For those of you who bought a library of HD DVDs before Toshiba jumped ship, Wired has a nice write-up detailing what is involved in converting an HD DVD to Blu-ray format. Below is an HD DVD ROM and some Blu-ray burners and media to get you started. $26.99 – memorex 25GB 4X BD-R 30 [...]by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in blu-ray, hd dvd, transcode, video
If you want to watch a PAL movie in an NTSC DVD player, you are out of luck. There are DVD players out there that will play both PAL and NTSC discs, and, in fact, I have one of those. The problem with that solution is that see flickering lines and some jagged lines when [...]by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in dvd, ffmpeg, NTSC, PAL, transcode, video
I know there are solutions out there for video transcoding such as the awesome ffmpegX, but I wanted to make my own solution. I drop my source video onto this droplet, and with just a few button clicks, I can convert almost any video to an mpeg2 that is DVD compliant. What I did here [...]by Jon | Add a comment | Tags: applescript, ffmpeg
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