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From: alvey on 5 May 2010 03:11
On Tue, 04 May 2010 09:01:42 GMT, rich wrote:

> 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.

Cheers. Always willing to try a new converter.

Thought: Do you know of a site that features regular comparisons between
transcoder apps? I did it myself a couple of years ago cos there wasn't one
(ended up buying ConvertX) but is there one now?



alvey
From: John Corliss on 5 May 2010 06:24
rich wrote:
> 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.

Pentium 4 1.9 ghz with 1/2 gb of mem. VERY slow. Just went through a
very expensive day (motorcycle battery went out -~$90- then was given a
stick of gum and actually broke a tooth on it!) so there went my new
computer.

It's not that big a deal to me that I convert the file. It's a one hour
television program about new submarines that I wanted to watch on my TV.
I can still watch it on my computer.

--
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: frag on 8 May 2010 08:22
Yrrah took a blunt brush and painted...
> frag <news4(a)ukrm.co.uk>:
>
> > Try looking:-
>
> Try using your brain.

I did.

> > http://erightsoft.podzone.net/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe
>
> Which gets me here:
> http://erightsoft.podzone.net/S6Kg0.html

I'm not sure what is going on, but I have downloaded the program from the
link I posted.

Maybe it's setting cookies and you have to get to that page from the other
pages before it gives you the download? Who knows, but I have downloaded it.

Yep, just got it again. Follow the instructions from the main site and you
can download it. Jump directly to the page and you don't.

Rather obtuse and pointless, but it does work.

> BTW, I don't want the program...

Neither do I <g>


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