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Techspansion Releases Free Official Lion Update for VisualHub

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Techspansion, Tyler Loch's now-defunct company that created VisualHub, has released a small update to the software to allow it to run properly -- for the moment -- under OS X Lion.

VisualHub was a very popular OS X application to convert video files to any number of formats, including optimizing video for iTunes, WMV, or Flash. In 2008, Tyler closed the company and stopped selling or supporting VisualHub or Techspansion's other products.

When VisualHub broke with the release of Lion, Loch released a very slight tweak that would allow VisualHub to work once more, but required some technical knowledge to implement. Techspansion's old payment processor, Kagi, began selling a $5, unauthorized, Lion updater for VisualHub that implemented the same fix, but in a much more user-friendly manner.

Loch was very upset with this unauthorized use of his code, and was especially displeased because Kagi used his old customer records to email every user who had purchased VisualHub through them. Once Loch expressed his unhappiness, Kagi stopped selling the update and Loch released the last official update for VisualHub on his website, with this note:
It's been nearly three years since Techspansion closed and these programs were last maintained.

VisualHub and AudialHub are no longer supported. And they won't last forever. Whatever breaks from here on out will be the end, sadly. I hope this update squeezes a little more life out of these two apps for you.
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Loch does continue to write Mac apps, with his app FlashFrozen, which notifies users when Flash uses too much of their CPU power, available on the Mac App Store for $0.99.

Article Link: Techspansion Releases Free Official Lion Update for VisualHub
 
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any recommendations to video converters that are still being maintained & updated that actually work well? handbrake also stopped @ v.0.9 something

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King Flamez1 said:
any recommendations to video converters that are still being maintained & updated that actually work well? handbrake also stopped @ v.0.9 something=/
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Handbrake is still in development. It has a very slow release cycle though. The last major release added the ability to convert any source video, not just DVDs, so I use it for general conversion work. I can also recommend iFlicks in the Mac App Store which will handle iTunes metadata too and also works with Elgato's Turbo h.264 hardware encoder.
 
Handbrake does get regularly updated if you go for the nightly builds. While these are not officially supported, they work well and often add features. I only download when the sun is present! :)
 
King Flamez1 said:
any recommendations to video converters that are still being maintained & updated that actually work well? handbrake also stopped @ v.0.9 something

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Handbrake is still actively being developed. They have released nightly builds for a good bit of time now. These come w/ the caveat of not guaranteed to be stable, but I've had no issues w/ using them. Here's the build history: https://build.handbrake.fr/builds and here is the download page for the nightlies: https://build.handbrake.fr/
 
The drag drop and no fuss with VisualHub is why I still use it. I dislike HandBrake's queuing system, and its clunky interface.

Never had audio sync issues with VisualHub either. I wish he'd keep working on it..
 
I really wish he would offer users some other way of getting VisualHub. Maybe put it up for free? I'm using iSquint (the free "equivalent" to VisualHub) for all my converting, but it's got bugs on Lion and I never got VisualHub when I had the chance.
 
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Handbrake can keep an i7 2600 pegged above 80% on a good H.264 encode. That's reason enough for me to use it. I don't have any problems with the interface.
 
Whatever happened to Filmredux or what it was called? It was supposedly Visualhub 2...
 
potatis said:
Whatever happened to Filmredux or what it was called? It was supposedly Visualhub 2...
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Yea, same thing...

Besides-

I'm so happy that they updated VisualHub for Lion because I bought it years back until they stopped upgrading it. It was great putting videos into my iphone and my ipad. :D
 
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So instead with other phones ,
mp3 players & tablet, you need to convert every movie first to copy & play on an iOS device , but there is no software on osx to do that?
 
re: Handbrake

Yep... Handbrake handles multiple processor cores really nicely. That's one of the best features of the program.

The thing I thought was coolest about VisualHub though, was their initial support for Apple's xgrid technology. At least in OS X Tiger 10.4, they had it working so VisualHub could process a video conversion across multiple Macs on your LAN. I believe Leopard broke that functionality when they changed xgrid around -- and VisualHub's author never expressed much interest in updating it after that. Too bad, because xgrid has added a lot more new capability in OS X Lion and it'd be a great use for xgrid "for the rest of us" who aren't working on molecular biology problems or what-not.


Durendal said:
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Handbrake can keep an i7 2600 pegged above 80% on a good H.264 encode. That's reason enough for me to use it. I don't have any problems with the interface.
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porky said:
So instead with other phones, mp3 players & tablet, you need to convert every movie first to copy & play on an iOS device , but there is no software on osx to do that?
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There's plenty of software to do that. VisualHub just happens to be a program that several people like using as it has a great UI and is fairly simply. Unfortunately, the programs creator decided to move onto other things and thus will not be supporting it any more. As others have mentioned in the thread Handbrake is another popular program that is still being developed and there are countless other options too.
 
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I don't think Kagi acted properly in selling updates and using the Techspansion customer list without permission. Perhaps the words of their Techspansion-Kagi agreement allowed them to do this, but it just doesn't feel right when it's against the wishes of the developer.
 
Can anyone confirm if the new update makes AudialHub work on Lion? I tried the previous patch but without success.
 
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