Top Free Video Utility Programs for Apple Mac OSX!

Here are 5 of the best Freeware, must have, video programs for Apple Mac OSX! In my opinion These program make converting, burning, playing various video formats easy!

Feel free to add a comment with your favourites!

These programs are all free to download and use, there are no spyware or adverts – just great software – some using the best open source video libararies available.

DVD to H264: HandBrake

DVD Ripping – convert DVD to H264 – of course, this would be for making mpeg 4 version of DVD’s that you’re legally allowed to do – such as DVDs you’ve created yourself.

http://handbrake.fr/

(Also versions for Windows and Linux, as well as Mac OSX)

Quicktime Alternative: QT Amateur

Great for batch exporting and re-encoding tasks – a free alternative to get the extra features that Quicktime Pro gives you.

http://www.mikeash.com/software/qtamateur/

Extra Codec Support for Quicktime: Perian

Allows Quicktime to play back extra video types, such as .avi, .divx, .flv, mpeg1 and mpeg2 (also makes these available to Quicktime Amateur)

http://perian.org/

Video Format Converter: ffmpegX

Another video format converter – If you’ve been using other free video converter programs, then it’s very likely that they are based on ffmpeg. ffmpegX is an apple GUI for ffmpeg, and makes converting from one video type to another a breeze!

(This is actually shareware, $15 to register, but free to try)

CD and DVD Burner: Burn

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net

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