Quick Time Player Upgrade

[chattahoochee]

Using Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 I find it difficult to opening some MPEG videos in Quick Time Player. I tried to upgrade but cannot get above version 10.0 in Quick Time Player. My actual problem is with iDVD being the videos cannot be loaded. Any suggestions ?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Download VideoSpec and open one of the not working MPEG videos and create a report file (a .txt file) and attach that file to your next post in order to find out what is wrong.

 

[chattahoochee]

***** Analyzed File Results *****

*** General Parameters ***
- Name: Saber !.mpg
- Container: Mpeg Program Stream
- Creation Date: 2011-11-13 12:01:54 PM
- Size: 32.09 MB
- Duration: 48s 682ms
- Bitrate: 5 278 Kbps
- Fast start: Not available
- Encoding Library: Undefined
- Encoding Application: Undefined

*** Video Track Parameters ***
- Format: MPEG-2 Video
- Size: 30.72 MB (96%)
- FourCC: 0x10000002
- Track number(s): 0
- Bitrate: Max.: 7 500 Kbps
Average: 5 045 Kbps
Min.: Undefined
- Frame rate (fps): Max.: Undefined
Average: 23.976
Min.: Undefined
- Bitrate mode: Variable
- Encoding profile: Main@Main
- Resolution: Undefined
- Width (Pixel number): 720
- Height (Pixel number): 480
- Pixel Aspect Ratio: Undefined
- Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Chroma subsampling format: YUV 4:2:0
- Standard: NTSC
- Interlacing: Progressive - 2:3 Pulldown
- Encoding library: Undefined
- Additional Parameters: BVOP: Yes
Matrix: Custom
GOP: M=3
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) ratio: 0.609

*** Audio Track(s) Parameters ***
*** Audio Track #1
- Format: Mpeg-1 layer 2 (mp2)
- Size: 778.2 KB (2%)
- FourCC: 0x50
- Number(s) and language(s): 192 (0xC0): Undefined
- Details: Undefined
- Profile: Layer 2
- Bitrate: 128 Kbps
- Bitrate mode: Constant
- Resolution: Undefined
- Rate: 44.1 KHz
- Channel(s): 2 (stereo)
- Position: Undefined
- Encoding Library: Undefined
- Additional Parameters: Not available

*** Miscellaneous ***
- Subtitle(s): #1 : EIA-608 - ---
- Metadata: Album: Undefined
Part number: Undefined
Track name: Undefined
Track name number: Undefined
Performer: Undefined
Screenplayer/Writer: Undefined
Genre: Undefined
Encoded date: Undefined
Comment: Undefined
Album artist: Undefined
Grouping: Undefined

 

[chattahoochee]

This is one of the MPEG files that will open:
***** Analyzed File Results *****

*** General Parameters ***
- Name: Folding the Flag .mpg
- Container: Mpeg Program Stream
- Creation Date: 2011-10-08 2:20:49 PM
- Size: 21.6 MB
- Duration: 3mn 56s
- Bitrate: 731 Kbps
- Fast start: Not available
- Encoding Library: Undefined
- Encoding Application: Undefined

*** Video Track Parameters ***
- Format: MPEG-1 Video
- Size: 17.41 MB (80%)
- FourCC: 0x10000001
- Track number(s): 0
- Bitrate: Max.: 1 150 Kbps
Average: 588 Kbps
Min.: Undefined
- Frame rate (fps): Max.: Undefined
Average: 25.000
Min.: Undefined
- Bitrate mode: Variable
- Encoding profile: Undefined
- Resolution: Undefined
- Width (Pixel number): 720
- Height (Pixel number): 480
- Pixel Aspect Ratio: Undefined
- Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Chroma subsampling format: YUV
- Standard: NTSC
- Interlacing: Progressive
- Encoding library: Undefined
- Additional Parameters: BVOP: No
Matrix: Default
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) ratio: 0.068

*** Audio Track(s) Parameters ***
*** Audio Track #1
- Format: Mpeg-1 layer 2 (mp2)
- Size: 3.77 MB (18%)
- FourCC: 0x50
- Number(s) and language(s): 192 (0xC0): Undefined
- Details: Undefined
- Profile: Layer 2
- Bitrate: 128 Kbps
- Bitrate mode: Constant
- Resolution: Undefined
- Rate: 44.1 KHz
- Channel(s): 2 (stereo)
- Position: Undefined
- Encoding Library: Undefined
- Additional Parameters: Not available

*** Miscellaneous ***
- Subtitle(s): No Subtitle
- Metadata: Album: Undefined
Part number: Undefined
Track name: Undefined
Track name number: Undefined
Performer: Undefined
Screenplayer/Writer: Undefined
Genre: Undefined
Encoded date: Undefined
Comment: Undefined
Album artist: Undefined
Grouping: Undefined

 

[simsaladimbamba]

As far as I can see, you need the MPEG-2 Playback Component for QuickTime, available via the Apple Online Store.

Or you simply use VLC Player, but since you want to get that footage into iMovie, you need to transcode it via MPEG Streamclip to a QuickTime file (.MOV) using the Apple Intermediate Codec.
For that, you need that MPEG-2 Playback Component, but there may be ways around this nowadays, though I do not know them.