Lovely Movie Conversion
June 4, 2006 | In: Technology
I wanted to send Shane some music videos this past week, but couldn’t do it in a reasonable fashion because these videos were old MPEG-1 movies from years ago and are just take too long to transfer.
So, I did what any reasonable geek (who owns QuickTime Pro) would do and tried to convert the movies. That worked in QuickTime Pro, actually, but there was a bit of a problem. No sound.
It turns out that these MPEG-1 files had a muxed sound stream. In other words, the sound was mixed in with the video in one big stream. You’d have to separate them out first before converting them to a contemporary video format and codec.
I wracked my brain and attempted to figure out how to do this without paying money, but I had no luck until I stumbled upon MPEG Streamclip. It’s a free application which easily converts those old MPEG-1 movies to any supported QuickTime format (in this case, MPEG-4 with H.264).
If you have some old movies laying around that you’d like to re-encode in to the latest codecs, give this MPEG Streamclip a try.
