Jubler - 4.1.3

This thing could have been so good but, for whatever reason, is actually a piece of junk. From the major hassle of having to add elements of MPlayer (which don't work properly, and end up frozen on your desktop, time and again), to the almost worthless documentation, this thing has wasted days of my life.

What do you expect? It's free! [I hear you say.] Frankly, my dear, this kind of 'free' is something I can live without.

Okay, rave on here: the buttons on the interface are so small I had to change the resolution on my monitor to see them. Clunky code brings up monitor windows, over and over, until they are tiled on top of one another like dead meat, beachball whirring away. Even force quit won't remove this garbage -- thank you, MPlayer: another piece of dead junk that should have been buried years ago and hasn't been updated in so long one can only wonder whether the guys there are rotting in their chairs. Somebody ought to check out that building.

I have to admit, the concept of this app, apart from the horrible interface design and major malfunctions which make it practically unusable: very nice. I like the wave-form for the sound which, notionally, one is supposed to be able to select a portion of and create a subtitle for that, etc., etc., all very promising.

Finally, the programmers ought to get a native English speaker to write out some proper instructions, because the Help file appears to be the work of someone who does not have a complete grasp of English, or who is just translating or transcribing a description of something which they have never actually used.

Avoid this, at all costs, until they get it right. There's a point at which 'freeware' is nothing more than a virus, and this application is not far short of that.