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Any way to get iDVD to use already mpeg-2'ed video?
LoneIgadzra
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I have some AVI's that I've been toying with the notion of burning to DVD (not as files), and I'm fairly certain I can use ffmpegX to do a satisfactory job of the transcoding, as well as generate the image with all the videos in sequence that I can then just burn using Disk Utility or Toast or something (though mainly Disk Utility, since I can't afford Toast). If I'm wrong about that, please correct me.
However, another very interesting avenue of approach is iDVD (I have version 6), since it is so adept at generating incredible menus. However, it does a shit job of transcoding, even on its high quality mode, sometimes generating files twice as big as the tools included in ffmpegX. I'm curious if there's some way to get it to not run video through its worthless encoder, or if I'm just stuck with the old-fashioned way in order to get reasonable efficiency with this particular issue.
(Another issue, even though iDVD offers a vaguely acceptable level of content on a single DVD if you cut back on menu loop length and so forth, is that the visual quality of its transcode of an XviD is pathetic. I suppose it might look tolerable on a an SD TV, but I don't feel like wasting a DVD to test at the moment.)
However, another very interesting avenue of approach is iDVD (I have version 6), since it is so adept at generating incredible menus. However, it does a shit job of transcoding, even on its high quality mode, sometimes generating files twice as big as the tools included in ffmpegX. I'm curious if there's some way to get it to not run video through its worthless encoder, or if I'm just stuck with the old-fashioned way in order to get reasonable efficiency with this particular issue.
(Another issue, even though iDVD offers a vaguely acceptable level of content on a single DVD if you cut back on menu loop length and so forth, is that the visual quality of its transcode of an XviD is pathetic. I suppose it might look tolerable on a an SD TV, but I don't feel like wasting a DVD to test at the moment.)
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I don't know if ffmpegX can make the requisite .vob files, let alone the menus.