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

what is the point?
It was a sad learning experience to import things only to find-no sound!

Video will now play, but no audio.
Video with audio plays fine using alternative player VLC media player (free).
Looks like this Codec needs some more work, sadly in my case £15 wasted.

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.

We've had this for 8 months and can't use it because it keeps having an error during installation, and there are no supporting documents on how to address the issue. We love Quicktime and Apple Software, but this one disappoints.

I received several MPEG-2 files for broadcast and tried this for viewing.
CONFUSING - demands QT6, when QT7 is in play, download folder is named "For QuickTime 6.3" - is anyone awake there at Apple Store? Says use QT Updater to install - NO!, that's a link to 3rd party plug ins.
DIDN'T WORK. "The movie could not be opened" alert on atteemption to open all files. Unhelpful.
INSTALLED? Installer said successful, but QT preference panes do not indicate if installed or not.
Maybe we got sent some duff files, but this purchase & install procedure is rubbish on its own, and leaves me in the dark about bth installation and file status

I have just purchased this and it does work, contrary to what some reviewers say. However it is a bit galling to be having to pay extra for this when it should just work "out of the box", a phrase commonly used when referring to Apple products. But all I am concerned with is being able to use my mpeg files and get the footage off of my camcorder in a usable format, and it does exactly that.

don't buy, unless you bought your sony camcorder to become charlie chaplin or another silent film star.
image with no sound is the best you can ever hope for.
shame on you, mr. jobs. can you bring 'talkies' to the mac user anytime this century.

why is this something we have to pay for separately anyhow?

I was apprehensive about the process to import my files after reading the reviews, but this along with Streamclip works like a champ to handle movies from my Sony handycam HDD

This thing works fine with my Sony DVD handycam, I do get audio as well, all you need to do is change the settings, to tell the softwere not to read just the .vob(which is video only) but include both the audio and the video files while it reads it.

Like a couple of the others, I should have read the reviews, wanted it to play VOB file, which it does, would be good if I could hear teh audio though as it does not play it!!!!!! And like one of the other fellow reviewers, I do think that Apple could be clearer within the product description on what the software does and does not do, especially for the lay-man.