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And going to the dev's page and clicking on the dmg download link on his dl page takes you to the same page indicated below. So okay then you click on the more info page and it takes you back to his download page again. Kind of like..real stupid. |
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A quick comment....clicking this download link takes me to a page with a price on it, and ads all over it, and a link at the bottom to click for "more information on this download." This is completely unacceptable to me for a download from Macupdate, it's one thing to be redirected to the dev's page to download it, quite another to be hit with ads and a price on a supposedly FREE app, then having to click to another page from there. |
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Well I wouldn't call this a DRAWING app. I was looking for something very simple to just make up a flat wall drawing with colors...a preview for painting....and searched for drawing apps. This one came up. Can't even draw a simple SQUARE with it. You might want to classify this as a PAINT program...and even silly old (and I do mean old) Windows Paint or Mac Paint would draw a SQUARE with a line. |
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I'm appalled to come her and see people bashing GC so much. It's a great app, it does FAR more than any other app of its kind on the Mac, the dev has always stayed right on top of updates for compatibility, and it's still the best app of its kind available. Unless you just want to view photos...which I think these bashers are talking about. And there are about a hundred apps for Mac OS X that will do that. iPhoto is CHEESY. Just my personal opinion of course. The powerful scripting/exporting/batch conversion in GC is UNRIVALED and I challenge you all who are blasting away at this great program to actually USE a lot of the features you know nothing about then try to find something that does it better - or at all - that doesn't cost you $499 such as a lot of these unbelievable GOUGERS charge for certain Photoshop plugins that have poorer functionality than the same features in Graphic Converter. You guys are just...BAD. Stop it...here is a developer who has stayed on board and provided a great app which is STILL a great app - if you know what to do with it and not just open a JPG once in a while - for the Mac. |
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Oh and something else...I have used several of the avi conversion programs extensively and ffmpegx just sucks compared to VisualHub. Its quality output is poor, there are a LOT of different avi's out there it just doesn't work with, and the settings often are displayed in the program but don't apply in the output...very weird. There is really nothing to compare to VH, it is the best there is from my experience. |
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Select the AVI tab. Click on the Profile button, and select Home Theatre. Set the Quaility slider to whatever you want it at. I have NEVER had a problem with converting AVI this way. I have two different Divx players, a Philips and a Pioneer, and they both play every avi I have ever converted this way. I have converted AVI's that wouldn't play on them, using VisualHub as above, and then they played just fine. The ffmpeg libraries should be installed automatically with VisualHub. If it is your first time install or the libraries have been updated, VisualHub will have a window to download and install those libraries when you install it. |
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Finderpop still does this better than anything else, no menu, no "common" folder, sinply select, click, choose folder all in one fluid motion and click...your choice of move copy or alias appears on the screen. None compare to Finderpop's ease of use and simple elegance. And it's FREE. |
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I haven't had any trouble with this, except that on my G4 the eDrive was invisible and on my dual G5 it's not. It works, it works good and I like the suites. Comment on Diskwarrior: I have used DW for years and I find it to be one of the best tools available. TT is also. To be honest I've never had a serious HD crash where I had to really USE any of the recovery stuff on these. DW was a dream on OS 9. But my problem with DW now is well...it takes like TEN OR FIFTEEN MINUTES to boot from the damn disk! Most of the people I know are maddened about this also and they just haven't seemed to get it right...so imho DW is losing ground because of that, and because of the lack of versatility compared to TechTool. I like TT. My 2¢. |
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A couple of observations: First, the documentation doesn't describe anywhere what the physical connections of the macs are supposed to be. It just basically says...install the software and you can control two macs. Well how, exactly? This isn't a simplistic question...how does this work? Across the net, do I need both computers plugged into a router, do I need KVM hardware or what? Please explain to a newbie "mac-sharer" in detail exactly what I need to do to use this software, from step one as if I didn't know a thing. STARTING with how to physically connect my macs to make your software work. Second, in the read me it says: "Note: File transfers are limited to 512M." That is really, really unfortunate. Many files, such as divx movies and just complete folders full of music, are way bigger than 512 megs. This seems worse to me than the 1-gb file size limit in Mac OS 9. Do you have any plans to get around whatever is causing this limit in your application? |
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Seems to work okay...but.... How in the world do I get the hops to show up on the Map? This used to work just fine. I do a trace now, I can see it hitting the addresses at the top of the map window, but it isn't showing the hops on the map. Strange. |
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Please Please Please update FP to work in Leopard...I'll send you some more ale! :) FP has always been a cut above anything else of its type in ease of use and elegant simplicity as well as having very useful features, and I've greatly appreciated your efforts for years now. |
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This does not work in Leopard. |
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Oh MAN!! I was just about to get this because for some stupid reason I can only get a 60Hz refresh rate through the Displays panel when my monitor supports 75Hz. I think it's stupid that a mac with a 256 Nvidia card will only show a single refresh rate available when the monitor will support higher. It's ALWAYS been a problem with Macs way back since System 7 that the res/refresh rates that COULD be supported weren't selectable in the system...DUHHHH on you apple!! Anyway....Unsanity APE has been known to cause FAR FAR too many issues. I refuse to use it, and you just lost my money...I was all ready to buy this til I saw the below comment...forget that APE CRAP. |
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LOL. Won't do sit and sitx files. Hilarious. |
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First, they made my account "expire" even though it wasn't expired. This company has changed and now you have to pay a $5 a month fee, they didn't bother to make you aware of it they just expired the account and force you to recreate one...and they want to charge you $5 a month. I emailed the company that I wanted my information removed from the site because THEY PROVIDE NO AVENUE AT ALL TO REMOVE OR CANCEL AN ACCOUNT WHEN IT HAS BEEN CREATED. SMELLS BIGTIME OF INFORMATION FARMING. DO NOT USE THIS APPLICATION. |
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Excuse me, did you say IE6? This is a mac site. IE was discontinued for Mac with version 5.23 I believe. IE6 comparison to anything Mac is not worth the mention. |
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VERY simple to use and much more user friendly than Snail Mail which I had used for a long time. One thing I think is cool is if you copy a name and address from anywhere, it puts that name and address in the To field...you don't have to even paste it in. And it keeps the size parameters for the font, the other one didn't. "Two thumbs up!" as they say. |
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My latest beef about Firefox is that it only prints PAGE ONE of a webpage. I don't do that much printing off the web, usually I'm in a rush if I do to just print something off to take to work to read. So I try this with some different pages, and Firefox only prints page 1! I remember trying this quite awhile back and it was doing the same crap. Open the site in Safari and it printed just fine. Checked all my setttings and page setup for Firefox, absolutely nothing wrong with any print settings at all. As I mentioned before, friends saying the same kind of bad things about firefox. Just talked to my brother a couple states away the other day, said firefox on PC trashed all his favorites, and he said it did that to one of our nieces over there as well. They were just gone. I'm not seeing Firefox as a viable web browser any more. I got a couple days off here and I'm fixing to transition to something else that is RELIABLE, STABLE, and hopefully not UNEXPECTEDLY BUGGY when you go to do something with it. I've just had it and I think Firefox with those kind of bugs is low on the list of a usable Mac program. I'm a very long-time mac user and know how to troubleshoot anything, and this firefox is just maddening and upsetting any more...so like any other buggyass app (and there've been a few I've encountered for the Mac)...if it don't work it's dumpage time. Bye Bye Firefox. |
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Thanks for the response, I hadn't got back to look til yesterday. Busy busy busy... Today before I left I queued up several videos, with the one that was skipped the last time in the first position. It went off without a hitch and did them all as it should. The last time, it was in the second position, and just nothing happened. First one converted, and the second one was as if it wasn't there. This time, I dragged them to the window all in a group. Last time, I put them there one at a time. I have no explanation for it, there was no error and I didn't look at the log last time. The reason I brought this up was because it wasn't the first time it's happened. It happened 3-4 times before also. Other times, it would do one, and leave the rest, or if only two, do the one and leave the second, without any error message. Perhaps just not recognizing the file, but that wouldn't explain the most recent occurence, and I have had files that wouldn't convert, but they give an error message. The scenario I'm talking about is just ignoring a file without any error message...leave a list and expect them to be done and come back and only one was. Well it seems to work okay for now. Thanks for a fantastic product! Oh, if it helps, I'm using a PowerPC, Sawtooth G4 upgraded with a 1.2 GHz OWC Extreme chip, plenty of ram and plenty of hard drive space. |
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VisualHub is an excellent app. I just have one complaint. You put more than one file into the window, it *doesn't* just do them. Or have I completely missed something? Will that little part of this Automation app be a menu command in the next version? Cuz I sure don't feel like writing applescripts myself no matter how simple they are, and processing a queue of files should be a staple part of this app (batch processing is part of MPEG Streamclip and it's free). |
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I'm a long time CDFinder user, it's the absolute best cataloging app available on any platform. That said...I'm not real happy with this new version for the following reasons: 1. I don't like dual windows in the interface. I'd rather have a single list view. I realize some users have complained about the single window thing in previous versions, but I for one dislike Apple's column views, and panes...call me an old-timer if you like. Give the user a choice...it's all about choice...and just like Apple's non-turn-offable paned view in the finder (I mean in save windows and such, I can't change it at the system level to be the way *I* would like it to be), this new version of CDFinder gives no option to turn off the panes and use the "old style" CDFinder window that I've been so used to and like so well. 2. Comic Sans text does not work in CDFinder 5 windows. All y's and p's and anything else with a lower leg on it has that leg cut off making it look stupid. 3. I have not verified with a burn of my own, but according to a friend, and according to the update notes, CDFinder is directly integrated with Toast, and CDFinder launches and asks to catalog every time you burn a disk with Toast. My friend was asking me if I know a way to stop that behavior because he knows what a huge proponent of CDFinder I have been for years (Indeed, every chance I've had I've raved about what a fantastic app this is to my friends and family). Unfortunately I can find no such pref within the program to turn off this integration. If there is one, I've missed it. Thanks again for the great program! I think until I'm offered interface and integration choices I'll stay with 4.7. Progress is great, but progress does not have to mean forcing things on the user he can't turn off. The Toast thing really bugs me....I don't want to catalog *all* the disks I burn and don't need an app making me close it again when I don't need it. Cheers :) Still a near perfect rating, Features just need a little adjustment. |
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Nice, but the themes selection to add more themes takes you to the firefox themes page addons.mozilla.org, and I tried a couple and of course they are incompatible. Where's the list of themes and addons that works with THIS browser? Why would I waste my time scrolling through hundreds of themes and addons to maybe find some that work with this one? Get a real list of addons that work with this and I might actually USE it, the speed seems good but the default navigator design has to go. I'm looking for an alternative to that sucky firefox and Safari. |
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I'm just about to stop using this browser. I have used it for a long time, but it's getting quite maddening when I unexpectedly can't see a secure page on the web. This happened with my phone bill online, it wouldn't display it at all, and it's just happened with the forums at World of Warcraft. Couldn't figure out WHYYY it wouldn't load the page after logging in, tried everything even called Blizzard. Decided to try Safari and the damn thing worked (I have hated Safari's slowness with a passion and still do, Apple has said with a lot of updates that they improved page loading and every time I've EVER tried it it has a very annoying delay loading pages). Firefox above version 2 STILL displays some weirdass grey splotch (some might call it an icon) beside most of the menu items in all the menus, and next to any bookmark in my list that the site doesn't have a custom icon for. And it even displays these stupid grey boxes or whatever they are, next to items that never eve HAD an icon next to them in the first place! In my opinion not keeping up with the current design of the web and the inability of this "main stream" browser to load some pages correctly is inexcusable. And last, most everyone I talk to these days tells me they have troubles with Firefox displaying some pages correctly and they just don't like it much any more. |
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If you can hold off on this update, do so. It deleted over 100 gold worth of items in my inventory, and they've had to do two lenthy restarts of the servers so far because of this and other problems. The spam filters they incorporated may help some but they didn't stop the losers from sending private message with "gold-selling for real cash" content 3 or 4 times. Blizzard with all its millions seems completely incapable of incorporating USER END controls on filtering what YOU want to see in the chat window. Why, I have no clue. |
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Shades of windoze crap! 1.0.8076?? OMG Nooooooooooooo not Winblows version numbering schemes on a Mac! Microsoft GO AWAY! |
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I gave up on Logitech's buggy junk a long time ago, when they removed (for no good reason at all) the ability to scroll a page at a time with one turn of the mouse wheel. Last I checked it would only do 6 lines. There is MUCH better mouse control software available, as mentioned, SteerMouse and USB Overdrive. And if you have problems with a Logitech product, GOOD LUCK trying to get any answers through their system online. Those people can't answer one single easy question, I spent 5 exchanges just trying to get them to answer one question, they would keep giving me answers to things I never even asked...LOL...idiots |
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Correction...the game does go to full screen and cover the desktop, HOWEVER the game is actually sized at 800x600 in the middle of a background...the game field itself is not going to full screen size as it should without going to system prefs and changing the computer resolution. Several reinstalls of the game, deleting prefs, two or three different installs of the OS and still this persists. It's done it with a stock ATI Rage, an NVidia, and an ATI 9200 card installed. It's done exactly the same thing on two different Macs. Ambrosia's best suggestion is to make a new user acct and try it from there which doesn't work. They know about it and tell me they can't reproduce it. I doubt it. |
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Been playing this for a long time. Cool game. OS X version seems unable to do autoswitching of resolution, if your screen is set at 1024 x 768 the game plays in a window not full screen. One is forced to go to system prefs and set the computer to 800 x 600 then launch the game to play full screen. No matter how the game prefs are set, this still has to be done. Ambrosia provided me with no solid answer as to why (assuming it's a programming issue, they have not made it possible for the game to do autoswitching like ALMOST every other game out there can!). A real pain in the you know what. Although this game is great in every other aspect, my rating is a 2 for Ambrosia's lack of attention to this in the 1.0.2 update when they know well what the issue is. |
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So why are they there in the first place? A known bug that has to be fixed by the USER? What kind of crap is this? I too refuse to upgrade, Firefox 2 is garbage and so is Tbird...yep I tried it for a short time, and my fonts displays were totally screwed up, it was slower, and it wouldn't support Walnut theme, or Walnut theme wouldn't support it. |
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Has sound notification and a bouncing dock icon. Why would you need a window notification? |
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Show Movie info shows the following: Movie Format: Video Track, Sound Track. Wouldn't have a clue what kind of file I'm working with by looking at the Movie Info. The following CANNOT be done unless you buy the application, effectively rendering any "Demo" testing of this app completely USELESS because you can't DO anything that would let you check if you wanted to pay for it or not: Export Video. Export to iPod. Extract movie video/audio tracks to new files. Split Movie. Join Movie. Adjust video transparency. Record Audio. So effectively what you have is yet another video viewing app and little else unless you give the guy your money to TEST the app's true functionality (or lack thereof). Why would I pay for something if, for example, it didn't live up to the standards of quality in exporting an avi (or other format) that an app like VisualHub or MPEG Streamclip (FREE!) or others do. And again...what's the ONLY way to find out?? BUY THE APP! No thanks...this guy is in this just to get your 15 bucks. And how is it that you jumped from version 0.95 in March of this year to version 2.4, with no VERSION HISTORY in your documentation? |
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Well if you remember what a corrupted icon looked like in OS 9, it's about like that except a grey square, no colors...an ugly square icon, and it's next to nearly every item selection in every menu. I have no clue why, when there weren't any icons next to items in the menus before. |
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I should elaborate after further exploration...and reversion back to 1.5.0.7. In ALL menus in 2.0 there is some ugly gray icon for almost all items, the File menu, Edit menu, Bookmarks menu etc. I guess I was so used to having NO ICONs at all in 1.5.0.7 that I didn't even catch that. So I'm back at 1.5.0.7 and all menu and bookmark menu items have no icons at all as it should be. I glanced at the Firefox forums...and I'm just not gonna use 2.0 til they get it right, there are FAR too many issues. |
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Why are my icons all looking like an ugly gray box in the bookmarks menu? I downloaded the "final" from the website. Bookmarks look okay in the personal toolbar, but in the bookmark menu itself they are UGLY, any of them that don't have a custom website icon look AWFUL. This is a "release" and they didn't know this?? |
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Well, it's alright compared to others. It crashes when you got a lot of files going in it. When you go to stop one file, it stops the one above it, and if you do this a few times in a long list, it just up and crashes. This behavior is very consistent. Hasn't been updated in a LONG time and needs to be. Could stand to have the ability to download individual files within a torrent, badly needs that feature. |
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Okay last comment... Don't bother telling the authors, they ignore their emails. Free app or not, that's just stupid to ignore your users. |
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This is a comparison of encoding an IDENTICAL file, the first encoding on a G4 Sawtooth PPP machine, the second on a new iMac Intel G5 2.0GHz machine. My only question is WHY are these different?? If you notice, the G4 is outputting in XVID codec even though Avi Divx is the selected encoder. Talk about a BIG BUG, this is apparently why this won't export Divx properly on my G4. And YES all the binaries are installed correctly on both machines. All output settings are exactly the same on both machines, we have the same version of the app and everything. I'd sure like the authors to address this question. G4: Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [XVID] Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16be -> 44100Hz/0ch/s8... Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16be -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16be... VDec: vo config request - 672 x 272 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 2.47:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter videocodec: libavcodec (672x272 fourcc=58564944 [XVID]) Writing AVI header... G5: Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [DIVX] VDec: vo config request - 672 x 272 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 2.47:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter videocodec: libavcodec (672x272 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX]) Writing header... |
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Well I tried this again because I'm a glutton for punishment. This time I cranked the video bitrate up to 1350 from the appr. normal default of ~940 that the program puts on a 700 meg (appr 1 hr or so) file. I thought that may solve this issue of it not making Divx files that are playable on Divx home players like the philips dvp642. Silly me...I've wasted my time again. They can't get it right. Interestingly enough...I can take a file that won't convert in Dvision, convert it in ffmpegx, then re-convert it again in Dvision and usually it will work in my philips. But these guys say they offer DIVX exporting they're pulling your leg. The option may be named that in the app, it might LOOK like a Divx file on the computer when you look at Movie info in QT or VLC, but it is NOT or it would just work on a divx player. |
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G4 Sawtooth upgraded, 10.4.7, this is a single user computer and I've never had a problem with login or password issues. Didn't work at all for me, this is supposed to make a bootable backup CLONE of the drive I choose. It changed the permissions on my startup drive, even though I had repaired them with Disk Utility prior to using Mimmac. It changed them to read only and I did NOT have repair source permissions turned on in MimMac. It did the copy okay, but skipped 3,036 files and gave no indication of what those files were. It asked to change the privs on the destination so it would be bootable. I said yes. Destination drive shows identical permissions now as my original startup drive, but brings up a login screen at boot and refuses to accept my login name and password. I've messed with this over an hour and can't get it figured out, ran DW on all the drives and still no luck. Therefore this version is pretty much useless. |
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Well as of a couple days ago, this doesn't work at all now. Checked Activity Monitor a few times it just says TV Tracker widget is not responding. Wrote a note to the authors after poting the below review, no response. It appears that this is pretty much broken with the 10.4.7 update to the OS. Too bad, must be an alternative. |
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Oh and also this game wants to call home to critter wants to connect to this URL: projects.sourceforge.net on TCP port 80 (http) Now why does a freeware game want to track when I launch it? Would the author please comment on WHY?? What is your purpose for this? |
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fun game, but how FRIGGING LAME of the author to give you just one guy then have enemies shoot directly horizontal on your level with no way to avoid them. I played for all of 2 minutes and died 5 times which means I played 5 games. Author is insane and sadistic, don't bother downloading this, he is probly sitting back knowing exactly what he did and getting pleasure out of posts just like this one. |
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I've been playing D2 for years, and it just plain sucks in OS X. There's virtually no OpenGL support unless you like playing at about 10 frames a second, this with a 128mb ATI card installed. After much emailing with Blizzard tch support who can tell me virtually nothing, I perused the web and found MANY people who have this problem on a Mac. Have to play in software mode, which is acceptable, IF the damn game didn't lock up intermittently ALL the time! I've done at least half a dozen reinstalls of the OS and the game and it still doesn't solve the lockup issues in the game. NOTHING else on the Mac causes such maddening issues. Face it guys...if you're playing it and it don't crash, you're one of the lucky ones. I've been playing D2 a lot since it came out, and the OS X rendition is simply pathetic. It played better on a Supermac and on a G3 MUCH better than it ever has in OS X. And I'm soooooo SICK of hearing users say Ohhhhhh but they provide it for freeee and coming to the defense of pathetically inept programmers at Blizzard who don't know what the hell they're doing and would rather field 50 email exchanges with idiotic techs than ADMIT that they have a problem, especially with the OpenGL rendering for MOST Mac video cards (they removed hardware support completely in the OS X versions)...well fine and dandy, IF it worked! If you're a newbie at D2 wondering if you should purchase the game to play on Mac OS X...DON'T. |
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I agree, it takes FAR too long to update, and often won't update at all, and often won't even let you choose the dropdown menu to UPDATE NOW. At this moment at 7 pm, TV Tracker is STUCK at 9 am this morning and refuses to let me do a thing. It wasn't quite as bad until the 10.4.7 update to OS X. Now it's such a pain in the ass it's gonna get dumped off my system til they get a decent update to it and update their servers to handle the traffic. It's really VERY cool when it works, and I especially like being able to select only the channels I watch. The other thing is, they COULD make the scrolling work with a mousewheel scroll, but it doesn't right now. |
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I've been playing D2 for years, and it just plain sucks in OS X. There's virtually no OpenGL support unless you like playing at about 10 frames a second, this with a 128mb ATI card installed. After much emailing with Blizzard tch support who can tell me virtually nothing, I perused the web and found MANY people who have this problem on a Mac. Have to play in software mode, which is acceptable, IF the damn game didn't lock up intermittently ALL the time! I've done at least half a dozen reinstalls of the OS and the game and it still doesn't solve the lockup issues in the game. NOTHING else on the Mac causes such maddening issues. Face it guys...if you're playing it and it don't crash, you're one of the lucky ones. I've been playing D2 a lot since it came out, and the OS X rendition is simply pathetic. It played better on a Supermac and on a G3 MUCH better than it ever has in OS X. And I'm soooooo SICK of hearing users say Ohhhhhh but they provide it for freeee and coming to the defense of pathetically inept programmers at Blizzard who don't know what the hell they're doing and would rather field 50 email exchanges with idiotic techs than ADMIT that they have a problem, especially with the OpenGL rendering for MOST Mac video cards (they removed hardware support completely in the OS X versions)...well fine and dandy, IF it worked! If you're a newbie at D2 wondering if you should purchase the game to play on Mac OS X...DON'T. |
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Well without going into a bunch of research about a simple complaint about a name, I do believe that Tex-Edit Plus has been around on the Mac a LOT longer than those you're talking about, so why don't THEY change the name of their apps? This app is called Tex-Edit Plus and has been around for the Mac for many years, how could that name be confused with Tex or La-Tex, except by you? |
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Does this fix the problem of re-coding muxed mpeg4 to divx and having them play on a Philips DVP642 player? Because I did a buttload of those and then I discovered that NONE of them will play on the philips player even though they appeared to encode just fine and play on the computer just fine, and VLC and Quicktime identifies them as Divx 4.1.2. I wasted a lot of time reencoding those and pretty much gave up on ffmpegx being reliable at all if this kind of garbage is gonna go on. The REASON they won't play is, ffmpegx was encoding the bitrate at less than half of what it said it was...e.g., the windows all said the video bitrate of the output was like 940 kbits/second then the final was only playing at 550 or less and sometimes under 450. This jibes with the speed they finished too, I thought it was about 20 minutes faster than all the other video converters out there and couldn't figger out why (G4 1.2 GHz) all the others would take 45 minutes to an hour and this was whipping thru them in about 25 minutes. Guess VLC and QT can play the slower bitrates but not settop players. There's no reason for this kind of ridiculous screwup and I'd be interested to hear from anyone converting muxed mpg's to Divx Avi's using this app that has had the output play successfully on a Philips player, cuz they are supposed to play ALL divx formats. Note that I'm not talking about a re-conversion of some exotic XVID format that was made on a PC with stupid wma audio or anything like that, these were simple muxed mpeg4 and ffmpegx wasted a whole lot of time deceiving me into thinking it was doing them fine. |
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Hi there here is an update of my efforts with MPEG Streamclip, thanks for the inquiry about my progress Robert. First of all, I did an extensive phone conversation with a friend who has a new Intel iMac (I don't have an intel machine available to me), attempting to make MPEG Streamclip export Divx files. This is simply not possible with an Intel machine, because Divx 5.x will not work on an intel. And we could get nothing done with installing the current version of divx on her machine (MPEG Streamclip hasn't been updated to work with Divx 6). Note that MPEG Streamclip does work just fine on Intels for exporting to many other codecs. After SEVERAL emails to the people at Divx support asking them one single question: How I can possibly purchase a serial number for Divx 5.1.1 so it doesn't expire, I was directed to links that I already knew about on their site, links at macupdate and versiontracker (?!), and even told me that Divx 5 wasn't available at ALL for Macs anymore (LOL the links to them are on their site in the FAQ's)! Almost noone there even had a clue how I would purchase Divx 5.x. The big insult is that they didn't even RESPOND to the specific question of buying it, they simply directed me to download links for it! Åfter repeatedly sending them more and more agitated emails yelling at them to simply ANSWER the question and stop giving me links, I finally got an email from a tech named Kenji Wakisaka who said that he would give me a serial number for 5.1.1 if I purchased the current v6.5 and sent him the order number so he could verify. Very good of him after all that I had been through with them. I also discovered (my bad before, I didn't know) that if you make like you're going to purchase 6.5 on their site, on one of the screens you can elect to purchase v5.2.1, and will receive not only 5.2.1 but also 6.5 to use on newer machines. I read somewhere on a forum (not on divx I think) that one could use the serial for 5.2.1 to register 5.1.1 also, that it would work retroactively, but I have absolutely no way to verify this. So...buy 6.5, select the 5.2.1 option, then you get both, and you can still dl 5.1.1 on their site in the FAQ's. Then I recommend you send email directly to Divx support and tell them you'd like a number for 5.1.1 and give them your order number. To save confusion you may wish to ask that the incident be forwarded directly to Kenji Wakisaka, because in his words "Otherwise, other tech support guy will take care of you and they won't give you the serial number of old DivX." I can't post a direct email to him, this was done in the context of a specific incident number. Oh I haven't made the purchase yet, otherwise I certainly could verify if the 5.2.1 number will allow reg. of 5.1.1. I can post and update soon about that. Point is you really NEED the 5.1.1 version if you want to encode mp3 audio into a Divx 5.1.1 output (again curiously, the actual codec of an output "Divx 5.1.1" selection is Divx 4.1.2). No later versions of Divx allow it, the mp3 encoder isn't included. I won't belabor the point any more about why the authors of MPEG Streamclip even NEED to use this method. They could incorporate a free mp3 encoding source into the program IMHO. But they certainly do pride themselves on their all-original coding of the app, and I do commend them for it. But there certainly are mp3 codecs he could write into the app, he just won't use any open source code. Again I will mention I think it's the best most stable encoder there is. And to back up again, I did a very extensive search for ALL divx items, prefs, etc, on my machine, deleted them all, and completely removed and reinstalled MPEG Streamclip, and it no longer has any problem with the Batch Lists, it will do many one after another. Lastly, On my G4 Sawtooth with a 1.2 GHz OWC Mercury upgrade, and a gig of ram, and not doing other processor intensive tasks, output to a Divx file of a 45 minute TV Episode takes from 44 to 48 minutes. Good luck! |
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Only taking 5 to 7% of CPU on my G4 Sawtooth with a 1.2ghz upgrade. With the eq on and the windows up it takes up to 8%. But I don't have any movies running or connections active to the music store or anything, just music playing. About a 7000 song library in itunes. Quicktime now...LOL we won't mention that here, but it takes WAY lots of CPU time playing movies, that's pathetic. |
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Okay I have found that you CAN encode mp3 into avi's with it...but you need to have Divx PRO v 5.1.1 (or v 5.1 with the divx mp3 encoder) installed (NOT!!! v6.x). Which means you can use the 15 day trial and then buy it, or not buy it. Problem is there doesn't seem to be any way to purchase Divx Pro 5.1 any more, no option on their site. Guess I wait til it expires and email them. It's still stupid that of all the conversion apps this one is the only one where you need a 3rd party pay app installed to export mp3 in a video. Others do it with the standard divx 5.1.1 or 5.2.1 installed. Mpeg Streamclip has the easiest batching I have found (doncha hate having to add files one-by-one to D-vision or ffmpegx when you're doing a bunch, I sure do), however with v1.7 the app just quits completely after doing a single file in the batch. I've done numerous tests (a dozen times I've tried!) and a complete uninstall/reinstall today and it has only went to the next file one time...then it quit on that one after the second. No warning, no nothing, the app just VANISHES off the screen. I emailed the author about this, but I doubt he will answer, the readme says he only answers "when he has time" which evidently is never. Except for the aforementioned issues this has the potential to be the best conversion app available for the Mac. ffmpegx, forget it, it's buggy and outputs files with incorrect bitrates and has several other bugs. D-Vision, well it's okay but unstable and locks up my machine too often, same thing with FortyTwo DVD Plus. MPEG Streamclip has a better interface and is much more stable and consistent than any others I've tried. |
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Just another quick note. YES, I have QT Pro and the MPEG 2 component. After further exploring I see that MPEG Streamclip uses MPEG Level 2 audio, NOT MPEG Level 3 (mp3). Quicktime reports the audio as just MPEG, not MPEG Level III. VLC reports the audio as mpga. I've done much hunting and can't seem to find any codec that would remedy this situation. So my next question to the author would be...why the heck can't you just put in MP3 support for your audio like every other conversion app out there uses?? Apparently QT has an issue with mpga audio within an avi, which I have never seen in an avi til now, I've see AC3 and mp3 (and sometimes wma yuck) in every other avi file out there except the ones created by your application. |
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Well I like it alright...except: I open a Divx 3.11 avi that has 128kbps audio in Quicktime. It plays fine, video and audio. I open that same file in MPEG Streamclip, cut a few seconds of garbage out of it at the beginning, Re-encode the entire file, which comes out as Divx 4.12 and 128kbps audio. Okay fine. Then I open it in Quicktime and the audio refuses to work. QT's info shows that the audio is there but it just won't play. This happens in Quicktime 7.04, 7.1, and 7.1.1. VLC and my Philips home player play the audio just fine. So here are my questions...I should note that I emailed the author awhile back with #1, and more recently with #2, and he chooses not to respond. 1. Why does this program use a Divx 4.12 codec when the only thing I have installed is Divx 5.1.1 and Divx 5.2.1? Is the 4.1.2 codec what's incuded in Divx 5? 2. What's up with this not recognizing the sound in Quicktime? ffmpegx sound is recognized (which also uses the 4.12 video codec). Dvision sound is recognized all the time...unless it's converted from wma audio within the file, then QT just doesn't see audio at all in the file, not even in the info, but plays in VLC. mplayer recognizes the sound. So is this a matter of a Quicktime bug, or a matter of the author not keeping up to speed with proper encoding so these files play in Quicktime? Thanks. |
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Kensington wireless desktop is the pits. I bought one awhile back that didn't work right. One of the things it did was to auto eject the CD tray any time that the usb receiver was plugged into my G4 Sawtooth. Another was that the hot key buttons didn't work. Long story short: Customer service are raving idiots at Kensington. I have a folder full of 52 emails attempting to correct their problem. They would tell me to download software I already had installed. They would tell me I had the wrong version. The version number of the downloaded files did not match the version on their website. The software for ANOTHER MODEL was the correct software for the keyboard I had. They told me to do things completely unrelated to the problem. When they got stumped, I would receive a NEW email from a different tech, and they would try to start all over again with me. DUH. I called them, they sent me a new unit without even attempting to troubleshoot. Did the same things as I knew it would. Then they wanted to send me a THIRD. I wound up sending everything back, getting a refund and vowing never to use Kensington products again. I posted a scathing review of my experience on the newegg website, and they evidently saw fit to remove my poor review. Now I see that they have an "open box" special on the 64354, which I would assume means they are getting a lot of returns. I would be willing to bet that newegg will stop selling these after their open box specials are sold. I have had bad experiences with products before, but this was the absolute worst, and the customer service is a pathetic excuse for human interaction. They don't have a clue. |
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One thing I hate is a developer continually blowing their own horn on a review site. Developer says: The small donations window will automatically close after 4 seconds. Its presence has been discussed so many times before I don't want to talk about it again. I say: So get a clue and pay attention to what people are saying. Most mac users don't like the Windows-esque nagware screens. Developer says: 7z is a popular format on the Windows side, and is opensource. I say: Oh I get it now...Windows developer! No wonder there's a nagware screen! Developer says: Why would you want to turn the update feature off? (In regard to no option to turn off update checking). It makes sure that you always have the most recent version, with all the known bugs ironed out. I say: It also gives ME no control over what *I* want to do on MY computer! A lot of developers are as bad as Microsoft (oh but wait, you're from the windoze world) and just ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT A USER WANTS. I CAN CHECK FOR UPDATES WHEN *I* WANT TO. Why would YOU want to NOT GIVE ME THE CHOICE AS A USER?? Who says updates are always GOOD updates?! Developer says: Moral: next time you decide to review a software, please make sure that you test it in an exhaustive manner, and that you document yourself on the features it is supposed to have. I say: I review software based on MY use of software. Not on what YOU think it should be. There were enough unpleasant things to illicit a poor review without my needing to do an "exhaustive" check of the app. Moral: Don't talk down to your users who don't like your windows program. Moral 2: This software is NOT compatible with Mac's own BOM Archiver built into the system. BOM Archiver is a perfectly functional built in FEATURE of the Mac OS, proven, tested, no nagware screens, no small developers tooting their own horn to get you to send them money, and no arguments when someone doesn't care for it. |
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Nag screen every time the app is used. Not compatible with system's BOMArchiver (I'm REQUIRED to have this app if I want to decompress a file made with it). Proprietary "7z" format. No option to turn off the update check. In fact, no accessible prefs at all. |
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I got sick of fighting with Azureus for 3 or 4 days just trying to maintain a 1 to 1 ratio and decdied to try Bits On Wheels. Suddenly now I'm getting true high speed and not being continually CHOKED on the download speeds like I am with Azurues. As I said, all NAT settings were correct in AZ and everything was in the green, and I've been downloading "good" torrents, so there's just no damn reason I can fathom that Azureus doesn't work NEARLY as fast as Bits On Wheels, all other factors being the same. Azureus is going in the trash, I wasn't really aware there were better options til the other day, I been fighting this application for a long time to get decent speeds. NO MORE. I don't recommend this application at all after my long-term "trial run" of unhappiness with it. |
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This price should open the door for a more reasonable developer to offer a similar product at a much lower and less insane price. |
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I've been playing with Azureus for quite some time now and I think it sucks. I almost NEVER get 1 to 1 up/down ratio. I've researched this a lot, tweeked the settings correctly, no NAT problems or anything. I can have 50 t0 100 peers, with 10 to 20 seeds, and I still don't get it. Whether I have 4 upload slots or 20, people never seem to share the same as I give. I'll have 15k going to one person who's giving back 1 to 2k constantly. Conclusion: Unless you're fool enough to be using an app like this to download the most popular brand new movies which to me would be very high risk (I use it mainly to get old star trek and other sci fi stuff), where like 1000 people are sharing a file, the whole bittorrent thing is a crock. There doesn't seem to be any way in Azureus to set something like "only share if the peer is giving you at least half of what he's getting" or anything like that. I find myself going into the Peers section and kicking and banning people who are giving me sub-1k but taking 10 or 15k, that's the only thing that seems to work...trial and error with that til I get some users who actually want to share and who aren't on DIALUP or something using an app like this. It's almost a waste of time but the only way I know to get some of this older stuff without spending hundreds to buy it from Amazon. Not just that...but Azureus very often refuses to shut down in OS X. If I stop the torrent dl first then usually it works. If the torrent refuses to stop, and stays in "stopping" mode and I try to shut it off then, not even force-quits will make it go away. From what I've read this is a big problem and one they aren't addressing effectively at all over many version releases. |
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Web player does not work with Firefox. Why do software authors think Safari is the endall of browsers? It's inferior and slow and has issues others don't. Make it work in Firefox please. |
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Got it on their site. Why .sit files? Is this OS X? When are developers going to start using Mac things and not 3rd party garbage like stuffit? It's no longer needed, or WANTED, by many OS X users. |
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Xutils are all so...WINDOWSISH! |
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I refuse to "try" an application that forces me to connect to the maker's website and send information before I am allowed to "try" the app. And judging from most of the reviews here, these people are from the Windoze world and their application isn't worth "trying" as a "demo" unless you like sending your personal data to someone that WHO KNOWS what they will use it for. A DEMO is a DEMO...thank you again Little Snitch for alerting me to software shysters like this!! |
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Firefox is the best browser. Looks like they finally got Safari speeds fixed in about OS 10.4.3, it was pathetic up til some recent Tiger updates. I was having an issue with ALL web browsers loading slow including Firefox, and someone suggested I go to the Network Prefs and add Primary and Secondary DNS Server IP's (available from your ISP usually) in the "DNS Servers:" field, and I did, and everything is fantastic now. Can't recommend it enough, it's very good and it keeps getting updates to address things. Hardly "old" as the previous poster put it. |
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It works. BUT even after over a year they still can't get their head together enough to make these binaries install correctly through the window they SAY will install them just fine. You have to manually install the files, you have to create ffmpegx in Application support and drag them there or you will see the below message pop up from the install window that's SUPPOSED to work and was SUPPOSED to work about 8 versions ago and STILL doesn't...DUH. I have talked to MANY people who have this issue. Authors seem to be completely ignorant about this or would have fixed it what...a YEAR and 8 versions ago?? They sure don't read these reviews or they would be aware of this. ##/bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' /bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file |
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Have you tried using Command-Down Arrow or Command-Up Arrow? |
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Test 2 and Test 3 say an XVID avi I have is broken, and repairs it fairly quickly, but after that there are anomolies with the controller window (sometimes only a white area appears instead) and other windows. PLUS the fix can't be saved, well I guess it could, but VLC itself reports that file-to-file exporting isn't best suited to VLC. So every time you launch it you have to fix the file. Quicktime plays this file just fine ironically, because anything QT won't play usually plays in VLC. VLC 0.84a plays the file fine without the warning, but it is a little slow in re-indexing when changing positions in the movie. I hope the developers read the reviews and comments on these download sites. |
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Great player, probly the best for X. Only thing I'd like to see is a right click menu in Full Screen mode, like the windows version has. |
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Hmmm...appears to me you can download GC with a manual. The "pay" manual you speak of is a much more indepth manual. You should look at Lemkesoft's links again. GC is one program that is WELL worth paying for. If all you want is converting one format to another, then fine go with some free program. If you want power, batch conversion, far too many features and abilities to list, AND you have the intelligence to learn a program's capabilities, then GC is the best priced, most feature-rich program you will find, short of spending many hundreds for an app like Photoshop. I've heard people say many many times that they don't know how to use GC, BUT they never even took 10 minutes to explore its capabilities. That is quite...narrow-minded. |
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Well I thought this program was supposed to fix problems. I used it to do a complete reset, told it to make a backup file etc, then I went out of town for awhile with my printer issues unresolved. I was going to make another attempt, but the program has "expired" leaving me with no way to use it without buying it. Sorry, you don't get my money...now I am having major headaches with the other printer I got because evidently your little "reset" damaged or removed some files needed for printing...can't even run the Printer Utility to clean and align cartridges, apparently because some vital files were removed that can't be restored without BUYING your stupid app. Well your "demo" messed things up worse than if I had been frogging around removing files manually. Thanks for the JUNK. DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM. |
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Works great on a G4 Sawtooth. Wow, 32 megs of ram and the man is complaining about speed and stability. Have you bothered to read the MINIMUM Requirements for running this program?? Or maybe...yeah maybe you could update that G3 to say, 64 megs wow then you'd really zoom! :) Operating Systems * Mac OS X 10.2.x and later Minimum Hardware * Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor * 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater) * 200 MB hard drive space |
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10.4.6 came out one week ago and you're blaming all the problems on Transmit? have you looked at macintouch and seen the SCADS of networking problems people are having with 10.4.6?? I don't think these guys build unstable software. Most of their apps always receive top reviews. Probly a combination of 10.4.6 and the update is the fault. Apple is VERY famous for breaking 3rd party apps with their updates, you know that. I like Transmit. It's a great FTP app. The reason I don't use it is because it doesn't support http/website downloading like Interarchy does. |
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It overwrites files of the same name with NO WARNING. If you have a list queued up and accidentally added the same one twice, first of all it LETS YOU do that, and secondly it just up and overwrites the previous file of exactly the same name without asking. That's EXTREMELY stupid. |
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"Note: The demo only works on 100MB drives and smaller." Well either that's a typo or it's completely useless unless I buy it :) Okay, DRAELREN...Mr. "expert"...then please give people some technical data as to why almost every Apple install does an optimization at the end of the install. What is that if not an optimization. I've seen many reviews of so called defrag apps that fry people's OS's. Why would I trust this based on one single good review? |
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Thank you all for the comments. I usually come here first to see how others fare with an app...and you can be sure I will NOT be frying my drives with this piece of garbage. Once it was...okay...on OS 9...but I've seen WAY too many bad reports of this to make it even worth the risk of trying on OS X, especially Tiger. A HUNDRED BUCKS?!?! You must be JOKING...WAKE UP MICROMAT AND APPLE!! |
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Oh wait, I just got to the site...MacUpdate *is* an official mirror and the file download goes back to Lemkesoft! Hmmmmm |
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Just a note...would be nice to have mirror locations posted on this site. Whenever a new version of GC comes out Lemkesoft is down because it is always overloaded, and the only way to see the mirror site list is...yep you guessed it, at Lemkesoft ;) Or it would be nice if MacUpdate actually hosted this program. |
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Director errors. Unplayable in some decks. |
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No ability to specify WHAT avi format to output. There's only sevaeral standard formats one could use. This only gives cinepak compression, or DV formats or BMP..BMP? Windoze? Where's the XVID, DIVX, DX50 or other common avi support? Why would this app have a problem with outputting avi format if Flip4Mac is installed, which allows viewing of Windoze Media on a mac? Why would I want to disable Flip4Mac to output an avi? No format or codec info given about current movie - Video Track, Audio Track? What's that mean? No progress time indicator. Just a bar. Impossible to HIDE this app or even to minimize it to the dock...it just pops right back up! Three basic types of audio compression formats to output. Alaw, IMA, or uLaw. Or None. No mp3 or other common audio support offered in every other conversion app. The interface and view window look nice...LOL...otherwise it appears to be just what it is...a pre-version 1 program. Should be called a beta. |
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