What free video tools do mac users use?

[Selur]

While thinking about buying a mac mini as replacement for my old (girlfriend and visitor) PC I was wondering what free tools do mac users use for their video editing/processing/playback needs?

Cu Selur

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I did not test it, but MPlayer as well as VLC Player should work on the Mac. Avidemux does too.

[AeroQ]

VLC Player
Handbrake
VirtualHub (no longer developed. Alternatives: SimpleMovieX, MPEG Streamclip)
iMovie
iDVD

[Selur]

thanks for the infos (more infos are always welcome)

Cu Selur

[Henrikx]

http://www.perian.org/

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

* File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
* Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
* Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
* AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
* Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

[vzmr82]

I have both a Mac and a PC, and trying to leave behind my back the PC tools, hoping to replace them by Mac native tools. Unfortunatly I have found out that, while being able to use VLC as a player, there is no replacement for MeGui for video processing and enconing.

Quicktime + Perian can also be used almost as an universal player but I think VLC seems to be better. Handbrake is what seems to approach best to MeGui but not near as good. Also VirtualHub, now that is free but no longer developed, can be used for not complicated encondings.

There are other small tools like tsmuxer or avimux_gui or imagompeg_muxer or pgcdemux or even yamb which I can not live without them that I have found out that the best is to use CrossOver for Mac (Wine implementation for Mac) to run them.

RS

[nm]

Have you tried Avidemux?

[Lyris]

I have a similar situation to vzmr82, although I love my Mac (and love commercial products like DVD After Edit which you just can't get on Windows), I just cannot leave the PC world of AviSynth behind.

But to answer the question: I use and love MPEG Streamclip on the Mac :)

[willhow]

I suggest you also XBMC for mac.
Very good video player, better than VLC, Quicktime or Frontrow, and can handle 1080p with no lag.
And you can get all the informations about new movies or TV shows and download some art work to make it very nice.

http://xbmc.org/

[vzmr82]

Or Plex (http://www.plexapp.com/), which is a MacOS specific variation of XBMC. More like a complete Media Center...

[belloq]

For the editing side, especially for capped stuff, I have had to leave MPEG Streamclip behind. Zero support, no response, and it produces out of spec output.

My current tools of choice from start to finish is:

ProjectX (input transport streams and output demuxed and sync'd m2v and AC3)
avidemux (remuxing of m2v and AC3 -> mpeg program stream)
Handbrake (SVN builds, not the released version; it's too old) to build h.264+AAC+AC3 files for (mostly) playback on AppleTV using x264 as the encoder.
Subler to edit all the MP4 tags.

[vzmr82]

Handbrake (SVN builds, not the released version; it's too old) .

May I ask where you get these Handbrake SVN builds?

[shoarthing]

May I ask where you get these Handbrake SVN builds? . . I realise the date of posting the above was 1st April; but *just* in case it was serious . . . :rolleyes:

svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk/

. . . (current) build 2320 works very well with its latest x264.

[Catherine]

There are two Free MKV players named VLC Media Player and MPlayer OS X. Handbrake is also excellent.

Greetings!

[kilik]

Is possible in a miracle? MeGui for Mac OS X? :scared::eek::cool:

Nobody????

thanks, for now, no serious rip software on osX :(

[kilik]

:logfile::rolleyes:

[chaynik]

Well, x264, ffmpeg, mencoder, mp4box have all been compiled for OS X and run natively. MeGUI is just as the name implies, a GUI. Check out MacPorts.org for all the mentioned tools.

[kilik]

Well, x264, ffmpeg, mencoder, mp4box have all been compiled for OS X and run natively. MeGUI is just as the name implies, a GUI. Check out MacPorts.org for all the mentioned tools.

Can you tell me some gui like megui for windows? handbreak?

[nm]

handbreak?
That doesn't sound very healthy.

At least HandBrake hasn't broken my hands yet. ;)
Seriously, it's a rather nice tool for simple encoding tasks. Just make sure you get a recent snapshot (http://handbrake.fr/snapshot.php) instead of 0.9.3.

[kilik]

That doesn't sound very healthy.

At least HandBrake hasn't broken my hands yet. ;)
Seriously, it's a rather nice tool for simple encoding tasks. Just make sure you get a recent snapshot (http://handbrake.fr/snapshot.php) instead of 0.9.3.

lol :p HandBrake....

i've compiled it under os x