Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component isn't installed

You install the component in the OS. You open the installer bundle then run Streamclip and point it to the component in the installer. That's all Streamclip needs. It does the rest. But you have to have the installer, which is no longer available from Apple.

This is not universally true.

It depends on what you want Streamclip to accomplish. Many of us can no longer unpack DVD files with MPEGStreamclip using MacOS Sierra, with or without ye olde MPEG2 Playback Component. There's a lengthy discussion about this on fop.co. This product no longer works on our Sierra systems and we've tried what we think is every work around.

Note that the last time Squared5 touched this product was 2 to 4 years ago. Much has changed in the Quicktime and OS since then.

If you attempt to use the stand alone version (1.9.2) with an old version of the MPEG-2 Playback component, you're correct. I just did this yesterday for the same reason: ripping DVD on a laptop that I don't usually use. Tried the standard version with my MPEG-2 playback install = FAIL.

But if you download the beta version (1.9.3b8), it includes a version of the MPEG-2 playback component that will install and will work on Sierra.

Did you upgrade the os from the App Store or do a clean install? If the later you'll need the MPEG-2 installer for Streamclip. If you don't have it in a backup you'll have to look for other software to rip DVDs.

@Dark1: Just to add that Handbrake is a popular alternative to Streamclip for DVDs.

@Tom: I was unable to get the Playback Component to install after installing 10.12 over 10.10. (I do have it on 10.11.)

Russ

If you use the Beta version for Mac (1.9.3b.8), all will work fine.

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html