Summary of video players for Mac,first Part.

Video Player is a basic software for a computer.With the development of the Video player technology,there comes a variety of video formats.On Mac OS,there're lots of perfect video player.They not only can support some different formats but also have their own characteristics.
Now,let's go ahead to have a look at some popular ones.
First one:VLC

Introduction: VLC is an open source Multi-Platform media player.It supports several audio and video formats.
Mian features are:
◆The formats it can stand by:MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3,  ogg, aac, FLV, Real and so on.
◆Can play DVD,CD and VCD.
◆Can support several formats of subtitle.
◆support a variety of streaming media protocols,including RTP/UTP,HTTP,MMSH and so on.
◆Support a special installation package for Mac OS for easy to install.
Homepage Link:http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Second one:Realplayer

 

Introduction:real video format is one of the main formats.Then the official RealPlayer files has become one of the essential software.

The feature of Mac Version of realplayer is powerful,too.

Mian features are:
◆It can support many main formats:Real, Flash, , Quicktime MPEG–4 , Windows Media, MP3, WMA, AAC, DVD and CD。
◆Can play HD net medias.
◆Videos can be downloaded and imported into iTunes.
◆Built-in with media browser.
◆can help with multi-media formats conversion.
◆support for 5-channel surround sound.
Homepage Link:http://www.real.com/realplayer
Third one:QuickTime Player
 
Introduction:QuikTime Player is the media player comes with Mac.
Mian features are:
◆Supports for many video formats,such as:MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, 3GPP & 3GPP2, AAC, JPEG, AIFF, WAV, MOV, AAC, CAF and so on.
◆can play media with no borders and full-screen playback.
◆Support for 24-channel audio.
◆Can record videoes and audioes,then screen can be recorded.
◆support for simple audio and video clips.
Homepage Link:http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Fourth one:Perian

Introduction:Perian is not really a player,it is a QuickTime plug-ins.With Perian installed,you can make QuickTime supports more video and audio formats.
Mian supported formats are:
◆File formats:AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6 and VFW.
◆Video formats:MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture.
◆Audio formats:Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO.
◆AVI supported for:AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3.
◆Subtitle types:SSA/ASS and SRT
Homepage Link:http://www.perian.org/