Comments on: Techspansion Shutting Down Development of VisualHub/iSquint

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:34:49 +0000

Loved the program!!!!!, however at some point in time during the closing of techspansion I was putting back together my mac. Thinking I’m safe, time machine let me down, or did I not do something right, hmmm, anyway i retrieved most of my inbox but failed to save my saved folders in my email which contained you guessed it……my serials for all of my programs…….no problem i hear you say……well it is if they have closed down. Hence my problem, i payed for visual hub, loved using visual hub, specially for converting avi to dvd’s, but sadly i have sent an email to the techspansion site and received no reply………….so I’m guessing I’m screwed huh?

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Handbrake 0.9.3 Brings New Video Sources | TheAppleBlog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:33:23 +0000

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By: poppo

poppo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:43:25 +0000

As you may or may not know, the developer, Techspanion has closed shop and after an outcry from fans, it has released the source code.
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Open-Source-to-Build-Isquint-and-Visualhub

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:14:45 +0000

I would give MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5 a try. It’s free but you will need some supporting applications to handle all the different types of conversions you might want to do. Check their website, for more information on the requisite add-ons. The only add-on that will cost you any money is the QuickTime MPEG-2 component. You only need that if you’re going to be working with material encoded in MPEG-2. I have used MPEG Streamclip to edit and convert videos from my TiVo. Heck I even wrote and article about it, link. Give it a try.

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Liberate Your Memories: Home Movies on Your Apple TV | The Apple Blog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:00:25 +0000

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By: Stephen van Egmond

Stephen van Egmond — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:53:10 +0000

That sucks. I hope the motivator for this gets sorted.

It’s too bad, VH was easily the one app I was the most glad I paid money for. Second only to G-force, and that’s only when I’m flying.

Dude, you should have sold the source and the business. I’d have bought it for many kilodollars.

Respect to the handbrake developers, but you are a distant #2 among the things I care about, which is primarily usability. If Tyler(?) releases source, I hope it helps you.

By: JonV

JonV — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:46:56 +0000

iSquint is a favorite for quick conversions of video for my blackberry and ipod. Sad to hear no new version will be out if OSX gets updated and kills the current version.

By: Parvez

Parvez — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:36:53 +0000

Thanks Tyler for the great work. Your apps are great and you will be sorely missed but everything must come to an end sometime.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:01:23 +0000

The latest Handbrake Snapshot Build supports universal format input through the libvacodec library. Read: Handbrake in addition to being arguably the best DVD backup utility on the Mac, is evolving into a GUI frontend to the ffmpeg tools. This makes me very excited, since Handbrake has tons of coding optimizations, and stays fairly current with the codecs used. I’d argue that it won’t be long until Handbrake becomes easier to use, is more customizable, and provides better output than VisualHub. If you’re brave with beta software, you can get hte latest build of Handbrake at the link; if not, transcoding support should be included in the 0.9.3 release.

That being said, I’m sad VH is done, it was a good tool.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:41:04 +0000

There’s no program yet to replace VisualHub - in case of value.
But why look for something new? VisualHub will continue to work for months.
Also the author wrote on his website there is something to come for people being interested in the source code.
Just put it on code.google.com or sourceforge and that’s it.