On 17-Feb-06, at 6:56 AM, MorningAJ wrote:
Amber Robey writes:
A relative in England has sent me two MPEG files but Quicktime
does not recognize or play them.
Remember the discussion on open-source goodies?
http://www.videolan.org
Go there and get VLC. It's quite wonderful.
cheers,
A.J.
Good Morning A.J,
Thanks for the reply. I did manage to download it and play the
video. However, I am wondering if there is a way to somehow convert
the video to quicktime format so I can import it into iMovie or iDVD ?
Amber
The most flexible way will cost you $20 - that' s the price of
Apple's QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component.
With that installed, you can use the wonder - and free - program MPEG
Stream Clip to export the video to dv.
Or, if you just want to produce a dvd, you can do it for free. Just
use MovieGate to make a dvd. You can create a menu and chapters for it.
(this way, of course, you don't get to edit the video, but you get a
dvd ready in under a half hour :-))
You can get both MPEG Stream Clip and MovieGate from the excellent
french site www.macetvideo.com
<rant> I fail to see why iDVD does not support mpeg2 files, even if
the qt mpeg2 component is installed </rant>
That's one more point in favor of MovieGate: if the video files are
already mpeg2, they do not need to be reencoded to produce a dvd.
Luis Sequeira
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