When you have video in a format that your video player cannot play, your last option may be demuxing audio and video streams. VLC, a free multi-platform video player, is a great multimedia application which allows you to play video in almost any format with any codec. But it’s not totally perfect. When it comes to QuickTime, the formats and codecs that it supports are way more limited. For example, it is a well-known fact that QuickTime cannot play video that contains AC3 (dolby). But another fact is that most commercial DVD movies do indeed use AC3. Or what if the video is in open-source formats like Matroska or Ogg Vobis?


The goal of this project is to play with QuickTime the content of a commercial DVD movie which contains AC3 audio stream. To achieve this goal, at first, the VOB files inside DVD’s TS folder is combined into one. (The DVD is ripped beforehand.) Then this joint VOB file is demuxed into M2V and an audio stream. After compressing this audio stream in a codec that QuickTime can read, the video and the converted audio streams are put in MOV container. Continue reading →

There are quite a lot of Mac users who wish to import Windows Media Player files to Final Cut Pro and/or iMovie. One solution may be use of QuickTime components called Flip4Mac. Since Final Cut Pro uses QuickTime to read video files, Final Cut Pro users do benefit from having Flip4Mac’s QuickTime components. But how about iMovie users? iMovie doesn’t use QuickTime to read video files. So use of Flip4Mac doesn’t solve the problem. Continue reading →

10 years ago, Fetch was THE FTP program for Mac users. After Fetch became a sharewhare title several years ago, many FTP developers followed in its footsteps. You often hear about popular FTP shareware titles like Fetch and Transmit, and it’s no longer easy to find a free, reliable FTP program. Continue reading →

This VTC briefly goes over three Mac applications that allow you to joint VOB files and show you differences between them. We compares the following three Mac Applications: D-Vision 3, ffmpegX 0.09 and MPEG2 Works 4.

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If you are a Mac user, you must have heard of this software by Roxio. I personally started using it when the version was 3. It came with a SCSI-connected CD-RW drive that I bought about 8 years ago. Now, Toast is not just a backup application that you use with CD or DVD drives. Toast Titanium 7 is full of functions that can be used to compress video files. Unlike MPEG Streamclip, DiVA and other video compression applications that allow you to access QuickTime codecs, it even supports VCD, SVCD. Furthermore, you can compress ripped DVDs with MPEG-2 (Video TS folder only) and DivX (VOB files only, not through a QuickTime component). Or you can simply burn a DVD with the whole ripped DVD movie in a disc image.
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