Windows Media Center to iPod / iPhone

I watch a lot of TV….I’ll just put that right out there. I pay for cable TV and with my multiple tuner Windows Media Center PC I make sure I get my money’s worth. I like being able to pick where I want to watch my recorded content on the fly. Living room, PC, iPhone, etc.. For a while converting into iPod/iPhone format was a manual task for me, when I knew I wanted to watch a show on the go, I’d go convert it. This gets old pretty quick so I devised a method of converting all of my shows nightly for transfer to my iPhone. At < 150MB for an hour episode (~75 for a half hour show) I can afford to convert and store all of my recordings without feeling like I’m wasting space. My automatic process works as follows.

• I’ve mapped a drive from my mac doing the conversion.
• I’ve set up a scheduled automator task in OSX to run at 2am which looks at the date created of each file to look for the ones created yesterday.
• Then using this automator action set for VisualHub I pump out the converted files. I like to use the wifi setting in visualhub for iPhone.
• Lastly I add them to iTunes and set my iPhone to automatically sync.

So every night if I have say 3 three things recorded from the day before this process will convert them to iPhone format and sync them over before I wake up the next morning.

 Any Questions? Feel free to comment!