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Unfortuneatly the Hauppauge TV Tuners save video files in a .mpg format. While searching for a program to put the files onto my iPod Touch I figured going with an Apple product would work the best. However, it was not the case. Once purchasing the upgrade from QuickTime 7 to QuickTime 7 Pro ($29.99), I had to purchase the MPEG-2 Playback Component ($19.99) to properly view the video files I recorded. The video played with lines through the player and no sound was heard. I am still searching for a product which will do the trick.

(184 of 201 people found this review useful)

Apple does it again.

I bought Final Cut Express because I thought that I was going to make some good editing in no time... problem was that my macbook did not have the "ability" to read my video files, shot with a Sony DCR-SR52. I had to import the video from Imovie, then import those files into Final Cut Express with a wrong Aspect Ratio and then edit it. Now when I saw this Add On I thought why dont I try to buy this and the .mpg files should , like apple says be readable by Quick Time. But nope. and now that I have payed 1650,-(Final Cut Express + Add On) danish kroner im starting to get rather mad, because nothing of what I have bought is working... What a great compatability Apple... was that not what you recently was so proud of when you talked about your new macbooks?

If you have a Sony camcorder, do not buy this Add On unless you are absolutly sure that it is a model that is compatible.

(241 of 263 people found this review useful)

It does not work with my Sony Handicam files. It does not work with my TV card files. It does not work with files that create DVD's fine in other software. I wish I had seen these reviews before I bought the MPEG 2 playback for windows. I would have saved my money. I hope I can figure out how to get a refund.

(416 of 459 people found this review useful)

This product does not work properly on my PC. I've posted the error message I receive when trying to play a DVD on the Discussion Forum and it remains unresolved for two weeks now along with a lot of other questions/issues with this product! There is no online support for this product from Apple. You can't even find a way to return it for credit! My recommendation is not to use QT7 as your default media player and go to something else.

(290 of 343 people found this review useful)

this is a good product and fixed the problem I was having with MPEG 2 format videos. On the other hand I give it three stars for being $19.99 apple/QuickTime should include this format when you upgrade to QuickTime Pro.

(460 of 571 people found this review useful)

I'm delighted Apple are honest & publish the bad reviews with the good -- clearly there are problems with some mpegs, and clearly it is also useful with others (and i can vouch that there are as many mpeg variants as there are programmers who wish to reinvent the wheel everytime they release a new product -- I wish they would research the original standard and leave it be!).

Full marks to Apple for integrity - we can't expect perfection but at least we have this. Why can't we download a trial?

(333 of 436 people found this review useful)

Doesn't play the video from files from many source. Even the ones it does play correctly will not export the audio via quicktime pro. Even though audio plays during playback, export says there is no audio to export. I bought the pair of product hoping to get a better experience transcoding from mpeg2 than with OpenSource options, but it's completely useless for that.

(451 of 577 people found this review useful)

I am very disappointed in Apple. This MPEG-2 Playback component performs poorly. I wanted to convert MPEG-2 files created from my Hauppauge TV tuner into MPEG-4, but QuickTime won't recognize the audio track in the MPEG-2 file (it says there isn't one)!

QuickTime won't even play the MPEG-2 properly. There are all kinds of visual artifacts, as well as a bit of choppiness. The SAME video file plays perfectly in Windows Media Player. Why??? Are Apple's software developers really this incompetent?

(464 of 563 people found this review useful)