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.

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QuickTime Pro is a product of Apple computer, Inc.