ffmpegX used to be my go-to for video encoding... and it still has that potential, if Major has some big things up his sleeve that he's been keeping hush-hush for years. But frankly, applications like Handbrake have suited me fine for quite some time in ffmpegX's absence. It'll take some convincing to draw me back, but I'll keep apprised of where ffmpegX goes in the coming weeks/months.

If Major wants to really wow me, he'll tackle an area relatively neglected by most encoding apps: robust handling of stylized subtitles ((advanced) substation alpha) with regards to burn-in on encoding. It's an anime fan niche to be sure, but frankly with how jam-packed the encoder app scene is these days maybe appeasing a subculture would be a smart way to stand out.

This is a jack-of-all-trades application, but a master of very little when it actually comes down to it. The handling of .ogm files is wonderful to see, and the ease of file extraction really sings to me as I am constantly tinkering with the streams of my files, but there's so many bumps all over the place that leave me scratching my head, such as a lackluster interface and feature set when actually converting files (a lack of automatic bitrate calculations becomes a bother, as well as the half-assembled height/width bar that leaves some of my .h264 files oddly squished when the original file under Quicktime has differing normal size and current size, natively).

In a way I suppose that I keep coming back to this application because the more efficient and robust ffmpegx has all but kicked the bucket and I am hoping to see the same sorts of innovation that that old and decaying application brought, but... maybe they are just two separate and differing things all together. It's a sad feeling knowing that I need to jump to a Windows partition to do even the most rudimentary of tasks with AVC files if I want exacting quality, but it just seems that for now that is the way it is.

not entirely interested in ditching azureus in favor of transmission, because quite frankly, the lack of a peerguardian-esque plug-in or feature just kills the deal. let's be honest, bittorrenting to the average user isn't exactly a by the books, legal deal, and transmission leaves the average user far more exposed to snooping IP's than azureus does with its SafePeer plug-in.

for quick, low profile/legal downloads, sure, transmission is good. for everything, no way. azureus, hands down.

Again, RiDATA DVD+R DL troubles. This time Burn 2.3u, but thankfully it ejected the DVD rather than going in infinite loop.

DRErrorStatusKey = {
DRErrorStatusAdditionalSenseStringKey = "Focus servo failure";
DRErrorStatusErrorKey = -2147352542;
DRErrorStatusErrorStringKey = "The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.";
DRErrorStatusSenseCodeStringKey = 04;
DRErrorStatusSenseKey = ;
};
DRStatusCurrentSessionKey = 1;
DRStatusCurrentSpeedKey = 3324;
DRStatusCurrentTrackKey = 1;
DRStatusPercentCompleteKey = -1;
DRStatusProgressInfoKey = {
DRStatusProgressCurrentKPS = 3250.39599609375;
DRStatusProgressCurrentXFactor = 2.299999952316284;
};
DRStatusStateKey = DRStatusStateFinishing;
DRStatusTotalSessionsKey = 1;
DRStatusTotalTracksKey = 1;

The error list continues for a while. Can post more data if needed.

application will not start up, period. no action on the dock, nothing. no blips from Activity Monitor either. running G4 533 dual processor (Digital Audio), 768 RAM, OS 10.3.9, all updates current.