VLC Player is an open source and extremely compatible media decoder and player (audio + video).  It plays almost any media format you can think of.  

TenFiveTube is a standalone browser and player for using Youtube on PowerPC based Macs running OS X 10.5 Leopard. You can follow the development of TenFiveTube on this Macrumors thread:...

Artmatic 1.2 released by UI Software in 1999. This cool piece of vintage software can create synthesized images and videos. Includes presets. Later released as Artmatic Designer. No serial needed. "ArtMatic is new kind of program, an...

HandBrake is a open-source tool, built by volunteers, for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Reasons you’ll love HandBrake: Convert video from nearly any format Free and Open...

It’s a boom time for Mac nonlinear video-editing apps. In the under-$800 realm alone, there’s Radius EditDV for Firewire enthusiasts, the imminent Adobe Premiere upgrade, and the newly revamped Strata VideoShop 4.0/3D (formerly owned by...

With Gif·gIf·giF, you can quickly make GIF* animations of whatever is on your Macintosh screen. GIF animations placed on the world wide web can be viewed using popular web browsers without requiring any plug-ins. Registration...

A professional digital video editing application from Adobe, and the last version from before the program was rewritten as "Adobe Premiere Pro" (and became Windows-only from 2003 to 2007), along with being the last version to work on...

First iTunes release on CD  

The perfect software for any animator wannabe to work with on an older Mac OS X operating system. Wacom tablet (Cintiq or Intuos/Bamboo) or any other graphics tablet highly recommended!

Macromedia ups the ante in high-end multimedia authoring with version 6 of its flagship product, Director. It has been barely a year since the release of Director 5, so you might wonder what Macromedia could have packed into this latest rev. The...

Macromedia Director has always been the Orson Welles of multimedia authoring: hard to work with, but the best in the business. It goes beyond simply letting you combine text, graphics, video, audio, and animation into interactive productions; its...

iLife is a software suite launched by Apple in 2003, originally consisting of iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie and iDVD. GarageBand was introduced the next year and iWeb in 2006. The 2009 iLife version is said to mark "a major update" of the suite,...

On July 15, 2002, Apple released QuickTime 6.0, providing the following features: MPEG-4 playback, import, and export, including MPEG-4 Part 2 video and AAC Audio. Support for Flash 5, JPEG 2000, and improved Exif handling. Instant-on...