Apple DVD Player is the DVD player software created for Mac OS X that supports major features of DVD. These include straight viewing of DVDs right from the Mac comptuer, multiple tracks of audios, videos and subtitles, closed captions, DVD@cess URLs, and Dolby audio. This player is flexible to use because a user is able to select the VOB file that he wants to open. It also means that this player is going to install audio or video once a DVD drive is attached to a computer. Many types of DVDs are compatible with this player, such as iDVD and HD DVDs or other DVDs authored by DVD Studio Pro. What makes this player distinctive is that it complies with copyright laws so there are some restrictions in DVD playback. For instance, if a DVD has encodings that are restricted according to region or country, this player automatically disables its function to play the video.
MPEG Streamclip is a video converter software that can play, edit MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, also function as a DivX editor, encoding machine, a streamer and even YouTube downloader. The software can be used to open movie formats which includes MPEG files and transport streams. These files can be played in full screen, then edited by cutting, copying, pasting, and trimming. Files may also be set by either In or Out points, then converted to mixed or demixed files and export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files as well as import them in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Toast 6, 7, 8, so that these files may be used with other applications and devices. The video conversion is done in YUV color space, and scaled it to any frame size utilizing the 2D-FIR scaler, or leave it unscaled if the user prefers it. It als includes video processing features like motion-adaptive deinterlacer, field dominance converter, chroma reinterlacer and the choice to execute either interlaced or progressive scaling. Audio files can be uncompressed or converted to IMA, AAC, MP2 or AMR using built-in decoders of MPEG Streamclip. The timekeeping system will keep the audio in perfect sync with the video.
VideoLan VLC Media player is a multi-media player software that is considered to be an open source and cross platform multimedia player with framework. Thus, a product that can play most of the standard files of multimedia plus CDs, DVDs and VCDs. It also plays different streaming protocols, supported applications or devices and webcams. There is also the ability to play audios of various codecs even if there are no codec packs included: MPEG-2, WebM, MP3, WMV and MKV. This software works on most Windows computers, Mac OS X PCs, Linux and well as Unix. In addition, there is descryption for DVD which is executed via the libdvdcss library. It also has playback control support for all computers compatible with it using libcdio or libvcdinfo. On Mac computers, this media player can grab audios and videos from EyeTV applications and other devices that capture EyeTV data. On GNU and Linux, it supports encoding cards that are compatible with V4L2 and MPEG-2 which are Visiontech Kfir and Hauppage WinTV-PVR 250-350.
Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 is a software that edits videos with hundreds of effects, transitions, filters and templates in it. And the user can also create content for website that is interactive. Included in the features are stabilization by ProDAD Mercelli SE which removes the blurring of the focused moving picture. It will run with Microsoft's Windows 7, Vista , and XP (SP3) both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. since it is a complete video editing software, higher system requirements is needed. Intel Core Duo or higher, AMD Dual-Core 2.0 or higher are the processors recommended, 2 GB RAM (4 GB or higher recommended), 128 MB VGA or higher, and 3 Gb space on the hard disk. A minimum of 1024 x 768 for the solution. A Blu-ray drive for recording Blu-ray discs. Internet is required to verify the serial key upon installation. there are many input and output devices which are supported, some are 1394 firewire, Open Host Controller Interface, USB Video Class DV cameras.