THEFINALEOFSEEM  Excellent software. Simple yet effective. Seems to do better than Quicktime in many cases and is definitely better at decoding than VLC. All it needs is good, clean multithreaded FFMPEG decoding support (it's currently in there, but it's noted as buggy) and this will be the perfect media player. Keep up the good work!  
(Version rev11)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  Okay, if you guys are taking this *nix software and tailoring it to OS X...HOW ABOUT GETTING RID OF MANUAL .CONF FILES??? Seriously, how friggin' hard is it to just add a preferences window that can edit all of those attributes? If you're making it for OS X, you should probably put some effort into usability! I'm not a novice. I'm familiar with the command line and have done config file edits plenty of times for other things. However, that doesn't mean I prefer to when there could be a very, very simple and time-saving solution. Please get this thing a little more user-friendly, folks. It's about the only option left since Bernie II the Rescue never made it to OS X (unless you count the shoddy Sweet16 port, which runs fine, but lacks so many feautres) and not all of us have Classic support anymore.  
(Version 1.94)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  Very nice! A recent round of updates somehow flagged the root directory of my hard drive as invisible. I could still access it by the "Go to" command, but that was about it. Drove me nuts. I installed the developer tools, but apparently Setfile doesn't like messing with the root directory. However, this little script correctly reset the visibility attribute! Thank you very much sir, you're a gentleman and a scholar!  
(Version 1.0)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  New version, yet it doesn't work at all with Leopard. It wont recognize a connection to the server. The previous version did, but didn't show channels. At least it worked that well. This one is unusable.  
(Version 3.0)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  I had hoped to use this to bench Leopard vs Tiger on a less than supported machine. G4 450mhz, Radeon 7000, 512MB of RAM. Leopard was surprisingly responsive on it, and OpenGL Extensions Viewer ran fine, benching up to 1.4 and pegging it around 73-74fps on each. In 10.4.10...it crashed. Every time. So there's something buggy in this release, because I could not bench it on the old, supported OS, but I could on the new, unsupported (on that machine) OS. Strange.  
(Version 2.32)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  This may be a good VPN server/client combo, but VPN Tracker has utterly piss-poor documentation. You'd think they'd at least give you a decent walkthrough for connecting VPN Tracker Client to VPN Tracker Server, but you get an ancient version of that guide from version 2.x. I have tried for hours to get these two working and cannot get them to connect. The demo cutting the service off every three minutes only adds to the frustration. If this software actually had good documentation, I could recommend it, but the fact remains that these idiots can't even keep their manuals current, so how can you expect the software to work properly?  
(Version 4.9.3)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  I picked up MPEG Streamclip as a free transcoder for iPod video. The first thing I did with it was transcode some Divx formatted cartoons (very low bitrate) into H.264 low bitrate for the iPod, and I was impressed with the quality. Not great, but it actually smoothed out the artifacts from the Divx source, making it look better after being transcoded. I was starting to like this software.

Then I did some real media compression, and that's where MPEG Streamclip fell flat. I was running interlaced DV through for high-quality and mid-quality iPod. The high quality could have been much better, and has been when I've used Quicktime/Compressor. One of them looked downright terrible. The deinterlacing, while better than some, was still pretty lackluster and left jagged edges everywhere. The mid quality was about where I'd expect it, but still, I've seen better from other encoders. Another gripe is that I used multipass VBR maxed at 760kbps for the medium, yet it averaged less than 500kbps, and judging from the video quality, it would have looked a lot better if MPEG Streamclip had kept the bitrate closer to the peak. If you just want a free media encoder, well, you really can't beat the price, but if you're looking for the better encoding quality than this, you'll have to look elsewhere.  
(Version 1.8)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  DO NOT USE THIS WITH A BROWSER! I installed this, and every time I get to an embedded WMV movie, it quits Safari without any warning. Maybe these guys should try testing their software before releasing it.  
(Version 2.0)