I've been using mencoder and ffmpegX to make NTSC spec MPEG-2 files to burn off to a DVD. I was surprised to learn that Quicktime cannot open or play these files without an additional plug-in. So it should come as no surprise that iDVD will always re-encode your files for DVD regardless of their source format.
What products are available that will let me create simple DVDs and accept pre-formatted and encoded video - WITHOUT re-encoding (only VOB creation and burning...) ?
ffmpegX has a nice "author as DVD" option for single files, but I'd like to do something a little nicer. Not too fancy - anything of the same level as iDVD would suffice.
I should also mention that I've been attempting to re-encode my video with something that Quicktime _can_ read so that I can use iDVD. I figured if I scaled and encoded it with a high quality process at a high bit rate I might be able to live with the extra encoding step. However, I can't seem to encode with a codec that Quicktime can read. Using mpeg4 in mencoder doesn't work, and neither does h263+. This is all complicated by the fact that my files are in the Real Media format, and ffmpegX (which will write a playable MPEG-4 .MOV file) cannot decode them - only mencoder with the latest RealVideo codecs is able to do so.
It's never as simple as it seems....![]()
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Originally Posted by rumplestiltskin
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Yes; you may select "Never" in the "Reencode" popup menu when you select "Custom" encoding. This will work as long as your MPEG2 files are properly encoded in the first place.
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Originally Posted by rumplestiltskin
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we just released an app that is perfect for your goal. hawkeye 1.0 released
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