I tried to buy QuickTime Pro the other day, but Apple wouldn't couldn't sell it to me. Their on–line store was broken and they didn't answer the telephone when I tried that alternative. I live in the U.S. and have a camcorder that records prevailing North American standards. My parents live in Britain and their television and DVD player can't play home movies of their granddaughter unless they are first converted to British formats. I would prefer portable open–source software for a variety of reasons, not least that it doesn't tie me to a single computer or operating system. I've had no luck building video software from source so I resigned myself to buying QuickTime Pro. When Apple seemed to have "nobody home", I took an alternative route: I'm sending my parents an American portable DVD player.
2007-12-19
My money's not good enough...
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But can't you record the DVD Region free? Or is it still NTSC instead of PAL?
It's not about region coding, rather the frame rate and size differ between the two countries.
I have a computer too.
Skype apparently don't want my money either. I tried to buy some "SkypeOut" credit so that I could call an ordinary telephone number through Skype, but wasn't able to get past the first screen of the process. It's like walking into a shop, finding something you want to buy and then having the person on the checkout blatantly ignore your efforts to pay!
VisualHub. The answer to most of these problems is 'VisualHub.' But I thought iDVD could encode to PAL or NTSC, to be honest.
Perhaps iDVD will only output what it's input, in which case... VisualHub. Export NTSC DV format, pass it through VisualHub for format conversion to PAL, thence to iDVD for MPEG2/PAL encoding and burning.
It's basically a wrapper around ffmpeg.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
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