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.
Jubler
For editing text-based subtitles (use built-in auto update).
Version: 4.1.3
Missed the Boat
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: NakedPreznit Monday, June 22 2009 @ 07:56 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Missed the Boat - NakedPreznit
Commenting on my own review above:Since the total disaster of testing Jubler, I found Miyu, which seems to actually do the job. It crashes occasionally, so be careful, and the instructions aren't much good, but it seems to be a decent subtitling app for Mac.
Try out Miyu, and its developers might get off their asses and actually update it. It has great potential but, as it's freeware, they have other things to do in order to make a few bucks and, as a result, updates to Miyu are few and far between.
Saturday, August 22 2009 @ 12:32 AM PDT
Missed the Boat - beaux suzi
I had the same experience using Jubler.Besides the whole mess previously commented, the app suddenly sounded a kind of static noise mixed to the speaking voices. Where and how did it come from? Does anybody knows???? I can't use this anymore Please, I'm hearing any hint.
Tks.
Suzi
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Monday, August 03 2009 @ 06:33 PM PDT