Apple, what are you doin to me? QuickTime.. the one program I thought I could trust in the world of video. The program that I thought I could make play most videos has slowly been getting worse as apple moves their programs more towards the consumer market than the professional but this takes the buiscuit.
Why have you removed the MPEG2 playback component? I have hundreds of videos produced by the company and external agencies which now apparently are not movie files and it really messes up the playback of .tod files which up until a couple of weeks ago I played fine with the JVC Everio plugin.
Their is a solution! Apple will sell the MPeg2 playback component back to you for a bargain $19.99 but why? Who made this ridiculous decision to reduce the power of Apple programs! Come on let’s not turn into windows media player! Come to think of it, Powerpoint supports mpeg2 and no other mpeg codec.
Please ReTweet until someone at apple reads this.
Pretty sure that apple has _always_ required you to purchase the MPEG2 playback component separately. Unless you have Final Cut Studio installed on the same machine, in that case it’s probably installed it for you.
I’ve been purchasing that MPEG2 playback component for machines for YEARS now.
My guess is that it has something to do with licensing and the people who own MPEG.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2260030&tstart=15
Hang on to your purchase
Up until I installed Snow Leopard I could play Mpeg2 and .tod files. Since the install no such look, I googled it and found many people saying that Apple had removed the component on the upgrade. I have since had trouble at work with files that up until a few weeks ago were playing fine.
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