One Thing Well

A newly rewritten, faster and more stable version of the application that allows you to convert Quicktime files into Newton Movie format.

Via My Apple Newton.

Air Playit is a video streaming software designed to stream videos audios to Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Google Android OS mobile devices. Air Playit is capable of streaming 320 different video & audio formats to your mobile devices via WiFi and 3G/4G network. It acts as your personal audio video cloud server and lets you watch videos on the go.

App Store / Android

Download videos from various Flash-based video hosting sites, without having to use the Flash player.

Supports Linux, Windows and OS X.

Via Inconsolation.

 See also

• cclive
• Movgrab
• youtube-dl

Take a picture of yourself. Every day.

Inspired by Noah Kalina’s long-running daily self-portraiture project, Everyday includes tools to help you take consistent shots, and lets you export images as a time-lapse film.

App Store

HandBrakeBatch: a fully independent application which uses HandBrake video converter under the hood, and allows you to drag & drop a bunch of files at the same time, and convert them using any of the default HandBrake presets. Custom presets defined in HandBrake are fully supported as well.

Drag any movie file onto Beamer and it will start streaming wirelessly to your TV with Apple TV instantly. No jailbreak required.

A simple remux/recode app based on FFmpeg.

Features: * Change container without reencoding * Select, rearrange and duplicate tracks * Convert DTS to AC3 for e.g. AppleTV or PS3

Thanks, Arjen!

The Nomensa accessible media player is a flexible multimedia solution for websites and intranets. The core player consists of JavaScript wrapper responsible for generating an accessible HTML toolbar for interacting with a media player of your choice. We currently provide support for YouTube (default), Vimeo and JWPlayer although it should be possible to integrate the player with almost any media player on the web (provided a JavaScript api for the player in question is available).

movgrab is a downloader for all those pesky sites that insist you use a big fat browser that runs flash in order to see their content. It’s a command-line app written in straight C.

With support for ~50 video sites, Movgrab also offers a handy ‘generic’ option which will attempt to download video embedded in any web page. It can also be used with, e.g., mplayer to stream video.

 See also

• cclive
• yturl
• youtube-dl

An app for the iPhone 4S that lets you shoot video at 60fps, instead of the usual 30fps, which allows you to make smooth slow-motion clips.

App Store

Via b3ta.

Formerly Read It Later, the recently rebranded Pocket now lets you save images and video—as well as good old fashioned text—for later perusal on a variety of devices.

App Store / Play / Kindle Fire

movgrab is a downloader for all those pesky sites that insist you use a big fat browser that runs flash in order to see their content. It’s a command-line app written in straight C.

Launch Capture on your iPhone and it starts recording video immediately, saving the resulting recording to your camera roll on quit.

App Store

A simple YouTube media URL grabber for use with MPlayer or similar, like so:

mplayer -cache 8192 "$(yturl 'gWJIQm9qH-w')"

More info.