As I imagine a lot of people have Macs here, I thought it appropriate to post this. It's a desktop app for ripping videos from the web and converting movies to a format suitable for iTunes & iPod. So those bittorrent videos can finally find a place in iTunes & your iPod. You can rip movies straight from YouTube by dragging the url icon into the app.
I have seen a few of this types of apps come through the Business of Software forums. Generally, a large portion of the enthusiasm for applications like this seems to be that people want to go to Youtube and download movies for free. These people are, for obvious reasons, not the best people in the world to sell software to.
It would be nice if you describe on the page what Evom converts _to_.. Why would anyone need this app? That's not clear from the text, a bit more clear from the screenshots.<p>That said, I haven't tried it yet, but will try it later today.
I was pleasantly surprised when dragging a Youtube link into the drop area worked exactly as I had hoped. The video even downloaded in 1280 x 720. The next time I need a video off Youtube, Evom will be the app I use.
You're using FFmpeg in there somewhere so you'll need to offer your copy of FFmpeg's source if you've used the LGPL version. If you've used the GPL version then your whole app will need to be GPL.
A quick usability thing... your main icon features an iPod, so my immediate thought was that it was something to manage photos/videos on an iPod/iPhone. That doesn't quite match to your app which is web & desktop based.
OK, after testing I have mixed thoughts. The interface is OK (though you really need a way to close the registration pane / beta warning), but the conversion process is painfully slow. It's been converting a 22 minute movie for the past 40 minutes now, and the bar is only at ~15%.<p>Also, do you really need the 'step 1 of 2' thing? Can't you just leave that out, and adjust the progress bar accordingly? Using multiple steps is confusing, as you have no idea how far the conversion really is.
A few things:<p>Your site needs a favicon<p>I don't understand how to get videos off the web.<p>From your web page, it's not clear to me what your product does. <i>Convert & transfer movies from your computer and the web.</i> could be simplified to something like "Get your movies anywhere."<p>When I open the app, nothing happens. It should open the "Open" dialog by default, I think.<p>The site looks great, and the app is quite clean. Nice work!
A couple of things...<p>First, great app. Very useful.<p>But, since most of these videos are already H.264 mpeg-4's, why the need for the conversion step, instead of simply wrapping it up in a quicktime container (if you even need to do that)? Conversion is painfully slow.<p>The popup dialogs are annoying.<p>Is there a bookmarklet? That would be awesome.
Well-chosen name! If anyone ever creates a gripe site about your app called noevom.org, you can destroy their credibility by calling them nothing more than a front for moveon.org! Brilliant!
I love it. I can just drag my Youtube links from the browser address bar over to the Evom dock icon and it queues it up for download. It would be nice to be able to set a "default" capture type so it was automatic.<p>Also, some kind of bookmarklet would be nice. Maybe you can set your own system url handler which would make it easy to catch the links.<p>The popups are royally screwed up. There's no way to get rid of them (close). Examples are the beta notice, and the "Register..." popup.
Clean site and nice design. I don't have a Mac so I can't comment on performance, but on your home page "Macs spare power" should be "Mac's spare power" under "Built for speed."
You should consider adding support for ripping mp3s/aac from the videos, if it's not there already. Besides the obvious pirated music part, there are the various amateur performances and talks which people might want to listen to from YouTube.
Very convenient, though I do have a feature request: make export as only audio an option. Yes, the most common use of that may not be entirely legitimate, but your users will want it. Trust me.
You need a text input in the app for pasting urls. Should be next to the Open button. Not everyone has screen real estate to have the browser and your app open.<p>In FF3, highlighting and dragging the URL doesn't work. I have to drag the favicon.<p>It worked really well on a couple of test porn videos. =)