Streaming is great, but what about the discs and videos you already have – 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, for OS X 10.3 or later) makes it easy to convert pretty much anything to pretty much anything, and it includes lots of Apple-specific presets for iPhone, Apple TV and more. It can also back up unprotected DVDs and Blu-rays.
