Quicktime

Hi, Does anyone know some free software that i can use to convert DVD's into DIVX or Quicktime, or any other format i can store with reasonable quality on my mac. Basically, i want to copy some of my DVD's so i can watch them whilst i travel without having to take my original DVD's everywhere. Cheers, -Tom

I have a Quicksilver with nVidia GF6200 graphics, 512MB RAM and a 1.52GHz Gigadesigns G4 single CPU. It can't play HD video, and I'm bummed. On the PeeCee side there are all sorts of hardware tweaking utilities but I don't know of any for the Mac. It seems like 1.5Ghz of G4 could play HD video-a 1GHz G4 in a Pegasos II can do it, if that's all it's doing. And that's with a...

i did install mplayer before I got your message actually. I tried to play the movie in Quicktime and in Firefox and it did not work. Well I got sound only in QT. I do not have Intel. Running 10.4.10 on a G5. ...

That would be nice. However, I don't think all QuickTime codecs would work on an AppleTV. The Perian folks had to go out of their way to make it compatible with the AppleTV. ...

I know that I could install Perian on the AppleTV, but I somehow just don't want to open it up just yet. Also, you can't use iTunes to synch MKVs after installing Perian on the AppleTV, you'd have to use a separate folder... I like the all-in-one-approach of Apple here. (I wish, though, iTunes would simply accept everything QuickTime can play - and AppleTV would accept QT...

Part of the problem is that Apple does not support the full H.264 or MPEG4 standards. Don't ask me why. They've been very slow on implementing advanced features like B-frames. I'm not entirely up to date on this myself, so I don't know exactly what all is currently missing from QuickTime's H.264 implementation, but I'm fairly sure something is. So you can encode video with...

solution. Quicktime Pro and Perian FTW. ...

My original post has been corrected. I upgraded my RAM because I had MacOS 9 apps that I needed to run better. They ran great after I upgraded to 384 MB RAM. This was the machine that transitioned me from MacOS 9 to MacOS X 10.0. Memory-intensive apps like QuickTime Pro and the Microsoft Office suite (Office v.X compared to Office 98) were noticably better behaved under...

I'd love them to add a crop feature to QuickTime like VLC has, then I can set it to 16:10 and watch things full screen.

Pro QuickTime Player would work. QTAmateur is a good one. ...