Moov2DVD released.

[KaiCherry]

It is available on my iDisk, until the world forces Apple to cut it off, lol.

Due to a stupid bug in the bundle builder, the orignally posted version would not launch. Sorry. This has been fixed, re-tested and re-posted to my iDisk.

My public iDisk: http://idisk.mac.com/kaicherry/Public/
username: kaicherry
password: leave blank

Use 'Connect to Server' and stick that url in.

Here is the ReadMe. Good luck with it.

Moov2DVD
A free Quicktime-to-DVD program.

What it does:
Moov2DVD converts any movie QuickTime can play into a single shot Real-Live DVDs that play in set top and software players.

Requirements:
MacOSX 10.2
mpeg2enc
QuicktimeMpeg2plugin for previewing
Lots of disk space

Installation:
Drag the app to your hard drive. It can be installed anywhere you wish...
but do not rename it

Usage:
Input Options:
The options are pretty self explainatory. Pick a movie, pick the movie's Aspect ratio. 16:9 movies will be properly encoded for widescreen

Output Options:
If your movie is 16:9, just click in the Width and Height boxes; the software will fill in the values for you.

Adjust the quality slider. I use 10-14; anything under that is torture and doesn't seem to make a big difference in our testing.

Use Denoise on low quality video, dual cpu is well, heh.

Click Go.

A status window will open, updating you on the progress.
Click the view log Triangle for more verbose info.

Once video encoding starts, clicking view log gives you the open to view a mini preview of the video so far encoded.

When the dvd is done building, you will have in your Home directory a folder called "mydvd" which can be burned via toast, *and* a ready-to-burn .iso image...in case you only have Disk Copy, or pprefer it to Toast.

You must have ample space (I'd say, oh 10GB free) on your boot drive.

Moov2DVD writes its temp ond working files to the invisibe system tem directory /tmp


THIS SOFTWARE SOOOOOOOO COMES WITH NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE...

YMMV

"If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces."

There is NO REAL SUPPORT for this program. It probably won't be updated either


For the hackers:
The real magic happens inside the app wrapper, in a script called mov2dvd. The dvd ability comes from my nervewrecking port of dvd-author 0.2 from linux.

[musher70]

please try stick to the topic

edited by baldrick

[BJ_M]

excellent - i'll send it to the mac people here to give it a try ...

[bilestyle]

please try stick to the topic

edited by baldrick

[qshartle]

Whoever wrote that should go "BJ" Himself.

[pmcd]

Hmm...seems to not be there. Have you moved it?

philip

[joe-cgn]

Found it on public Idisk KaiCherry NOT kaipcherry (typo!).
But: Does not lauch instead quits giving the error 1000 ,unkown error.
Tried it on Jaguar (10.2.1 built 6D52)

is there a fix ?

[bilestyle]

can u post a url?

homepage.mac.com/KaiCherry doesnt work

[KaiCherry]

Edited info at the start of this thread...

-K

[joe-cgn]

Nice work, seems it is doing what it should do. Thnx !

what kind of DVD does it produce ? from the values in the boxes on the Outputpane 720 *480 16:9 I would assume NTSC 29.93 fps ?

Or does it change to PAL when the inputfile is 25 fps ?

[bilestyle]

i think there are alot of things you need to add.. the home directory is a REALLY bad place to default the output to, i think it would be beneficial to allow the user to choose where to put te end output... i've run a few mov files through and got no output at all in my home folder... i couldnt run anything large through b/c my home directory doesnt have much space available.

[Eug]

Linky no worky.

[KaiCherry]

Linky no worky.

Eug,

The link is a WebDAV iDisk link. You need to use the Finder to connect, under the "Go" menu.

Use 'Connect to Server...' and paste the url in. It will mount it on your Desktop in the Finder.

-K

[KaiCherry]

Nice work, seems it is doing what it should do. Thnx !

what kind of DVD does it produce ? from the values in the boxes on the Outputpane 720 *480 16:9 I would assume NTSC 29.93 fps ?

Or does it change to PAL when the inputfile is 25 fps ?

Actually, no...All Output is NTSC, actually. I'm 'merkin, and as such, I stupidly assume the whole world works my way

This is a Bad Thing(TM).

I really didn't plan to make a career out of Moov2DVD, but I think I will add a PAL switch.

If I can get it in and working, I'll do it tonite.

Question: Do PAL DVD's have a different framesize? Is it 576?

-K

[KaiCherry]

i think there are alot of things you need to add..

I agree

the home directory is a REALLY bad place to default the output to, i think it would be beneficial to allow the user to choose where to put te end output...

True...but:

A This would be too much like right.
B The temp files are written to /tmp, which is "The Right Way"
C This complicates the hell out of things vis-a-vis the underlying code.

This is not to say that it won't be fixed or changed, however. I'd just like to get more feedback back first.

Either way, even if the *final* output is written elsewhere, the processing will always be to the system's temp directory...wherever that is.

Using *nix foo, one can always symlink /tmp to a drive/volume with more space...

i've run a few mov files through and got no output at all in my home folder... i couldnt run anything large through b/c my home directory doesnt have much space available.

Again...you are correct again. This was of course explained (tersely, I admit) in the ReadMe

-K

[joe-cgn]

Actually, no...All Output is NTSC, actually. I'm 'merkin, and as such, I stupidly assume the whole world works my way
This is a Bad Thing(TM).




I really didn't plan to make a career out of Moov2DVD, but I think I will add a PAL switch.

If I can get it in and working, I'll do it tonite.

Question: Do PAL DVD's have a different framesize? Is it 576?

Actually the whole world does work your way (sometimes good sometimes well...discussable) At least European DVD Players are PAL 720*576 but can do NTSC ,too while US-Players only do NTSC (who would have thought otherwise ?) greetings from Cologne, Germany

[schmidrj]

How do you burn the folder to a DVD using Toast? Do you just choose the DVD option from Toast, and then Drag-n-drop the folder onto Toast?

At $5 a shot, I'd prefer to ask for instructions rather than making coasters!

Thanks in advance!!!!

-Rene