Best Free Video Converter for Mac

The vast selection of free 3rd party applications available for Mac OS X always surprises people when they're new to the platform. Among that abundance of software is a collection of free Mac video converters which can cover nearly any video format.

Take a look at these 5 Mac video conversion tools which are completely free and surprisingly full-featured. 

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
Handbrake is a DVD ripping application, allowing you to convert a DVD to a video file. It supports ripping from any DVD-like source, including a VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted), and some VOB and TS files.

Download: http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

ffmpegX

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. This GUI provides quick encoding to DivX, MPG1, MP2, MP3 & AC3. You can therefore convert DVD video to DivX, DivX to VCD or XVCD, and DVD to VCD or XVCD. Includes a bitrate calculator and an mpeg splitter for multiple CD output.

Download:
Mac OS Lion: ftp://ftp2.ffmpegx.com/ffmpegx/ffmpegX.dmg
Mac OS 10.3-10.6: ftp://ftp2.ffmpegx.com/ffmpegx/ffmpegX_0.0.9y.dmg

MPEG Streamclip

MPEG Streamclip is a freeware video editor/converter for MPEG-1/MPEG-2, and transport streams.
- It can play, edit and export a variety of formats, using a compatible QuickTime codec.
- It can convert between MPEG/MPEG-2 type formats with no loss of video quality.
- It can convert between formats compatible with QuickTime.

Download: http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/MPEG_Streamclip_1.9.2.dmg

iSquint

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er. It's also really easy. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose "TV" or "iPod" size, set your quality, or even goes all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.

Download: http://www.macupdate.com/download/19769/iSquint1.5.2.dmg
 

FLV2iTunes

FLV2iTunes is a simple application that can help solve this by converting movies to iTunes, iPod, and iPhone supported formats. FLV2iTunes is pretty flexible accepting most major movie formats including WMV, XVID, DIVX, FLV and AVI. As the name suggests, it's also well integrated with iTunes immediately transferring converted files into the iTunes library.

Download:
Mac OS 10.4: http://www.kurniadi.org/flv2itunes/files/FLV2iTunes_0.9.10.zip
Mac OS 10.5: http://www.kurniadi.org/flv2itunes/files/FLV2iTunes_0.9.11.zip