Open Source Visual Hub - FilmRedux

Aperture · Oct 19, 2008

I did a search to no avail so I wanted to share this with everyone. When Techspansion closed their doors they said that they had no intentions to make their apps open source. It looks like they've change their minds.

VisualHub is now known as "FilmRedux" and is available on SourceForge (direct download). The other apps will be available as an open source product soon.

Edit: After further investigation, that link I posted hasn't been compiled. Does anyone have link to a compiled build?

reclusivemonkey · Oct 20, 2008

Nice find, thanks for sharing. Look forward to some binaries appearing =]

kolax · Oct 20, 2008

Hopefully VisualHub/FilmRedux will keep evolving.

aswitcher · Oct 20, 2008

Thats great. I was really hoping Apple would have just bought it and out it into Snow Leopard or iLife 09 but free is even better.

Cantello · Oct 21, 2008

reclusivemonkey said:
Nice find, thanks for sharing. Look forward to some binaries appearing =]

Here are instructions on how to compile it yourself, seems to be easy with Xcode, but have not yet tried it myself.

Zuplar · Oct 22, 2008

very easy to do. it took me just a few minutes to compile, and it works just like visual hub. i'm sure more people are going to want to know about this in the future. hopefully people continue to improve it.

davidwarren · Nov 6, 2008

I keep trying to build this but I am getting build errors.

Building target FilmRedux of project FilmRedux with configuration Release (1 error)
cd "/Users/davidwarren_Imac/Downloads/transcoderredux 2/FilmRedux"
/usr/bin/osacompile -d -i /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleScriptKit.framework -l AppleScript -U growl.applescript -x -o "/Users/davidwarren_Imac/Downloads/transcoderredux 2/FilmRedux/build/Release/FilmRedux.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/growl.scpt" "/Users/davidwarren_Imac/Downloads/transcoderredux 2/FilmRedux/growl.applescript"
/Users/davidwarren_Imac/Downloads/transcoderredux 2/FilmRedux/growl.applescript:8: Expected end of line, etc. but found ". (-2741)
/Users/davidwarren_Imac/Downloads/transcoderredux 2/FilmRedux/growl.applescript:8: Expected end of line, etc. but found ". (-2741)
/Users/davidwarren_Imac/Downloads/transcoderredux 2/FilmRedux/growl.applescript:8: Expected end of line, etc. but found ". (-2741)
Build failed (1 error)

anyone know what that means?

Iamtherealwoody · Nov 6, 2008

NICE! Thanks for the heads up!

richard.mac · Nov 6, 2008

heres the build. but now we just need an icon for it!

anyone know how to change that hideous "Start" icon to something a bit more OS X like?

Iamtherealwoody · Nov 6, 2008

Im having a problem adding .m4v or .mov files. Anyone else? Yes the .m4v is protected (Thanks Apple!) but the movs arent.

farscape · Nov 7, 2008

Iamtherealwoody said:
Im having a problem adding .m4v or .mov files. Anyone else? Yes the .m4v is protected (Thanks Apple!) but the movs arent.

I too am having the same issues. I can't add any video files .avi or .mov inorder to convert.

Anyone else having this problem or know how to solve it.

Cheers,

hughvane · Nov 23, 2008

Visual Hub

Aperture said:
Techspansion closed their doors ... VisualHub is now known as "FilmRedux"

May I add to this thread by asking how one might get the trial version of VH, which I have, to work in full? I'm quite willing to pay the US$25 or whatever it is, but all related VH links are now defunct.

thomahawk · Nov 23, 2008

it'd be very interesting if the new visualhub gets their hands in on the dvd ripping scene!

ltldrummerboy · Nov 24, 2008

Here are two versions I compiled in Xcode 3.1.1. I can't get either of them to work, but I've only tested it in Leopard. Could a Tiger user give it a try?

Tiger Download

Leopard Download

Edit: I've removed the versions I compiled. Please download the official build from www.transcoder-redux.com.

dukebound85 · Nov 24, 2008

hughvane said:
May I add to this thread by asking how one might get the trial version of VH, which I have, to work in full? I'm quite willing to pay the US$25 or whatever it is, but all related VH links are now defunct.

interesting question. i would like to know this as well

vinnie110 · Nov 25, 2008

ltldrummerboy said:
Here are two versions I compiled in Xcode 3.1.1. I can't get either of them to work, but I've only tested it in Leopard. Could a Tiger user give it a try?

Tiger Download

Leopard Download

Cheers for the link saves me having to compile it.

mlongpre · Nov 25, 2008

Tiger User

Running tiger here on a 1.8 G5 with no success on either leopard or tiger builds....shucks

ltldrummerboy · Nov 25, 2008

That's disappointing. Thanks for giving it a shot.

abisen · Nov 25, 2008

ltldrummerboy said:
That's disappointing. Thanks for giving it a shot.

Yup same issues I am unable to add any type of content "mkv" or "mov"

mlongpre · Nov 25, 2008

Yeah i keep getting an applescript error when trying to do anything with the app.

KingYaba · Nov 25, 2008

I'm waiting for X to come out. I don't have Xcode installed at the moment so I can't give compiling a shot.

ltldrummerboy · Nov 25, 2008

What do you mean by "X"? FilmRedux opens for me, but I'm not able to add anything to the queue. No error message, it's just blank when I drag anything into the window or click the "+" button and navigate to the video I want to convert.

Just to be clear, I have no programming experience and simply compiled the original source code in Xcode.

Weaselboy · Nov 26, 2008

You folks may want to try the newest version 0.9.3 of Handbrake. It adds the video conversion features of Visual Hub to Handbrake and seems to work well.

http://handbrake.fr/

gblass · Dec 25, 2008

Same problem

i am sometimes able to construct the package, but sometimes get a growl.applescript error.

I tried downlaoded the full version above and it will launch, but the same problems as others, I can not add video file, it just flashes and stays blank..

bloodycape · Dec 27, 2008

So what is the update has an actual version been released yet?

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