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

The component works fine. It does EXACTLY what the information says it will do and nothing else. I see a lot of complaints about this product. Most of them folks who are not reading the requirements of the component and are unfamiliar with their own computer set up. Be an informed buyer, Apple does not guide your hand for everything.

I wanted to edit material that was on DVDs, and tried various methods without success. MPEG Streamclip told me I needed this software, so came to this thread to get the scoop from others.

It is for a previous versión = does not work for you (Spanish message: No se puede instalar QuickTimeMPEG2 en este disco. Este software ha sido diseñado para usarse con una versión anterior de Mac OS X.)

I paid $20 USD and the policies don´t allow me ask my money back.

I wanted to edit material that was on DVDs, and tried various methods without success. MPEG Streamclip told me I needed this software, so came to this thread to get the scoop from others. With all the negative comments I was not sure it was going to work for me, but using the MPEG Streamclip installer it worked like a charm, I am now doing my edits.

I'm not amused that it cost me $30 ($20 in the US - why so much more in Canada when the $ is at parity?), especially given the price for the WHOLE of Lion, but at least I am able to do what I wanted in the first place.

I saw all review, since i use Sony handycam also, i but this software, and down load mpeg stream clip...... STIILL NO SOUND !! ,

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.

It would be nice if they had a safer more visible warning that the codec doesn't install on OS Lion. Fast $20 flushed down the toilet.

By the way, I cannot play MPEG-2 multiplexed content ".mpg" files in quicktime, iMovie or Final Cut. HUH??? MPG is like the most common compression method used on the planet!

Trying to run view and import mpg files from my Sony Camcorder on my Mac Mini with Lion installed. As many have said before had no problem viewing this on my windows PC. Decided to move to Mac recently and it is disappointing that we need to shell out this money to play such a widespread format. Based on other comments on this page, installed the MPEG stream clip application first (version 1.9.3b7). Then downloaded the QT component. Interestingly enough, after I downloaded, the component did not install, with Mac saying this was for the wrong version of OS. Don't know why I was allowed to buy and download with the wrong version of OS. But I could install it using the "Utlility MPEG2 Component Lion" that came with MPEG Streamclip. At least some people seem to know what they are doing. Anyway, I am playing my mpg file with the Streamclip player with proper sound.

I've used this component for several years and found it to work satisfactorily. Although the component will not play back PCM or AC3 audio streams in QT Player, they can be played using a free, third-party player. I would strongly recommend getting a copy of MPEG Streamclip for anyone that works with MPEG data on a Macintosh.

does everything its supposed to

Because there is no means of identifying a specific need for this software by identifying beforehand the codec used on a given file, I wasted $20 buying in the hopes it would solve a -2048 error message I was getting trying to open a video clip identifying itself as an .mp4 file. No Mac or Windows software would open this video, sent by a webcam due to motion detection. Graphic Converter provided an error that listed -2048 system error as the problem, and Apple says on its web site that this is usually the result of a mismatched codec with several file types, and suggests that the MPEG-2 addon to Quicktime is the way to defeat this error. Apparently not in all cases, and not until after you pay them another $20 on top of paying for Quicktime Pro in order to find out! Somehow the industry has to standardize on video formats and at least limit them and their compression algorhythms to a handful that can be converted, one to the other, so that they can at least be read on all machines, even if they are not optimally displayed. This run around is a royal pain the a..