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Ok, so this version I'm using, 3.1.2.8 works really great on 1 out of my 3 computers. I am converting all kinds of videos from all over, youtube, torrents, homemade on my android... etc... to h264 and it is amazing. I had been using Handbrake but I find that it doesn't make as pretty an output at the same quality settings but more importantly, Handbrake skews the audio when the source is AC3 most times and I can't seem to find a way to prevent that. Xmedia Recode has never, not once, messed up the audio on any of my files. Like I said, when it works, it's a beautiful thing. The only thing I can't get it to do is put the MOOV atom at the front of the file for easy streaming but I simply use MP4Faststart after the encode and that is taken care of.
The real problem is that it won't work at all on 2 of my computers. On one, running Windows Server 2003, it did work... like once or twice. Then it crashed and hasn't worked since. Now when you start an encode, it says finished in about 1 second and outputs an empty file. Also, it will not display a preview in the filters section.
The other computer, my laptop running Windows 7 64bit, just as my main machine does where Recode works great, will not display a preview at all. Never has. I haven't actually tried encoding on it because without the preview, I'm not sure what I will get.
I have sent a couple emails to the developer but now I read that he never responds to emails so I guess that will lead nowhere. How frustrating.
Anyway, Overall.... a 5
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