2006-03-21

Create a DVD from XviD movies

Previously I wrote about playing XviD movies in QuickTime & FrontRow. Well, that wasn't too hard, so I decided to make life a little harder on myself. I want to put some of these movies on a DVD. A real DVD, not a data DVD.

So I have to convert the XviD + MP3 stream into a MPEG-2 + AC-3 stream. I think. After some serious browsing I discovered a tool that seemed perfect for the job: ffmpegX.

You have to download some extra tools to get it working (which is documented nicely). However, the tool is still only available for the PowerPC architecture, so it's being emulated with Rosetta. And therefore, slow as a dog... No way I'm going to wait several hours for recoding a one hour Xvid movie.

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