Hello,
I can create DVD that I can perfectly play under OSX and Windows, but I would prefer having just mpeg2 files that I could play.
I don't have an OSX computer at home to test right now, anyone know how I could do the conversion such that I can play the mpeg2 files without needing to install something more on the OSX computer (I can't as I am only an user...) ?
A solution with vdrsync.pl would be great :-)
Grégoire Favre schrieb:
Hello,
I can create DVD that I can perfectly play under OSX and Windows, but I would prefer having just mpeg2 files that I could play.
I don't have an OSX computer at home to test right now, anyone know how I could do the conversion such that I can play the mpeg2 files without needing to install something more on the OSX computer (I can't as I am only an user...) ?
A solution with vdrsync.pl would be great :-)
Hi,
just use something like
vdrsync.pl -m --cut /path/to/recording
It multiplexes a/v to a regular mpeg2. Rather get the latest vdrsync.pl.
Cheers
S.
Sebastian schrieb:
Grégoire Favre schrieb:
Hello,
I can create DVD that I can perfectly play under OSX and Windows, but I would prefer having just mpeg2 files that I could play.
I don't have an OSX computer at home to test right now, anyone know how I could do the conversion such that I can play the mpeg2 files without needing to install something more on the OSX computer (I can't as I am only an user...) ?
A solution with vdrsync.pl would be great :-)
Hi,
just use something like
vdrsync.pl -m --cut /path/to/recording
It multiplexes a/v to a regular mpeg2. Rather get the latest vdrsync.pl.
Cheers
S.
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http://vdrsync.vdr-portal.de/releases/vdrsync-050322.tgz
That's the latest and greatest :)
S.
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:57:24AM +0200, Sebastian wrote:
just use something like
vdrsync.pl -m --cut /path/to/recording
It multiplexes a/v to a regular mpeg2. Rather get the latest vdrsync.pl.
That's great to know that quicktime/vdrsync.pl have improved :-)
One year ago I tried that way, and lots of the conversed mpeg2 files weren't playable by quicktime.
I'll retry so then, thank for the info,
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:57:24AM +0200, Sebastian wrote:
just use something like
vdrsync.pl -m --cut /path/to/recording
It multiplexes a/v to a regular mpeg2. Rather get the latest vdrsync.pl.
Just sent a file converted with this way to a friend : it don't play with quicktime, as quicktime don't recognize it...
Anyone got an idea why and how to solve it ?
Grégoire Favre schrieb:
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:57:24AM +0200, Sebastian wrote:
just use something like
vdrsync.pl -m --cut /path/to/recording
It multiplexes a/v to a regular mpeg2. Rather get the latest vdrsync.pl.
Just sent a file converted with this way to a friend : it don't play with quicktime, as quicktime don't recognize it...
Anyone got an idea why and how to solve it ?
I don't know anything about quicktime. But maybe just try a different player. I'd try VLC. Plays almost everything.
Cheers
S.
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:14:54PM +0200, Sebastian wrote:
I don't know anything about quicktime. But maybe just try a different player. I'd try VLC. Plays almost everything.
He he he, my problem is that the computer I have access to teach are more or less secured and I can't install anything on them...
From my point of view, mplayer should be installed on all OSX
computers... and it can play anything, but I have to do with what are installed ;-)
If I don't find a better solution, I will still create "real" DVD...
Thank,
On Sunday 05 June 2005 13:16, Grégoire Favre wrote:
That's great to know that quicktime/vdrsync.pl have improved :-)
I can't see how there could be anything to improve. vdrsync.pl just demuxes the streams and uses tcmplex to create a (very much standard format, been around for over 10 years) mpeg2 program stream. If quicktime can't play mpeg2 program streams then there's nothing you can do about that except maybe send feature request to apple.
One year ago I tried that way, and lots of the conversed mpeg2 files weren't playable by quicktime.
You mean to say some of them were playable? Sure those weren't some other format?
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:53:52PM +0300, Jukka Tastula wrote:
I can't see how there could be anything to improve. vdrsync.pl just demuxes the streams and uses tcmplex to create a (very much standard format, been around for over 10 years) mpeg2 program stream. If quicktime can't play mpeg2 program streams then there's nothing you can do about that except maybe send feature request to apple.
I am not a great quicktime fan, I just have to "work" with it... I won't start a war here : I am only interested if someone know how to do a very basic conversion (for example, there is no standard mpeg2 files, if you create them with mplex, you could choose betweem format 3,8 and 9... maybe I should play with those options ?)
One year ago I tried that way, and lots of the conversed mpeg2 files weren't playable by quicktime.
You mean to say some of them were playable? Sure those weren't some other format?
You are totaly right : they were of different formats :-) Sorry for the wrong info.
On Sunday 05 June 2005 16:18, Grégoire Favre wrote:
I am not a great quicktime fan, I just have to "work" with it...
I do understand this.
I won't start a war here : I am only interested if someone know how to do a very basic conversion (for example, there is no standard mpeg2 files, if you create them with mplex, you could choose betweem format 3,8 and 9... maybe I should play with those options ?)
As far as I understand the flags in mplex are mostly so that mplex knows what kind of data to expect. Of course there are incompatible options for some formats and setting the appropriate --format makes mplex ignore those. But the program stream format is still very much a standard thing and not something the mplex developers pulled out of their hats the other day.
The reason why quicktime doesn't support it is probably licensing issue of some kind. And of course apple wants everyone to use their magnificent quicktime formats so you can't easily convert into anything usable and change player.
Le dimanche 05 juin 2005 à 16:40 +0300, Jukka Tastula a écrit :
The reason why quicktime doesn't support it is probably licensing issue of some kind.
This is the correct reason. If you want mpeg formats you must buy an extension to quicktime that costs $20.
And of course apple wants everyone to use their magnificent quicktime formats so you can't easily convert into anything usable and change player.
Quicktime 7 -> and MPEG4 are one and the same thing. You can knock Apple if you want but they invented desktop video back in the early 1990s. I think you should be thanking them instead for making desktop video possible. In the corner of my home office I have a an AV Mac that is dated 1993 - just think of what kind of video you could play back on a PC or under Linux then...
Tony
Am 05.06.2005 um 12:34 schrieb Grégoire Favre:
Just sent a file converted with this way to a friend : it don't play with quicktime, as quicktime don't recognize it...
AFAIK you need Quicktime MPEG2 component to play mpeg2 streams with Quicktim player.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
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