Comments on: Will iDVD Convert MPEG2? Will It Output VIDEO_TS?

Question: Will iDVD Convert MPEG2? Will It Output VIDEO_TS?

scarabic — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:24:57 -0800

iDVD presales questions [mi]

1) if you already have an MPEG2 movie, can you make menus for it and burn to a DVD-R?
2) can it output VIDEO_TS folders which can be burned elsewhere? Or is it SuperDrive-only?

By: tomierna

tomierna — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:54:02 -0800

iDVD wants to convert anything you import, even MPEG2, AFAIK.

iDVD only burns to SuperDrive, it appears.

Toast Titanium will take a pre-encoded MPEG2 file and let you build menus for it, and export to a VIDEO_TS or IMG file.

By: joaquim

joaquim — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:21:29 -0800

2) Look for hpfurz.sit -- this patches iDVD to let you save to an image file rather than burning directly to disk.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:04:09 -0800

Aha. So would you be able to run iDVD on a machine without a SuperDrive, and use that patch to output to an image file? I'd love to avoid the SuperDrive surcharge if possible, though iDVD looks like a very nice app for setting up the DVD volume.