QuickTime MPEG 2 Playback Component won't install on El Capitan?

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Russ

Russ H wrote:

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So now, it's pretty much a free, albeit limited, compression app – with a few features that don't exist in Compressor, …

for me, MpegStreamclip was always 'poor mans compressor' … that nice mov>>mp4 rewrapping in seconds, for example.

but, over the years, my needs had changed - DVDs? Converting BACK? No way …

mp2, highly compressed, SDef, as source?… meanwhile beyond my 'standards' 😝

in the past three years, I had exactly two family projects asking to import antique stuff into a new FCPX project - Handbrake>>h264>>done.

Only new vs old issue here: for those 1 or 2 projects a year, I need a 'designed' disk, goo' ol' iDVD existed on some outer sector of my hdd - switched to macSierra - byebye, old friend. Looks like the latest update of Compressor is my best choice … different story for those who do DVDs with complex menus frequently, wedding video makers for instance.

I thought that's what you meant... Compressor 4 has batch list capability but far better. You can have as many input files as you like, and each input file can have multiple outputs (i.e. transcode for a variety of targets in one go, MPEG Streamclip is strictly 1-to-1) and you can even send each transcoded output individually to different disk destinations. MPEG Streamclip doesn't offer that level of flexibility.

But that screenshot does show another thing that MPEG Streamclip can do that Compressor can't do - repair timecode breaks in source material. There's probably a non-legacy alternative app to do that but I haven't gone looking.

"my needs had changed - DVDs? Converting BACK? No way … mp2, highly compressed, SDef, as source?"

Well sometimes that's all the source comes as (not as a DVD, but as an MPEG-2 file from somewhere), and I want to edit it. It's that or nothing, and Compressor fails in that job.

I'm surprised you like H264 so much. It creates too much smoothing and blocking for my liking at SD. For SD interlaced material, MPEG-2 is much better than H.264. But for progressive HD, or frame sizes or frame rates not supported in MPEG-2, yeah, H.264 is OK if encoded correctly.

I don't know why people rave about Handbrake. I find it a horrible application. VLC too. Never got VLC to transcode anything successfully.

Anyways, this is getting off-topic.

Brendan Jones wrote:

… For SD interlaced material, MPEG-2 is much better than H.264. …

… who's using 480/i anyhow? 😉

(yep, sure, historic documentaries and such)

Brendan Jones wrote:

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I don't know why people rave about Handbrake. I find it a horrible application. VLC too. Never got VLC to transcode anything successfully.

mentioned VLC only, in case of transcoding <cough> 'protected' DVDs …

HB is fast, easy to use, comes with handy presets and some knobs to tinker with - very Mac-like, that's all. When you have to squeeze out the last 0.5% of so-called quality, you have to go the ffmpeg route - but that is 'for engineers only' LOL

I guess we can all agree: in the end, it depends on your needs, skills and wallet.

… when was mpeg2 invented? 25y ago…?

And interlaced - 80y ago, Telefunken, yeah, another 'dead' German company.... LOL

I just installed Sierra and have the same problem with Mpeg streamclip. My quicktime player does allow me to open mpeg 2 files but not stream clip. The only reason I really need mpeg streamclip anymore is to rip DVDs from clients. That however, doesn't work anymore either. Does anyone know of a free or cheap dvd ripper?

It doesn't appear to exist any longer.

Thanks a lot Brendan for your answer.

I've found the version 7.6 Build 76A74 and I've installed it with Utility MPEG2 Component M.Lion.

It's OK now.

JPaul.