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MPEG2Decoder:
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This program will allow you to view MPEG2 files which Sparkle does not yet support.
Use it on files with a .m2v suffix (the DOS/UNIX apparent standard for MPEG2 files) or
if Sparkle tells you it can't deal with a file because it's an MPEG2 file.
This program is very slow---especially at startup. To make you see that something is
happening, I display a running printout of what the code's doing in a console window.
You can ignore this window except that it assures you something is happening.
If you get bored, ypu can quit by hitting command-.
Version 1.1 of this program supports saving the MPEG2 file to a QT movie.
On startup it will ask you for the name ofthe QT movie to be saved.
If you don't want a QT movie, hit cancel. Otherwise a dialog will come up
allowing you to select QT compression options. If you now decide you want to
cancel, do so, otherwise select your options and hit OK.
Version 1.1 also now does major memory allocation in temp mem and should run with
a much smaller partition.
This program is based on code from Chad Fogg and the MPEG Software Simulation Group,
with mac wrapper added by me.
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MPEGSplit:
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This program will allow you to split a muxed MPEG file into separate video and
audio streams. Sparkle will display the video stream and MAPlay should handle the
audio stream.
When the program starts up, it will, after asking for the MPEG file to be split,
ask you to choose adirectory in which to save the split pieces. It will then create
a bunch of files in that directory, based on the name of the being-split-file.
The files are named:
reserved stream: *.res
private_stream_1: *.pr1
private_stream_2: *.pr2
audio_stream: *.a00 - *.a31
video_stream: *.v00 - *.v15
reserved_data_stream:*.r00 - *.r15
where * represents the name of the being-split file.
Most of these, except for the audio and video streams, you can throw away (if they
are even present.) Also chances are that your file will only have one audio and
video stream---though it can have more, that's not yet common.
Now, this is VERY IMPORTANT. These files will be created in the folder you
select WITHOUT ERROR CHECKING. In particular, if you have old files in that folder
with the same name, those old files will be replaced without warning. This won't
usually be a problem because these are not very macish names, but could, I guess,
be a problem if you name every MPEG file you download a.MPG or suchlike.
If you get bored, ypu can quit by hitting command-.
This program is based on code by Rainer Menes with a mac wrapper added by me.
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