[X4U] Re: Help with MPEG-4 and iMac

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 12/09/04 at 9:30 PM, "B.ru c-e ? K1u-tch-k0"
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>On 12/9/04 12:32 AM, "Matthew Barr" <mbarr at mbarr.net> wrote:
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>> 
>> Mplayer OS X is available at http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
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>> Matthew
>> 
>Mplayer OS X plays the videos but the audio is very poor- it seems to
>be playing only half the audio.
>
>But the original problem was not being unable to play the video - VLC
>does this fine. The problem is how do I convert this video stream to a
>format that will play either in Quicktime or can be written to a VCD
>to play on my DVD player?
>

Check out ffmpegX. It's freeware, for the most part, and will do what
you want. You can find it at Version Tracker or at the author's Web page
<http://homepage.mac.com/major4>.

I have it converting a DivX avi in the background to DVD-compatible
MPEG-2 while I'm responding to your post.

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Dennis R. Cohen
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