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MPEG-2 Streaming Client for Mac?
foobar104 asks: "Macintouch posed an interesting question: is there any MPEG-2 streaming client software for the Mac, either for OS 9 or OS X? According to Kasenna, maker of the MediaBase streaming video platform, there isn't. You'd think Quicktime 5 would be able to stream MPEG-2 content, but sure enough the data sheet lists MPEG-1 only. Is Kasenna right?"
"Because I can't seem to figure out how to link directly to a story on Macintouch, here's the entire question.
David Hannah asked this interesting question about streaming video support on the Mac:Since there are a number of MPEG-2 software decoders for Windows, some of them plugins for Windows Media Player, it seems reasonable to think that something similar would exist for the Mac. Can anyone help?"
'I am a developer for the SGI and Linux Platforms, and have begun working with a product called MediaBase from Kasenna; it is a MPEG 1|2 Streaming Server. They are preparing to release MediaBaseXMP, which will support MPEG 4 as well. I was told by them that they do not support MPEG 2 streaming on the Macintosh, because there is no existing player that will accommodate this, including QuickTime 5. They said that QuickTime 6, when it releases will support MPEG 4, but until then, I cannot stream to a Macintosh without also having a QuickTime streaming server like the one provided by the Darwin project. Any truth to this? Are you aware of an MPEG-2 capable player that will stream on the Mac?'
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WTF? Slashdot has moved from posting links to real news sites to copying questions from other sites?
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It may not do exactly what you describe, but DivX (for Mac) is an important technology to have in your back pocket on any project of this type. Check it out.
QuickTime 6 handles MPEG-2 (and MPEG-1 and MPEG-4) decoding in software, and will also be able to handle streamed content. Our university is embarking on a large Cisco IP/TV deployment (we'll be streaming a dozen or so TV channels on the campus network), and a requirement was support of Mac clients. The IP/TV gear creates standard rtsp MPEG-2 streams, and we've been told by Apple that QuickTime 6 will handle this (QuickTime 4/5 handles MPEG-1 rtsp streams from IP/TV hardware now, so MPEG-2 rtsp streams, should, in theory, be no problem for QuickTime 6). The current QuickTime 6 Public Preview does NOT include MPEG-2 decoding, but the final release will. So there ya go.
VideoLan Client is available for Mac OS X, can play MPEG-2 streams (either transport or program), and can play while straming from a VideoLan server or an HTTP server.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Or, if you prefer such things, one could go with 3ivx. Think DivX in a Quicktime container, but better.
These questions get more assinine and less responses as the days go by. Heres to you cliff, /me holds up middle finger.
quicktime 6 has been out in beta for a while, and works flawlessly so far. i think, apple holds it only back due to the mpeg4 licensing issues.
See http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and it's cross-platform too.
MPEG-2 streaming client Mac gives you VideoLAN as the first hit.
Just to let you know, if you install QT 6, it breaks .AVI (DivX) movie playing ability. Least, in my experience.
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I have been working w/ mpeg-2 data for a little while, and was searching for a way to use it & play it on the Mac. I don't have a DR of QT6, only the public trial, but it does not support MPEG-2, only MPEG-4 & 1. Now, Divx is actually based on MPEG-4, and there are actual codecs out for quicktime now that allow DIVX to play.
http://mpeg4.jamby.net/ is the site that used to support that codec. It recently moved- follow the link to the new location...
I now use VLC to play MPEG-2 that is extracted from my Tivo. A slight modification to the standard linux util to convert the date works wonders, and plays beautifully. It also allows you to play SVCD's, and is in a nice aqua window.
I found out by accident that my Jagwire installation from disks obtained at WWDC 2002 has QuickTime 6 that will decode MPEG-2. Leg up, pipe on! (You had to be there, WWDC).
But unlike the downloadable beta, there is no JPEG-2000.
MPEG-2 is in QuickTime 6, just not in the public preview.
/ faq.html:
From http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/quicktime6
I thought QuickTime 6 included MPEG-2 decoding. Where is it?
The QuickTime MPEG-2 decode component is not available during the preview period but will be available when QuickTime 6 is final.
Did you try Microsoft Media Player for Mac? I bet it does MPEG2. I'm not sure though since I don't have any plans of installing Microsoft software on my tibook, and Media Player is no exception.
'QuickTimeMPEG2.component' from the DR works perfectly in QT 5. Size is 660 KB, dated 2002-05-02 and i just put that one file in /Library/QuickTime/, no further installation necessary.
Finally i can Watch SVCDs with QuickTime Player an ddon't need to rely on this awkward vlc.
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MPEG-2 Streaming Client for Mac?
Posted by Cliff on Wednesday June 26, @06:08PM
from the that-age-old-question-of-availability dept.
foobar104 asks: "Macintouch posed an interesting question: is there any MPEG-2 streaming client software for the Mac, either for OS 9 or OS X? According to Kasenna, maker of the MediaBase streaming video platform, there isn't. You'd think Quicktime 5 would be able to stream MPEG-2 content, but sure enough the data sheet lists MPEG-1 only. Is Kasenna right?"
"Because I can't seem to figure out how to link directly to a story on Macintouch, here's the entire question.
David Hannah asked this interesting question about streaming video support on the Mac:
'I am a developer for the SGI and Linux Platforms, and have begun working with a product called MediaBase from Kasenna; it is a MPEG 1|2 Streaming Server. They are preparing to release MediaBaseXMP, which will support MPEG 4 as well. I was told by them that they do not support MPEG 2 streaming on the Macintosh, because there is no existing player that will accommodate this, including QuickTime 5. They said that QuickTime 6, when it releases will support MPEG 4, but until then, I cannot stream to a Macintosh without also having a QuickTime streaming server like the one provided by the Darwin project. Any truth to this? Are you aware of an MPEG-2 capable player that will stream on the Mac?'
Since there are a number of MPEG-2 software decoders for Windows, some of them plugins for Windows Media Player, it seems reasonable to think that something similar would exist for the Mac. Can anyone help?"
It's right there in the QT6 FAQ.
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