[pablocabistani]

For me, it was extremely useful.
Thanks for the Perian team.

[jimblu]

Perian is great for sure and enables QuickTime player to play many formats it does not play natively. As for as the web goes, for some of the major video sites -- YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Break, Blip, Metacafe, TED, MTVNetworks, CollegeHumor, BBC, Tumblr and more -- the ClickToPlugin & ClickToFlash Safari extensions work well for converting Flash and other formats to Mac compatible formats right in the browser, making them easy to download and use on iDevices. http://hoyois.github.com/

Also tastyapps' Videobox has been around for a long time and is tried and true in the mac community. Videobox costs $15 and converts quickly and easily downloads Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet. http://www.tastyapps.com/

Miro Video Converter is free but does not have the automation abilities of Videobox. It's quite good and simple . http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/

iFFmpeg is more of a professional utility for format conversion and cost $10. http://www.iffmpeg.com/

MPlayerX is simple while VLC is much more intense. VLC can do many more things than MPlayerX, but VLC's preferences are like something out of MicroSoft Word, esp. if you press the "Show All" button at the bottom of the prefs window. And VLC just started working on version 2 and it's taking me some getting used to and there's a few bugs yet. VLC can play just about any format and has amazing capabilities. I think both MPlayerX and VLC are for playing formats and not for exporting them.

If you have Toast it has built-in conversion abilities.

So the above are the free and inexpensive solutions I use. If you are a professional and it's worth it to you to invest over $200, i assume you know where to look for those apps.

[TimothyA]

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Also tastyapps' Videobox has been around for a long time and is tried and true in the mac community. Videobox costs $15 and converts quickly and easily downloads Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet.

I'm a registered user of Videobox but I have noticed that by default it fails to download videos at the full resolution available. In addition, to make any changes to its settings you practically have to have a Ph.D in videology. I'm not familiar with all the other apps you listed, but the nice thing about Perian is that it made the process of viewing viceos transparent.

[jimblu]

TimothyA, on 17 April 2013 - 12:06 PM, said:

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Also tastyapps' Videobox has been around for a long time and is tried and true in the mac community. Videobox costs $15 and converts quickly and easily downloads Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet.

I'm a registered user of Videobox but I have noticed that by default it fails to download videos at the full resolution available. In addition, to make any changes to its settings you practically have to have a Ph.D in videology. I'm not familiar with all the other apps you listed, but the nice thing about Perian is that it made the process of viewing viceos transparent.

if you're having problems with the prefs try this: under Download tab click Reset to Factory Defaults. then under Default Output Settings tab click Output for: Mac Viewing and Convert to: mpeg. make sure all six boxes are checked that say "use input file's." with "use input file's" checked, you don't make any changes to what you're watching/dling and you get the size and resolution you are watching. if you want things sharper and cleaner you could check Deinterlace and 2 pass conversion but this takes longer and i don't think it helps much for 720p and higher. make sure you have the Safari extension installed so you can just click that button in the browser when you want to dl a video you are watching.

the factory default setting for all the devices listed under Default Output Settings are optimized for that device -- ipad, ipod, iphone, etc.. but if you just dl the video as a mpeg you can later convert it to anything using Videobox. i mostly set Videobox to Output for: Download only and Convert to: no conversion. then i watch it in mplayerx or VLC and if i decide to keep it, then i'll convert it with Videobox for the device i want to put it on at the factory default settings.