MPEG-2 in QT

[Thargok]

Keeping the file as MPEG-2 does anybody know how to get around the QT size bug? (Jaw MPEG-2 splitter is an expired version and I don't think there will be an update)

[Thargok]

Since I am getting so much help...

Would splitting in ffmpeg work correctly (for megs I would use bitrate and some math)?

Does anybody know if it is compatible with MPEG-2 streams? (major)

[bilestyle]

dude you made the post the same day a few minutes/hours later... how do you expect someone to respond to you that quickly? patience... anyways-- the best way i've found to do it is demux to elementary streams then muliplex in mplex (mmt) and set the force segment size at 4000 and it will give you one 4000 meg segment and then whatever is left in the second file... splitting the muxed mpeg is not the best and most reliable way to do it.. i think demuxing and remuxing is the best way to go... and under NO circumstances do you want to transcode JUST video in qt, you think muxed mpeg is a pain at 4 gigs, JUST video even smaller than 4 gigs can cause even worse problems.. quicktime does NOT like working with JUST mpeg-1 or 2 video.

[Thargok]

I know I was a little trigger happy, sorry about that. I was just throwing around ideas.

Would it be good to decompress any audio...then throw that into a QT contianer .mov with the M2V and then use that to transcode?

[galactica]

I am aware you can "trick" quicktime to accept your .m2v file by doing the following

create an image file that is the size of your movie 720x480 for example

i think it has to be a .pict but i cant remember. Make the entire image black. Import this, so that quicktime shows the image as a black movie frame.

Now drag your .m2v into the black quicktime file you just made. It will import the movie file into this.

This will allow you to play back the .m2v file which you can then add your sound to using the add or add scaled, using .mp3 for audio

then export or save as a quicktime and your good to go. It will be large though!

not sure if this is what you were looking for in your question

[bilestyle]

The actual image size you want to make is 640x480 -- quicktime doesn't seem to think the file is actually 720 even though every other media program will tell you its 720.

In addition to that you dont want to import JUST the m2v file into quicktime. For one larger files that are JUST video files take FOREVER to open in quicktime. In addition quicktime has a 4 gigabyte limit for files it will view and export properly. That limit is even more erratic and unpredictable with m2v files. But this WILL allow you to export to mpeg-2 (if you have the mpeg-2 export component, which is included in the DVD Studio Pro Package)

this is most certainly the quickest way to transcode mpeg-2 to mpeg-2 on a macintosh. On my DP 800 it transcodes mpeg-2->mpeg-2 in realtime. Unfortunately it has its drawbacks. 4 gig limit being the main one, in addition you don't have a lot of control over the mpeg-2 settings with the export module.