I've been looking into video conversion for a while now. I'm aware of VisualHub, Handbrake, and iSkysoft iMedia Converter. So both VH and HB are free and work ok but I've been looking at iSkysoft iMedia Converter and it seems pretty good but it's about $50 does anyone know what video encoder is currently the best? I have a bunch of M2TS, MTS, .MKV, .MPG, and other formats that all contain DTS or other forms of surround sound audio and makes video encoding a huge headache. I want to be able to convert all of my HD 1080p and 720p files into the best quality for watching on the go. Anyone have any suggestions?
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best video converter ever!
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It's an Alpha right now, but I believe you can now download a compiled binary of the OpenSource successor to VH, Transcoder Redux:
http://www.transcoder-redux.com/
http://www.transcoder-redux.com/
is there anything specific that's wrong with the apps you listed? Or do you believe a paid app would do a better job?
you get better unpaid versions... just google it... nd i don't mind paying some $$ for good quality downloads also...
Seconded. Handbrake is now the best video converter on the Mac which is free if you ask me.
Yes, VisualHub was discontinued as the author decided to focus on other things. Unfortunately, he decided not to keep the software available... so you'll have to search the underground operations to find a copy *cough*bit torrent*cough*. 
Yes, VisualHub was discontinued as the author decided to focus on other things. Unfortunately, he decided not to keep the software available... so you'll have to search the underground operations to find a copy *cough*bit torrent*cough*.
Nope, as mentioned above Visual Hub is now open source software and is now called Transcoder Redux. Handbrake is still better though.
Probably a bit late for an answer to this, but I've just purchased iskysoft imedia converter as I've had problems encoding .m2ts and a few mkv's with Visualhub into Apple TV 720p MP4.
It does an amazing (if slow job - converted Push from 1080p .m2ts which took 19 hours on my 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini) and The Brave One from 1080p mkv (6.5 hours)
The UI is easy to use, I'd highly recommend it!
pac
It does an amazing (if slow job - converted Push from 1080p .m2ts which took 19 hours on my 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini) and The Brave One from 1080p mkv (6.5 hours)
The UI is easy to use, I'd highly recommend it!
pac
In my experience, Handbrake rips DVD's with ease, but converting files suck as MKV into MP4 gives bad results, such as very choppy video and bad transcoding compression.
VisualHub on the other hand works really well for the most part, but doesn't support DTS audio which is a bit of a pain, and again some of the rips have been a bit juddery.
I've only done two videos so far in iMedia Converter and have been impressed. I'll still keep the other 2 apps though
pac
VisualHub on the other hand works really well for the most part, but doesn't support DTS audio which is a bit of a pain, and again some of the rips have been a bit juddery.
I've only done two videos so far in iMedia Converter and have been impressed. I'll still keep the other 2 apps though
pac
iSquint - its a slimmed down version of VisualHub, made by the same company. They're out of business now, but you'll be able to find it still on the internet.