MPEG Player for Mac

What is MPEG? MPEG is a common digital video format standardized by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); MPEG was formed by the ISO to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. The MPEG standards are an evolving series, each designed for a different purpose.

How Do I Play MPEG files? To view MPEG video files, you need a personal computer with sufficient processor speed, internal memory, and hard disk space to handle and play the typically large MPEG file (which has a file name suffix of .mpg). You also need an MPEG viewer or client software that plays MPEG files. Here's the best MPEG Players for playing .mpg files on Mac.

VLC Media Player for Mac

VLC Media Player for Mac is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats for Mac OS X, including DVD AVI MPEG MPEG2 MPEG4 DivX MP3 OGG, VLC Media Player for Mac is also VCD & DVD Player for Mac, and various streaming protocols.

VLC Media Player for Mac can also function as a streaming media server. VLC Media Player is based on an open-source foundation, therefore, Updates, fixes, and addons are released frequently.

VLC Media Player for Mac is a must-have Mac media player and Mac DVD player for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it. VLC Media Player for Mac Download

MacVCD Player for Mac

MacVCD Player for Mac OS is the easy way to play VCD, and almost everything else with this easy to use media player for Mac OS 8/9.

MacVCD Player for Mac OS 8/9 can play VCD, AVI, DivX, MPEG, video, Quicktime movies and more. It offers all the playback features you need and the ease of use you really want from a video player. With Video CD Format recognition, you can play VCDs in just one step. Using MacVCD Player for Mac OS 8/9, You can also play all your other movies - XVCD, AVI, DivX, MPEG, video, Quicktime movies and more. Use the screen display you prefer - full screen display, or small screen display, or show on your TV. MacVCD Player Download

ffmpegX for Mac

ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder", mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support.

ffmpegX can reads the following input formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DIVX, XviD, non-encrypted VOB and VIDEO_TS, Quicktime .MOV, .DV, .WAV, Real Audio, Real Video, H.263, MP4 H.264, PGM, YUV, PPM, AC3, PCM8/16 bits, mulaw/Alaw, WMA-1/2, SUN AU format, MP2, MP3, AAC, 3GP, FPS1, ALAC, and even more formats. ffmpegX for Mac Download

MacVCD X

MacVCD X is easy to use video media player for Mac OS X. MacVCD X plays VCD, SVCD, XVCD, SXVCD, AVI, DivX, xVID, MPEG, WMV, iMovie, video, Quicktime movies (.mov) and DV. Use the screen display you prefer - full screen display, small screen display (floating or regular window), or show on your TV.

Get the features you want - movie saving, track selection and repeat track features, Photo VCD, multi-language and karaoke VCD support with this easy to use video player. MacVCD X also features advanced features such as Hands Free speech activated controls, fast-motion, slow-motion and backwards playback. MacVCD X Download

MPlayer OSX

MPlayer OSX is project based on MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux) port to Mac OS X platform. MPlayer OSX consist of compiled binaries of mplayer and mencoder, separate GUI for mencoder and standalone Cocoa player application based on mplayer binaries.

MPlayer OSX impresses by playing virtually any video file type. These include MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ and PVA files. It also supports many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs, and enables you to watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.

MPlayer OSX has very good postprocessing. On every image in the movie is applied a filter to reduce square areas, which comes from codec's compression algorithm. MPlayer OSX Download

djoPlayer for Mac

djoPlayer is a simple and easy to use GUI to MPlayer.

djoPlayer for Mac can read the following formats: AVI (DivX 3, 4, 5, Xvid), VOB, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, ASF, WMV, AC3, MOV... and even DVDs or movies on the Web. It also can read subtitles.

djoPlayer for Mac allows you to activate the PostProcessing very simply, in order to see less of those ugly squares in your video... You can set up some options like the level of PostProcessing or the size and aspect of the subtitles. djoPlayer for Mac Download