Plans for Cheetah Balls v0.3 and beyond

Cheetah Balls is running very smoothly on my Ubuntu 10.10 PC -- like a wildcat across the savannah!

It is evolving into a handy little program and I expect it'll continue to be developed for quite a while.  Eventually I'd like to hand the project over to someone with more time, greater ability, even less sanity...

Here are some improvements planned for v0.3:

• Find only and all of the video files in temporary folders, rather than just grabbing all the +1000kb files
• Find only video files in temporary folders that are older than 1440 minutes (24 hours)
• Extract the audio from all the videos to MP3 and/or OGG (possibly with soundconverter from the command line)
• Include a daily cron job so that it will run automatically at midday every day
• Actually check to see if ~/Desktop/looseballs exists, rather than blindly create a new one
• Create a ~/Videos/Cheetah_balls and place date-stamped folders inside it
• More visual confirmation using xcowsay and some other images to let you know what Cheetah Balls is doing
• More verbose output when running from the command line
• Add gnome-terminal -x when running Cheetah Balls from cheetahballs.desktop

Wild dreams for an idyllic future:

• Re-write the whole damn thing in Python, because that would be just too cool for words.
• Turn it into a bona fide DEB package, rather than a collection of BASH scripts
• Put it up in the Clockwork PC PPA, and ultimately get it into the official Ubuntu repositories
• GUI to let you specify

• How old the video files should be
• Where to save them
• Whether to extract the audio
• Whether to extract the audio to MP3, OGG, FLAC, or WAV

Port it to M$ Windoze

Port it to Apple Hack

In the meantime, this will be exclusively for Linux OSes, specifically for Ubuntu and its derivatives, but probably OK for most other distributions.

-- Alex