Has anyone succesfullly been able to play an mpeg-2 rendered in Vegas 5.0b in Quicktime 6.5.1?

merlyn60 wrote on 12/17/2004, 9:25 AM
Some of you may have missed my originally post on this topic. Has anyone succesfullly been able to play an mpeg-2 rendered in Vegas 5.0b in Quicktime 6.5.1? In addition, has anyone succesfullly been able to play an mpeg-2 rendered in Vegas 5.0b in anything PREVIOUS to Quicktime 6.5.1? Any reponses would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

nickle wrote on 12/17/2004, 9:35 AM
I don't like quicktime and I have other players (Nero Showtime) that plays everything including .mov files.

There's no way I'm going to give Apple $19.95 so I can use Quicktime to play mpeg files.

And the answer is NO.
taliesin wrote on 12/17/2004, 10:08 AM
No, doesn't work here. But I think - like Nickle said before - you need a special plugin to make QuicktimePlayer play MPEG-2 files.

Marco
farss wrote on 12/17/2004, 1:48 PM
As they have to pay money for a mpeg-2 decoder I think you have to pay as well. Of course WMP is a bit more sensible, so long as there's a suitable codec for anything on your PC it'll use it. I don't know if QT is that sensible on PCs or Macs.

Bob.
dshaw wrote on 12/17/2004, 4:56 PM
Does your rendered file have AC3 audio?
Quicktime MPEG-2 plug in will not work if the file contains AC3.
swarrine wrote on 12/17/2004, 9:23 PM
Mac is notoriously mpeg-2 unfriendly. Very difficult and time consuming to make mpeg-2 from a Mac. I presume this is why you are having difficulties on playback.

Mac wants QT to be the standard and they have virtually ignored mpeg-2.

If anyone has any different info on this I have 3 Macs waiting for an easy, reliable and quick mpeg-2 solution.

We cablecast using an mpeg-2 server and virtually all files are converted using Vegas 4.

Right now programs created on a Mac using FCP or iMovie are required to be submitted on tape so it can be captured and mpeg'd using Vegas.

It would be nice to have a Mac solution as well.
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