KOSOVAR1  To the mental muppet in the room, I expressed annoyance with developers who release tiny, incremental updates to their software practically every week (or twice a week), listing one or two "improvements" like "rounder buttons and other superficial interface elements, without making any significant usability or stability improvements. My complaint about VideoDrive last week is that it simply STOPPED CONVERTING MOVIES and I would like the developer to make it work again--because I paid for it-- not just to announce new shiny buttons or color scheme refinement. Developers like this produce frequent meaningless update announcements just to get more free exposure for their product, but they often won't do the hard work necessary to make a good product that was worthy of what I paid for it. In contrast, I gave the example of the noble VisualHub, which hasn't been updated IN YEARS because the developer discontinued work on it for personal reasons (and who very nobly stopped accepting payment for it because he was no longer doing the work), but IT somehow manages to convert my movies for me, whereas VideoDive will not. In contrast, if VideDrive is supposedly improving their software constantly, why doesn't it work anymore?

I'm sorry that you seem incapable of understanding my point or is it perhaps that you have some other agenda to defend a company's business model and practices or software that you want to refute as being defective for some, just because (you say) it works fine for you.  
(Version 1.10.1)

KOSOVAR1  Here's an update: Since the last ten times (at least) I've tried to convert a movie, VideoDrive 1.10.2 has failed miserably every time AND THIS IS WITH CHAPTERING TURNED OFF as the developer recommended. As described below, I have all components of MacOS 10.6.1 running in 64-bit mode. Nothing has changed in the last six weeks except that VideoDrive stopped converting movies. Amazingly, VisualHub has converted movies just fine and IT has not been updated in years. So as the months pass, apparently there's still no functional version of VideoDrive available for people running Snow Leopard in full 64-bit mode. It's getting to be a real bummer.  
(Version 1.10.1)

KOSOVAR1  The new beta of VideoDrive STILL DOES NOT seem to be compatible with Snow Leopard, at least not if you boot your Mac up with the 64-bit kernel enabled (as I do). I tried a few .avi to .mp4 conversions, formatted for AppleTV and they all hung within seconds. I have the new Apple QuickTime Player installed, but I retained Version 7 of QuickTime Pro during the 10.6 installation.  
(Version 1.10.1)

KOSOVAR1  The new VideoDrive beta still does not work with Snow Leopard.

I installed the today's beta of VideoDrive for Snow Leopard on my new iMac, exactly as Aroona software recommended here on MacUpdate's web ie and on Aroona's own website. I already have the QuickTime 7 components installed as part of Mac OS X 10.6. However, the beta doesn't work. After trying to import two .avi files, I got the following error messages: "QuickTime could not process your video. Please try again: QuickTime Player 7 got an error: Can’t get every chapter of document... (error: -1728) The second error message was "Import of [moviename].avi failed because QuickTime could not process your video. Please try again: QuickTime Player 7 got an error: Can’t get every chapter of document [moviename].avi. (error: -1728)"  
(Version 1.11b)

KOSOVAR1  I can confirm that VideoDrive no longer works now that Snow Leopard has been released. The problems seem to be related to QuickTime and Applescript. Either I get "stack overflow errors" or VideoDrive informs me that QuickTime is busy and that I need to "Quit QuickTime and try again," which I do, but to no avail. Under Leopard, VideoDrive was usually reliable, although slower to process avi files than VisualHub.

AROONA, can you please advise when a fix will be released and thank you in advance for a reply. Without a major fix, VideoDrive is dead in its tracks for those of us who have upgraded to MacOS 10.6.  
(Version 1.10.1)

2SHAE  Just a heads up for those experimenting with Snow Leopard...Videodrive currently doesn't work with Quicktime X.  
(Version 1.10.1)

MC_SHIZZEL  Just updated to version 1.10 and noticed that my copy is no longer registered. I remember reading somewhere when I purchased my license a couple of months back that all updates before version 1.9.x.x would be included for free so does that mean I have to purchase another license since it's no longer 1.9.x.x?

I can't find much information concerning licensing on the developer's website. If I need to buy a new license then I might as well go back to using version 1.9.8.07 because it does the job and I'm not interested in spending more money on features I most likely won't use.  
(Version 1.10)

KOSOVAR1  VideoDrive and Limewire would have to share the prize in any competition for the flood of superficial updates that seem to be rather transparent free extra publicity for these products. (Limewire can be excused for this since it's free.) Now, don't get me wrong; I love VideoDrive, what it does, and usually how it does it...except for the past couple of weeks that is. Since then, VideoDrive stopped working for me completely. It hangs with that endless Technicolor spinning ball, saying that it's trying to register with Growl. (Disabling Growl, restarting the system, or trashing the prefs file doesn't fix this.) I always end up having to force-quit VideoDrive and then go back to my old standby, VisualHub, which, although it is showing its age, still works reliably for simple video conversion tasks. Ironically, there seems to have been no VideoDrive update lately that fixes the problem with freezing. Maybe I'm being punished! ;-)

Any developer who puts out an incremental update to a paid-for program should at least have the professional integrity publish the changes right away so we can judge for ourselves if it's worth the effort to update that program, or if we're just getting smoke blown up our butts.  
(Version 1.10)

KOSOVAR1  It really annoys me that the developer of this application only bothers to send paying customers an updated version only every three days. How lazy! If they were earning their shareware fees, they would provide a new update three times per day, eight days per week. The added benefit for the developer is that that they would get all the extra free advertising of their product with shameless transparency. (We certainly yearn for more of that!) The added benefit for us customers is that we could waste more of our valuable time constantly downloading and installing VideoDrive, like version 1.9.8.02.06.321rc because we all know how irresistible and indispensable those new features are, like the more rounded edges to the button on the thirty-third preference option, or that incredibly important changed word spelling in the help menu, or the new localization into Finno-Ungaric. Besides my minor gripe, I do think this is an excellent program.  
(Version 1.9.8.02)

ESTNYC  I've used this app for several months now, and it's very, very handy. I have a "hacked" Apple TV which can play .avis just fine, as long as the file's embedded within the appropriate wrapper, to fool both iTunes and ATV to play it just fine.

It's getting better and better, but I have two major headaches with it that prevent me from giving it more than three stars. First of all, the Hot Folders feature has never worked for me. I think it's got something to do with my keeping my iTunes folder on an external HD. I can live with that, I don't mind manually queuing up files (although I'd much rather have it done automatically). The biggest drawback for me is that it's just not very good at finding metadata -- that is, the correct names of shows, episode titles, etc. Often it's wrong in what it finds; sometimes hilariously so. It's kind of irritating to be babysitting a conversion process which should run just fine untouched by human hands.

I just figured finding the right info was hard, and I'd just have to put up with it. And then Boxee came along! Boxee does a GREAT job of identifying movie, show, episode information; much much better than VideoDrive. So, I have to wonder, as I yet again change the hilariously misnamed mess VD makes of "House," if Boxee can do it, why can't VideoDrive?  
(Version 1.9.4)