On Jul 9, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
On the Dark Side (heh),I saw that you could get this for $42:
NEC ND-3540A 16x Dual Layer DVD+-RW $42 at NewEgg.com
add a $24 USB2 case for it, blow off buying Quicktime Pro, and you
are only costing yourself ~$30 to get a working solution for your
XP machine (in my case, my wife's laptop). You'd have to be
careful with multitasking perhaps, I'm not sure about underrun
protection on this drive.
Why would that not also work for your Mac?
I expected the Mac multimedia to Just Work, and I'm pretty
disappointed in formats natively supported, etc. I thought Apple
had figured out that we live in a Big World, here, finally.
Thanks for the replies so far, and for experiences with re-encoding
using ffmegX or Handbrake, both of which seem popular.
I still don't understand what it is that you're trying to do. Why not
grab the DVD iso again? It sure sounded like when you grabbed it you
got some corruption in there. You're not going to be re-encoding to
something better than that anyway.
If you want to put the DivX on a DVD, just drag the DivX into ffmpegx
and encode it for NTSC DVD. If you just want to play it, grab 3ivX
and play it in Quicktime.
I think you're trying to make the whole thing a lot harder than it is.
- Dylan
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