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MPEG Streamclip
MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7
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Convert MPEG-1/MPEG-2 files, transport streams in several formats.   Free
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MPEG Streamclip converts QuickTime movies, MPEG-1/2/4 files and transport streams into several formats; for MPEG-2 playback and export, the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is required.MPEG Streamclip can play and convert selectable parts of QuickTime movies, MPEG files and transport streams with MPEG/AC3/PCM audio into DV streams or QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-4 movies using any video codec, with optional 2D-FIR professional scaling, motion-adaptive deinterlacing, and other pro options; all in YUV, with audio in perfect sync. It also performs fast conversions to muxed MPEG files and
What's New
Version 1.9.3b7:
  • Fixed compatibility with YouTube
Requirements
  • PPC / Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.2 or later
  • Apple MPEG-2 Playback Component.



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MPEG Streamclip User Discussion (Write a Review)
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GeoProf commented on 23 May 2012
This was a great app that, unfortunately, is becoming less and less relevant each day. I hope it’s not abandonware….
[Version 1.9.3b7]


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An.onymous reviewed on 09 Apr 2012
I love this app and I have written a detailed positive critic of it.
BUT
- the latest MPEG Streamclip version saves .avi files that often cannot be read by the latest versions of VLC and Movist (The sound is OK but the image remains black). However, QT can read those .avi files from MPEG Streamclip.
- I cannot read (unrecognized format) .ts files that my descoder saves (they are all read and write but have no creator nor group nor type indicated in FileBuddy's info). However these files can be read with VLC and Handbrake (but without the editing capacities I need).
OF COURSE, I have Apple MPEG2 and all the codecs updated (Perian, FFmpeg,etc).

Please clarify.
Thank you
[Version 1.9.3b7]

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An.onymous replied on 09 Apr 2012
I intended and tried to save the above comment in the "Troubleshooting" section but apparently it did not succeed. Sorry about that.
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Aargl replied on 16 Apr 2012
I've been confronted to that problem for years now, and you made me think of checking the content of my .ts: do you know .ts are not necessarily mpeg2? The ones I receive from my provider (free.fr ;-) come in two flavour, one true mpeg2 that Mpeg Streamclip can edit and the other H264+AAC that it can't edit...
I bet Quicktime could edit them if they were not in a .ts container but...
Maybe your problem is different, but you may check it with VLC: open your file or stream and Media Info (Window menu) then Codec Details, check each stream.
Hope this helps. :-)
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An.onymous replied on 19 Apr 2012
THANK YOU very much Aargi. You clarified the point. Indeed MPegStreamclip can only edit some sorts of .ts, not those corresponding to H264+AAC.
VLC can read both but it is not a true editor. So MpegStreamclip needs more efforts to comply with H264+AAC which getting more and more frequent. I hope it is done soon, for there are not many almost-free video editors on Mac.
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Lvdoc reviewed on 16 Feb 2012
Many thanks to this developer. I have several VOB files that I played in QT Player under Snow Leopard, but I could not play them in QT using Lion. I had been using the QuickTimeMPEG2 component that I purchased from Apple. And although Apple claims you don't need this component in Lion, that's a lie. Fortunately, the developer of MPEG Streamclip provides a fast and easy means by which to install that component, and all is well again.
[Version 1.9.3b7]


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chriscosta reviewed on 20 Dec 2011
This isn't a program I convert with all the time but when I need to convert a pesky mpeg file that makes other programs crap the bed, this is what I use. It's wonderful, it's free and has a ton of features. This is also great for doing simple trimming without getting those media header nightmares.
[Version 1.9.3b7]


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PorkPieHat reviewed on 14 Oct 2011
The best freeware video app available, but it has one important limitation: MPEG Streamclip can input a bunch of commonly used MPEG2 Transport Stream filetypes — .ts, .m2t, .mts, .mmv, .rec, .vid, .aud, .avr, .tp, .tpo, .trp & .tod — BUT NOT M2TS! If the developer could also add .m2ts as an input source AND include it in that long list of filetypes that can be losslessly remuxed to MPEG, TS, etc. (called "converting" in the app, as opposed to exporting), that could easily make it the most important home-use (as well as professional) en/transcoder available, free or commercial. It would certainly make my life a great deal easier.

Hows about it, Stefano?
[Version 1.9.3b7]


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An.onymous commented on 26 Aug 2011
Unlike HandBrake, MpegStreamCliptdoes not allow the reading/conversion of the .tv files, a format getting more frequent through numeric TV.
[Version 1.9.3b7]

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An.onymous replied on 26 Aug 2011
Sorry, I meant the .ts files.
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GeoProf replied on 14 Oct 2011
Umm, sorry, you couldn't be more wrong. In fact, working with Transport Streams is pretty much its specialty! Read Porkpiehat's comment above, then read the following sections of the User Manual, near the top: "OVERVIEW OF MPEG STREAMCLIP," "Converter features," and "Exporter features."

If you couldn't open a .ts file, the problem's either in the file or your computer, not in MPEG Streamclip.
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An.onymous replied on 21 Oct 2011
Hi GeoProf,
Thank you for pointing that MpegStreamclip's doc pretends that the .ts files as usable.
If you actually could use the .ts files with MpegStreamclip b7, the .ts files I get from my TNTV may be somewhat exotic.
However, since HANDBRAKE CAN READ THESE .ts FILES, I still think it is an issue for MpegStreamclip and a useful information for the MPS users in the same situation.
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GeoProf replied on 21 Oct 2011
An.onymous, I thought of one more thing that could be causing your .ts files problem: Do you have the Apple MPEG2 Component installed? MPEG Streamclip won't work with MPEG2 files of any type if that's not installed. Even in Lion, which now handles MPEG2 natively and no longer needs it for anything else, you still need the old Apple MPEG2 Component for MPEG Streamclip until a new version is released that's no longer dependent on it.

Cheers.
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An.onymous replied on 30 Dec 2011
GeoProf, thank you for suggesting that Apple MP2 component could be missing. It was a reasonable guess as I can read my .ts files with Handbrake (which does not need this component). Unfortunately my Apple2 Component was correctly installed. The strange thing is that these files can be read by other reader like Movist, Mac Blue-ray player, not to mention VLC. MpegStreamClip is the only one of my readers that does not recognizes the format ??
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GeoProf replied on 31 Dec 2011
An.onymous, if you’re using Lion (Mac OS 10.7), you have to install the MPEG2 Component using MPEG Streamclip’s special installer that force-installs it, which you can get for free from their website.

This isn’t as big a deal as you may think it is. Before Lion, when Apple finally dropped their requirement that we buy their stupid $20 MPEG2 Component in order to edit MPEG-2 files, ANY app that wanted to do high-level editing of an MPEG-2 was reliant upon Apple’s Component. Handbreak, et al. do not edit MPEG-2 files, they just transcode them. But MPEG Streamclip doesn’t just do transcoding — it does just about EVERYTHING to MPEG-2s, including lossless remuxing to different formats, and it is the only such app to do so for FREE. It’s one of the very BEST freeware apps ever made, and more or less all professional video production houses that work with MPEG-2 use it daily. MPEG Streamclip will be great once again when its developer finishes rewriting it for Lion, which is a major undertaking. As I understand it, the new version will no longer require the MPEG2 Component in Lion.

Seriously, criticism of this developer for requiring Apple’s Component is misplaced — there was no way around it if you wanted to do anything more than lossy transcoding, and he just about invented lossless remuxing.
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An.onymous replied on 17 Jan 2012
Thank you GeoProf for the indepth information about MpegStreamClip's arcans.
I just mentionned MPEG2 Component, because YOU had asked : "Do you have the Apple MPEG2 Component installed? "
The fact is and remains that:
- I am using SN, not Lion,
- I have Apple MPEG2 installed, as you asked,
- Mpegstreamclip cannot read the (maybe exotic) .ts files I can save from my TNT TV.
My experience that drawing attention on an anomaly is more useful than encensing a developer whose truly good job I did acknowledge in previous comments and a huge test in Macupdate.
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sachaweiss reviewed on 07 Aug 2011
Very reliable professional tool.
[Version 1.9.3b7]


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Virtualruffy reviewed on 04 Aug 2011
This is the BEST program and its FREE! You can easily cut and edit movies without problems (simplemovie x SUCKs for editing and costs almost $40). You can convert avi into various formats. Also this is the only program I've found (there may be more I haven't found them) that finds and fixes timecode breaks. If you've ever downloaded movies and only a fragment plays or some other really weird things, then run it through here and run 'fix time code breaks' and suddenly you have a restored movie. Save and done.
[Version 1.9.3b7]

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Mikael B replied on 16 Aug 2011
MPEG Streamclip seems like a nice application and is as you say also free. The required quicktime mpeg-2 playback component however is not free at $19.99.
This may be a reasonable cost of course.
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Umaromc replied on 14 Sep 2011
"The required quicktime mpeg-2 playback component however is not free at $19.99."

This is built in to Lion, though. ;)
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GeoProf replied on 14 Oct 2011
Umaromc, a new free MPEG2 Component is built into Lion, but MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 is still a QuickTime 7-reliant application, so Lion's new QuickTime X MPEG2 Component does not yet work natively with Streamclip. So, even Lion still needs the older MPEG2 Component (though we're all hoping this great developer is working on a Lion-native version). But don't despair, it's available for free at many sites, just search 'till you find it. Also, the developer includes a little script with Streamclip that helps you install the older MPEG2 component even though Lion no longer allows it (though if you had it in Snow Leopard and you upgraded to Lion — as opposed to doing a clean install — the old component will carry over into Lion and you won't have to install it again, at least not for this app).
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Mikael B replied on 14 Oct 2011
This QT7 dependency is a dealbreaker for me as my needs are modest. At least for now.
I have few or no problems with Handbrake 0.9.5 which is GPL'd and open sourced, which means that I can use Mark Nellemans PPC build even though the main developer doesn't support PPC anymore.

Provided future lack of available PPC builds of Handbrake MPTEG Streamclip still may be a good alternative for PPC owners.
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Laos reviewed on 06 Jul 2011
I use it to cut video streams recorded from my Dreambox. Excellent peace of software except one major missing feature: no support for HD video streams since many years. The software is stable, but not well maintained.
[Version 1.9.3b5]


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Davidshaw reviewed on 17 Jun 2011
I've started watching all my movies in MPEG Streamclip fullscreen just in case i decide to export a little snippet on a whim. Thankyou! Adding Perian to the mix enabled avi xvid playback and export.
[Version 1.9.3b4]


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Mikilc had trouble on 26 Jan 2010
Have just opdated to latest version and the installer refuses to eject from my desktop. Any suggestions how to remove it?
[Version 1.9.3b2]

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Mistere commented on 13 Apr 2010
Reinstall your operating system. ;)
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Mila06 had trouble on 06 Nov 2009
is the project is abandoned ?
i have many probleme to convert .ts vidéo from french adsl Freebox
the vidéo is from ArteHD channel
Vlc can read it
but Mpeg Streamclip cannot convert it
Sometime Handbrake can do it but not every time...
any help is welcome
[Version 1.9.3b2]

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Mila06 replied on 06 Nov 2009
you can see Vlc info there :
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb59/milarico/Net/Capturedcran2009-10-17020545.jpg

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb59/milarico/Net/Capturedcran2009-10-17021017.jpg

i think the probleme for Mpeg Streamclip is the format 1440x1080...
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hotFusion had trouble on 04 Sep 2009
I was just wondering if anyone has had problem with MPEG Streamclip in 10.6?
[Version 1.9.3b2]

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mac adam replied on 06 Sep 2009
No problemes on 10.6
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michiganmother had trouble on 25 Feb 2008
I must be doing something wrong, after reading all the great comments here, but the resolution I am getting when I convert a MPEG1 file from my Sony Cybershot camera to either DV or MPEG4 format is terrible! Video looks fine in Quicktime or in Streamclip viewer before conversion, but I can see individual pixels in converted version in both Quicktime and iMovie. Original file is 640x480, I am using Mac version of Streamclip 1.9.1, and am clipping a 7 minute portion of original video from the file to convert so I can import into iMovie. Using all the preset defaults. Anyone have any ideas?
[Version 1.9.1]


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mac adam had trouble on 07 Jan 2008
Lot of troubles… ( yes again me, sorry)
[Version 1.9]


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mac adam had trouble on 26 Nov 2007
Direct import from DVD not work on Leopard PPC…
[Version 1.9]

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munnymac commented on 06 Jan 2009
I'm running into the same problem as Mac Adam. Streamclip 1.9.2 doesn't work on PPC running Leopard when extracting VOB files... AT ALL. Very frustrating, especially after paying for the mpeg 2 download for quicktime. Any help out there?
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mac adam had trouble on 05 Nov 2007
The buffer selected no look like working ?
(MPEG StreamClip in Leopard)
And when I diffuse video on my web page,
audio en video is not sync 2 time of 3 ?
Anyone could help ?
[Version 1.9]


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mac adam had trouble on 23 Oct 2007
Some graphics Glish stay (double QT bar), and I was wonderer if could add audio 5.1 export…
But nice update anymore
[Version 1.9]


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mac adam had trouble on 15 May 2007
Verry good software, but the converter need more sharpen; too smooth quality… the de-interleave do not good job (some inerleave stay). And finaly need more beauty interface, not more expansive…
[Version 1.8]


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RoyTheToxicBoy had trouble on 16 May 2006
All Ok, but on my iMac G4 10.3.9 the application crash when i Open "as single file" a .vob
[Version 1.7]



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[Version 1.9.3b5]


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