On Jul 9, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote:
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?
the DVD authoring tools for XP handle many formats natively, not
just .mov as iDVD help says it does. I'd still be using these Mac
tools on the 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.
I tried it twice and had issue both times. I know ncftp is
trustworthy, I've used it for years. either its one of the ISO-
variants that my old Toast can't handle, or there's an issue with the
source, or it's getting repeatedly corrupted. It takes all night
each time to download. I tire of this :)
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.
hmm.... my recollection of the iDVD help was that it only understood
quicktime .mov. So I chose mpeg-4 quicktime as the final format for
the converted divx file, in ffmpegX. which is why I had quality
questions about re-encoding the file again.
I see 2 DVD choices in ffmpegX, DVD-mpegenc and DVD-ffmpeg. So iDVD
can handle both? I wasn't sure if that was the codec used for the
conversion only or if that was the codec used in the final DVD audio/
video format, which might not work with iDVD. My other option for
making DVDs is Toast 5.2.3, which is a bit old, I don't have Toast 6.
I think you're trying to make the whole thing a lot harder than it is.
Could certainly be.
At this time, I have a reencoded-to-quicktime-mpeg4 which has audio.
I'm starting the DVD burn now. Hopefully it looks nice when done!
Thanks for the replies;
Brian
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