Reviews for QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component for Mac OS X

Other reviewers are poorly informed. The MPEG-2 component is necessary not because of Apple, but because the MPEG group required Apple to license it in years past. Since they had to pay this cost is rolled along to you. MPEG is also not technically designed to be edited so if you're bringing MPEG to into Final Cut you're doing it wrong to begin with. About the Lion comments, the functionality is built into Lion so you no longer need this product, Apple no longer charges you for MPEG functionality, I don't know why people are dinging them for it. If you need to install QuickTime 7 on Lion and need the Component, you can use the installed from Squared5 to install this.

does everything its supposed to

The Quicktime MPeg-2 add-on is essential for editing or playing muxed DVD streams or demuxed (elementary) streams on a mac using Quicktime Player 7, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and MpegStreamclip. It does NOT handle ac3 audio,
for that you would need either Perian or the AC2 Codec ( google either to find).

But if your elementary streams contain PCM or MP3 audio, it will handle
those files no problem.

This is my first recommendation when it comes to editing DVDs you made on the mac,
but don't have access to the original footage. You need to pull a clip off
that dvd you made for Grandma to send to Uncle Joe, you'll need this.

I was trying for hours to import videos from my sony camcorder....omg, such a hassle. all it kept saying was unrecognized format. i was getting so angry. finally i stumbled across this and IT WORKED!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. WORTH THE 19.99!!!!

I have a Sony DCR-IP220 that produces mmv files. Of course, Sony no longer supports that format so I basically have a verrrry expensive "betamax". I needed some way to see, convert and edit these on my iMac and MacBook Pro. After reading several posts all over the net, I finally settled on "MPEG StreamClip v. 1.93b4" (beta) and went ahead, bought and installed the MPEG-2 Playback Component for MAC OS X. All of this took place after hours and hours of trying different player converters/add-ons, etc.

All I can say is that it works and works flawlessly. I have NONE of the problems reported by many others regarding loss of audio. Since I am converting from a proprietary file type (Sony mmv) I didn't have much hope that it would work at all but, so far, (with fingers crossed) no problems whatsoever.

I am converting mmv files and most of the reviewers on here don't have to deal with that headache but I have to say that I am a little bit happier with my "betamax" now. :)))

Just purchased in order to work with MPEG Streamclip and my Sony Handycam video files. I agree we shouldn't have to purchase additional software just to make it work but at least it did work!

I downloaded MPEG Streamclip first and tried to convert and Streamclip pointed me directly to this MPEG-2 Playback Component Site. I bought it, downloaded it, restarted my computer and it worked beautifully. Just need to download and install and the rest takes care of itself. No problems with audio at all. Operating Snow Leopard and using MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3.b2.

I have a new JVC camcorder which creates those lovely .MOD files. I used to use Pinnacle Studio to edit stuff on the PC and it worked fine if I just changed the file name. But for the Mac it wasn't that easy (PC died and I switched to Mac). After downloading at least 5 Mac applications to try and do the conversion, I put out the 20 bucks and also downloaded Streamclip. So much easier for me! Audio worked fine. Video was shot in 16:9 and it kept the format. Most other conversion applications only had 4:3 output. While iMovie is not as good as Studio (IMO) this now at least let's me edit some quick family video and burn to DVD.

Frankly I cannot understand all the one starrers out there.

There seem to be a lot of people having problems with audio. If, for example, you're wanting to extract the contents of a DVD so you can edit them in say Final Cut, you'll need to use MPEG Streamclip to convert the VOB files ripped from the DVD to a codec that editing packages understand. Without the QT MP2 Playback installed (at the time of writing, Feb09, onto QT Player 7.6) this isn't possible.

In your editing package you may need to render the clips you export from MPEG Streamclip in order to be able to hear the audio, though in iMovie '08 I don't even think that's necessary.

The thing couldn't possibly be simpler or cleaner to use!

DOWNLOAD: the download tab is right there on your receipt when you buy the thing. It's the word highlighted in blue in your order summary and it reads, cryptically enough I admit, "Download" with a little downward pointing blue arrow next to it.

It's tip top, don't diss it.

This software works EXACTLY as advertised.

This software is a VIDEO decoder.

This has NOTHING to do with audio. When you by this component you are granted the right to use the license required to view MPEG-2 files.

Many have written that this software is a waste of money. They think this out of pure ignorance.

Combine this component with MPEG Streamclip (freeware) and you can rip DVDs to your heart's content.