Look at this crap

[tgpo]

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/17/ivcd/

Who here can say rip off?? Anyone? Anyone?

[tgpo]

I just tried it out. They are charging $30 for this program, what does nothing that freeware can't do. I suppose it would be good for newbies, but why not use the free stuff?? It handles VCD/SVCD burning and NTSC/PAL formats. Plus allows you to change your bitrate, but I think that ffmpegX would a much better way to accomplish this.

[galactica]

looks like Kai should press charges!

[havema-1]

I've played for 20 minutes with iVCD and IMO it is not so bad for basic (S)VCD app for newbies who don't want to fiddle with many obscure options. It uses mpeg2enc as its engine just like MediaPipe and ffmpegX (or does the latter have other MPEG engines as well??).

One v1.0 bug seems to be that at least in a PAL DV to SVCD the encoded MPEG2 has unnecessary black bars at the left & right where a simple 720x576 to 480x576 would have been correct.

There seems to be no setting to define interlaced or progressive output but at least it defaults to interlaced which I prefer. BTW, does ffmpegX support interlaced output yet?

You have to remember that also ffmpegX is shareware and also the next version of MediaPipe may be shareware so I don't think $30 for iVCD isn't too much although maybe $10-20 would've been a right price considering the competition.

[ZeroSix]

its horrible. It uses the same tools as every other FREE program out there for Unix.

I used to repsect Mireth for MacVCDX, but all that respect is gone out the window.

Sadly, there are probably some seriously ignorant people out there buying this.

[havema-1]

With PAL DV source the field dominance is wrong in iVCD 1.0's SVCD. At least they confess in the documentation that this is the first release and they had to start somewhere.

[expo]

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[Pix]

Well I first had the same reaction : why paying something that others can do for free ?
But that's a wrong discussion :
- ffmpegX is now shareware, it uses free UNIX tools, but the GUI has become so complete and allow people to use CL that they would not use otherwise, so it's worth paying
- many apps are "only" GUIs, and use free UNIX tools : but the work they do, the ease of using is sometimes worth paying because still most of Mac users are not former UNIX users and don't want to bother about terminal or whatever. From this point of view, evey WORKING GUI may be worth paying
- after all, OS X is based on many free BSD things

BUT you're right, iVCD is too expensive, it should rather be around 10-15 dollars. However, for people who are still afraid by ffmpegX or Mediapipe and MMT, it's an easy way...(although I did not test)