iVI App Reviews

After last update the software not always utilizes Turbo.264 hardware support - I cant figure out the key (kind of media files are converted with Turbo 264). The conversion takes much longer then before the update - even few times longer than own Turbo.264 software.

the program crashes on files >2Gb. No opportunity to change the settings when it scans and crases, scans and crashes. :((

4 stars only because, after the update, I cant merge videos anymore. Every time Ive tried the conversion didnt start! Please resolve this bug!

This is just what I was looking for. I have clips of my son playing football and hockey from a JVC Everio. This converter works perfectly!!!

IVI is my all star go to app that I use for converting all formats to for my media collection, its reliable on fetching the correct META DATA and extremely efficient and it understands simple tasks where PASSTHROUGH will work which for example if the containers are so similar that’ll swap containers in a matter of seconds and embed the META DATA flawlessly. I can’t say enough great stuff about my purchase and am fully pleased with my original purchase. Keep up the good work Dev’s. Writing this review it just appeared to me that I should look towards other apps by the Dev Team at IVI.

This was a perfect converter, until it just stoped converting any files. After processing any file for an unusually long time, a failure message would come up.

I’ve only been using it for a couple of hours but, so far this program ROCKS! If you’re as OCD about your video files as me…and let’s hope you’re not, you’ll love this program. All you need to do is enter a few small details and it does the rest. Super fast, super easy!

I use this application practically every single day since I purchased it years agp. I can’t remember the purchase price, but it has paid for itself many, many, many times over. The only thing I woiuld like to see is perhaps, in addition to the beatiful GUI interface, perhaps CLI as well. I would LOVE to use this as an engine in my own scripts. For instance, I have HDHomeRun tuners that record OTA. I would love to automate things and the output from those tuners piped to this program automatically, convert to .m4v (iTunes) format, placed in iTunes directory (NAS), then do housekeeping chores such as delete all the working files prior to conversion. Still, this is an AMAZING app!

Clearly, this app performs its intended functions well - just look at the preponderance of 5-star reviews! But it is also a very invasive, bossy app. Personally, I dont care for apps that change icons on existing files the app hasnt even opened yet, without asking. Or that add themselves to the menu bar, without asking. Or that make themselves the default app, without asking, a certain amount of which is easily reversible, if inconvenient…its just an attitude in the app I dont appreciate. Im sure the writers will claim they were just being helpful, but, in my view, its coercive and untrustworthy. The final example was that, to trash the app, my admin password was required…the cheek!

I have used iVI and also iFlicks - I like both. iVI is my first choice, because.. 1. It’s better at finding movie & TV show meta info (correctly) the first time. 2. It identifies and encodes 5:1 audio, and makes a properly balanced stereo copy at the same time. No more music that blares with vocals you can barely make out. 3. If you set up two drop folders, one for movies, the other for TV shows - iVI will process them and then place them and/or create folders (including [showName]/[seasonNumber] for you. 4. It only re-encodes audio/video when it needs to - since .avi, .mkv, etc. are realy just container codecs; which means many times your MKV or AVI file is really in an Apple Friendly audio and.or video codec. In this case iVI will not need to re-encode the compatable parts - this saves time, and processor power, and preserves the highest quality. 5. iVI lets you set limits on file sizes for TV and Movie conversions. However, iVI uses theMoviesDB and theTVshowsDB for lookups, which sometimes have returned no results (I think because domain lookups may be involved), while iFlicks uses IMDB (probably ip-based); so iFlicks is more reliable even when the others are not up. Its not a frequent problem, but when it is, I then flip to iFlicks for awhile. Although iFlicks has smart filters that are more powerful than iVIs, you don’t really need these with iVI - you will though with iFlicks. These are both great apps - and I would strongly recommend you get both. You will discover that iVI is going to be your first line choice though - i’m quite sure you will agree once you try them both. 99% of the time I use iVI - and HIGHLY RECOMMENT IT. Both play well with iTunes - with or without external itunes storage drives - equally well.

Have had this app a while at first it worked pretty good but lately is is continually freezing and non responsive when it does open and I am in the middle of conversion it crashes. It would be a 5 star if they got this sorted out. I am running 10.9 . Not sure if people running 10.7 or 10.8 also have this issue.

I use this to transfer MKVs to iTunes for use with an ATV3. Quality is fantastic and conversion is very quick. Intellegent folder function finds all my downloads all at once, converts, uploads to iTunes and trashes original all in one click. Great app.

This is indispensable for anyone trying to build a media library. Automatically labels everything and outputs exactly what you want.

I have been using Handbrake for years and always found it a pain to find all the metadata and album art. I came across this app searching google and am totally blown away. I took a chance based on other good reviews, but you never know. It is amazing. So simple and it does the job with little effort. I even dropped in several episodes of a TV show, no problem. I couldn’t live without this app for doing updates to videos. For people that are doing multiple season and episodes of TV shows I have a tip. For example if you have a TV show “Lost" from Season 2 and episode 3, you would use Handbrake or something and name the file “Lost S2 E3.m4v”. Once you drag this into iVl, it will automatically get litterally everything from album art, dates, actors, description, etc. you name it. Amazing!!! What a time saver!

Great app, easy to use and I’ve never seen it crash. I recommend the PRO version

Best encoder and meta app ive ever used, and i dont work for the company.

used it convert about 600 blueray movies to work with my apple tv

And it’s great! My iTunes library looks perfect now. It took FOREVER to do it before, and it looked like crud anyway. Now it takes seconds.

Great Software to convert movies!

This product is useless to me. It crashed the first time I used it. Nothig special! Dont buy it!!