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From: alvey on 4 May 2010 03:27
On Mon, 03 May 2010 13:58:07 +0200, Yrrah wrote:

> occam <occam(a)127.0.0.1>:
>
>> "SUPER is an easy-to-use Multimedia Encoder and Player, requiring only
>> one simple click."
>
>> Has anyone use this? Any good?
>
> I can't think of reason why I should bother. SUPER has been discussed
> here in the past, but not recently afaik.
> Perhaps people have given up because the first question should be:
> 'has anyone managed to download it?' ;-)

Is it still like that?
I recall that trying to d/l it was an unpleasant way to spend 20 minutes.
And it had a truly shithouse UI.


alvey
From: John Corliss on 4 May 2010 04:12
alvey wrote:
> Yrrah wrote:
>> occam wrote:
>>
>>> "SUPER is an easy-to-use Multimedia Encoder and Player, requiring only
>>> one simple click."
>>
>>> Has anyone use this? Any good?
>>
>> I can't think of reason why I should bother. SUPER has been discussed
>> here in the past, but not recently afaik.
>> Perhaps people have given up because the first question should be:
>> 'has anyone managed to download it?' ;-)
>
> Is it still like that?
> I recall that trying to d/l it was an unpleasant way to spend 20 minutes.
> And it had a truly shithouse UI.

I just downloaded and installed it the day before yesterday. It works,
and the interface is only difficult because the program provides a lot
of options for file conversion outputs. If you pause the mouse cursor
over almost any option, there is a very nice explanation popup that appears.

It's not a "one click" type of program though and finding the download
link takes a little patience. However, it's not really *that* hard to
find IME.

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From: rich on 4 May 2010 05:01
On Tue, 04 May 2010 01:12:47 -0700, John Corliss wrote:

> alvey wrote:
>> Yrrah wrote:
>>> occam wrote:
>>>
>>>> "SUPER is an easy-to-use Multimedia Encoder and Player, requiring
>>>> only one simple click."
>>>
>>>> Has anyone use this? Any good?
>>>
>>> I can't think of reason why I should bother. SUPER has been discussed
>>> here in the past, but not recently afaik. Perhaps people have given up
>>> because the first question should be: 'has anyone managed to download
>>> it?' ;-)
>>
>> Is it still like that?
>> I recall that trying to d/l it was an unpleasant way to spend 20
>> minutes. And it had a truly shithouse UI.
>
> I just downloaded and installed it the day before yesterday. It works,
> and the interface is only difficult because the program provides a lot
> of options for file conversion outputs. If you pause the mouse cursor
> over almost any option, there is a very nice explanation popup that
> appears.
>
As with anything it depends on personal likes and dislikes, I like the
interface because everything is there in front of you rather than a row
of tabs. A plus is that it can use either ffmpeg or mencoder according to
users preference and it supports avisynth scripts (although somewhat
restricted).

For anyone looking for a 1-click conversion application then consider
WinFF http://winff.org/ which uses ffmpeg or maybe
Dirk Paehl's DP Videoconvert http://www.paehl.de/dp_video/ which uses
mencoder.


> It's not a "one click" type of program though and finding the download
> link takes a little patience. However, it's not really *that* hard to
> find IME.

Downloading is a lot easier than it used to be since a few mirrors were
introduced, there are still a couple of pages to trawl through but the
endless loop seems to have gone away.


--
rich
From: John Corliss on 4 May 2010 18:51
rich wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>> alvey wrote:
>>> Yrrah wrote:
>>>> occam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "SUPER is an easy-to-use Multimedia Encoder and Player, requiring
>>>>> only one simple click."
>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone use this? Any good?
>>>>
>>>> I can't think of reason why I should bother. SUPER has been discussed
>>>> here in the past, but not recently afaik. Perhaps people have given up
>>>> because the first question should be: 'has anyone managed to download
>>>> it?' ;-)
>>>
>>> Is it still like that?
>>> I recall that trying to d/l it was an unpleasant way to spend 20
>>> minutes. And it had a truly shithouse UI.
>>
>> I just downloaded and installed it the day before yesterday. It works,
>> and the interface is only difficult because the program provides a lot
>> of options for file conversion outputs. If you pause the mouse cursor
>> over almost any option, there is a very nice explanation popup that
>> appears.
>>
> As with anything it depends on personal likes and dislikes, I like the
> interface because everything is there in front of you rather than a row
> of tabs. A plus is that it can use either ffmpeg or mencoder according to
> users preference and it supports avisynth scripts (although somewhat
> restricted).
>
> For anyone looking for a 1-click conversion application then consider
> WinFF http://winff.org/ which uses ffmpeg or maybe
> Dirk Paehl's DP Videoconvert http://www.paehl.de/dp_video/ which uses
> mencoder.
>
>> It's not a "one click" type of program though and finding the download
>> link takes a little patience. However, it's not really *that* hard to
>> find IME.
>
> Downloading is a lot easier than it used to be since a few mirrors were
> introduced, there are still a couple of pages to trawl through but the
> endless loop seems to have gone away.

The reason I downloaded and installed Super is that I wanted to convert
an .mkv file to .divx. Super will do that, but on my system it takes so
long that it's not worth it.

--
John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts
sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous
remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries
posted through them.

No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited,
trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules.
From: rich on 5 May 2010 02:27
On Tue, 04 May 2010 15:51:36 -0700, John Corliss wrote:

> rich wrote:
>> John Corliss wrote:
>>> alvey wrote:
>>>> Yrrah wrote:
>>>>> occam wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "SUPER is an easy-to-use Multimedia Encoder and Player, requiring
>>>>>> only one simple click."
>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone use this? Any good?
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't think of reason why I should bother. SUPER has been
>>>>> discussed here in the past, but not recently afaik. Perhaps people
>>>>> have given up because the first question should be: 'has anyone
>>>>> managed to download it?' ;-)

<snip>
>>
>>> It's not a "one click" type of program though and finding the download
>>> link takes a little patience. However, it's not really *that* hard to
>>> find IME.
>>
>> Downloading is a lot easier than it used to be since a few mirrors were
>> introduced, there are still a couple of pages to trawl through but the
>> endless loop seems to have gone away.
>
> The reason I downloaded and installed Super is that I wanted to convert
> an .mkv file to .divx. Super will do that, but on my system it takes so
> long that it's not worth it.

Super(c) or any of the other free conversion utilities use either ffmpeg
or mencoder so really it does not matter what you use. You might be
better off with either of them and a command line although I tend to
think that mencoder might be a little faster than ffmpeg, tends to be
subjective though.

Going back 10 or 12 years or so, converting captured (lossless) avi to
mpeg for making VideoCD it was usual to run the computer overnight, so
slow computers are nothing new, you just have to work with them.


--
rich
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