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tkmd · Jul 6, 2005, 12:14 PM

I have a replay TV that I use to record certain TV shows off off. If the show is good the I stream the show to my PB. Problem was that it is in the MPEG2 Muxed mode and I couldn't get sound to work, video was OK . I paid for a codec off the apple site (QT 6 MPEG-2 PLAYBACK, actually it works on QT7) and now I can play the movie no problem. But I would like to archive the show using H264 format. However when I choose any h264 option under export - there's no sound component to it. I would like to avoid exporting it to a format that will lose quality then re-encode using h264 (sound is strangely available in codec other than h264 why?)

Any suggestions to get around this?

Nap · Jul 6, 2005, 02:06 PM

QT (including the mpeg-2 component) does not support the export of sound from a muxed mpeg file (-1 or -2). There is, however, a freeware that will export to a number of formats and will include the sound in the export.
http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html

tkmd · Jul 6, 2005, 02:08 PM

Yes I tried this program but if I try to export it to h264 (its an option in slipstream ) the program crashes. Very frustrating

Jacke · Jul 6, 2005, 02:59 PM

For whatever reason QT doesn't allow for audio export from mpeg files (though it does for MP3). Option 1 is to extract the audio to AIFF using MPEG Streamclip and encode audio and video separately; option 2 is to try something like ffmpegX that will encode video and audio at the same time.

Uncle Skeleton · Jul 7, 2005, 02:13 AM

Originally Posted by tkmd

Yes I tried this program but if I try to export it to h264 (its an option in slipstream ) the program crashes. Very frustrating

It seems to not crash when I try this. Can you post the crash log? Maybe it will reveal the culprit.

tkmd · Jul 8, 2005, 09:14 AM

OK so I used slipstream to extract the audio (aiff) from the movie. Now I'm going to encode the video, using qt h264. I would like to join the video component and the audio using qt - any suggestion on how to do this??

Jacke · 11:23 AM

In QT Pro, select all, copy, add. Just make sure you're not adding scaled audio.

Edit: You can also use QTMF. Select audio and video input files and it will create a new Quicktime file.

Edit2: Btw, it's "MPEG Streamclip".

justinkim · Jul 8, 2005, 11:00 AM

Any chance VLC would solve his problems?

Jacke · Jul 8, 2005, 11:22 AM

VLC (at least the version I have) doesn't support output to H264.

tkmd · Jul 8, 2005, 10:44 PM

Jacke what do you mean by flattened audio ? I used streamclip to get the audio to aiff was this not the right thing to do ? I was going to convert it to a compressed format like mp3 or m4a to save space...

justinkim · Jul 9, 2005, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by Jacke

VLC (at least the version I have) doesn't support output to H264.

But he could play the muxed video.

For conversion to h.264, ffmpegX 0.0.9s will do that. You can find it on Versiontracker.

Jacke · Jul 9, 2005, 04:52 AM

Originally Posted by tkmd

Jacke what do you mean by flattened audio ? I used streamclip to get the audio to aiff was this not the right thing to do ? I was going to convert it to a compressed format like mp3 or m4a to save space...

I never said anything about flattened audio... You can very well compress the AIFF to MP3 or M4A and then use QT Pro to combine the video and audio.

Originally Posted by justinkim

For conversion to h.264, ffmpegX 0.0.9s will do that. You can find it on Versiontracker.

Or via the link in the fourth post in this thread.