

After an hour of experimenting with ffmpeg and missing media burner I had burnt my 1st SVCD. They are just a GUI to shield the user from long terminal commands with complicated syntax. These tools use open source (GPL) command line applications such as CDRDAO to do the heavy lifting.

It's a great application - I use it in preference to quicktime for viewing movies.
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ffmpeg - a shareware application (with free demo) that let's you convert your DV quicktime movie to a bin/cue file suitable for burning a VCD/SVCD.Export your iMovie to Quicktime in full quality DV format.
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The quality is also not bad! Here's what you need to create a VCD/SVCD: The Confraternity Of Toast Mac Os X Another bonus is the media is far cheaper than DVD's. The CD's will then play in most home DVD players - a very cool way of sharing your movies with friends and family. These are a poor man's DVD that can be created on an older iMac or any other mac that has a CD burner but not a superdrive.

Creating bin/cue files and burning them to CD are a couple of steps used to create VCD's or SVCD's. This site is not responsible for what they say.My comment should really be a separate hint. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
