About the mpeg-2 encoder pane, Mpeg-2 encoder pane basic settings – Apple Compressor 3 User Manual
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Transport streams can also recover from interruptions during playback, making them
ideally suited for broadcast and streaming applications where noise or network
congestion can lead to interruptions.
• Program streams: These streams contain only one MPEG-2 content channel and its
associated audio. Program streams require an error-free delivery method and are
primarily used for storage or processing within a computer.
By default, the Compressor MPEG-2 encoder creates elementary MPEG-2 steams. You can
configure the MPEG-2 encoder to create transport or program streams and choose whether
they should include audio in the Extras tab. See
for more information.
Note: All the Stream Usage settings except Generic output elementary streams. If you
select any of the other Stream Usage settings and then configure the output to be either
a transport or program stream, the Stream Usage changes to Generic. See
for more information.
About the MPEG-2 Encoder Pane
This section contains detailed information about the various tabs within the MPEG-2
Encoder pane in the Inspector window. You make your MPEG-2 settings using these tabs,
by either modifying an existing setting or creating a new setting in the Settings tab.
MPEG-2 Encoder Pane Basic Settings
The MPEG-2 pane opens with the default Video Format tab on top and contains the
following items.
• Extension field: Displays the MPEG-2 file extension (.m2v) automatically after the MPEG-2
output format is selected from the File Format pop-up menu.
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Chapter 18
Creating MPEG-2 Output Files