iDVD Issues

[czucker]

When I convert an AVI to a MPEG4 in ffmpegx iDVD will not recognize the file. I'm stumped as to why. Does anyone have a sure fire way of using ffmpeg to prepare files for iDVD?

Any leads would be great.

Thanks,
Chris

[major]

You may also use DivX Doctor II to turn the AVI into a MOV without reencoding it. You must also have the latest version of the DivX codecs installed so as Quicktime can open DivX files.

[czucker]

It's not that. I have Divx installed and the AVI source file plays fine in Quicktime as does the converted MPEG-2. It's just that when it comes time to import into iDVD it isn't recognized. I get some error from iDVD saying that the file is unsupported.

iDVD is able to handle the original AVI file, but it does a poor job of re-encoding it. The DVD it creates looks just awful.

Basically I want to get an MPEG-2 file that iDVD won't need to re-encode.

[major]

I think that iDVD always re-encodes to its own mpeg-2 encoder (but I may be wrong, I don't use iDVD very much). You should need DVD Studio Pro to author a DVD with mpeg-2 files without re-encoding them.