ffdshow no, but FFmpegX yes!
So, you’ll have to pardon Bryan (sorry man!) on that last post as he’s still in the process of switching to the Mac…
He is right, there is no ffdshow, but there is FFmpegX which can do quite a few nifty tricks to your video, whether converting or encoding. He also mentions MPlayer, which is a nice choice, but most of us who’ve been playing in the space a bit longer prefer VLC. VLC is an extremely robust media player and I think you’ll find it can play pretty much anything you can throw into a playlist.
While we are on the topic of tools… One of the key things to consider is how you’ll get yourself setup based on need. Do you want access to movies on your hard drive (YES!!) Do you want the highest quality video and audio formats or do you simply want the most content on your Mac HTPC? When you are able to address this basic need, you’ll be able to determine whether you want to backup your DVD collection, or whether you’ll be content converting to MP4 or DIVX or some other format that suits your purpose.
We’ll get into other tools and tips for conversion soon enough… for now know that while there might be more options on the other side, you can manage your media in any way you see fit.
BTW - A new version of ffmpegX was released just yesterday…
– Jonathan Greene
January 24th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
To clarify, ffmpeg is actually incorporated into OSXMplayer, rather it shares some functionality
January 25th, 2005 at 12:44 am
Can you run ffmpegX on a DVD itself? Would it be fast encoding solution?
January 25th, 2005 at 6:08 am
I don’t believe you can. You need to Rip the disc first and work with the Video_TS folder which contains the .vob files.
Assume you want to convert to DIVX or some other compressed format?
January 25th, 2005 at 7:56 am
I’ve been playing with a combination of DVision3 and VLC, both of which are easily available off of VersionTracker.
DVision seems to work pretty well in the encoding stage, I took my test DVD (Red vs. Blue, Season 1) from DVD into a full-sized H.264 file with 192kbps MP3 stereo encoding. The encoding took the filesize from 3.5GB to ~650MB.
It does take a while to run the encoder, but the great thing about Dvision3 is that you can create a task list, and start it when you go to bed.
April 21st, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Can this play MKV files?
November 17th, 2006 at 7:52 am
I can burn a Dvd or VCD with subtitles? I want burn a Divx with subtitles .srt on a DVD o VCD. In windows, with nero vision express and ffdshow I can… with ffmpegx and miyu … Can I?