TVHarmony has updated AutoPilot to include a number of bug fixes as well as some great new features that I think people are going to go crazy over. For most people, the two best new features are the ability to reencode your TiVo recordings for the new iPod Video! That’s right, AutoPilot will allow you to watch your TiVo recordings on your iPod Video without a lot of work. The next biggest feature is the ability to automatically remove commercials from the recordings. In order to do this, AutoPilot is using an open source library called ComSkip.

Instead of trying to create my own release notes, I am just going to go ahead and use the notes directly off of TVHarmony’s website after all, I know the site owner and he seems to like me ;).

1.0 Beta 1, v03

Added support for video iPod and Palm Devices

Added support for commercial removal using ComSkip

Added support for encoding into AVI files including XVID and h264 encoding

Removed MAK watermark and replaced with MAK encoded non-visibly into file.

Added better control over conversion process

A couple things to keep in mind… Sorry Mac users but this is yet another Windows only software package :(. This is beta software so there are bound to be problems. If you find any problems make sure you head on over to the developer’s fourm and let him know what’s going on. Second, the author wants you to uninstall any previous versions of AutoPilot that you may have previously installed. This is an important one :).