Desktop Playback and Encoding
As of November 2008, Dirac video playback is supported by VLC media player (version 0.9.2 or newer), and by applications using the GStreamer framework (such as Songbird, Rhythmbox and Totem). Support has also been added to FFmpeg.
Applications which can encode to Dirac include MediaCoder, LiVES and OggConvert, as well as FFmpeg.
A DirectShow filter exists for both Dirac and Schrödinger, although this is not supported on versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000 and has seemingly not been updated since early 2009.
Read more about this topic: Dirac (video Compression Format)