Quick[sic]TimePro

Tony Crockford tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Fri Mar 28 03:46:24 PDT 2008


On 28 Mar 2008, at 10:36, Jonathan Sanderson wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2008, at 10:21, Andrew Brown wrote:
>> I have a licence for QuickTime Pro, but cannot find how to download  
>> it. Or is QT Pro just a registered version of the free QT player?  
>> Does QuickTime Pro include Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback  
>> Component? I'll be damned if I'm going to give Apple 20 dollars or  
>> euros or pounds on top of the cash already thrown away on QT Pro.
>
> The MPEG2 component is a separate license - I think via the Apple  
> Store, or all places. You'd need QuickTime Pro to do anything with  
> it. It's not very expensive, if memory serves - more about MPEG  
> license compliance than Apple trying to make a buck.
>
> You might also try VisualHub, which might do the conversion for you:
> 	http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
> Convert to something like iPod video.
>
> ...then your current QTPro license would allow you to extract the  
> sequence you want, via copy & paste.
>
> Oh, gnats. VisualHub isn't free either - limited to 2 minutes of  
> conversion until you cough up the $20 or so. But at least you could  
> try it to see if it handles MPEG2.

try the free version:
http://www.isquint.org/

does Mpeg streamclip open the ts file?  if so you can save it as  
a .mov, without the MPEG2 playback component AIUI



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