Ffmpeg Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: Apple TV and oddball video formats

by Erica Sadun (Oct 7th, 2010)

Hey Auntie TUAW, I just ordered my new Apple TV, and have a ton of footage in MKV, AVI, etc. which probably won't work with iTunes, let alone my Apple TV. What can I do to batch convert and import all my movies to iTunes, which will work with Apple TV and be as high-rez as possible? With ...

Evom beta takes up iSquint's mantle, effortlessly converts video formats

by Robert Palmer (Jun 1st, 2009)

While still in beta, Evom (from The Little App Factory, makers of iPodRip) looks ready to pick up where iSquint left off. It easily and quickly converts videos to formats compatible with iTunes, YouTube, your iPod, and Apple TV. It couldn't be a simpler drag-and-drop operation: drop the video on the ...

Convert movies and undercook eggs on the iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Mar 5th, 2008)

The bad news is that the iPhone really does not run hot enough to cook an egg. Uncomfortably warm? Yes. Safe egg-cooking warm? No. The good news is that you can use an iPhone port of ffmpeg to convert videos from DivX and XVid to mp4. iPhone hacker "core"'s latest version of ffmpeg will convert a ...

XBMC on OS X releases version .1

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2008)

Those following the XBMC (a.k.a. Xbox Media Center, although they'll probably need a name change soon, considering all the platforms they've jumped off to) development for the Mac have some good news coming to them: the release has reached version .1. It's still as shaky as these things come, but ...