“Techspansion, creator of the media conversion applications iSquint, VisualHub and AudialHub has closed down,” MacNN reports.
“The developer, Tyler Loch has updated the company’s website which notes that the decision to close down was a personal one but promises to keep the support forum and email available for a while longer to take care of any remaining issues,” MacNN reports.
“Loch is considering releasing the source code for the application so that other developers may pick up the applications and keep them going,” MacNN reports.
Full article here.
Now the only question is…
…how long will it take before some idiot posts a politics-related message in response to this news…
That just Bites. I bought a copy of Visual Hub, One on the best video transcoder programs on the market today.
Tyler we’ll miss you in the market. If you make it open source let me know and I’ll do my best to build a developer community around it.
Lower the Apple Flags to half mast in honor of the death of Visual Hub, iSquint and AudialHub.
Good Luck and Best wishes to you Tyler.
I bought Visual Hub too, it’s the best, and fills a great void.
Good luck Tyler!!
Gah!…. VisualHub is one of the few programs I use daily. Glad I have a copy.
Cheers for a brilliant App Tyler. I bought VisualHub a while ago, and it’s always my 1st choice to transcode AVI to H.264.
Damn, I use Visual Hub quite frequently. ……
It’s bush’s fault I tell you!
No! it’s Nancy Pelosi’s doings!!!!!
there.. happy?
The real sad fact is I just took the site gender poll for this site. 94% males….
dang… I gotta get a life.
ericdano:
Don’t panic, VH is not going to stop working.
It’s good software, someone will pick it up and keep it going.
Audiahub, Visualhub and iSquint are great little programs–very well done GUI applescripting (I think) wrapped around open source conversion software that is as powerful as it is non-user friendly.
iSquint was free–I bought both of the others.
I’d really like to see them open sourced.
I bought Visual Hub too
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Hey guys, I just checked and the program didn’t stop working just because they have.
Wow – I just bought them both a few weeks ago.
Good stuff.
To everyone – get them while you can – if you can.
@Quad Core: But what it means is that in the future as OS X evolves, this app will likely break. Or, the landscape will change in video conversion and the app will need to be updated to stay relevant.
With Quicktime X on the horizon along with 10.6, some codecs will change, undoubtedly. I also bought VisualHub, and it is a great tool for its intended purpose. I hope new developers pick it up and maintain its usefulness in years to come!
Visual Hub is a very useful tool — use it regularly — never bombs, always does what is expected.
Niffy
I bought Visualhub and use it often, great program. Clearly Tyler Loch is very talented. Hope he reappears with other apps.
Tyler was always quick to respond to request, and has a great sense of humor.
I have been using VH for two years, mainly to get AVIs from camera video into iTunes and my iPhone. Love it.
Good luck.
Why??? iSquint is the best & I use it all the time. Strong program considering it’s free/
I took a quick look at this. I usually use MpegStreamclip (which is free and does editing) for these kinds of conversions (except authoring DVD’s, for which I use Toast9). Quicktime Pro with the mpeg plugin can also do a lot of this. Are there some things that VisualHub does that are unique?
Who cares. VLC will play anything. And if you really need to convert anything then there’s ffmpegx
homepage.mac.com/major4/
which is superior to isquint and free.
One can rip a DVD movie or clips of it with Mac The Ripper, you can easily take that ripped file & take it to iSquint & convert it to an MP4 or .mov format. Then take it to iMovie or iDVD, add chapters & you got a copied DVD. All done with free software.
( Though I haven’t yet got to creating the DVD Yet but I don’t see why it will not work . Once in .mov or MP4 format which is understandable for imovie & iDVD, Why not??)
Not much need for Toast or Nero.
I use iSquint a lot. Lock did a great job.
I wish I’d bought Visual Hub.
Bummer.
I hope someone else can take it over.
Am I the only one that thinks the people posting for the source code in his forums are the kind of people that would steal shoes from a dead man? Even further, what IS the appropriate time to ask for code to be open sourced? I don’t think Ms. Manners has ever weighed in on this.
There are free alternatives to VisualHub and iSquint, but there were free alternatives while they were on the market, too. Fact is, I think Tyler “gets” what the Mac is about and designed the program for humans that might want to do a bit of compression every now and again. Even if the free apps were to copy his interface (they likely won’t because they HATE the idea that people would rather buy his apps than use their free versions), they’d be just like Windows trying to copy the Mac. They’d get the general idea, but still miss the point.
“Are there some things that VisualHub does that are unique?”
Not really, but it’s not WHAT it did, it’s HOW it did it.
It seems between many of us that VisualHub has proven to be a very useful and well-appreciated app. I use it several times a week also for transcoding. It’s wonderful and well worth the money.
So if so many of us seem to have paid for it and use it, WHY is Techspansion going down?