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Posted at the developer's site, today, October 3, 2008:
"After much soul-searching (it's not you, it's me), for personal reasons, Techspansion is closing its virtual doors.
The Support Forum and Support E-mail will be available for a while longer to take care of any remaining issues for you.
Thanks for all your support. It's been a fun ride."
VisualHub bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards, and people that just want to get the job done - just what you would expect from the Mac.
If you're looking for something a little more flexible, VisualHub's up for that challenge too. An extensive Advanced panel lets you change all pre-set aspects of encoding...and then some.
Based on the popular, award-winning "iSquint" conversion software for iPods. If you've used iSquint, you already know how to use VisualHub. If you've never used iSquint, you won't have a lot of catching up to do anyway.
Features:
- Fast conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, TiVo, DV, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash.
- Convert any file in three steps. Click, drag, click.
- Fit up to 18 hours of video on one DVD. Play it in any standalone DVD player.
- Xgrid support. Use the power of every Mac on your network for batch encoding.
- QuickTime Pro or special plugins not required.
- DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime struggles with are supported.
- Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
- Very comprehensive Advanced panel to modify every aspect of encoding.
- Dynamic Preview - See results before beginning a long encode.
- Stitch multiple files together to combine videos.
- Highly detailed, informative Users Guide.
- Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel Macs.
Version 1.34a:
- Added a workaround for a bug in iPhone/iPod touch 2.0.x software that prevents certain files from being played after syncing.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. 10.4.3 or later recommended. 10.4.3-10.4.11 required for Xgrid encoding.
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| VisualHub User Reviews (96 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 6 2008 |
MAC OS X 4EVER I have been relying on this for a long time to convert all of my content to mp4 for my home media system. Now that it's gone, is there anything else as good? And don't say ffmpeg. I know it was a front end for that, but a damn good one. I need a GUI tool that convert multiple files to my specifications as this one did. I sure hope he at least releases it to SourceForge. Thanks while it lasted.
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 | Oct 4 2008 |
RAINßIRD What a shock, VisualHub, AudialHub and iSquint has been discontinued. Please consider selling these applications to another developer, or helping Macintosh users by releasing the source code for further development by the open source community.
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| Oct 4 2008 |
APPLECRYPT MODS wow this is indeed a sad thing, sorry to see great work suddenly go like this :-( Are there any similar apps to use as an alternative ? tia
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| Oct 4 2008 |
VisualHub will still continue to work. See: http://www.isquint.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=6936 Very sad to see this great application go. Hope this helps
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| Oct 7 2008 |
AUREL Very good, hope being well by now. | |
| Oct 4 2008 |
XPLICIT VisualHub was just a GUI for ffmpegX ... an ugly one. 25$ for an ugly user interface was way too much.
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| Oct 3 2008 |
KAOSAD I too purchased this just a few weeks ago. It's unbelievable that not only did he quit so suddenly but to pull the downloads? Then he posts on his page "Oh well it was fun while it lasted" is just the attitude I needed to see, I've disputed the charge with my CC company and they removed the charge. I'm fed up with some of the Mac developer attitudes lately, he's not the first to pull a stunt like this. I suggest anyone purchasing this software in the last few weeks contact your CC company, $25 is $25. If he had handled it any other way or at least left the downloads in place it would be a different story.
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 | Oct 3 2008 |
TYLER LOCH I put contact information on that page so I could still help people out with questions or concerns like this...
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| Oct 3 2008 |
EEFF oh gret...paid for it a month ago...now the company stopped the support. thanks for that
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| Oct 3 2008 |
BUMSPINACH Not quite true, the support forums are still open for a while yet. What support do you need? You know what Mac people are like, we all help each other so all is not lost. I still would like to thank Mr Loch for this great piece of software and let's face it guys, it must have been something really serious for him personally to stop doing his great software, think about it, at the end of the day he is a human being y'know!
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| Sep 28 2008 |
KOSOVAR1 This is a crappy program. It only converts about half of the video files I throw at it. I have to ask myself, once again, "Geez, why do I keep wasting my money on programs like this! I'm just sick of these inexplicable error messages, that always blame the problem on the source video file (which works fine before conversion!) instead of on the mediocrity of the creators of programs like VisualHub. These people are patently dishonest when they advertise that VisualHub can convert practically any video file(s) to practically any other format you wish, like some kind of Swiss army knife. I bought this program because I just wanted to convert some standard video format files to MPEG-4/.H264s and then to import them into iTunes and my AppleTV. But this is apparently asking too much. People, save your money and shop for alternatives unless you're only want to, for example very basic, say, to convert an .avi file to an .mp4. This program is just too stupid to do much more than that.
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| Sep 13 2008 |
JOSHP I make a lot of AVI to H.264 MP4 conversions for my AppleTV. The newest version of VisualHub has started to output files that are much shorter than the original file. It just seems to give up and move on to the next queued file. And it never reports an error. Furthermore, ffmpegX, which is based on the same technology, works fine with similar settings.
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| Sep 13 2008 |
JOSHP The forums suggested resetting the program (VisualHub-->Reset VisualHub) and re-registering, but it still doesn't like some files. I think it may be related to the Quicktime 7.5.5 update. Not sure.
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| Sep 12 2008 |
MACSRUS I see the many uses for this program...but I personally hate VisualHub. I have an iMac and am borrowing a Sony handycam DCR-SR42 camera from a friend. Watching the videos on a PC, the quality of the video was great! Watching them in VLC on my iMac, great quality! Obviously it records in MPEG-2 so that won't work on the iMovie though. So I bought Visualhub after hearing all the praise from reviews and friends who use it. Here's what I found. I put the settings all the way up in visualhub...go nuts, all that fun stuff. I converted one of the MPEG-2 files to one that worked in iMovie, and the quality of the video sucked! It looked like it had been recorded on a cell phone. If you are converting files of DVD's you've ripped to your computer I could see how the quality would be fine. But if it's everyday camcorder movies, this program is going to ruin your life. The quality of video after conversion is absolutely terrible.
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| Sep 7 2008 |
DOBES Works perfectly to get .avi and .dvd files onto my iPhone 3G. These files didn't work with Handbrake, BTW. Thanks!
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