another divx 2 dvd question

[mutron]

Hello,

I am pretty novice and my question might be totally stupid.

I have a divx file (about 300MB) and would like to burn it
in order to use it with a commercial dvd player.

I can only burn DVD-R in my mac.
I have downloaded and installed ffmpegX 0.0.9h
and have chosen the quick dvd from the presets.

Now how can I burn the DVD from the output file?
I have toast. Do I need any special authoring tool?
(the only thing I'd like to do is to have the video start
playing when I enter it in the DVD player)

Thanks!!!

[jtoolman2000]

WHat kind of file does ffmpegX 0.0.9h produce? Is it an MPG2? If so, yoou need to author it. I'm not much of a Mac user but DVD Studio Pro comes to mind. One the two floder AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS have been created, they are burned to DVD in toas using DVD/ROM setting. Just drag the two folders into toast.

[major]

Take the movie.dvd.img file creazted by ffmpegX and burn it with Toast in disk image mode (Copy>Image File in Toast 6, Other>Disk Image in Toast 5). Such .img file is already authored in standard DVD format and already contains the needed VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. You can even burn it with Disk Utility.

[mutron]

Thanks! I did this,
It worked great, I could played the mpg file
with mplayer and the audio was INSYNC perfectly with
the video. The quality was superb also.

Once I burned it, I tried to play the DVD in my computer
(a powerbook) but it turns that through the apple DVD player
video was to jerky, it stuck in specific places and was totally
out of sync with the audio.

What might be wrong??? Any ideas?

Thanks!!!!

I used the FastDVD Preset for the stream

[major]

Does it play well with VLC?

[mutron]

Hi,

I just checked it and it does not work with VLC either.
Video is too jerky. any idea?

I have in the machine quicktime and the divx codec installed.
the computer is running 10.3.3.

Do you think that if I use sizzle for the authoring might make some
difference?


Thanks!

[major]

Try to encode it with the "Decode with Quicktime" option disabled. Is the result better?

[mutron]

Where is this option in the gui?

Thanks!

[mutron]

Please ignore my question

just found it.

[mutron]

Since I can play the mpeg2 stream with mplayer correctly why does it make any difference the method I am decoding?

BTW I tried another similar video with identical results (tried
only VLC), video is too jerky.

I am encoding now with quick time disabled.

thanks!

[mutron]

aparently when having the option disabled there is something wrong:
the .mpg file output grows without stopping. I had a 123% in the progress window and I stopped it then.

[major]

The % error should not mean the process will never end. Try again enabling the "Open terminal window" option so as the encoding will take place in Terminal.