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MPG File

2010-05-21

MPG File

MPG file usually stands for an early video file format MPEG-1.

What is MPG file?

MPG is a video format standardized by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), typically incorporates MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 audio and video compression.

This file format was designed specifically for use with Video-CD and CD-i media. The most common implementations of the MPEG-1 standard provide a video resolution of 352x240 at 30 frames per second (fps). When you use this standard, you receive a video that is slightly lower-quality than typical VCR videos.

Today, higher quality video format like AVI/MKV (with xvid, MPEG-4 codec) is a better choice.

How to play and convert MPG files on Mac?

MOV is a file extension used by the QuickTime-wrapped files. The format was created by Apple Computer to work with multimedia files. MOV is a container format and can contain video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content or text (for subtitles, for example).

To play an mpg file, a QuickTime player on Mac couldn't fully satisfied. If you have an mpg file and you want to play it on your Mac, you need to download some components for Mac players or some other media players. If you want to edit this mpg file in iMovie, you need to convert this mpg file into mov format first, and then input and edit it.

If you only want to play your mpg file, here we recommend two components for QuickTime Player. The most popular components for Mac players on market are Perian and Flip4Mac. The first solution is download one from either official website.

Perianis

Perianis is an open source plug-in which enables QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on Mac OS X, i.e. AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW. If your mov file is still on strike, try to uninstall your old QuickTime Version and download the latest one QuickTime 7.6.

Flip4Mac

Flip4Mac is for watching Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and viewing Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser. It’s not suitable for playing an mov file.

Edit and convert MPG files

If you want to do more and you want to edit it on iMovie or upload onto YouTube, you need a media converter for Mac to convert MPG files to MOV formats. Aimersoft Total Media Converter for Mac will show you how to achieve it within 5 steps.

Step 1

Free download: Aimersoft Total Media Converter for Mac

You can free download Aimersoft Total Media Converter for Mac ( MPG/MPEG to MOV Converter for Mac) first, install and run it.

Step 2

Next step is to click ADD button on the top, and choose your mMPG file you want to convert. If you have several MPG files and you want to put them together and get a complete mov file, just check all the files and check the box in front of Merge into one. Preview first, in case it’s in the wrong order.

Step 3

Click the button on the thumbnail. Select Common Video and choose MOV-QuickTime (*.mov) from the dropdown list. If you have no idea what kind of formats that your device supports, just choose according to the device’s name.

Step 4

Before pressing Convert button, you'd better check the setting first. You can change the settings manually. You can also use the original settings, which will work just perfect.

Step 5

Press Start to begin to convert MPG to MOV for your Mac.

How to play MPG using MacVCD X?

MacVCD X can play MPG movies from your computer or from a CD. The following is a guide to play MPG with MacVCD X.

Instructions

Step 1

Download and install MacVCD X Video Media Player on your computer.

Step 2

To run MacVCD X, double click the MacVCD X icon.

Step 3

From the Menu, use File>Open.

Navigate to the movie File and click the Open button.

Step 4

Click the Play button.

How to convert MPG to TS?

In this guide, an explanation of how to convert MPG to TS extension file is given. RER Video Converter offers you the easiest and best solution to convert MPG to TS format. Four steps below tell you how to use MPG to TS Converter easily and fast.

Instructions

Step 1-MPG to TS Converter free download

Click here to free download RER Video Converter. Launch the r-video-converter.exe file and follow the installation wizard instructions. All decoders and encoders are built in. Once you download and install RER Video Converter software, all supported formats can be converted without downloading any more codec. Run RER Video Converter.

Step 2-Load your MPG video file for converting MPG to TS

Click the upper Browse... button to select your MPG file you would like to convert.

Browse for the necessary MPG file in the opened Windows Explorer Window. Click Open button next to the filename of the Windows Explorer Window to load MPG extension file to MPG to TS Converter shareware. Make sure before clicking you have selected an MPG video file you want to convert.

You may also click + button or use drag-and-drop to add multiple MPG files.

Step 3-MPG to TS conversion parameters

Click MORE button and select the list TO TS placed along on the top of the interface. It means you want to convert MPG files you have selected to the container TS formats.

Click the drop-down list next to TS profile, you can select a preset profile for the output TS video MPEG2 codec.

Click Edit... button to set more details, if you want to customize the parameters of your selected profile.

Step 4-Convert MPG to TS now

Hit the big button of Convert, when you have finished the steps above. Then the MPG to TS converter shareware will start converting MPG movie to TS video. Now you've learned the whole thing on how to convert MPG to TS!

And the processing bar will show you how fast and where the MPG to TS conversion process is experiencing.

How to convert MPG to AVI?

MPG file is a variant of the MPEG video and audio compression algorithm and file format, optimized for broadcast quality video.

AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave. AVI is the most common format for audio/video data on the PC. AVI is a very flexible and powerful architecture. Some newer codecs enable AVI files to have similar or even better quality than DVD.

If you want to convert MPG to AVI, you can try OJOsoft Total Video Converter, a perfect MPG to AVI converter that can convert MPG to AVI format.

The following guide explains how to convert MPG files to AVI with OJOsoft Total Video Converter, which can convert video between any formats easily and fast.