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I can't thank you enough. Your solution to convert MPEG2 to MPEG 4 to use in Apple TV without losing the sound is simple and easy if I, a total ignorant of video technology did it so easily after struggling for a few days before you stepped in. I wish the Apple store personnel would have given me the way to do it instead of directing me into a web of endless failure. Any purchaser of Apple TV needs your answer. I hope they find it here on the Macworld Forum. The poorly Apple TV manual should be rewritten and including your advise.Thank you so much.
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Heyoka_Happiness 
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Posted 24 March 2008 - 06:11 AM
{quote}I can't thank you enough. Your solution to convert MPEG2 to MPEG 4 to use in Apple TV without losing the sound is simple and easy if I, a total ignorant of video technology did it so easily after struggling for a few days before you stepped in. I wish the Apple store personnel would have given me the way to do it instead of directing me into a web of endless failure. Any purchaser of Apple TV needs your answer. I hope they find it here on the Macworld Forum. The poorly Apple TV manual should be rewritten and including your advise.Thank you so much{quote}
To be far to the apple store guy he might of thought you were talking about MPEG-2 (non-muxed) but I don't know. Anyway you did it your video has sound and thats great. Now you know for future projects. You had most of the information in the previous post it just wasn't put together.
The MPEG Streamclip app is a powerful video app. Thats pretty much all you need Mpeg Streamclip and QT. I don't use Visual Hub or any other of the shareware apps. Unless you want to rip DVD's thats a different conversion. In which I don't do that rip DVDs. I have just for my own curiosity and tests.
Apple TV will accept H.264 codec which is used for smaller files and better quality in an .MOV or .MP4 wrapper. Meaning you can "Export as Quicktime" in MPEG Streamclip and choose the H.264 codec. the same way you did with your mpeg-2 file. You can experiment with you video to get the best quality by using the In and Out points selecting 10-20 seconds which will take 2-3 minutes to export if that.
Anyway glad it all worked.
To be far to the apple store guy he might of thought you were talking about MPEG-2 (non-muxed) but I don't know. Anyway you did it your video has sound and thats great. Now you know for future projects. You had most of the information in the previous post it just wasn't put together.
The MPEG Streamclip app is a powerful video app. Thats pretty much all you need Mpeg Streamclip and QT. I don't use Visual Hub or any other of the shareware apps. Unless you want to rip DVD's thats a different conversion. In which I don't do that rip DVDs. I have just for my own curiosity and tests.
Apple TV will accept H.264 codec which is used for smaller files and better quality in an .MOV or .MP4 wrapper. Meaning you can "Export as Quicktime" in MPEG Streamclip and choose the H.264 codec. the same way you did with your mpeg-2 file. You can experiment with you video to get the best quality by using the In and Out points selecting 10-20 seconds which will take 2-3 minutes to export if that.
Anyway glad it all worked.
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Posted 24 March 2008 - 06:24 AM
I will probably never again convert a video file. Those two movies ere saved in MPEG 2 before I bought the Apple TV from the TV. EyeTV allows me to save in many formats. Now I save in MPEG 4 and see the video using Apple TV. It is a very good set up except for the fact that Apple TV is testy about which format to use. I bought Apple TV reluctantly after Iomega's turned out to be incompatible with the Mac.
Thank you again.
Thank you again.
