3.0 & extraction & Mac OS X

[knanlohy]

1: VLC (VideoLAN Client) plays mpeg 2 program streams generated by
mplex and tyc, etc. The OS X port is young but robust --
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

2: mjpegtools is partially ported to OS X (via the fink project --
high recommends -- http://fink.sourceforge.net/). The partial port,
when last I checked, contained working versions of mplex and
mpeg2enc, but not mpeg2dec.

But I don't do any transcoding anyway, so I don't use mpeg2dec.

(note: when I use mplex, I specify a big software buffer: "mplex -b
1000 ..." to keep it from choking on video and audio streams
generated from high-quality tystreams.)

3: tyc builds on OS X with minor changes. Here's the diff:

--- tyc.c 2001-11-10 12:58:29.000000000 -0800
+++ tyc_osx.c 2002-05-27 21:39:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
-#include <linux/fs.h>
+//#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <sys/param.h>
+#include <ufs/ufs/dinode.h>
+#include <ufs/ffs/fs.h>
+//
#include <unistd.h>
#include <memory.h>


But I don't use tyc; I use mfs_stream and splitstream and mplex. 
They seem to work better for me.

Have fun -- K.

--- In ExtractStream@y..., Matthew Barr <mbarr@m...> wrote:
> I've been watching the various sources for info on extraction, and
come up
> w/ an interesting dilemma.
> 
> I've successfully exported a couple of files from the Tivo using
Tivo App.
> Only problem is that the Mac (w/ OSX) doesn't support Mpeg-2, nor
does tyc
> work on it. Is anyone doing any work w/ tyc or other command line
tools
> that might be portable to OSX?
> 
> Also, has anyone had any luck w/ Mac tools to convert mpeg-2 to
some other
> format; either mpeg 1, or now, w/ the Quicktime 6 preview, Mpeg 4?
Or I
> suppose DIVX?