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Monday, October 20, 2008

I just read that Techspansion is closing down, and open-sourcing the applications. I never really used any of these, as they weren’t free, and I felt that I could do most of what they did with ffmpeg anyway. But from the trial versions, they looked pretty good. I guess that to begin with, you’ll need to be reasonably technically minded to compile and use them. But presumably someone will create a binary distribution to make them more widely available. Hey, I might even try it myself.

And as noted on one of the O’Reilly blogs, the way the developer has handled the discontinuation of these products is hugely commendable.