On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
OK, what format to I convert to so that a) quicktime will play it b) I can make a DVD with toast 5.2.3 or iDVD?
Now you're into the tricky world of video encoding. I've been doing this a while and tend to take things for granted because of it. Anymore, I use the Pro Tools (Compressor, DVDSP). But ffmpeg should do just fine.
One place where you could be missing it is that you need an m2v video file and an ac3 or PCM audio file from ffmpeg. In ffmpeg there should be a "keep elementary streams" option. That's what you need to get the separate files to feed to your DVD authorware. Otherwise you just get a simple VIDEO_TS folder to burn onto a DVD-R with no menus, just a single movie.
Another is that when you say that you get white video. I think you may be missing the proper codecs or that there is a conflict between a few. You should be able to decode most of those - ahem - nefarious - avi files using the DivX labs "Fusion" codec. 3ivX has been hit and miss for me as well as the DivX 5 codecs for OS X.
Last, do some research on videohelp.com's Mac video forum ( http:// www.videohelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9 )
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