Posted by Goro on 01/19/06 14:04

IAWTP. Check out a high bitrate 480p Xvid .avi. NERO will just burn
those fine.

Or get a nice little DivX player and just play them natively.

-goro-

Netmask wrote:
> There are plenty of mp4 converters - just google MP4 TO MPEG.
>
> But the results will be truly terrible. DVD's have a native resolution of
> 720 x 576 in PAL in NTSC slightly less. On Apple's website, they say that
> the iPod Video can support MPEG4 file formats up to 480x480 at 30 frames per
> second may movies compressed for iPOD are even smaller.
>
> So maybe your movies started out at 720 or 704, converted down to say 480
> and now trying to convert them back up to 704 is going to introduce so many
> digital artefacts that the results will not be good. There is also the
> possibility of the sound going out of sync etc etc. best try to download
> them again either as full DVD or at least DivX or Xvid as they do convert up
> to a viewable image, not good but quite watchable.
> Good luck..
>
> <warehousestudios@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1137653013.017596.324030@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >I downloaded some tv episodes in mp4 format (for iPod) and want to burn
> > it to DVD in a format that will play in most DVD players. How can I do
> > this? Anyone know of cheap software / free trial / freeware / shareware
> > that will do this? I'm having a hard time finding something that really
> > works.
> > Thanks
> >

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