MPEG Streamclip 1.9 Universal Binary Copyright © 2004-2007 Squared 5 HIGH-QUALITY CONVERTER FOR MPEG-1/MPEG-2 FILES AND TRANSPORT STREAMS WITH PLAYER AND EDITING SUPPORT, SUITABLE FOR MPEG-2 CAMCORDERS, DVD AND DVHS RECORDERS, DVB SET-TOP BOXES; COMPATIBLE WITH APPLE FINAL CUT PRO AND DVD STUDIO PRO. NOW CAN MAKE, EXPORT AND EDIT DIVX 6 MOVIES; IMPROVED iPOD EXPORT; VIDEO FILE DOWNLOAD AND STREAMED/REMOTE PLAYBACK AND EDITING. COMPATIBLE WITH FLV (YOUTUBE, GOOGLE, YAHOO) VIDEOS.
batch processing. It fixes compatibility issues with AVI movies, DivX Community Codec, Google Video, Elgato Turbo.264, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.3. It also adds better iPhone support. It contains a workaround for a bug found in QuickTime 7.2/7.1.6 which may cause MPEG-2 or VOB files larger than 4GB to freeze between 2GB and 4GB. It also contains an important new feature and many improvements. Moreover, it adds compatibility with Elgato Turbo.264.
CONVERSIONS Added two presets for the iPhone, you'll find them with the "iTunes..." button in Export to MPEG-4, and also in Export to Other Formats for some formats. Encoding of HD movies up to 1600x900 is now possible with Elgato Turbo.264 and Export to Other Formats. MPEG Streamclip works around the limitation of Turbo.264 (800x600) by automatically using rectangular pixels. In the future, a manual setting for rectangular pixels may be added to other exporters as well. NEW IN BETA VERSION 1.
FILE MENU New Open DVD command; if the batch list is open it can also batch convert a DVD Can read and create AVI 2.0 files (they can be larger than 4 GB) Can open all AIFF and MP3 files (including music CD tracks); can read and multiplex little-endian AIFF files New Export Audio command with uncompressed, AAC, MP2 and even MP3 (if you have DivX 6.
MPEG files larger than 4GB can be opened in their full length with "Random access" PLAYBACK The Home and End keys (close to the Page Up/Down keys) can be used to skip about 1 minute forward/backward; for some streams these keys may attempt to reach a keyframe for faster access. With URL-based streams opened with random access, if you click the central Play button of the player, at least 5 seconds of the stream will be preloaded before playback starts; other buttons/keys will preload only 1 second.
Added automatic volume control setting for export: useful for camcorder movies but not recommended for music or high quality audio tracks. COMPATIBILITY Added backward compatibility with DivX 6.0 Improved compatibility with DivX 6.5 and later: added quality-based encoding and fixed 1920x1080 encoding Improved compatibility and usability with Flip4Mac WMV Player Fixed a compatibility issue with YouTube Compatible with Perian 1.
DAT, DCM, VDR, PVR; transport streams TS, M2T, MTS, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, TP, TP0, TRP, TOD; demuxed files M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, AIF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3; QuickTime-compatible files MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, DIVX, WMV, FLV; pictures TIFF, JPEG. MPEG Streamclip supports MPEG-1 video, MPEG layer 1/2 audio, AC3/A52 audio and PCM audio. MPEG-2 video is supported in conversions, but for playback and export you have to buy the MPEG-2 Playback Component ($19.99) from Apple.
Player features: – playback of QuickTime-compatible files – playback of muxed/demuxed MPEG/VOB files and transport streams with MPEG, AC3, PCM/AIFF audio – playback of MPEG files larger than 4GB, or segmented in many files – support for multiple audio tracks in transport streams and MPEG/VOB files – full screen playback, zoom with arrow keys Editor features: – cut/copy/paste of MPEG files and transport streams, at keyframe (GOP) level – frame accurate cut/copy/paste of QuickTime files – trimming function, w
converting transport streams from TV broadcastings or digital video tapes. Fast decoding of data breaks When a transport stream has many data breaks, exporting it may take forever. With this option you can speed up decoding of data breaks and make export faster. This option has effect only on transport streams, not with other MPEG files: if you have a muxed MPEG file with many data breaks and you want to export it quickly, you can convert it in a transport stream using "Convert to TS...
menu and "Close" from the File menu. Preview all frames When this option is enabled, and you click "Preview", the exporter preview shows all encoded frames; when disabled, only some sample frames (typically, keyframes) are shown in the preview window. But when you click "Make" to export a file, only sample frames are shown regardless of this setting.
Clear "composite display flag" A very advanced setting, it makes a small change in the stream to fix a possible compatibility issue with some DVD players that use the Zoran chipset. Do not enable this option, unless you have one of these DVD players and you are experiencing small green squares during playback. Skip Buttons You can change the skip interval of the two skip buttons ▶▶ and ◀◀. Default is 10 seconds. AVI Settings These advanced settings change the way AVI files are saved and exported.
only on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. AIFF audio files must be 16-bit uncompressed and have a supported sample rate. Alternatively, drag & drop any supported file over the application icon or into the player window. Since version 1.9 you can drag multiple files and they will be opened together in alphabetical/numerical order. You can drag & drop audio and other files with unsupported extension if you hold down Command and Option before dropping the file.
There are some options in the "Open URL" window. The first three, "Open", "Convert", "Download", are useful for movie download and will be explained in the next section. The other two, "Progressive download", and "Random access" determine the way in which the stream will be opened. You can use "Progressive download" (the default) or read the following information to find out which mode to use.
downloading without conversion, MPEG Streamclip may use "Random access" to save disk space, regardless of your choice. READING STREAM INFO You can open an info window for the current stream using "Show Stream Info" from the File menu. All relevant data are reported in this window. The "Video PID" pop-up menu lists, for MPEG files, the available video tracks and the "Audio PID" lists the available audio tracks; only the selected video and audio track will be converted.
channels unchanged. Front Mix It is the same as Stereo Mix, but it excludes LS and RS (the two surround channels) from the mix. Use it when the surround channels have bad sound. If the surround channels are not present, or were already excluded from the Stereo Mix (due to a zero mixing coefficient from the AC3 stream) then Front Mix produces the same sound as Stereo Mix. Surround Makes a Dolby Surround-compatible stereo sound.
– AC3 2/1: L, R, S (stereo + 1 surround) – AC3 3/1: L, R, Center, S (3 front + 1 surround) – AC3 2/2: L, R, LS, RS (stereo + 2 surround) – AC3 3/2: L, R, Center, LS, RS (3 front + 2 surround) Note that the LFE channel may be optionally present in all of these AC3 modes. AUDIO MODES AND MPEG AUDIO For MPEG audio tracks (MP1, MP2) two different audio levels are available for playback and conversion to MOV, DV, AVI, MP4 and AIFF: "High Level" and "Low Level".
You can also move the playhead to the desired In and Out points using JKL navigation (an explanation of JKL navigation can be found later in the section "Playing the stream"), or with the navigation buttons, and use the left and right arrow keys to step the playhead through single frames, or the up and down arrow keys to step through keyframes. If you hold down the Option key, you can use the left and right arrow keys to jump directly to the In and Out times. With the "Go to Time...
With "Copy" and "Paste" you can copy a part of the stream and paste it in the same stream or in another compatible stream. You can also use "Cut" and "Paste" to move a portion of the stream. The part of the stream copied with "Copy" is, like for "Cut", the selection from In to Out (or something more); if there is no selection, "Copy" does a copy of the whole stream (if you trimmed the stream, only the trimmed part will be copied).
files). You can use "Fix Timecode Breaks" from the Edit menu to make MPEG Streamclip handle these streams correctly. All timecode breaks found will be listed in the log window, and also in the edit list. The option "Do not skip any frame" lets you control whether dropping some frames to fix a timecode break is acceptable or not. By default, this option is enabled for VOB/VRO streams and disabled for other streams.
will be saved; otherwise, the whole stream will be copied. If you have edited the stream, it will not be copied but it will be saved with editing instead. Multiple source files will be joined into a single destination file, which may be larger than 2GB, if needed. All the video and audio tracks will be saved, regardless of the selected video and audio PIDs, even if you have edited the stream. But audio tracks removed with the "Delete Audio Track" command will not be saved.
2-Pass/Multipass If the video compressor is DivX 5.1.1, 3ivx, or XviD, x264, or H.264, by enabling this option you can make MPEG Streamclip automatically perform two-pass encoding. For H.264, more that two passes will be performed because the compressor performs a detailed analysis of the source movie to achieve excellent encoding results at the expense of very long encoding time; it also takes some space on your destination disk.
codecs may still need to scale the picture using their own faster, low-quality scaling algorithms, resulting in a very bad video quality. Scaling also includes some advanced TV standard processing. For instance, when MPEG Streamclip scales a 320 x 240 stream up to 720 x 480, it adds two 8-pixels wide black bars at each side of the picture, to conform to NTSC and PAL standards.
Zoom In the field "%" you can optionally set a magnifying factor for the picture. With the field "X/Y" you can change the aspect ratio of the picture: the value 1.333 is good for 16:9 to 4:3 conversion, while the value 0.75 is good for the opposite conversion, from 4:3 to 16:9. A letterbox will be added, but you can remove it by entering in the field "%" a magnifying factor of 133.3 %. Finally, with the two fields "Center" you can move the picture center horizontally and vertically.
quality. However this wide 2D-FIR scaler is quite slow and the resulting picture (although perfect) may have less sharpness. This option is disabled by default: enable it only if you need a perfectly scaled movie. If you are scaling the file to a larger size, this option has no effect; the standard 2D-FIR scaler already provides the best scaling quality. Reinterlace Chroma If you are converting an interlaced MPEG-1/MPEG-2 file, you may wish to "reinterlace" chroma.
Fast Start This option appears in the QuickTime exporter and lets you make a fast-start MOV file (a movie that starts before being downloaded completely). This option is not available in the AVI exporter (never fast-start) and in the MP4 exporter (always fast-start). Note that making a fast-start MOV or MP4 file requires a free disk space of at least twice the final movie size.
- You can download 3ivx (version 5.0.1 at the time of this writing) from http://www. 3ivx.com/ - You can download XviD (version 0.5.1 at the time of this writing) from http://n.ethz.ch/ student/naegelic/ (for Intel, please download the disk image "XviD_Avi_Import_Preview4_intel", and install the components "XviD_Codec-r58" and "AviImporter-r7"). - Some PAL devices cannot play 768 x 576 DivX files; in this case, use the special frame size "720 x 576 (DivX PAL)".
considered as a 4:3 or a 16:9 movie. This setting does almost nothing, except that it changes a bit in the DV stream, making it easier to import in applications like iMovie HD. Field dominance for DV streams is always lower field first, so there isn't a setting for this. Dominance conversion is performed when the original MPEG file is upper field dominant.
"Adjustments..." you can change the volume or enable automatic volume control. For MPEG streams, you can make an AIFF file with both Export Audio and Demux to AIFF. However these commands are different: with Export Audio you have more settings and you can control the sample rate and channels, while Demux to AIFF is a litte faster. Multichannel surround sound is not yet supported by Export Audio: however this may change in the future. EXPORTING TO OTHER FORMATS Select "Export to Other Formats...
still get a valid exported file. The "Export to Other Formats" command is compatible with Elgato Turbo.264. If you have this hardware encoder, you can choose one of the Turbo.264 exporters and encode your H.264 movies with MPEG Streamclip nearly in realtime. And MPEG Streamclip improves Turbo.264, adding full data rate control and encoding support for HD movies up to 1600x900 by automatically using rectangular pixels. Note that when you encode an HD movie with a frame size larger than 768x576 with Turbo.
same duration, the same start and end time, and they are kept synchronized by a special time-detection technology. So you can perform multiple conversions and use the resulting files together. All "Convert to" commands except "Convert to TS REC" and "Convert to TS VID" will convert all the audio tracks, unless you enable the preference "Convert only one audio track". This is a brief description of the available commands: Convert to MPEG...
support AC3/PCM playback. Convert to TS REC... converts the stream into a transport stream file for Topfield PVR, with the REC header and extension, and MP2 sound. The REC file can be played with the Topfield 5000 devices. Convert to TS VID... converts the stream into a transport stream file for Humax PVR, with the VID format and extension, and MP2 sound. The VID file can be played with the Humax 8000 devices. Demux to M2V and AIFF...
Demux to AIFF... demuxes the stream and creates an AIFF audio file. Use this command if you want to extract just the audio track. Use this command 4 times (changing the Audio Mode to "L/R Ch", "Center Ch", "LS/RS Ch", "LFE Ch") if you want to extract all the channels of AC3 audio. Demux to M1A... demuxes the stream and creates an M1A audio file. Use this command if you want to extract the audio track of a file with MPEG audio, and use it in DVD Studio Pro or Toast. Demux to AC3...
Demux to Headed M2V... same as "Demux to M2V" but with the "headed" M2V file that lets you import unsupported frame sizes in DVD Studio Pro and Toast 6, 7, 8. A warning message will tell you if there are data breaks in the stream. A data break means that the stream is corrupted. If the file being converted has data breaks, audio/video sync may be lost. In this case, please enable "Fix streams with data breaks" in preferences before doing the conversion, and MPEG Streamclip will try to recover A/V sync.
The Home and End keys can be used to jump about 1 minute forward/backward; for some streams these keys may attempt to reach a keyframe for faster access. With the "Go to Time..." command of the Edit menu you can go to a specific point of the stream by entering its timecode (with or without colons).
If you have many files you want to convert, you can click the "Add Files" button, or drag & drop the files into the batch list. You will be asked to choose a task and a destination directory. You have the option to fix timecode breaks and join selected files. For export, you will also need to enter the export settings, unless you enable the option "Use previous folder and settings": this option is available only if you previously used "Add Files".
and "Down" buttons. You can remove a task from the list using the "Delete" button, or all tasks using the "Clear" button. You can change the destination folder of one or more tasks with the "Redirect" button; and with the "Script" button you can choose a script to be executed when all tasks have been completed. USING MPEG STREAMCLIP WITH THE DREAMBOX The DreamBox (http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de) is a DVB set-top box.
(on-screen display) if present. Also, a remote control for the DreamBox will appear. With the "Start Box Recording" button you can remotely start/stop recording on the DreamBox hard disk. A red signal near the button will tell you whether a recording is in progress. With the "Start Mac Recording" button you can start recording on your Mac's hard disk. You will be asked to choose a folder and a name for the .
and don't change any default setting. DreamFlash is a copyright of Mechatron and is therefore not included in MPEG Streamclip; you can download it from: http://www.bernyr.de/ With the "Backup Settings" and "Restore Settings" buttons you can respectively save on your Mac the settings of the currently active image, and restore the previously saved settings in the active image. Of course you can use "Restore Settings" to load one image's settings in the other images. Settings are stored in a .
folder, and if you want to go into a subfolder, just double-click it. In the \DataFiles folder and in its subfolders you can only upload/download files with the .rec extension. In the other folders, with the Upload and Download buttons you can upload/download files with any extension. For instance, in the \ProgramFiles folder you can upload .tap files, while in the \MP3 folder you can upload .mp3 files. And you can even upload and download a folder with all subfolders.
PVR-8000 set-top box, the Homecast set-top boxes, the Technisat S1 set-top box, the Panasonic SV-AV100 camcorder, the JVC Everio camcorder, the Sony T1 camera, the Panasonic VDR-M70 and the Hitachi DZ-MV230 camcorders; and with many other devices.
The Spanish translation has been provided by Pedro Alvera. This translation is partial (65%), but the most important parts have been completely translated. You can contact Pedro Alvera through his web site: http://www.pedroalvera.com/ Many thanks to these three translators (they localized MPEG Streamclip for free). Please note that the translators do not have access to preview or beta versions, and also note that I have slightly edited their translation just before releasing this version.
streamclip.com). Even if you get no answer, the bug will be investigated and possibly fixed in the next version.
