MPEG Streamclip video converterfor Windows XP/Vista/7

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful high-quality videoconverter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod.And now it is a DivX editor and encoding machine, and even a moviedownloader.
You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open and play most movie formatsincluding MPEG files or transport streams; edit them with Cut, Copy,Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed ordemuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 fileswith more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in aDVD authoring tool, and use them with many other applications ordevices.
Supported input formats: MPEG,VOB, PS, M2P, MOD,VRO,DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T,MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, VDR, PVR, TP0, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2,MPA, AC3, ...

This free application requires Windows XP or Windows Vista or Windows7, but may also workin Windows2000 and in Linux with WINE; it does not work in Windows 95/98/SE/ME.You have to download and install QuickTime, using one ofthe following two installers (but NOT both!):
- Apple QuickTime 7 free player (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html)
- KL QuickTime Alternative 1.81
(http://www.filehippo.com/download_quicktime_alternative/2615)
THE LATEST VERSIONOF QUICKTIME ALTERNATIVE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MPEGSTREAMCLIP; PLEASE DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME ALTERNATIVE 1.81 USING THE ABOVELINK.
Additionally, if you want to make or play DivX files withMPEG Streamclip, you also have to install 3ivx (http://www.3ivx.com/),(http://www.free-codecs.com/3ivx_download.htm)and WindowsMedia Player 10 or higher.

Which QuickTime installer do I have to choose?

Apple QuickTime 7 is the official distribution of QuickTime. This freeinstaller is recommended, however it is a very large file (more than 20MB without iTunes) and it does not include MPEG-2 decoding (you have tobuy the MPEG-2 playback component separately from Apple, for $19.99).
KL QuickTime Alternative is a free unofficial distribution ofQuickTime. It has a quite smaller installer (less than 15 MB) andincludes MPEG-2 decoding in the 'Additional plugins'. When youinstall it, be sure to enable the checkbox'Additional plugins',otherwise the MPEG-2 decoder will not be installed. You can chooseeither the full or the lite version.
THE LATEST VERSIONOF QUICKTIMEALTERNATIVE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MPEG STREAMCLIP; PLEASE DOWNLOADQUICKTIME ALTERNATIVE 1.81 USING THE ABOVE LINK.

I have Apple iTunes or Apple QuickTime alreadyinstalled, can I use QuickTime Alternative?

You can replace Apple QuickTime with QuickTime Alternative withoutcausing problems to iTunes. Just start the QuickTime Alternativeinstaller, and choose to uninstall Apple QuickTime before installingQuickTime Alternative.

MPEG Streamclip shows a green screen and freezes. Whatshould I do?

This may happen with some graphic cards. In this case, go to yourcontrol panel, open QuickTime settings, select 'Advanced' and, in Videosettings, disable DirectDraw acceleration. Please do not disableDirectDraw, but only DirectDraw acceleration; keep DirectDraw enabledor MPEG Streamclip will not display the player.

MPEG Streamclip lets you play and edit QuickTime, DV, AVI, MPEG-4,MPEG-1; MPEG-2 or VOB files or transport streams with MPEG, PCM, or AC3audio. MPEG Streamclip can export all these formats to QuickTime,DV, AVI/DivX and MPEG-4 with high quality encoding and evenuncompressed or HD video.
Video conversion is performed in the YUV color space; you can choose toscale video to any frame size using a professional 2D-FIR scaler(better than bicubic) but you can also leave it unscaled. Otheroptional video processing features include a powerful motion-adaptivedeinterlacer, a field dominance converter, a chroma reinterlacer and anoption to perform interlaced scaling instead of progressive scaling.Audio can be converted to uncompressed or to IMA, AAC, MP2 or AMR usingthe high-quality MP1/MP2/AC3/PCM built-in decoders of MPEG Streamclip;it is also kept in perfect sync with video using a timekeeping system.
MPEG Streamclip can save edited movies as MOV files, and (whenpossible) as AVI or MP4 files. Edited MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files are savedas MPEG or TS files.
MPEG Streamclip can also convert MPEG-2 transport streams into muxedMPEG-2 files, for immediate burning at full quality with most DVDauthoring applications; it can also demux MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files andtransport streams with MPEG, AC3, PCM audio to M2V and AIFF (or M1A orAC3) files, for immediate burning at full quality with DVD authoringapplications. A special demuxing option is available for use inQuickTime Pro: this application does not work well with M2V files, butMPEG Streamclip can write a special 'unscaled' M2V file that preservesfull video quality.
MPEG Streamclip can handle files and streams larger than 4 GB, split inany number of segments, or with multiple audio tracks, and can alsooptionally handle timecode breaks. It is compatible with MPEG-1 andMPEG-2 video, MPEG layer 1/2 (MP1/MP2) audio, AC3/A52 audio, and PCMaudio.
The player included in MPEG Streamclip lets you preview the files andtransport streams before doing the conversion; it also lets youvisually set the In and Out points for the conversion so you canconvert just the part of the file you are interested in, and also cutcommercials and other unwanted parts, or edit the stream and join twostreams with Cut/Copy/Paste.

MPEG Streamclip supports the DreamBox DM7000/DM5620/DM500 and theDM7020 (www.dream-multimedia-tv.de),and the TopfieldTF5000PVR/TF5000PVRt/TF5500PVR (www.topfield.co.kr),two importantfamilies of DVB set-top boxes. MPEG Streamclip is also compatible withmost MPEG-2 devices that use program or transport stream files,including FireWire MPEG-2 devices like Sony IP7/MicroMV, Sony HDR-FX1and JVC GR-HD1 camcorders; DVHS recorders; FireWire/Ethernet/USBset-top boxes or digital video recorders, like ReplayTV, the SamsungSIR-T16 and the Humax PVR-8000; USB cameras like Panasonic SV-AV100,Sony T1 and JVC Everio (www.jvc.com);DVD camcorders like PanasonicVDR-M70 and Hitachi DZ-MV230. MPEG Streamclip is also compatible withmost DVD recorders, since it can open and convert unencrypted VOB orVRO files, and supports AC3 audio.
MPEG Streamclip is compatible with the Apple iPod 5G. Use the MPEG-4exporter to make MP4 video files that can be easily imported in youriPod!