Evidently the majority of VisualHub's conversion capabilities can be acomplished with free downloads and hours of fiddling with command-line applications.

I do not have time for that c**p.
I want to be able to view Windoze media files in something that offers more control than the defunct and not lamented Windoze Media Player. I want to be able to actually view & copy frames from those blasted Flash media files I managed to save from YouTube - not just use them to fill up my hard drives. And I want it with a simple drag&drop interface

VisualHub is well named and so far suits our needs.

We still need other esoteric utilities & plug-ins to capture streaming media in the first place, but now we can actually make use of it once we've used VH to convert it to QT-readable formats.

Looking forward to VH being able to handle even more media types (current RealVideo, current Flash video) but that is probably dependent upon the developers of the codecs.

Not sure if capturing streaming media is outside of VH's planned feature scope, but it would be nice to have.