[mythtv-users] I feel so violated (by Apple)

Ivan Kowalenko ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 05:39:21 UTC 2006


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On Apr 13, 2006, at 18.04, Richard Bronosky wrote:

> Martin, John,
> I have and use both VLC and MPlayer for viewing.  My whole goal was to
> use iDVD to burn a few show to disk.  For that, I must make Quicktime
> understand MPEG2

No you don't. You just need better tools.

>
> Ivan, would you mind helping my get KnoppMyth R5B7 to burn DVDs (or at
> least generate an iso)  I can't get it to do anything DVD related with
> any files other than VOBs that I have already ripped.

Can't do that. I'm running R5A2 on a box at 600 MHz with no burning  
hardware at all. I have no plans to upgrade until I have a new hard  
disk (20 GB is too small). Did I mention that box is a dedicated back- 
end only? Sorry!

Just get FFMPEG (or ffmpegX if you want to do this with your Mac) and  
CDRTools, or Toast, and you'll have it made in the shade! No problem  
at all with those (once you learn how to work 'em).

>
> All, so how can iDVD burn encode and burn DVDs and the DVD player play
> DVDs without an MPEG2 license?

The license is included in those, I'm sure. But Apple wants to charge  
you a little more, just for the fun of it.

>   How does VLC, Xine, and MPlayer work
> without a license?

Open sourced MPEG-2 decoders, as opposed to the official MPEG-2  
decoders.
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