On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:58:58 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Cory,
> >
> > Could you post the full details of what you do to take a recording and
> > convert it to a video DVD?
> >
>         I had a thread going in mid-December about this.  Basically,
> encapsulate the MPEG2 in an AVI format with 'mencoder -oac copy -ovc
> copy.'  Load it in avidemux and rebuild B frames.  Resave with rebuilt
> B-frames.  Open new file and cut commercials.  Export as A+V MPG.  Author
> with 'qdvdauthor' (with menus, etc).  That's the "lossless" export.
> 
>         The "lossy" export is the same to get it into avidemux.  Then a
> denoise, resize->1/2D1, and two-pass transcode at 700MB/42 minutes.
> Roughly 4hours/hour on a 2.4GHz P4 or Athlon 2400.
> 
>         Big PITA, but it worked... even with the chunk of video I had
> captured from tape that had an A/V sync jump.
> 
> -Cory

I haven't tried this yet but streamclip will convert mpeg to dv. 
iMovie should then be able to import it, but I'm not sure what kind of
quality loss you'll have with this.
http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html

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