I'm probably going to get a current iPod, and will want to put a few movies on it, and will want to move those movies to a TV (one day) via AppleTV.

Jason Snell of Macworld like using VisualHub (Dan Frakes gave it 4.5 mice).

Has anybody tried it compared to Handbrake (lite or heavy), iSquint, etc?

Pros, cons, likes, dislikes?



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I use Visual Hub a bunch and its great for video file conversion. Very easy and intuitive and well worth the $23. Its the same as iSquint, so try that first if you want a taste. Its also a little more user friendly in the interface than Handbrake, but Handbrake does a fine job too. I have both and convert a lot of videos for various purposes - DVD to iPod to avi and avi to iPod or DVD. I find I use Visual Hub all the time and Handbrake only occaisioinally. And Visual Hub seems to run very fast.

I'm also a big VisualHub fan. Makes converting to and from all the common formats, resolutions, &c. pretty darned straightforward. I tried using Handbrake a while ago and it didn't do what I wanted it to do for some reason. Then I tried ffmpeg and got completely lost.

So yeah, I gladly paid my $23 for VisualHub and I get a lot of good use out of it.

I like VisualHub because it makes transferring videos to my TiVo.

That was FAST response time. Thanks!

Ok, I'll try iSquint, and probably pop for VH.

Thanks again, everyone!

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I use visualhub but find myself using ffmpegx or mediafork/handbrake more often. If you are just backing up DVDs for use on an iPod or appletv handbrake seems to be the fastest with really good quality.

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I use handbrake to rip dvd's, excellent software. For the iPod I just drop the avi's onto iSquint, done in a jiffy.

VisualHub was on sale yesterday at MacZot.

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I saw Hawkeye there, chas.

No sign of VH.

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There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

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Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
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We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

If you only encode each movie one time, to play on both iPod and AppleTV your considerations are easy, and either HB or VH can do that for you about the same (just make iPod files).

If you want to encode mainly for AppleTV you'll quickly get into (or ignore) the current brouhahha over surround sound. Things at Perian are happening that should allow, with AppleTV hacks, AC-3 and maybe DTS to be preserved all the way through, which happily bypasses the otherwise necessity of finding a way to put 5.1 AAC in the container and subsequently waiting for Japanese stereo makers to offer AAC decoding.

(With HB you will, within a few months or less, get ProLogic II encoding. ProLogic I is already "there" since you don't have to do much to keep it in a normal 2 ch. soundtrack ...)

I like both. I bought VH primarily to convert EyeTV recordings, although EyeTV 2.4 is almost out, has an AppleTV export, and does a really nice job --- although not necessarily better than VH can after it's been adjusted some.

I recommend spending some time on both the forums to get a feel for what they do and how, and what they'll likely be able to do going forward. The atmosphere on both forums is very different as well.

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