L'Inq reviews SUPER

[Craig]

(SUPER's a video format converter, btw)

Fernando Cassia, a writer with theinquirer.net, gives a glowing review
of SUPER. He asserts it's definitely ready for prime-time now that it
has a gui. What's especially nice is it's open sauce. <g>

article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33380

d/l site:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S5E01.html (scroll alllllll the way to the bottom)

fwiw,
-Craig

 

[Mark Carter]

(SUPER's a video format converter, btw)

Fernando Cassia, a writer with theinquirer.net, gives a glowing review
of SUPER. He asserts it's definitely ready for prime-time now that it
has a gui.

SUPER©.v2006.build.19(April.26,2006) gives me problems in that the
drop-down boxes don't work for me. So I use a previous version. There
are some things that are counter-intuitive about it - like the selection
of files. Its window always stays on top, and it doesn't have a minimize
button. Also, not being an expert on the various encoding options can
make it somewhat daunting-looking for people like me.

These gripes aside, SUPER can be a lifesaver. Why, just this day I
downloaded an AVI file, for which Windows Media Player complained about
lacking a codec. I used SUPER to convert to MPEG, and that fixed it up fine.

 

[Mark Carter]

Actually, worth mentioning is Windows Media Encoder, free at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

I've had monster-sized mpeg files that WME has managed to whittle down
to much smaller size, better than SUPER could have done. So WME is
definitely worth considering. I haven't yet added it to my collection of
multimedia utils links over at:
http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/freeware/multimedia.htm
but hope to do so shortly

 

[rich]

SUPER©.v2006.build.19(April.26,2006) gives me problems in that the
drop-down boxes don't work for me. So I use a previous version. There
are

right-click to bring up the menu.
un-tick the always on top option - the drop down boxes now work

some things that are counter-intuitive about it - like the selection of
files. Its window always stays on top, and it doesn't have a minimize
button.

see above

Also, not being an expert on the various encoding options can make it
somewhat daunting-looking for people like me.

These gripes aside, SUPER can be a lifesaver. Why, just this day I
downloaded an AVI file, for which Windows Media Player complained about
lacking a codec. I used SUPER to convert to MPEG, and that fixed it up
fine.

I have used Canopus Procoder in the past which costs plenty cash and
IMHO Super is as good and in many respects better.

 

[Mark Carter]

right-click to bring up the menu.
un-tick the always on top option - the drop down boxes now work

Oh wow, thanks. I had no idea.

see above

Thanks again.

I had actually figured out the files bit - it just wasn't intuitive. I'm
not trying to be narky when I say that they could have designed the UI
better - it breaks user expectations about how user-interfaces work. It
makes it look broken, whereas in fact it was operating how they intended
it to; "always do the least suprising thing", and all that.

 

[Eugene Esterly III]

(SUPER's a video format converter, btw)

Fernando Cassia, a writer with theinquirer.net, gives a glowing review
of SUPER. He asserts it's definitely ready for prime-time now that it
has a gui. What's especially nice is it's open sauce. <g>

article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33380

d/l site:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S5E01.html (scroll alllllll the way to the bottom)

fwiw,
-Craig

Excellent article & I agree with everything the author said about
Super. Super is an excellent program & it rivals even the commerical
video/audio converters. Super also uses only open source encoders such
as FFMPEG & Mencoder.

 

[Aaron]

(SUPER's a video format converter, btw)

Fernando Cassia, a writer with theinquirer.net, gives a glowing review
of SUPER. He asserts it's definitely ready for prime-time now that it
has a gui. What's especially nice is it's open sauce. <g>

article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33380

d/l site:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S5E01.html (scroll alllllll the way to the
bottom)

I love it too. Pricelessware candiate IMHO. I wasn't aware it was open
source though.