MPEG-2 Playback Component Disappeared

[Chris Poisson]

That’s because our fine friends at Apple have removed it, because they want us to use Compressor.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I don’t think apple has removed it as everything works as it should on my machine (tiger fcp studio, etc.) Did you upgrade or do a clean install? A clean install will give you the best results. Have you installed all of fcp studio, or just fcp5?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Steve Eisen]

You can always go to Apple’s web site and download it for free if you are a previous owner.

G5 Dual 2.5 160GB System 400GB Media Drive ATI 9800 256MB 6 GB RAM
Dual Gig Quicksilver 1GB RAM 80 GB System drive (3) 250 GB internal media storage
15″ Al Powerbook 1.25 1GB RAM
OS 10.4.2 FCP 5, DVDSP 4, QT 7.02, Boris Red 3GL 2.45 TB External Stor

[Chris Poisson]

Jeremy’

I did a totally clean install, and according to Ken Stone, Apple removed the mpeg2 component from QT 7. Just relaying what I see in my computer and what I heard from Ken.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I think we are getting confused. The Quicktime MPEG-2 EXPORT (not playback) has been disbaled directly out of QuickTime 7. Playback of MPEG2 transport streams and m2vs should work just fine.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[John Pale]

[JeremyG] “The Quicktime MPEG-2 EXPORT (not playback) has been disbaled directly out of QuickTime 7”

Huh? Mine is still there and functions as it always has. MPEG 2 still appears as a choice in Quicktime Player 7 on my machine. I have FCP 5 Studio and Quicktime 7.02

[Tom Wolsky]

You’re getting from some other source or through an old export component. It really is no longer in QT7, even if you have FCS installed.

[John Pale]

Interesting. I guess the Quicktime 7 installer missed un-installing it somehow….I feel so cheated 🙂