VisualHub Discontinued

By on Oct 3, 2008 · 3 Comments 

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My beloved VisualHub, oh how I will miss you. That’s right, Tyler Loch (founder of Techspansion) has decided to close the door. Now I know there are a lot of tools on the Mac to help your compress or re-compress video, but none are as simple and powerful as VisualHub. For less than $25 you got Flash, DVD, mp4, divx, WMV and more, plus it is super easy to convert a video into a format that is friendly to the Mac family of products like the iPhone and AppleTV.

Tyler says that it was a difficult decision and is a personal one. He’s readjusting his priorities. He also has no current plans to move VisualHub into the open source world.

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  • http://avalinks.com Jack

    This is truly a shame. I know that VisualHub is nothing more than a frontend for ffmpeg, but I really hope he reconsiders and lets the community take the project into the open source world.

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  • Marty

    Apparently according to his website he has moved some, and plans to move his other projects to sourceforge under the project transcoderredux

    A quote from his website:

    The source code for two of the projects (one you haven’t seen yet, and will hopefully really like) are now online.
    I’ll get the other two online a little later.
    These are new projects, with new names, ready for a new life with smarter people.

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  • http://www.iskysoft.com/article/how-to-build-isquint-and-visualhub.html#121 ruby

    As you may or may not know, the developer, Techspanion has closed shop and after an outcry from fans, it has released the source code.
    http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Open-Source-to-Build-Isquint-and-Visualhub

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