source videos whether it has been transcoded or not. I'll put out more information in the next few days, but we are definitely listening to you.

An option to automatically transcode all videos found on the pogo would also be nice! Then you don't have to click on each one (I have many and this gets pretty tedious) just to watch 10 seconds to have it tell you it will be transcoded. Also, I was wondering if the transcoded versions are saved on our pogoplug and where? Or does this mean that my videos are being replaced? (by this I mean do I no longer have .avi files on my hard drive and they are all now H.264 files?)

Yea, thanks for the explanation.