There are a few broadcasters who still require MPEG2 video with PCM audio in an .mpg program stream. I've seen this issue being discussed on Creative Cow and many encoder forums - and I believe this was brought up in this forum a few years back. There appears to be a way to do this directly on a Mac using MPEG2 in a mov container, but no real workflow in Windows.
This will work: If you have an encoder that will deliver Grass Valley Server files (.GXF extension) such as Telestream Episode, you can encode an MPEG2 stream with PCM audio, and then change the file extension to .mpg.
Although I couldn't find a Windows player that could play the audio in the files (I assume windows MPEG2 codecs don't support PCM even on playback) the station approved the file, MediaInfo reports all the video and audio streams correctly, and if I import the .mpg back into the encoder and transcode to another format the audio plays back perfectly in QT or WIndows media player.
Wanted to share in case anyone else has run into this issue.
This will work: If you have an encoder that will deliver Grass Valley Server files (.GXF extension) such as Telestream Episode, you can encode an MPEG2 stream with PCM audio, and then change the file extension to .mpg.
Although I couldn't find a Windows player that could play the audio in the files (I assume windows MPEG2 codecs don't support PCM even on playback) the station approved the file, MediaInfo reports all the video and audio streams correctly, and if I import the .mpg back into the encoder and transcode to another format the audio plays back perfectly in QT or WIndows media player.
Wanted to share in case anyone else has run into this issue.