Comments on: Video encoding apps go head-to-head http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/ Mon, 28 May 2012 09:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: download video converter http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322337 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:43:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322337 Excuse for that I interfere ?here recently. But this theme is very close to me. I can help with the answer. Write in PM.

]]> By: Luke Noel-Storr http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322336 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:15:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322336 Chris, I know you may not check back, but incase you do:

To see the commands VisualHub is running under the hood, open the application, then go to ‘Help’ and select ‘View Log Archive’.

This will open the log file archive in a Finder window, and from there you will be able to click on the individual log files to see what commands were run.

]]> By: Chris Andrews http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322335 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:12:04 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322335 I know this is a very old post but what with the demise of VisualHub I really would like to know how you got the exact sting of command line switches to show from VisualHub.

I know it is probably something quite simple from the Terminal or Console but I can’t find it.

Please share,
Thanks, Chris

]]> By: Ulisse Vitali http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322334 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:54:49 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322334 Hello Billy,

very interesting article.
I write you because I recently bought the Episode encoding software to convert some DVDs in RealVideo format, but unfortunately the output quality of RealVideo files is not as good as I expected. I suspect that this depends on the encoding process, since it is not possible to set the “2-pass encoding” option in the RealVideo settings. Can you confirm this?
In the RealProducer software (only available for Windows systems) there is the possibility to set a “2-pass encoding”, that I think helps a lot in obtaining a better quality output. I was wondering why Episode doesn’t have that feature. There is some technical reason why it is not implemented? Or I can hope it will be added in a next release of the software?

Thanks you!

Ulisse

]]> By: Using Your Mac Wisely: Video Content http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322333 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:39:02 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322333 [...] Video encoding apps go head-to-head (20) [...]

]]> By: Death to QuickTime Pro - The Apple Blog http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322332 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:00:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322332 [...] already alluded once that almost all of QT Pro’s functionality is easily emulated with iMovie ’06 — [...]

]]> By: Billy Halsey http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322313 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:17:53 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322313 Thanks for the comment, Jason. I’ll check out Kulabyte and if it’s something that I’d use, I’ll consider recommending it both here and my personal blog.

]]> By: Jason Cronkhite http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322314 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:23:50 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322314 Hi Billy,

Just wanted to say you are doing a great job here. Very useful information and I’m hoping that we can help more as we progress with our products. I work for a video encoding company called Kulabyte and we have some exciting things coming that your readers may be interested in. You might check out some of the HD clips we just put up on our site at http://www.kulabyte.com. I will be checking back.

Cheers,
Jason

]]> By: Griff http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322315 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:55:24 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322315 Thanks for that Billy. I was looking at ffmpeg, compiling my own looked a little daunting to me. You mentioned ffmpegX in a previous comment, gave that a go, working very well for me so far. Quite suprised at how quick it is.

Thanks again.

Griff.

]]> By: Billy Halsey http://gigaom.com/apple/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322316 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:41:18 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/26/video-encoding-apps-go-head-to-head/#comment-322316 Griff — .mkv files are called Matroska video. If you feel comfortable compiling your own version of FFmpeg, it will handle MKVs, if you add in the Matroska codec available at the Matroska downloads page.

Alternatively, MPlayer has Matroska built-in, according to the Matroska web site. There’s a GUI version of MPlayer called MPlayerOSX which you might choose to use (although it’s rather old and may not support .mkv files; I’ve honestly never seen .mkv’s “in the wild”) if you’d prefer to avoid the terminal.

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