MPEG and iDVD

[hellsaviour]

I have a bunch of Music videos in MPG and MPEG that i want to make a DVD of, there is a perfect menu in iDVD that i want to use.

Is there a way of getting iDVD to use MPEG and MPG videos?

[willrob]

I think you will need to convert them to DV format first.

[hellsaviour]

How would i go about doing that. Can i just convert them to .mov, and if so what program should i use?

[miksu]

If you convert 'em into DV and then import into iDVD, iDVD encodes them back into MPEG2 before recording and you lose in quality.

[willrob]

I just became aware of this new applicaation:

http://www.dropdv.com/

It will simply the conversion to Dv, which is the only format iDVD accepts. DVDSP would work directly with the MPEGs, but costs a lot more than this app.

The web pages claims no loss of quality, and there is a demo vrsion available,

william