This VTC quickly goes over the characteristics of DVD-ripping applications available on the Mac platform and video compression applications.

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This VTC briefly shows how to use QuickTime Pro to re-encode video. This VTC is for video compression beginners who want to learn how to use QuickTime Pro quickly to encode video with H.264. It doesn’t fully explain how to configure H.264 settings. For more information on how to export video using QuickTime Pro with H.264, don’t come to us but go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/h264.html. Continue reading →

GameRanger has been around for quite some time. It is a free Mac-only program that allows you to play games online. Without GameRanger, it would be difficult to meet other people who have the same game. And it would be someone that you personally know who is willing to play the game you have with Direct Connect (IP-address-connect). GameRanger offers a gathering place where you can meet other people who have the same game and start an online game. Continue reading →

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 →