Writing DiVX to DVD?

EmmEff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 197

Is there a quick and dirty way of writing a DiVX movie to DVD for playing in a 'regular' DVD player? A friend of mine asked me to do this for him, and I'm at a loss. I've tried transcode and other apps but cannot seem to get the settings right.

HydroSan · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:12 am Post subject:

DVD video is in MPEG2 format. DivX is an MPEG4 format. So what you'd need to do is re-encode the DivX video into standard DVD-style MPEG2, and burn it with a program like K3B with the proper settings.

DivX will not work on a DVD player. MPEG2 is no where near the same as MPEG4.
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EmmEff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 197

I fully understand the format differences (hence the reference to 'transcode'), however I have been unable to find the right combination of switches to create DVD-compliant MPEG-2 file. Any ideas?

I have successfully mastered DVDs under Linux before, but that was with an DVD-compliant MPEG-2 file.

EmmEff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 197

Did I ask something incorrectly?

Where can I get a HOWTO on using transcode to create a DVD-compliant MPEG-2 file from a DiVX file?

Thanks.

psyqil · Advocate Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 2767

EmmEff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 197

Perfect, thanks.