Re: Are there any good batch quicktime compressors for under $200



In article <2005122820020816807-nobody@nospamcom>, Bruce Van Horn
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've got a few thousand MPEGS I want to transcode for viewing on an iPod.
>
> I've tried Forty Two -- the automator support doesn't have settings for
> the iPod, so I'd have to set each video up one at a time. No thanks...
>
> I've tried Podner. Its OK but the videos come up really dark compared
> to the source mpg. I can't use them and there's no way I can see to
> adjust the gamma or other settings in that app.
>
> Even applescript + quicktime comes out too dark.
>
> I think cleaner could probably handle the job but its outside my budget
> at the moment.
>
> I could probably write my own but I'd rather get a root canal and a
> bikini wax simultaneously than write software in XCode.
>

ffmpegX (0.0.9u) has iPod h.264 preset support -- it does a really nice
job (at least it has on the ones I've converted). You can find it via
Version Tracker or directly from the author's site
<http://homepage.mac.com/major4>

--
Spenser
.



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