[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 05:06:31PM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> On this page, you list the Quicktime mpeg-2 playback component.  Out  
> of curiosity, what do you use it for?  I had my sister buy it for her  
> mac so she could import the de-DRMed mpeg2 files off her TiVo into  
> iMovie/iDVD, but it didn't let her do that.  I did some more reading  
> on what the component is supposed to do, and I just couldn't figure  
> out the usefulness of it at all.
> So, out of curiosity, what do you use it for?

.. playing back MPEG-2 files?  I've never had problems playing MPEG-2
files converted from my TiVo (w/Tivotool).  Of course, I usually 
convert them to .mp4 using VisualHub after dumping them to my HD as
MPEG-2 files.

Bill

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