List of QuickTime codecs supported by the mac os port
(WARNING: This info is very old; take with a grain of salt)
List of QuickTime codecs on Mac OS X 10.4.6, PPC, QuickTime 7.1, third party 3ivx, XviD and DivX codecs installed:
Number of compressor components: 30 '3IV2' 3ivx D4 4.5.1 Compresses an image into 3ivx D4 format. '8BPS' Apple Planar RGB Compresses images in the Planar RGB format. 'SVQ1' Sorenson Video™ Compressor Compresses video using the Sorenson Video™ V2.30.302 compressor from Sorenson™ Media, Inc. 'SVQ3' Sorenson Video 3 Compressor Compresses video using the Sorenson Video® 3 SE V 3.3.302 compressor from Sorenson® Media, Inc. 'WRLE' Apple BMP Compresses images in the BMP format. 'XVID' XviD Decompresses video stored in XviD format. 'avc1' H.264 Encoder Compresses video to the H.264 format. 'cvid' Apple Cinepak Compresses images using Apple Computer's Cinepak compression algorithm 'dv5n' Apple DVCPRO50 - NTSC Compresses an image to DVCPRO50 NTSC format. 'dv5p' Apple DVCPRO50 - PAL Compresses an image to DVCPRO50 PAL format. 'dvc ' Apple DV/DVCPRO - NTSC Compresses an image to DV/DVCPRO NTSC format. 'dvcp' Apple DV - PAL Compresses an image to DV PAL format. 'dvpp' Apple DVCPRO - PAL Compresses an image to DVCPRO PAL format. 'h261' Apple H.261 Compresses images using H.261 compression algorithm 'h263' H.263 Compresses images using H.263 compression algorithm 'h263' Apple VC H.263 Compresses images using H.263 compression algorithm 'jpeg' Apple Photo - JPEG Compresses images using the ISO standard baseline JPEG algorithm 'mjp2' JPEG 2000 Encoder Compresses images to the JPEG 2000 JP2 format. 'mjpa' Apple Motion JPEG A Compresses images compressed using Motion JPEG Format A 'mjpb' Apple Motion JPEG B Compresses images compressed using Motion JPEG Format B 'mp4v' Apple MPEG4 Compressor Compresses images using MPEG4 compression algorithm 'png ' Apple PNG Compresses images in the PNG format. 'pxlt' Apple Pixlet Video Apple Pixlet Video Info 'raw ' Apple None Stores images without any compression 'rle ' Apple Animation Compresses images using run length encoding 'rpza' Apple Video Compresses images using Apple Computer's Video compression algorithm 'smc ' Apple Graphics Compresses images using Sean's secret recipe (optimal for 8-bit dithered images) 'tga ' Apple TGA Compresses images stored into the TGA format. 'tiff' Apple TIFF Compresses images in the TIFF format. 'yuv2' Apple Component Video - YUV422 Compresses an image into YUV format.