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Sometimes you don’t want to use Final Cut to review your shoots, or simply you can’t : you are on Windows !

Even if VLC can read the mp4 file directly, you can also extract the mpeg2 file encapsulated inside the mp4.

Thanks to Mr Bolanski, FFmpeg is your friend :

EX1.mp4 to DV25 :

ffmpeg –i inputfile.mp4 –f dv –s 720x576 output.dv

EX1.mp4 to Mpeg2 and wav :

ffmpeg -y -i inputfile.mp4 -vcodec copy -f mpeg2video outputfile.m2v -acodec pcm_s16le outputfile.wav