iSquint 1.5 review
DownloadiSquint is an iPod video conversion app.
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iSquint is an iPod video conversion app. It's up to 5 times faster than Apple's method, works well with AVIs and MPEGs, and it's infinitely free-er.
It's also rather easy.
On a moderate Mac iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime.
Give it your file, choose "TV screen" or "iPod screen" size, set your quality, and away you go. Depending on a few factors, a 20 minute video will take up anywhere from 50-150MB of disk space.
It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er.
It's also really easy. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose "TV" or "iPod" size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.
On a 1.5GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime. Depending on a few factors, a 20 minute video will take up anywhere from 50-150MB of disk space.
Here are some key features of "iSquint":
Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format.
QuickTime Pro and DivX codec not required.
DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.
WMV 7/8 files supported. With the Flip4Mac plugin, all WMV files are supported - including WMV9.
Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.
Quality slider. Leave it as is to trust me, mess with it if you know better, or completely ignore it and play with the...
Advanced settings drawer. Change every aspect of the conversion process.
Best Help menu ever.
What's New:
New 640x480 H.264 Low Complexity Support!
Crazy confusing name!
Higher quality than QuickTime/iTunes. Faster too.
Select "Optimize for TV" and "H.264 Encoding" for this new feature.
Flash 8 video can now be converted!
iPod videos are now created in such a way that tagging in iTunes is much much faster.
Files in folders with two-byte characters now convert correctly.
"Multiple of 2" error gone.
Log files are now archived at ~/Library/Logs/Techspansion/
Rare stability problem on 10.4.8 Intel worked around.
New Icon by Nelson Darkwah Oppongocalization
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