No sound in MPEG Streamclip

I'm trying to convert an avi file with MPEG Streamclip. The file works & has sound when played in QuickTime & VLC, but for some reason not in Streamclip. Has anyone had a similar problem or does have any idea how to solve it?
Thanks.

I'm getting the exact same problem tonight, which is bizarre as it worked perfectly when I last used it a few days ago.
No matter which format I try export to (DV, MP4, etc), it comes out with no sound.

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QT with MPEG-2 component & MPEG Streamclip VOB sound problem

It's two separate problems:
1) I can view VOB file but no sound using qt pro 7 with mpeg-2 component downloaded
2) that same vid opens fine in mpeg streamclip and converts nicely to .mov
BUT mpeg streamclip only sees the vts011.vob file
how do i process the _2.vob file? also the _3.vob file?
i do want 3 separate .mov files so I can upload to BlipTV.
the first .mov file was 860MB converting from the _1.vob file.
many thanks

It's two separate problems:.. 1) I can view VOB file but no sound using qt pro 7 with mpeg-2 component downloaded... 2) that same vid opens fine in mpeg streamclip and converts nicely to .mov
Everything is working correctly. The QT MPEG-2 Playback Component, as stated on the Apple web site, is a "video" component. It allows you to play the "video" portion of MPEG-2 "program" streams such as found in "muxed" MPEG, MPG, or VOB wrappers, as well as, elementary M2V and MOV files. Whether or not the audio is compatible depends on the audio compression format used. For instance, a "muxed" MPEG file containing MPEG2/MP2 data would play both video and audio because the MP2 (MPEG 1, layer 2) audio is natively supported by QT while a VOB file containing MPEG2/AC3 data would only play the video because the AC3 audio format is not natively supported by QT. On the other hand, the same file will play both the audio and video in MPEG Streamclip because MPEG Streamclip has built-in AC3 support. Further, MPEG Streamclip has the ability to "fix" timecode breaks frequently present in VOB program streams and can bridge the gap between content consiting of blocks of audio and video data interspesed in an single, spatially synchronized data stream without an extertal timing reference to multiple track streams of audio and video data which are, more or less, in an "averaged" synchronization at the frame level in terms of an external time reference. I.e., MPEG Streamclip provides a bridge between one form of multimedia technology and another. Contrary to the popular opinion held by many novice users here, "not all video technology is created equal."
BUT mpeg streamclip only sees the vts011.vob file... how do i process the _2.vob file? also the _3.vob file?
VOB files are simply file containers which are limited in size to approximatly 1 GB each for DVD use. A single VOB may contain multiple "TITLES" (representing independent movies) or multiple VOBs may constitute a single "TITLE" (representing an single movie). If you load (import or drop) a single VOB into the processing window, then MPEG Streamclip will process the individual VOB file independently. If you load (import or drop) multiple VOBs into the processing window, it will process all of the files as a single file. In addition, if the single or multiple VOB file(s) contain multiple TITLES, you can set "in" and "out" points to re-save and/or process the contained TITLE(s) as independent movies. In short, you should probably read the MPEG Streamclip Help file to better understand all you can do with this very powereful (but free) application.

Using MPEG Streamclip for Mac. Help me if you can

Hi, I've found out about MPEG Streamclip in Apple Discussions.
I opened Streamclip for the first time and converted an .mpg file to .mov file by clicking File>Export to Quicktime. It successfully converted quickly and I opened it w/ Quicktime and was satisfied to open its properties and see two individual tracks for visual and audio. This should convert to iPod video format w/ sound, correct? What bugs me is the fact that the file size multiplied by 4, or went from 256MB to 1GB.
I would like to know the perfect exporting settings for good iPod quality (sound and visual) and reasonable size. What scares me is that if and when this newly 1GB file is converted to iPod, it'll be even larger, since a previously successfully converted movie went from 3.5MB to 5.1MB.
I'd like to know your experiences of using Streamclip. Should I experiment? What setting did you use to get the mpeg files to .mov files with smallest size and equivalent quality? Any reply is appreciated, and ones that answer my questions shall be favoured.
thnx for your time

In a nutshell, YES you should experiment. You should also try iSquint incidentally.
However, MPEG Streamclip 1.5.1 has an iPod button if you do File -> Export to MPEG4. Clicking that button sets the parameters to equal what the iPod would need to display without having to convert to a QuickTime movie first. Do one both ways to see if QuickTime and MPEG Streamclip's output looks identical (I've found QuickTime does a better job on animation).

How do i use proper settings in mpeg streamclip with m2t files?

hello,
i have seen this discussion before but not sure what codec i need to transfer to for my type of files...
i shot a video on the **sony hvr z7u** using compact flash cards and the video was shot on 1080i 24 frames per second...all the files are currently in m2t...
i used mpeg streamclip and used the follow settings:
-apple motion jpeg a
-100 percent quality
-uncompressed sound
-frame size: 1920 x 1080 (unscaled)
-interlaced scaling was checked
although the files are workable in FCP the files themselves are gigantic...did i use the correct settings?
thanks very much,
steven

Steve
Download and install Sony's Compact Flash and Portable Recording Unit Log and Transfer plugin (BPE-SS-038D): http://support.sonybiz.net/software/detail.aspx?id=BPE-SS-038D&model=HVR-DR60
Andy

MPEG STREAMCLIP: I need Exact export settings please...

Does anyone have the correct settings for exporting Via MPEG STREAMCLIP. I know that there is a H.264 and MPEG-4 option in the codecs. I DO NOT want to use the 640x480 iPod settings since there is resolution loss from the DVD's.
So what setting and bit rates would I have to use to crate a video file that is playable in AppleTV without having to go through QT Pro. I know I can encode a 720P file (and I will do that so I don't lose resolution), but is there anything in between the two taht Apple TV will play at 24P. Threre is a 950x540 but is says at 30 FPS.

How do you determine the proper crop values? I'm used to using MediaFork, which crops for you.There are basically two strategies:
1) Ensure that the file is displayed at it's proper aspect ration and then crop out what you don't want. That which remains you keep and convert to your target format.
2) Decide what the target aspect ratio is supposed to be and then crop/scale the file so it will meet those requiements.
In addition, there are differing strategies in determining encode/decode efficiency as a trade off for the accuracy of your aspect ratio. MPEG Streamclip, for instance, sacrifices encode/decode efficiency for exactitude in aspect ratio while MediaFork/HandBrake is just the opposite. Ex. Streamclip will allow you to create a 720 x 405 (16:9 or 1.78:1 aspect) while MediaFork or HandBrake would default to 720 x 400 (1.80:1 aspect ration). Since 720 and 400 are both evenly divisible by 16 but 405 is not, the MeadiaFork/Handbrake application would likely conver slightly faster than streamclip with all oter factors being the same. But, the Streamclip file would have the more accurate aspect ratio for scaling by TV or your HDTV.
As to actually entering the settings, you must first decide which strategy combination you plan to use. If the movies containg scenes which are display smaller than other scenes, scrub the play head to that location and set "in' and "out" points for tests. At this point you mst decide which strategy combination you plan to use before proceeding any further.
a) In the first case, simply tick the Streamclip "Crop" option and enter estimated valus. Now press the preview button and preview the output. If not satisfied, abort the preview and modify your entries. Repeat these steps until you are satisfiled. Do this for each movie as it is common for each to be centered differently or be of a slightly differeing size.
b) In the second case, you must now determine your target dimensions. For instance, lets say you have a movie which is specified to have a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and plan to export it at a width of 854 pixels. In this case, Streamclip has probably defaulted to an 854 x 480 (16:9) screen setting in your work area. However, your movie displays with a black "letterbox" top and bottom. To calculate a proper height for you movie at this width, simply devide 854 by 2.35 and you should get an answer between 363 and 364. If you plan to go for a "most accurate" aspect rato, then simply select the "Custom" display option and enter a width of 854 and a height of either 363 or 364. Now tick both the "Crop" and "Scale" Streamclip option and process as described above. Simply enter your crop values and previed the result. In this case however, ther cropped picture will always be rescaled back to the "Custom" display size you specified for your output.
While values will be different depending on which workflow you elect to use in paragraphs "a" or "b", the final displays should by approximately the same. In the first instance, the final output will be determined by the total amount of "overscan" included in the original content over and above the aspect ratio while in the second instance, the overscan will be scaled to fit within the aspect ratio you specified. This may sound confusing at first, but the principals and procedures are quite simple in practice once you get used to applying them.

Are my settings correct for .m2t transfer through mpeg streamclip?

hello,
i shot a video on the **sony hvr z7u** using compact flash cards and the video was shot on 1080i ...all the files are currently in m2t...
i used mpeg streamclip and used the follow settings:
-apple pro res 422 codec
-100 percent quality
-uncompressed sound
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-interlaced scaling was checked
are these acceptable? some of the footage doesnt look good with dark colors, but it might just be the way it is shot...
thank you!
steven

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Exact import settings for .mov files via MPEG Streamclip?

Ok, as I mentioned in this other thread , I'm looking to import some files recorded at an odd resolution into FCE.
Resizing my 512x288 files to 720x480 looks like it works, as well as with my 640x480 ones (don't know how it'll ultimately mess with the quality)... but I did do a test using some footage from 3 different video sources with different native resoultions, a)720x480 Sony DV Cam, b) 512x288 captured by helmet cam on Archos PMA 430, and c) 640x480 captured on Canon SD600, as well as .jpeg photos at 640x480 res.
I changed the odd sizes (Archos & Canon) to 720x480 using MPEG Streamclip, resampling the sound uncompressed at 48 khz, using the Apple DV/DVCPRO NTSC compression option. Importing these files into FCE, I mixed them and the Sony standard footage, and a few pictures up on a timeline, rendered it and exported it to a QT file, then burnt a CD. It appears to have worked to my satisfaction.
My question is, before I go and convert about 60 5-10 minute clips to this 720x480 resolution for use in a full length documentary, are there any settings I should be ticking off on the MPEG Streamclip interface to maximize the likelihood that the final project will work as well as the test did?
Below are the options I selected in the test, which seemed to work:
MPEG STREAMCLIP
Compression: Apple DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
Quality: 100%
Sound: Uncompressed Stereo 48 KHZ
Frame Size: 720x480
Frame Rate: 29.97
Checked boxes for:
-Frame Blending
-Better Downscaling
-Interlaced Scaling
Zoom: 100%
X/Y: 1
Center: 0,0
Field Dominance: Upper field first
That's about it. I tried doing similar conversions in a trial version of DIVX Converter pro, but the quality was noticibly lower than in MPEG streamclip. Maybe I just had the wrong settings in it.
Anyway, Tom Wolsky has mostly got me on the right track in the last post "...so the material needs to be a .mov QuickTime file in DV NTSC, at 29.97fps, audio should be Linear PCM with a sample rate of 48KHz, and frame resolution of 720x480 using the CCIR601 digital video aspect ratio... be warned you're scaling up a very, very heavily compressed video stream, so it's going to look less than optimal when you make it DV. I can't believe they can do 192kbps at that frame rate, when DV, which is heavily compressed as well, is 3.5MB/sec."
I have no idea if what I described in my test is heavily compressed or not, so couldn't really say how the settings I mentioned above affect Tom's latter advice.
Anyway, any help would be welcome before I encode all these files. Thanks.
iMac 17-inch 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4)

I'm kind of confused because the only settings I could find on the Handycam for audio are 12 khz and 16 khz, and though I think I filmed them at 12, I've captured the footage at both within FCE... I'm not sure either have shown any probs when imported at 48 khz as yet. Not sure if that's because they are a multiple of 48 or I just got lucky. Either way, 1) does the audio bit rate the footage was captured at (12 khz) change to 16 if changed on the camcorder (or is it solely what the original was filmed in, period) prior to capture on FCE, 2) and if so or if not, how serious of a problem will it pose, if I do nothing and keep the FCE settings at the normal NTSC 48khz, in later stages of production considering there will be a lengthy timeline?
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New MPEG-Streamclip Version 1.9.2......
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new option to add a textual watermark
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fixed compatibility with Google Video and Yahoo! Video
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I should have add this for mac users that have Windows. There a new version for Windows, 1.2.
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html
I just posted this in the Windows Qt forum.
Oh my, what was I thinking?

No sound on MPEG movies

I recently purchased the MPEG2 Updater and assumed that having it would allow me to view some MPEG's that people had sent me. Well, they open to a beautiful picture, but they have absolutely no sound. I have to convert them using MPEG Streamclip, but I lose an incredible amount of video quality when I do that. Even the old reliable vlc player will not play sound with these MPEG's. I am running Tiger and have QuickTime Pro 7.0.2.
My friends with PC's seem to have no trouble playing these and get incredibly clear video and perfect audio. Isn't MAC supposed to be good at this????? Why are we left out of this loop??
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kalverson wrote:
I just right-clicked and selected convert to iPod format in iTunes. In iTunes, there was not sound on the converted movie either. I will download and try to tool you mentioned.
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I have used MPEG streamclip on my older Macs and it works great. I just bought a new Macbook, downloaded the MPEG2 playback component and cannot edit mpeg files. I can open videos but cannot save the edits to any format. I get an error message stating that the movie file cannot be made. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Having just migrated to Apple Mac from a PC I have tried generating a video using iDVD. The files I am trying to use are MPEG1, but they are not recognised as video files. I tried converting them, using Quick Time pro, into other formats such as .mov or .MPEG4 but they only covert the video without the sound track. I have also tried "saving" the MPEG1 files into Quick Time movies, but when you look at the file info it has an extension of .mov but the format is still MPEG1 Muxed. Is there a solution to this?
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Mpeg Streamclip-Video fastforwards, audio out of sync

I'm using mpeg streamclip to convert files from a sony mini dvd camcorder .vob to quicktime dvcpro50, but the video intermittently fastforwards causing the audio to go out of sync, any hints?
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you are the second person i have heard that has this problem. with the first, i never heard back, but one thing i suggested it to that person was to connect with component video and analog audio cables.
are you using HDMI? is this something that you could try?
what equipment are you using and what are the file types, bitrates, etc... of the files that exhibit this behavior? does it happen no matter what type of file you play?
* NEVER MIND * i just checked the first poster and see that you chimed in there to. sounds like a potential hardware / software defect. i get something simliar with my computers if i plug headphones in or sometimes with long quicktime files, the audio drifts.
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Per people's recommendations here, I have "hijacked" some video from homemade DVD's via MPEG Streamclip. The quality looks excellent. (It was either this way or with Toast or with Popcorn ... I settled for Streamclip.)
When I go to import and edit the video in Final Cut, once I render it to make a new film, I get clipped audio .... almost static-like. Any idea what's causing this? Some of the stuff I imported looks and sounds fine, then others sound bad once rendered in Final Cut.
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Verify the audio you brought into FCP was 48khz/16bit.
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Whenever I upload a .AVI video into MPEG Streamclip, I lose the audio. The video plays fine in Quicktime but when I upload into MPEG Streamclip, the audio is replaced with some "clicking" sounds. Can someone please help me resolve this and fix it so that my audio gets imported as well? By the way, this is a problem that is only with .AVI files. When I try importing MP4 videos, they work fine and the audio gets imported as well. I need to resolve this so that I can convert my videos from .AVI to DV format with the sound. Thanks!

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that said i dont therefore understand the convert for i-pod button when the only video files able to be added are already in ipod compatible format? doesnt make sense to me but then maybe im missing something i mean i am a nOOb!

Getting Around MPEG Streamclip "No Audio" Problem

(Long post; apologies in advance.)
I needed to get around the MPEG Streamclip "no audio" problem that other people here have had. I just found a workaround that more-or-less works for my specific situation ... and it's free to boot.
Since other people are having this problem, I thought I'd let you know what happened to me, so you can decide if this is something you want to try. If you do, I suggest posting replies here so we all can learn (if that's okay with the board moderators here).
QTAmateur for MacOS X is available at http://www.mikeash.com/software/qtamateur/ . The developer has a somewhat full explanation of what it does at the site, so I won't repeat it here (and I don't get anything for talking about it here; I just want to share the good news).
Right now I'm field recording with a Flip Mino camera (non-HD), which saves video/audio to an AVI file (3ivx MPEG-4, 640x480) at 30 fps, with 44.1 kHz audio (Microsoft ADPCM). Funny thing is the files from my Flip actually imported into FCE without any conversion, but I had to render everything. And the video looked like crap. Hated the rendering and the look, so I searched for other solutions.
After paying for a couple of things that didn't work (lessons learned there), I finally found MPEG Streamclip. Since I'm using Snow Leopard, I sunk the additional $20 into the dang MPEG-2 playback component after my initial export try didn't produce any audio. After the component install, I still didn't have audio. Grrrrr.
So I Googled a bunch of keywords, and I somehow stumbled across this QTA package. Snow Leopard users should note a minor drawback here: QTA needs QuickTime 7, which gets blown away in a Snow Leopard upgrade and is not included in new Macs with Snow Leopard. Users can get off of their Install DVD, though, so it's not a huge deal.
When exporting from QTA, I matched its settings (audio and video) with the ones I found in this document: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12274888&#12274888 . QTA's export interface is actually QT7s, so at least that's familiar.
The only problem I'm having is that even though I set QTA to export at 29.97 fps, the exported files are still at 30 fps. A quick change in FCE upon import is the only thing I needed to use the file without rendering. I also had to change the fps setting on my LiveType files.
The only thing I need to figure out is to how to match up some studio-recorded audio with all of the above, so I don't have to render the studio audio and so it comes out at the equivalent of 30 fps. I think all I need to do is record at 44.1 KHz and I'm okay.
Of course, this is all my experience, and I realize others may not be able to work with this kind of setup. But I think this is an interesting workaround .. I wouldn't really call it a full solution, though, mainly because of the 29.97 fps versus 30 fps aspect.
One other quick thing: I'm not sure if this works without that $20 MPEG-2 playback component from Apple (thanks for that charge, Apple!), since I already had the component installed when I discovered QTA. Someone without the component, though, can download this and see if it works. If it does, then we all know that we don't need to spend the extra $20 for it to work.
If you decide to take the plunge, please let us know here. Thanks for reading.

@Tom and @Meg:
Thanks so much for your replies (speedy, too!). I especially want to thank Meg, who took the time to replicate the problem (which confirms to myself that I'm not nuts ). At least I know I have an ultimate "savior" in QT7 Pro.
Before I spend that final $30, though, I want to see if Tom can help, based on what the QT Inspector says about my .avi files from the Flip. Here's what it says:
VID00001.AVI
Format: Generic MPEG-4, 640 x 480, Millions
Microsoft ADPCM, Mono, 44.100 kHz
FPS: 30
Data Rate: 3408.53 kbits/s
Normal Size: 640 x 480 pixels
Current Size: 640 x 480 pixels (Actual)
(that's word for word, except for the source [file location]; wish I could figure out how to paste in the window from my Grab of it.)
I've already done the exports in the same way Meg indicated in her reply, trying all kinds of combinations. When exporting, though, I've always used DV/DVCPRO w/audio @ uncompressed 48k, and frame size @ 720x480 @ 29.97fps settings (saw those in another post here at the forum). I'm thinking those aren't contributing to my situation.
Whaddya think, Tom?
BTW, the biggest reason why I want to have the audio is to easily sync the audio off the digital recorder (I hook myself up with a lav mic) to the audio coming off of the Flip. I do the ol' "triple clap" trick to sync audio, so that helps -- thank goodness for audio waveforms in FCE.
Once synced, I then delete the Flip audio and move the digital recorder audio up to A1/A2 (although I delete the A2 audio channel). Sounds 1000% better than the Flip audio, as I record outside and the Flip mic picks up wind big-time.
BTW, Tom: I bought your book earlier this week. It's really, really good. You could teach an entire college semester class off of this book, and do it well. I'm getting to more of the lessons this week.

MPEG Streamclip 1.8 is out...

A new version of MPEG Streamclip is out...MPEG Streamclip 1.8
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improved AVI and DivX playback, encoding and editing
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improved iPod compatibility
added the Open URL command with the Download button
added an internal audio resampler
added support for MPEG-1 in VOBs and transport streams
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many bugs have been fixed

- MPEG Streamclip can now open and download FLV files.
- MicroMV and HDV camera owners please use Apple's DVHSCap to transfer movies into your Mac; then use MPEG Streamclip to convert them.
- DreamBox and Topfield users can open, download and upload movies with MPEG Streamclip, using the Enigma and Altair menus.
NEW IN VERSION 1.8
The Open URL command of the File menu, can now open and also download (or batch download) streams over the Internet, and it often recognizes and opens movies embedded in web pages. More details later in this guide.
MPEG Streamclip is now compatible with DivX 6. A special codec adapter has been added so now the DivX codec can be selected in the AVI and MOV exporter windows. If DivX 6.5 or later is installed, you can select MPEG Layer 3 audio in the exporter window as well.
The "Save As" command for AVI files has been significantly improved: it is faster, and can now handle B-frames properly. Better B-frame support has also been added in the AVI exporter, when the XviD codec is selected and B-frames are enabled in XviD options. Other improvements in the AVI exporter include proper encoding of AVI files with BMP and JPEG video, "lower" dominance for DivX, and a special frame size called "720x576 DivX PAL" that appear in place of "720x576 DV-PAL", when a DivX compatible codec is used.
An internal AVI importer has been added; it is a component that puts the AVI file in the player when it is opened in MPEG Streamclip. It was necessary because none of the three external AVI importers currently available (QuickTime, DivX, Perian-FFusion) seem to work properly.
Two internal AC3 and MP2 decoder components have been added: now it is possible to play QuickTime and AVI files with MPEG Layer 2 and AC3 sound without having to install any external codec.
An internal high-quality audio resampler (aka sample rate converter) has been added. This was necessary to replace the QuickTime audio resampler, used in previous versions of MPEG Streamclip, which worked well on PowerPC Macs but appeared to have random bugs on Intel Macs that affected the quality of sound and caused many out-of-sync problems.
Fixed many bugs; some of them were there since version 1.5, including: a bug in which the last few seconds of the audio track were not exported; a bug in which the video compressor used was sometimes different from the video compressor chosen; a bug in which the picture became darker/brighter when exporting with the same compressor; a bug in which the frame rate was not detected properly.
For FLV files, the Video PID menu lets you select the video aspect ratio (4:3/16:9).
Added support for MPEG-1 video in transport streams and in VOB files.
Added a quality slider for JPEG frame export.

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