Playing MPEG2 Files

I recently paid for and downloaded the MPEG2 player plug-in for Quicktime 10 but still do not seem to be able to play .vob files generated from our home DVD recorder (so not encrypted). Any assistance would be much appreciated - thanks
JockMcC

No sound, mind you... I have tried VLC and that works fine - but I was also planning to transcode from mp2 to m4v and QT claims to do that as well, I think.
This component does not support audio from a "muxed" MPEG2/AC3 or MPEG2/PCM source like a VOB file. Use MPEG2 Streamclip here. It will break out the audio for you and transcode the content for you using the same QT structure embedded in the OS and installed components as used by QT 7 Pro but has somewhat different presets. It will also automatically merges multiple VOB titles into a single file and usually warn you/fix any MPEG-2 timecode breaks found (which QT hates). If you really wish to use QT 7 Pro here, you can "demux" the VOBs to elementary M2V (i.e., not transcoded) and AIFF paired files which QT 7 Pro can then handle normally using the MPEG-2 component.

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