24 May 2007

QuickTime necessities

QuickTime has the ability to play many file formats, even windows media formats.

The freeware program Flip4Mac WMV does this trick and even integrates into browsers.

Perian (also free) adds playback for:

  • AVI and FLV
  • 3ivX, DivX, Flash Screen Video, MS-MPEG4, Sorenson H.263, Truemotion VP6, and Xvid
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio using A52Codec, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
Other components for QuickTime are available, such as XiphQT that adds Ogg Vorbis playback functionality to QuickTime and iTunes.

1 Comment:

Tony said...

Yes, definitely Flip4Mac is a complete necessity. With all the PC/WMV video out there, the Mac would be lost. For a few dollars well spent, the paid version adds the import and export components...handy for iPod and other stuff.
Telestream also has a new dvd imaging app out called Drive In.