On Feb 19, 2006, at 12:11 AM, Amber Robey wrote:
I had been told that Quicktime Pro 7 and the MPEG-2 Playback Add-
on would allow me to transcode these files so that they will not
stutter. I was hoping that somebody here had both and could
test this for me with a small file before I go ahead and buy the
two.
VLC wil play mpeg2. If it plays in the free VLC, then it will
play in the expensive, double-quicktime purchase.
Hi Brian,
VLC will play them but that's about it. I need to be able to edit
them in iMovie (recognizable by Quicktime) and so far, I haven't
been able to find a way to do that with VLC...do you know how ?
Amber
Nope! I was responding to your above question about whether you
could be sure of the double purchase giving you capability to view in
QT. So it should do that for sure. VLC indicates thay are mpeg2
right?
I would expect that spending the $ to let you play them, would also
let you edit them, but this is Apple, and I have not the capability
to test as I'm not going to fork out the double $ to get Pro and the
codec (I have one of the iLife bundles that came with my laptop though).
VLC isn't an editor; If you have access to a XP machine, you could
try the free nanoedit utils for working with mpeg2 files that come
with a Hauppauge.com card, available for download from their support
pages for the PVR-350; it may or may not require the hardware but I
think not.
If you have flexibility in quality or window size, and really don't
wish to pay the $ for the 2 QT pieces, you *could* play them with VLC
(especially if played in a window), capture them again with the
SnapzPro demo, and have them in a regular video format that iMovie
should take. I'm not an iMovie guy but that should/might work.
Depends on how badly you wish to avoid spending $ and what you want
for quality, I guess.
HTH.
Brian
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