video converting heaven

I could be wrong (maybe its just the programs I used) but converting video files on my mbp is soooo much faster than it was on windows! Files that took HOURS on windows I can convert in MINUTES!!!! I'm loving this!!!!!!

It depends on the program, too. For instance, ffmpeg is much faster than handbrake.

im using isquint

Handbrake just got an upgrade... MPEG4 conversions are 4x quicker than previously.

I dl'ed handbrake yesturday, v0.9.1
I've never tried iSquint though.

giulio said:

I dl'ed handbrake yesturday, v0.9.1
I've never tried iSquint though.

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Is ffmepg still faster than Handbrake?

I found it very much faster. ffmpeg took about 30 mins. handbrake took 4 hours. This was transcoding 1GB VOB from an unprotected DVD to a MP4.

For some reason, ffmpegX was not converting the last 5 seconds. I've never seen that happen before. And I suspect it was becuase the person who made the DVD did not do so correctly. So I tried handbrake. And it worked. Took a hella long time though haha. And QT chokes and spits on the resulting MP4. Very hard to work with. But finally I was able to chop up the clip into smaller clips and export to another MP4 for importing into YouTube. WHEW.

how does isquint compare to handbrake and ffmpeg?

Visual hub FTW!!!

handbrake is nice as well, but I prefer visual hub most of the time.

Had a go on my mates all new imac 2.4ghz and that thing positively flies compared to my macbook 1.83ghz, video conversion times and encoding times are sooooo much shorter on the imac