Software Update: Visualhub 1.3.4

With the Visualhub program you can easily convert video material to, for example, the video format of the iPod, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 and Tivo. The program works on the Mac OS X platform and supports Xgrid with which you can distribute the encoding of the video material over the connected Macs. For more information, we refer you to this page and this manual in pdf. The developer has released version 1.3.4 with the following list of changes:

New in 1.3.4:

• The iPhone “Tiny” quality preset has been replaced with a new “3G” preset.
• iPhone videos created with the EDGE and 3G presets now play more smoothly while downloading.
• A (hopefully) temporary workaround has been put in place to avoid a Perian/QuickTime 7.5 bug where sound may convert as silence when the source is a QuickTime file containing content originally from a Perian-opened AVI or FLV file.
• The usual sanity tweaks and fixes.

New in 1.3.3:

• New “Apple TV 5.1 + 2.0” preset creates QuickTime files playable on any Mac or Apple TV, with both original AC3 audio track plus Stereo AAC.
• Fixed a problem creating MPEG-1 files in comma-decimal countries.

New in 1.3.3a:

• Fixed “second track file” AppleScript Error.
• If dvb-mpegtools fails, it now fails silently.
• Some sanity tweaks and fixes.

New in 1.3.2:

• Seeing through generic MPEG-1 videos in QuickTime Player now works much better.
• Fixed error when AutoCropping QuickTime videos.
• Fixed problem with using “Go Nuts” quality with the “Best Windows Compatibility” AVI profile.
• Lots of sanity fixes and tweaks.

New in 1.3.1a:

• A few tweaks and bug fixes.

New in 1.3.1:

• Apple TV 5.1 Surround Sound Support! Videos with 5.1 AC3 audio can now be converted to play on the new Apple TV update (“Take 2”) with the new “Apple TV 5.1” iTunes tab preset.
• When using the iTunes tab, converted .mp4 videos over 150MB will no longer be FastStart-enabled. This will greatly speed up Artwork tagging for large files not meant for internet distribution. Files under 150MB will be FastStart enabled as usual. Files created using the MP4 tab are always FastStart enabled.
• Converting different-aspect videos to TiVo format with stitching on now works correctly throughout the entire video (again).

New in 1.3.0:

• Fixed strange “Out of memory” (“已用盡記憶體”) error on Traditional Chinese systems.
• Adding .eyetv or .iMovieProject bundles via the Plus button or the “Add…” menu item now behaves the same as dragging them to the file list.
• If the “Save To” location either stops existing or is read-only, the Desktop is now used instead of ungracefully throwing an error.
• VisualHub now identifes/diagnoses some common fatal missing or corrupt system file situations.
• Various other minor fixes and tweaks.