MAC and ProjectX a tutorial

netmask · Post by **netmask** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 21:47

This is from doom9 forum and refers to the experience of a UK poster.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p ... ost1329082

twitch · Post by **twitch** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:25

That's a good description. I use a very similair series of steps on my Mac: ProjectX to demux -> MPEGStreamClip to remux -> Toast to burn (or Handbrake to reencode) to achieve the same, but Toast is not free, unlike "SmallDVD" which I hadn't heard of before.

prl · Post by **prl** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:55

twitch wrote:That's a good description. I use a very similair series of steps on my Mac: ProjectX to demux -> MPEGStreamClip to remux -> Toast to burn (or Handbrake to reencode) to achieve the same, but Toast is not free, unlike "SmallDVD" which I hadn't heard of before.

I just use MPEG Streamclip's Convert to MPEG2, then Toast. I think that Convert To MPEG2 needs the Quicktime MPEG2 Playback Component (from Apple, $29.95).

twitch · Post by **twitch** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 08:43

prl wrote:
twitch wrote:That's a good description. I use a very similair series of steps on my Mac: ProjectX to demux -> MPEGStreamClip to remux -> Toast to burn (or Handbrake to reencode) to achieve the same, but Toast is not free, unlike "SmallDVD" which I hadn't heard of before.
I just use MPEG Streamclip's Convert to MPEG2, then Toast. I think that Convert To MPEG2 needs the Quicktime MPEG2 Playback Component (from Apple, $29.95).

MPEG2 conversion in MPEGStreamclip actually doesn't need the plugin. The plugin is only for being able to display (and therefore I guess edit) a mpeg file in MSC, however I don't have the plugin and MSC has no problem opening, re-muxing and saving to MPEG-2.

prl · Post by **prl** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 09:17

twitch wrote:
prl wrote:
twitch wrote:That's a good description. I use a very similair series of steps on my Mac: ProjectX to demux -> MPEGStreamClip to remux -> Toast to burn (or Handbrake to reencode) to achieve the same, but Toast is not free, unlike "SmallDVD" which I hadn't heard of before.
I just use MPEG Streamclip's Convert to MPEG2, then Toast. I think that Convert To MPEG2 needs the Quicktime MPEG2 Playback Component (from Apple, $29.95).
MPEG2 conversion in MPEGStreamclip actually doesn't need the plugin. The plugin is only for being able to display (and therefore I guess edit) a mpeg file in MSC, however I don't have the plugin and MSC has no problem opening, re-muxing and saving to MPEG-2.

Even better

netmask · Post by **netmask** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 14:16

Some say if you look under a different tree you never know what might drop out

christas · Post by **christas** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 09:31

Anyone help me in getting my hands on ProjectX for mac. There is a torrent but no seeders.

prl · Post by **prl** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 09:56

christas wrote:Anyone help me in getting my hands on ProjectX for mac. There is a torrent but no seeders.

I built it from source. You need to have X-Code installed to build it.

netmask · Post by **netmask** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 13:18

christas wrote:Anyone help me in getting my hands on ProjectX for mac. There is a torrent but no seeders.

PM me and I will email it to you - it's zipped and about 1MB.

prl · Post by **prl** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 13:40

If it's the source that's wanted, then it's available for normal HTTP download (no bit torrents needed) from its sourceforge home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-x/. Just click on the big green button. The sourceforge page was first hit when I Googled "projectx".

netmask · Post by **netmask** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 14:35

The version I have is simpl;y in a folder that you can copy into the applications folder on the MAC and it's ready to go.

christas · Post by **christas** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 07:51

Thanks very much to Netmask for the offer.
The problem I'm having is after I use ProjectX and end up with a m2v and a mp2 files.
I am then using MPEG Streamclip to convert to mpeg and then Toast to burn to DVD. The resulting DVD has no audio.

netmask · Post by **netmask** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 08:25

christas wrote:Thanks very much to Netmask for the offer.
The problem I'm having is after I use ProjectX and end up with a m2v and a mp2 files.
I am then using MPEG Streamclip to convert to mpeg and then Toast to burn to DVD. The resulting DVD has no audio.

Have you tried ffmpegx to mux the audio and video together?

http://www.ffmpegx.com/index.html

prl · Post by **prl** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 09:35

christas wrote:...
I am then using MPEG Streamclip to convert to mpeg and then Toast to burn to DVD. The resulting DVD has no audio.

Have you tried using Convert to MPEG with MP2 Audio?

tonymy01 · Post by **tonymy01** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:25

Some DVD players will send MPEG audio as bitstream to your amp unless you tell it otherwise (i.e. send it as PCM). This is due to the early DVD standards in this country having MPEG audio as the standard format, with AC3 optional, now it appears AC3 has become the defacto standard.
(So this is MPEG-1 layer2 I am talking about, the same audio used in the MPEG2 DVB-T SD streams). So if MPEG stream clip is muxing the streams together back for your DVD creation OK, then the problem may be at your player end.
Regards

christas · Post by **christas** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:44

Tried MPEG streamclip, convert to MPEG with mp2 audio - no sound on dvd.
Tried ffmpegx to mux the audio and video files - no sound on dvd.
Tried dvd in 2 different players- no sound on dvd.
The dvd will work fine on my mac but not on standalone dvd players.
Any thoughts?

tonymy01 · Post by **tonymy01** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 14:40

I gave my thoughts. You need to tell your DVD player to make it PCM audio. Otherwise it tries to bitstream the MPEG audio, which only early-mid-late 90s amps seem to bother decoding (non bother with it now).
That will be your issue. Most junky players seemed to have forgotten about this australian standard for DVDs having MPEG audio as default, and so don't have the required settings by default to decode the audio. You just need to make sure MPEG is set to PCM (and/or decode, same thing) in the player (90% of players give you that option) and bob's your uncle.
Regards

christas · Post by **christas** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 15:06

Thank you. i've had to change the Digital Output to PCM only instead of all on the DVD player.

MAC and ProjectX a tutorial

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