[X4U] Help with MPEG-4 and iMac

[Cover, Chris]

Well you could burn an MPEG-4 file to a VCD but it would have to be
re-emcoded as an MPEG-1 file. What I have done is gone out and purcased a
Phillips DVD player that also playes MPEG -1,2,4  and DiVX files so I don't
have to do any conversion at all. Best of all I can put far more content on
1 disc.


On 12/10/04 3:33 PM, "B.ru c-e €K1u-tch-k0" <AppleRocket at NoSpamMail.net>
wrote:

> On 12/9/04 11:12 PM, "Neil" <Lists at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> on 12/9/04 9:30 PM, B.ru c-e €K1u-tch-k0 wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> Why do you need to play it in QuickTime instead of VLC?
>> 
> I have an old iMac 350 with no FireWire and no DVD burner. I'd like to be
> able to burn something to a CD that would play on my home DVD, so the family
> movies I make can be shown on the TV.
> 
> At this point, it might be easiest just to record the output onto a VHS tape
> and show that. After all, the quality is really no higher than VHS. But it
> would be nice to be able to mail the relatives a copy of a VCD that shows
> the kids, etc.
> 
> I understand that I cannot burn an MPEG-4 to VCD, so what I really want to
> do is to encode the videos in a format that could be burned to VCD. But so
> far, while I can play it, I can't re-encode it.