I used visualhub for all my video converting needs (mostly converting to mp4 for my AppleTV), but the developer stopped working on it quite a while ago now.
Yesterday I installed Snow Leopard – with its lovely 64bit core – and started to think it’d be nice to have a video converter that supports dual core 64bit (for the speed) and also is still supported by its developers
I stumbled upon Handbrake. It’s available on OS X, Linux and Windows – and there is a 64bit version out which I’ve downloaded and am now using
It has a nice queue system for stacking up jobs and running them at night, lots of presets (and you can save your own) for various output types. It seems pretty quick too – at least as quick as visualhub and I suspect a bit quicker if I did some back-to-back tests
So if anyone is looking for a replacement for visualhub like I was – give it a go!
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If you want something to directly replace VisualHub then try VideoMonkey (http://videomonkey.org/Video_Monkey/About.html).
It uses the orignal code of VisualHub.
As a follow up to this I’m still looking for a 64bit replacement for Visual Hub and so far I’ve not been able to find anything good. If anyone has any suggestions hit me!