MacVCD X Video Media Player for Mac OS X Specifications

Besides playing VCD, MacVCD X plays almost everything else including SVCD*, XSVCD*, XVCD, MPEG1, MPEG2*, MPEG4, AVI*, DivX*, XviD*, WMV*, Quicktime Movie (.mov) and DV.

MacVCD X will play:

MPEG Player:

• MPEG1 - VCD, MP3, XVCD
• MPEG2 - SVCD*, XSVCD*
• MPEG4

Digital Video Player:

• AVI*, DivX*, XviD*, WMV*, Quicktime Movie, mov, (.mov), DV, DVC, DV Pal, Photo VCD, Karaoke VCD, Apple Video, Component video, Sorenson Video 2 & 3, Microsoft OLE & Video 1

Quicktime Movie (.mov) Player:

• Quicktime Movie (.mov)

Other:

• most other video, animation, image and audio formats. For a complete list, click here

MacVCD X features:

	Easy VCD, XVCD playback with automatic VCD format recognition and file chaining, auto play and auto eject
	Plays almost every video format, including MPEG, AVI*, DivX*, XviD*, Quicktime Movie (.mov) and DV
	Playback window options - full screen or small screen with the re-sizeable playback window, TV playback
	Video saving - Save VCDs as Self Contained Quicktime movies to play from hard disk and save battery life, Save VCDs as Reference Quicktime movies to play favorite scenes
	Basic editing (remove commercials or make favorite scenes movie)
	Supports both multi-language and Karaoke VCD
	Advanced movie controls including track selection, slow motion, fast motion, backwards playback
	Multiple control options, Menu, Controller, Keyboard and Hands Free™ speech activated controls
	Free demo, Free Support

System Requirements:

To run MacVCD X you need:

• Macintosh™ PowerPC G3 or later or an Intel Mac (MacIntel)
• Mac OS X® 10.1 or later (We recommend 10.1.5 for better playback on older machines)
• MacVCD X is Mac OS X® 10.5 Leopard compatible
• QuickTime® 5 or later (We recommend Quicktime 6 or later for improved MPEG playback).

To play SVCDs (Super VCD, MPEG2) or XSVCD you may need:

• the Quicktime MPEG-2 Playback Component, available from Apple for $20US
  

or, you can use

• The MPlayer component (for installation information, click here
  

To play AVI you may need:

• Universal AVI Quicktime components
  (available from our Digital Video Resource Page)
  

  or
  

• The MPlayer component (for installation information, click here
  
  
• If the AVI contains a WMV, you'll need the Flip4Mac QuickTime component available here (free)

To play DivX you may need:

• Universal AVI Quicktime components
  (available from our Digital Video Resource Page)
  
  or
  
  
• The MPlayer component (for installation information, click here

And, you may also need

• AC3codec

To play XviD you may need:

• Universal AVI Quicktime components
  (available from our Digital Video Resource Page)
  
  or
  
  
• The MPlayer component (for installation information, click here

To play WMV you may need:

• Flip4Mac QuickTime component (available for free)

To play a movie in full screen, you need:

• Macintosh™ PowerPC G3/300 mhz or faster

To play a movie in fast motion, you need:

• Macintosh™ PowerPC G3/500 mhz or faster

To display a movie on a second screen (TV Playback), you need:

• Macintosh™ PowerPC G3 with a video out port (to determine if your computer supports this, see your Owner's Manual)

To use the "hands free" feature, you need:

• Macintosh™ PowerPC G3/300 mhz or faster
• The Apple Speech Recognition module installed on your computer. This has to be installed and configured before the "hands free" feature will work. For further information, see
  http://www.apple.com/macos/speech/
• a USB stereo Headset (headphone and microphone) we used the Plantronics DSP-300 Headset