iTunes video-for-ipod conversion VERY slow - third party much quicker. Why?

Question

Level 1

25 points

iTunes video-for-ipod conversion VERY slow - third party much quicker. Why?

Does anyone know why converting video in iTunes is so slow, but a third party program (like videora) is so much faster? I'm curious, because I've compared files converted on both programs, and there's DEFINTITELY better audio fidelity with iTunes, but I can't imagine converting the audio is what's causing it to take so long. I've so far only converted quicktime .mov files, but on average it takes about 1 hour for every 3 minutes of video in itunes. In videora, at the highest quality, it takes about 7 minutes for every 3 minutes. That's a huge disparity!

Anyone educated enough on this to explain? Is it just that my computer is wonky and responds better to the third party software than it does to iTunes? I've got lots of videos left to convert and I'd love the best quality, but 1 hour for every 3 minutes is more time than I can afford.

HP Pavilion ze4500, Windows XP

Posted on Oct 7, 2007 5:25 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Spazalot

Level 1

5 points

Oct 7, 2007 7:09 PM in response to Chaddymac

I'm betting that Apple spends very little time optimizing anything for Windows. Their goal is to make OSX and iMacs look better IMO. On my machine Windows locks up every time a podcast gets done downloading. iTunes is nice to a point but if someone came around with something better no one would ever use it.

Reply

Answer 2

Chaddymac Author

Level 1

25 points

Oct 7, 2007 7:24 PM in response to Spazalot

So, does that mean no one on macs is having the same issues? Is anyone, for that matter, or is it just me?

Reply

Answer 3

camoracer

Level 5

4,274 points

Oct 8, 2007 4:37 AM in response to Chaddymac

Just like many other programs iTunes is general purpose and doesn't do some things very well. Videora is designed for more specific tasks so it should be better at those tasks.

To me this is getting to be a problem with iTunes Apple is using one program to do to many things. Not all of them well. Burning and ripping CDs has always been slower with iTunes than other programs.

Reply

Answer 4

Chaddymac Author

Level 1

25 points

Oct 8, 2007 7:53 AM in response to camoracer

Is anyone else noticing a difference in the audio quality? Maybe I just have sensitive ears, but I swear I can hear better track seperation in iTunes than I can with Videora (yes the video quality seems almost exactly the same). Maybe there's an advanced setting in Videora for getting better audio?

Reply

Answer 5

Jan 3, 2008 9:09 PM in response to Chaddymac

I am having the same problem. I am using 10.5 0n a MBP, so hardware limitations are minimal. I had the same experience with iSquint. I am going to try the videoria now to see if the issue is isolated to certain software.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Reply