Encoding with Older Versions of Sorenson Squeeze

Posted by Derrick on September 7, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Encoding with older versions of Sorenson Squeeze 4.5.6 and 5.1 should be a great experience in terms of reliability.  What I like about Sorenson Squeeze is that it has really been stable over the years.  I have one particular client that still has Sorenson Squeeze 4.5.6 installed on their encoding workstations and it still works flawlessly.  Every once in a while I get to tweak their compression settings for new streaming projects and that’s always fun to see the older versions.  It’s amazing how many great features are still in the older version.

I like Sorenson Squeeze 6 and many of the new features available.  However, the ability to view a visual output of compression jobs during batch encoding is a feature that is only available in Squeeze 4.5.6 and 5.1.  With this feature you can easily see which source video is being encoding.  You can also view a visual output of your encode to see if is on the first pass or second pass of encoding.  I would LOVE to see the ability to view the visual output of compression jobs during encoding back in future versions of Squeeze.