Anyone know of an alternative app to visualhub?

How about HandBrake?

 

i think visualhub may be it as far as the mac side goes. i'm only on a 1,1 mac pro but it does seem like it's been slower than in the past. haven't had the cpu monitor up to check though.

 

I regularly use Handbrake on my 2006 Mac Pro and it utilizes all cores.

That said, I do recommend using the "snapshot" version, which the developers claim is unstable, but I've been using it for some time now without any problems. There's even 64-bit flavors.

http://handbrake.fr/?article=snapshot

Enjoy.

 

Could try "video monkey"...

 

Use the latest 64-bit SVN of HB. It crashes infrequently. I still use Visualhub as well, and, while it rarely crumps, it still doesn't have the flexibility of HB.

 

"Video Monkey is a free video encoding application exclusively for Mac. It was created after the demise of the great tool Visual Hub. Video Monkey borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool, both conceptually and from the original code dump posted to SourceForge as TranscoderRedux."

http://videomonkey.org/Video_Monkey/About.html

Some reports say that it doesn't work yet with Snow Leopard however.

 

There's also iVideo too BTW:

http://www.ivideoconverter.net/screenshots.html

 

QuickTime X on Snow Leopard can convert anything you can open in QuickTime into iPhone/touch format. It utilises GrandCentral, so you should be able to make the most of your cores. Unfortunately there are no options, no ability to cue, you have to open and add each file individually and then it crashes mid-encode.

 

I've never heard of VideoMonkey before, but I love VisualHub. Downloading now. Thanks!

 

Right now I'm using FilmRedux, it's visualhub but with a new look. I'm testing out a couple videos right now, I'll report back if they work or not, since this is still in alpha it would seem.

 

Not anymore. Now it can convert plain videos too. In fact, it's lost the ability to rip DVDs by itself (although all you have to do to restore this ability is have VLC installed on the same machine).

 

I use VisualHub all the time - even to this day. I have no issues with it (well.. maybe the occasional encode will have audio sync issues). However, since Tyler decided to stop working on it, I've been waiting for ages for someone to successfully take advantage of his open source.

Just tried out Video Monkey - I liked in VisualHub how I could set the output resolution (i.e. enter anything, not set resolutions like in HandBrake), output file size etc.

I guess until it adopts that, I won't use it.

 

Handbrake lets you set resolutions. Just click "Picture Settings..."



But personally, I stick with the presets.

 

Read what I set. HandBrake doesn't let you choose random resolutions, it is set resolutions.

E.g. I can't make something that is a 4:3 ratio resolution (e.g. 800x600) a 16:9 resolution (e.g 688x384).

 

Wanna bet?



You can set whatever resolution and aspect ratio you like. I knew what you'd said.

 

Thanks for pointing that out, I'm pretty sure you never used to be able to do that in earlier builds..

 

Use

Use Handbrake

 

its been around a while from what i remember

 

And FWIW vlc itself can also transcode anything it can play, including DVDs, without any additional software. I actually just found out about this a few weeks ago. Here's an example guide. It's quite versatile, although Handbrake has a lot of nice presets.

http://wiki.videolan.org/Play_on_IPod

 

BUT HANDBRAKE HAS A HORRIBLE ICON!!!
For this reason, there's no way I can use it
Ok, but seriously, is handbrake the best/fastest/versatile encoder? (by versatile I mean, does it support a large variety of file formats... in batches?)