Mac OS X Freeware

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Features:

• Input Media: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, TCP/RTP Unicast, File, DVD, VCD, SVCD, Audio CD (without DTS)
• Input Formats: MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), ID3 Tags, AVI, ASF / WMV / WMA, MP4 / MOV / 3G, OGG / OGM / Annodex, Matroska (MKV), WAV (incuding DTS),
  Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, Raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash), Standard MIDI, Creative™ Voice
• Decoders: MPEG-1/2, DIVX (1/2/3), MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.264, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), DV, Cinepak, Theora (alpha 3), H.263 / H.263i, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1
• Subtitles: DVD 7 (Partial) SVCD / CVD (Untested), DVB, OGM, Matroska, Text file (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Vobsub
• Filters: Deinterlace, Cropping, Image wall, Image adjust, Rotate/Mirror, Logo overlay, Magnification, Image distortion, Bluescreen, RSS/Atom feeds
• Outputs: Native (GDI OpenGL Quartz), ASCII Art
• Etc.

Latest version: 0.8.6

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HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
• PAL or NTSC
• AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

• File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
• Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding

Latest Version: 0.9.2

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iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It’s many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats. It’s also really easy. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose “TV” or “iPod” size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer. On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime.

Features:

• Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD.
• QuickTime Pro and DivX codec not required.
• DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.
• Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
• Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.
• Advanced settings drawer. Change every aspect of the conversion process.
• Just a few of the supported formats: .mov .mp4 .avi .dv .mpg .vob .3gp .asf .wmv .flv .m4v

Latest version: 1.5

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