Comments on: Road Movie: Finally a possible Visualhub replacement

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:31:00 +0000

Sorry Oliver. I couldn’t disagree more. Just because video monkey is based on the same code doesn’t make it visualhub. It has 1/3 the feature set of visual hub.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:41:25 +0000

What you’re looking for already exists; it’s called Video Monkey

http://videomonkey.org/Video_Monkey/About.html

That said, I use and love RoadMovie – just use it with an elGato x264.turbo and the encoding speeds are fine. VideoMonkey is also great, though – in some ways I like it better than VisualHub.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:01:47 +0000

I misspoke. I was aware that he turned over the code. What I meant was that he should turn over the last version of the application. Or just reduce the price with no promise of service.

Heck. I would gladly pay $9.99 for this “over the hill” app. And guess what…I bet there are AT LEAST 1,000 or more people who would do the same.

Do that math…that’s a good deal for both sides.

Course, I there very well may be legal implications for doing that, that I am not aware of…

blah, blah, blah. I’m tired of talking.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:52:25 +0000

Right…but I looked high and low and simply couldn’t find a compiled version for OS X (unless I’m missing something…). I’m not a developer. I would love to buy a tool like Visualhub if it existed, but it don’t.

I checked out Road Movie and it’s cool & all, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Visualhub for the things I need (convert mov, avi, mp4, etc. to .flv and adjust aspect ratio, etc.)

Seriously, I will buy it, or donate (open source) as soon as I can can get my hands on a compiled app.

In the mean time, I resort to being an appreciative pirate…

By: Joshua Schnell

Joshua Schnell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:34:42 +0000

Tim, he released it to the open source community, and it is being turned into a free alternative.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:30:48 +0000

The fact that the developer of visualhub just left everyone hanging without turning over the code is just kind of dumb. I tried to buy it. I WOULD BE GLAD TO BUY IT, in whatever state it’s in, with no expectations of support !!! Why didn’t he just allow free downloads to let it live on??? And get publicity as well? Just bad business. He’s funny and all, and it’s his right to take the dog out and shoot it instead of letting someone give it a home.

So instead I downlaoded version 1.34 from rapidshard and used this serial number:

Network Administrator
netadmin@ionagroup.com
VHUB-GGCTF3-AMPLK-N3YWA-AFQRH-WDW7Y

It works.

The thing is, I would never do this un any other circumstance. But this is an unusual thing. Long live Visual Hub!!!

Tim

By: James

James — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:39:37 +0000

VisualHub uses ffmpegx to do all it's encoding. If you run visualhub then do: ps ax | grep visualhub you can see the exact commands he uses for different presets. :)

By: Ronster

Ronster — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:23:30 +0000

Yeah, I've been having issues with the speed of encodes too. They really need to take this thing apart and use the code that the Visualhub developer released when he bailed.

By: Aaron Abernethy

Aaron Abernethy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:23:06 +0000

Yeah, I've been having issues with the speed of encodes too. They really need to take this thing apart and use the code that the Visualhub developer released when he bailed.

By: Steve Gascoyne

Steve Gascoyne — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:02:56 +0000

DON'T BE FOOLED!!!

This is no VH replacement (which I had been desperately looking for) but what seems to be (from the stupidly slow encode times and the fact that you can find it on the Apple website) a repackaging of the hopelessly slow QT encoding engine.

Time to encode a 5Gb MKV file to a Apple TV friendly 720p .MOV or MP4 file with VH was approx. 3hrs on my 2.4GHz Core 2 iMac.

On RM the same film takes...... OVER 20hrs!!

Don't waste you money like I did.