BARRY COONY  For a techhead you do not seem to understand the difference between 32bit and 64bit.

A 64bit compiled app is not by definition faster then 32bit compiled app. On the contraire - it is mostly slower because of the larger chuncks of memeory it has to deal with.

And a OS X 10.6 is also not by definition 64bit. Xcode still lets you choose 32bit or 64bit.

Just FYI

As of the speed issues. I got really faster converting times but you have to enable multi core support in the prefs.

I have send the developer a mail to make this enabled by default. It beats me why he/she didn't do this before.  
(Version 2.0)

BARRY COONY  Promised some tests - thrown in some VisualHUB times too

File1 = MP4 file 113MB

File2 = MKV file 384MB

File3 = MPEG file 75MB

Converting to H264 to the same resolution and bitrate.

iVideo Converter 1.37:

File1 : 3Min 32sec

File2 : 12Min 03sec

File3 : 2Min 21sec

iVideo Converter 2.0:

File1 : 1Min 37sec

File2 : 8Min 40sec

File3 : 1Min 04sec

VisualHUB:

File1 : 2Min 26Sec

File2 : Didn't work

File3 : 1Min 58sec

There is definitely a speed improvement with the Intel optimized FFMPEG. Thumbs up for this  
(Version 2.0)

BARRY COONY  I have also did some tests with the version 1.3.7 and 2.0 and there is a HUGH different in speed. (will post them later)

Converting the same 50Mb video mpeg file to H264 was almost halved in converting time using version 2.0

Did you enabled 'Multi core support'?

The most important difference is the optimised FFMPEG file. It is not the GUI of iVideo Converter doing the converting!

Converning the OS X 10.6 readiness. The develop says it is the GUI is more geared at OS X 10.6. Not the core code.

Apple dropped PPC not the developer of iVideo Converter so shoot Apple instead. :-)  
(Version 2.0)

BARRY COONY  Bad reviews already but I still wanted to download this and give it a swing.

A big download that is! +100MB

But that's ok if it is a good app.

First, I don't know what the developer was thinking about when creating the bottom half of the interface. A mess! Apple wouldn't be proud of this.

Dragging some small (about 5mb) video files into the window worked but the file was bounced back to the window? Strange effect.

The big QT logo in front of each folder/file name is unnecessary.

Choosing the MP4 format and press the (ugly - not OS X like) start button.

It says 'Preparing conversion..'. Some minutes - - - more minutes - - - go to the toilet - - - I am back - - - still doing some 'preparing' - - - got a coca cola - - - and hey presto I got a Applescript error:

cat: /private/var/folders/9F/9FbX280pGROa3uVhuhwsOE+++TI/TemporaryItems/videotmp3.txt: No such file or directory (1)

Deleted the file and tried the next video file with MPEG settings. It starts again with 'Preparing conversion ..'. After some seconds the progressbar vanished and it still saying it 'Preparing conversion..'.

Some minutes later it finally starts converting. But boy - - - this is S L O O O W. I mean, this file is 5mb in size and it already took so long to do actually preparing and a bit of converting.

After some more minutes it finished converting.

Playing the converted file on VLC worked but the quality wasn't very high and it was a bit disappointing seeing it took so long to convert. I was expecting a very high quality.

Tried a simple RSS feed but it gave me another error. Didn't go into this because I had seen enough.

Browsed some more features (what the hell is the 'Run as root (sudo)' option?) and I knew enough.

This converter is Bad with a capital B.

Even the worst free converter gives better quality and above all faster operating.

My opinion:

- It is still buggy

- Very slow converting even on my iMac 2.96 Duo Core

- Average quality

- Not user friendly interface

Not recommended !  
(Version 2.1.2)

BARRY COONY  Don't bother. It only happened ones. No worries.  
(Version 1.52)

BARRY COONY  It lacks some advance features like Scientific and Programmer mode. RPN mode should be nice too. The 'extra' mode is not enough imo.

Also strange you can change the PI value constant. This needs to be removed I think. :-)

Seeing OS X 10.6 will be HUD all over the place I like this Calculator version very much and using it right now.  
(Version 4.0)

BARRY COONY  Thanks for this neat tool.  
(Version 2.0.5b4)

BARRY COONY  Strange interface but in it does the works.

Although I had a problem with one NTSC movie. The result was a squashed aspect ratio.

Other movies are converted nicely.

Good app  
(Version 1.51)

BARRY COONY  Is there a zoom feature?

In general a good app !  
(Version 0.5.7)