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Re:Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video by chebert on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:56PM (#5290231)
At first I was all, "oh man -- another small company trying to rip me off."

Then I was all, "oh man -- this actually seems like a pretty cool product"

I actually hate choosing compression settings, so for a piece of software to choose compression settings for me seems really nice.

Up to 4x -- so what if it is "over the top"? That's advertising. You present your best results. You pick the stuff that sounds the best. Why? Because people are usually too ignorant (not necessarily a bad thing) to know what is good for them.

Anyway. Props to you guys (drorgil) for making a good product and standing by it.

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Re:Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video by alexdowad on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @11:52PM (#5290711)
"I hate choosing compression settings" -- but you don't have to. Diaz has shown in this thread, that a free, open-source encoder can automatically choose settings for you which work better than Beamr's.
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