Movie2DVD for OSX

[KaiCherry]

Hi.

I'm almost done with this app, but was thinking of handing it over to Major to roll into ffmpegX.

Basically, it uses the *nix tools in ffmpeg, mpeg2enc, and some stuff I ported from linux to allow one to take a quicktime movie, and convert it to a single play dvd, at the highest quality possible for a DVD-r.

Sort of like a free Devideon.

If I put some more effort into it, it could actually work on a series of quicktimes, building a dvd with chapters. No menus howver

It also makes the video anamorphic if you spec that the input is 16:9...I have a widescreen tv so I like that sort of thing

The DVD's play great in standalones and VLC, but oddly not in Apple's OS X DVD Player...

I personally run the script itself from the term, since its faster and fairly straightforward, but I wrapped it in a GUI for a buddy.

As such, its not that fancy

My gui is in RB however, and is fully multithreaded...it doesn't spawn a term, but instead uses RB's shell class to run the *nix stuff is a couple of threads so it can interactively update the GUI.

I'm not really interested in developing it further, but I'd be glad to had over what I did for the benefit of others if Major wants to add it to ffmpeg.

Or does anyone even have an interest in this sort of thing?

-K

[jchansen]

This sounds great! Keep at it, or at least post what you have. I think that it sounds very useful for people trying to write a DVD. So many people seem bewildered at that point, especially if they don't have DVDSP.

I hope Major is interested...

[KaiCherry]

I think I'm going to release this soon. It has come together better than I had hoped, and my private testers seem to like it, and have offered a couple of good suggestions that i've rolled in.

If you have Quicktime Mpeg2 playpack capability, it has a nifty preview as well.

I'm adding the ability to do avi->dvd tonight. This works great with avi's the quicktime won't play, eg XVID, but that are supported by vlc.

Once I get that in and (quickly) tested, I'll make it available for download.

of course, there is the whole stupid mpeg2enc licensing problem...you'll need to have a copy of the compiled binary in either your home folder, or /usr/bin.

I'll take care of it from there

-K

[bubblemusic]

Did you post this fabulous sounding software?

[JamesW]

That app sounds terrific! I look forward to giving it a spin.

If I put some more effort into it, it could actually work on a series of quicktimes, building a dvd with chapters. No menus howver

What I would really like the mpeg2+audio->vob apps to do is generate output with chapters. I know DVDSP can do it if you add them manually - but I'm lazy and it would be really nice if you could ask for chapters every x minutes!

[wiedenu]

This sounds awesome! I can't wait for this. It would be really helpful for movies I have that weren't captured digitally.

Keep up the awesome work Kai!

[KaiCherry]

Ummm....heheh

I forgot ALL ABOUT this thing

I think ffmpegX does a waaaay better job of this, and had/have no intention of working further on it unless people *really* care.

I'm not even sure if i still have all of the *source code*, lol...look at the date of the original post

-K

This sounds awesome! I can't wait for this. It would be really helpful for movies I have that weren't captured digitally.

Keep up the awesome work Kai!

[wiedenu]

Dang!

Didn't notice that! Someone must have dug this up...

wow...feel stupid now