When I finally received my CS4 disks not too long ago I was absolutely thrilled to get my hands on the newest Flash/Photoshop/Dreamweaver (considering that i gave CS3 a miss). I popped the DVD into my mac and clicked the install all option. 30 minutes later I had the apps on my computer, and decided to browse my folder of downloaded youtube FLVs out of boredom and behold! - some application, Adobe Media Player, had re-associated itself with my downloaded files!
Being a patient man, I gave this app a chance to show off what it can do over VLC. I clicked a 3 min FLV file and waited...waited some more...couple minutes now...wait...yep, it froze (my gen.-1 macbook doesn't normally do this...). Wow Adobe, a crappy bundled application that reassigns file associations and doesn't even launch (tried several times, with different FLV files, and still hangs at launch). How original.
A friend of mine recently turned me onto MacTheRipper for backing up some of my CSS-mangled DVDs. After having using it extensively I have come to the conclusion that it works better than Handbrake does on my mac (ancient macbook). In fact, overall the app is well built and does exactly what advertised.
However, as for its price, definitely not worth paying for. Since it's built from GPU GPL libraries I cannot fathom why I need pay a cent towards this app's development. Also, the current builds of v3 all give new definition to the term donationware nagging (and also have caused me to loathe Bomberman for some reason...).
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Adobe Media Player
DerHATO reviewed on 23 Nov 2008
Being a patient man, I gave this app a chance to show off what it can do over VLC. I clicked a 3 min FLV file and waited...waited some more...couple minutes now...wait...yep, it froze (my gen.-1 macbook doesn't normally do this...). Wow Adobe, a crappy bundled application that reassigns file associations and doesn't even launch (tried several times, with different FLV files, and still hangs at launch). How original.
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MacTheRipper
DerHATO reviewed on 23 Nov 2008
However, as for its price, definitely not worth paying for. Since it's built from GPU GPL libraries I cannot fathom why I need pay a cent towards this app's development. Also, the current builds of v3 all give new definition to the term donationware nagging (and also have caused me to loathe Bomberman for some reason...).