*Perian is an open source QuickTime component that enables Apple Inc.’s QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on Mac OS X. The swiss-army knife for QuickTime
*Windows Media Components for QuickTime Microsoft WMA/WMV Compoments by Flip4Mac
Xiph QuickTime Components XiphQT for ogg container with Theora (video), FLAC (loseless), and Vorbis (audio) codecs
Apple Downloads of Unix and Open Source Softwares, OSX installer, download
Install Xcode first for Homebrew and MacPorts/Fink source install
Fink uses Debian dpkg and APT, Fink Project 12048 packages in 25 sections. has newer ffmpeg, but many very old and most with binary packages, apt-get to get binary distribution
*MacPorts 12143 ports, Uninstalling, direct binary packages - python3.4.3
*MacPorts GUI: Pallet (sudo port install Pallet),
*? HomeBrew Build from source, The missing package manager for OS X, 1258 packages formulas
Rudix Unix ports and packages for Mac OS X delivered the Right Way - 145 dmg packages available
Bitnami Free, easy to setup wikis, blogs, forums and many other web applications that you can run locally or in the cloud
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion
*FFmpeg
*1. MacPorts 0.7.8, Fink 0.8.9, Homebrew 0.10
2. Apple Downloads - x264Encoder 1.2.17 QuickTime component 2010/10/21 x264 git-1745 ffmpeg SVN-25512
... Datura-0.3.8 2010-02-20
3. FFmpeg on Mac OS X HOWTO - 2006, ffmpegX shareware 0.0.9y 1/26/2008
FFmpeg information on Apple.com
> ffmpeg -i input-file.mts -vcodec copy -deinterlace -acodec libaac -ab 256k output-file.mp4
> ffmpeg -i input-file.mts -vcodec copy -acodec copy output-file.m4v
MEncoder
Using MEncoder to create QuickTime-compatible file
> mencoder input.mts -oac faac -faacopts mpeg=4:object=2:raw:br=256 -channels 2 -srate 48000 -ovc copy -o output.mp4
Other softwares
LyX WYSIWYM GUI for Tex/LaTex
Celestia
Stellarium
