iSquint 1.5

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app. Its up to 5 times faster than Apples method, works well with AVIs and MPEGs, and its infinitely free-er.
Its 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.
Its many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and its infinitely free-er.
Its 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.
Main features:
- 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.
Enhancements:
- 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