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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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