What is the best video converter for my apple tv? Thanks! Oh, and i dont like handbrake. I dont need to convert dvds just some home movies to mp4
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Handbrake.
You're welcome!
But you asked for "the best".
Unless they're in 8mm, then Handbrake.
Yeah, I know. It only does DVDs, MOV, AVI, FLV, Blu-Ray, AVC, VC1, MPEG2, MPEG4, 480, 720, 1080, AC3 Dolby Digital, DPLII. It clearly sucks.
Handbrake.
You're welcome!
But you asked for "the best".
Unless they're in 8mm, then Handbrake.
Yeah, I know. It only does DVDs, MOV, AVI, FLV, Blu-Ray, AVC, VC1, MPEG2, MPEG4, 480, 720, 1080, AC3 Dolby Digital, DPLII. It clearly sucks.
its sucks because its the slowest thing ever
It's your processor...encoding movies is one of the most processor intensive tasks you can do with your Mac, and HB does a pretty good job of maxing out both cores on it.
Handbrake isn't slow. In fact, I find it to be the fastest way to encode video to mp4. It also produces the best results, is stable (I really only get crashes when I throw a bad file at it), AND IT'S FREE.
Now, since you seem to still want to refuse what just about everyone on this board is telling you, you can give MPEG Streamclip, ffmpegx, or Quicktime Pro a shot. I guarantee you none of them will be any faster for the quality you get with Handbrake, and QT Pro will set you back $20. But by all means, go for it if you hate Handbrake that much.
Now, since you seem to still want to refuse what just about everyone on this board is telling you, you can give MPEG Streamclip, ffmpegx, or Quicktime Pro a shot. I guarantee you none of them will be any faster for the quality you get with Handbrake, and QT Pro will set you back $20. But by all means, go for it if you hate Handbrake that much.
Handbrake for me it's the best. I've tried other solutions too numerous to remember, but Handbrake has worked out to be the best option. It will even use all cores on my machine, which not all encoders do.
It is only as slow as the settings/quality you select.
If you don't care about quality, go pickup an El Gato Turbo.264 and be done with it.
Well, that can't be because it's a lot faster than VisualHub.
Until Apple allows leveraging of those gpu chipset with hardware h.264 encoding, you're going to be stuck with this "slowness". Supposedly, this will become available with Snow Leopard.
Handbrake:
1. The guy is a prick and when he does not know how to help he accuses people of copyright infringement or whatever and locks the thread.
2. Unless you all know something I don't even 1.9.1 does not do VC1 (everything else listed does work)
I like FilmRedux and Video Monkey, the options are limited for now but atleast their actively being worked on (unlike VisualHub which was dead a long time before they officially killed it). Both are working on VC1 support.
1. The guy is a prick and when he does not know how to help he accuses people of copyright infringement or whatever and locks the thread.
2. Unless you all know something I don't even 1.9.1 does not do VC1 (everything else listed does work)
I like FilmRedux and Video Monkey, the options are limited for now but atleast their actively being worked on (unlike VisualHub which was dead a long time before they officially killed it). Both are working on VC1 support.
Not sure where you got version 1.9.1 from, i believe the latest supported version is 0.93. VC1 works perfectly in the SVN if you are willing to build yourself or wait for 0.94
Sorry I was running another program at the time and looked at the wrong one for version. Caveman said it was supported but didn't say it was an unsupported version. As of now it should say it is not supported but you can build it yourself(like you did). I still hate using it because of the developer.
I still use VisualHub on the MBP in my sig (latest version of Leopard). I've tried the most up-to-date version of Handbrake on several .avi & .mkv, but it always crashes. I'll try again some time, but I figure why bother as long as VH still works for converting to AppleTV.
There are many developers in the HandBrake project, not just one, some of whom can't resist the forums, and what dwells there.
As far as copyright infringement is concerned, no discussion of that on HB forums can be allowed to avoid any legal issues, it is part of the forum rules that are acceptes whem joining. However maybe some pull the trigger too soon on that.
Cheers Ed
My opinion has always been, if you're "smart" enough to figure out how to pirate the video file in the first place, you should be smart enough to know what to do with it afterwards.
Maybe my standards are too high... back when I actually did that you had to know where to look/what software to use. Now it's as easy as a Google search.
I would advise Handbrake too (with the convenient Apple TV preset feature) or FFmpegX for its fine tuning capabilities...
VideoMonkey seems like a pretty good choice:
"Video Monkey is a free video encoding application exclusively for Mac. It was created after the demise of the great tool Visual Hub. Video Monkey borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool, both conceptually and from the original code dump posted to SourceForge as TranscoderRedux."
http://videomonkey.org/Video_Monkey/About.html
"Video Monkey is a free video encoding application exclusively for Mac. It was created after the demise of the great tool Visual Hub. Video Monkey borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool, both conceptually and from the original code dump posted to SourceForge as TranscoderRedux."
http://videomonkey.org/Video_Monkey/About.html