STREAMING IS GREAT, but what about the discs and videos you already have in your collection — the home videos you shot on old cameras, or your DVDs? Third–party viewers (see right) can handle many of the formats that Apple’s own apps don’t, while an external DVD or Blu–ray drive with the combination of VLC and Libbluray (from the videolan.org site) will take care of disc playback.
That’s fine if you just want to play media on your Mac. But what if you want to convert it for other apps or, for OS X 10.3 or later) makes it really easy to convert pretty much anything to pretty much anything, and it includes lots of Apple–specific presets for your iPhone, Apple TV, and more. It can also back up unprotected DVDs and Blu–rays.
