Third-party products products work better than Apple's...there's a big surprise
Please note the sarcasm with which I write, because I'm implying it heavily. I got word that iSquint, a freeware video conversion tool by Tyler Loch for Mac OS'es that ports larger clips suitable for the video-enabled iPod, executes better than Apple's native tools. No kidding.This is one bummer I've had about Apple software for a long time. I've had similar trouble with QuickTime Pro 7. I tried several times to convert short clips to MP4, but QT7 takes several hours, and of course, can't import Windows Media formats (WMV, WMA). In comparison, ImTOO MPEG Encoder preps and exports the same file - as a WMV, MOV, AVI or other file format in minutes.
And don't get me started on running iTunes on a Windows PC. The wait and lag alone makes me want to think differently.
posted by Jason Salas @ 9:29 PM
2 Comments:
At November 13, 2005 3:57 AM,
Anonymous said…
Why is it that Apple and Microsoft write the worst tools for their platforms? I swear that by the end of every day Visual Studio 2003 has eaten up at least 250 MB to 300 MB of memory making performance slow down to a crawl for debugging. So long and thanks for the memory leaks...
By the way, miss hearing your podcast but you've convinced me to stop by Guam the next time I go to visit family in the Phillipines.
At November 13, 2005 7:46 AM,
Jason Salas said…
The ironic thing is that the typical defense for OS vendors when explaining why their software runs so slowly on thier own platform is "Because it optimizes all the features of the environment and takes full advantage of the multimedia capabilities".
Although to Microsoft's credit I will say that they've gotten expotentially better at making Office apps run in Windows. It used to take forever to get them to load. (Installing Office is another story.)
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