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Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, Software, Video

Connect360 now does DivX/Xvid

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Dec 5th, 2007

We've posted on Connect360 from nullriver several times before. This handy Preference Pane application allows you to stream media (music, pictures, and video) from your Mac to your Xbox 360 (by emulating a Windows machine). Well the Fall 2007 Dashboard update for Xbox 360 just dropped this week and, among other things, added DivX and Xvid codec support. So nullriver has updated Connect360 to version 3.2 with support for these video codecs.

Connect360 remains $20 and a demo is available.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Tags: Connect360, DviX, Xbox-360, Xbox360, Xvid

Filed under: Video

Apple adds Xvid to QT Components site

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Apr 5th, 2007

Our own David just texted us to let us know that Apple has added Xvid to its online QuickTime Components list. The Xvid-for-QuickTime component, which you can download here, allows you to play and encode Xvid video. As the writeup mentions, Xvid follows the MPEG-4 standard.

Tags: codecs, QuickTime, QuickTime Pro, QuicktimePro, video, Xvid

Filed under: Video, Apple TV

Apple TV hacked to play XviD format videos

by Brian Liloia (RSS feed) on Mar 23rd, 2007

Word has come in that the Apple TV has been cleverly hacked (yes, already) to play XviD format videos, according to users from the Something Awful forums.

To achieve this, the hardware hacker dissected the Apple TV, removing the hard drive and then mounting it on a Mac, where the drive pops up as a native HFS volume. (Notably, this proves that the device indeed runs a custom version of Mac OS X.) The user was then able to install Dropbear, an SSH server application, in combination with the video container Perian, and finally, a custom script was written to allow the Apple TV to properly read an XviD format video.

Normally, of course, the device only recognizes MPEG4 and H.264 format videos out of the box. No other formats have been tested as of yet, and this hack unfortunately prevents video synchronization since the it uses reference QuickTime files for the videos to properly play. Perhaps this is just the beginning, though.

[via MacNN]

Tags: apple tv, AppleTv, hack, quicktime, video, xvid

Filed under: Software, Video, Cool tools, Productivity

VisualHub - The universal video converter

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jun 7th, 2006

VisualHub is a feature-packed and 'universal' video converter for Mac OS X from the maker of iSquint. From its website: "VisualHub bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards, and people that just want to get the job done - just what you would expect from the Mac." It boasts fast conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash (what: no animated GIF?), and brags about ts three-step conversion process: click, drag, click.

Fortunately, VisualHub also offers advanced features like bitrate control, frame cropping and audio quality. Xgrid is supported for those with multiple Macs on a network and CPU cycles to spare, while QuickTime Pro and other plugins need not apply.

VisualHub's long list of features don't stop there, however, so check out Techspansion's product page for the full feature list and samples of its work. A demo is available, while a full license will cost you a mere $23.32 USD.

[thanks Khaled!]

Tags: conversion, convert, DivX, dls, DVD, format, iPod, m4a, pro, PSP, quicktime, video, visualhub, xvid

Filed under: Software, Video, Universal Binary

ffmpegX has gone Universal

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Apr 28th, 2006

ffmpegX, my video encoder of choice, has released a new version (0.0.9w) that is a Universal Binary (I bet it encodes like lightening on one of the now Intel Macs). This version only supports OS X 10.3 or higher, so you pre-Panther folks will need to use an older version.

Other than the Universal goodness that this release brings, the other big news is that ffmpegX can now encode Flash video for use on blogs (or anywhere else that supports it).

The price? ~~Free~~ $15 (turns out it is shareware. Who knew?).

Thanks, Ultim8Fury.

Tags: dvd, encoder, ffmpegx, H.264, iPod mp4, IpodMp4, mov, PSP, sdvd, XviD

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