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  • MPEG-2/Uncompressed Audio using Compressor

    Posted by Ryan Hughes on October 14, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    I am looking to compress files to upload directly to our playback server for our small tv station. The compression settings I am trying to create are: MPEG-2 program or elementary streams with 16 or 24-bit, 48kHz, uncompressed audio.

    I can’t seem to find a way to control the audio settings in Compressor when trying to create an MPEG-2 file.

    Anyway to create an MPEG-2 with uncompressed audio using, ideally Compressor or MPEG Streamclip, FCP or Premiere?

    Thanks!
    Ryan

    Chris Blair replied 15 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brad Elliott

    October 15, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    As far as I know Muxed mpgs have mpg audio by default and this is why there isn’t a option in Compressor to change this.

    The compressor defaults match the source audio as far as bit rate/48kHz etc.

    Unless the server accepts an unmuxed version(separate Mpg-2 and aiff) I do not see a way around this unless it accepts another type of file.

    Is this need based on a playback quality issue or just trying to have the best audio possible?

  • Chris Blair

    October 16, 2010 at 12:44 am

    I’m not too sure about compressor since I’m on a PC, but I know many encoding applications and MPEG2 codecs will spit out a muxed MPEG2 file with PCM (uncompressed) audio. Is there an option to use PCM? As far as I know it’s uncompressed.

    Chris Blair
    Magnetic Image, Inc.
    Evansville, IN
    http://www.videomi.com
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