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How to get quicktime to play MPEG2 video AND AUDIO?

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mingspace

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I am a new Mac user, and I bought a mac for the main purpose of video editing. However, all my files are MPEG2, and so far, I have had a very frustrating experience with trying to figure out how to play it back on Quicktime with Audio. I downloaded Pro, as well as the MPEG2 add on. It plays video fine, but can someone please tell me how to get it to play audio step by step?

Lastly, I have Final Cut and iTunes and audio won't play with the video there either. I am assuming once I have it fixed in quicktime, it will work in all other programs too?
 
mingspace said:
I am a new Mac user, and I bought a mac for the main purpose of video editing. However, all my files are MPEG2, and so far, I have had a very frustrating experience with trying to figure out how to play it back on Quicktime with Audio. I downloaded Pro, as well as the MPEG2 add on. It plays video fine, but can someone please tell me how to get it to play audio step by step?

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MPEG-2 is an output format and not intended to be edited. To edit, you should return to your source files. Owing to licensing agreement with Sorensen, the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is available at $19.99 US plus tax. Keep in mind that this is playback only. If you don't have the source files, transcoding to an editable format will result in reduced quality. There have been several utilities that are advertised as being able to transcode MPEG-2 to .mov. However, ffmpegX is probably as good as any.
 
I used ffmpegx to convert to .mov, and now there's no audio.....

Any help?
 
MisterMe said:
MPEG-2 is an output format and not intended to be edited. To edit, you should return to your source files. Owing to licensing agreement with Sorensen, the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is available at $19.99 US plus tax. Keep in mind that this is playback only. If you don't have the source files, transcoding to an editable format will result in reduced quality. There have been several utilities that are advertised as being able to transcode MPEG-2 to .mov. However, ffmpegX is probably as good as any.
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Yes, in my original thread, I said I already purchased this. Video playback is not the problem. The problem is that the audio isn't playing back. Still need help.
 
OK, so I got this ffmpegx software to make the conversion. But I have hundreds of video files which would take forever. Just wondering if there is simply a codec I can install to play these files back with sound rather than doing a time consuming conversion on all of them...
 
Bringing back an old thread. Same question applies. I have a lot of family videos that were imported on a windows pc as an mpeg-2 with ac-3.

As far as I have been looking, there is no way to play these clips with video and sound in iphoto/quicktime. I have the mpeg2 component installed so the video plays, just no audio.

If there is no way to have them playback, i'm open to converting them all to a recognizable format. However, there needs to be a way that I can keep the date created the same as the original due to organization. The other thing I would like is a way to automate it. There are 1100 clips, so i don't really want to do each one at a time.
 
If you need them to play in Quicktime, then there is not a solution other than mass-converting them. If it is ok to play them in another application, use VLC, as it will play almost anything you throw at it.
 
They do play fine in VLC, the problem is they want the clips to show up in iPhoto with all the pictures so they are organized. After continual search, I believe the only thing left to do is a mass convert. I just need to know how to convert and maintain the date created.
 
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