Posted by Bill's News on 01/21/06 00:16

Bob wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:04:31 GMT, "Netmask"
> <netmask56NOFLEAS@geemail.com> wrote:
>
>> As I read his request he wanted to convert iPOD MP4 video To DVD
>> standard so he could play back on a standard normal machine. ie he
>> downloaded from the Internet files suitable for the iPOD.
>
>> The question of buying a DivX player was not remotely the issue
>

Bob, it seems you are disliked by some here so much that they would
give disinformation to an OP for the sake of maligning you:-(

To have merely instructed the OP on any of the archaic, awkward ways
of getting to point B without having mentioned the simplest of
contemporary approaches would have been remiss!

I know that I'd bought one brand-name DVD player near the end of the
last decade of the last century, and before the century ended I knew
I'd made a silly mistake. Since then I'd not consider a DVD player
that didn't handle ALL contemporary audio/video formats and outputs.
And, ya know what? The hours upon hours that I've saved for having
such has rendered them WAY less than zero cost! TV MPEG2 captures
play without "authoring" or compliance issues, and xvid conversions
become valid space saving efforts.

One of the best features of such a/v components is that whatever
quality one has in the file at hand will not be further altered by
conversion - it just plays!

What century is this???

> What I am saying is that your "standard normal machine" has the
> capability to play DivX MPEGs - if you get the right one.
>
> I have the ILO DVDR05MU1 with the latest f/w. I can play most AVIs.
>
>> My response was that the results were not going to very good. No
>> problem the other way going from DVD or DivX or whatever to iPOD
>> MP4
>> file - Personally I don't think I would want to look at a DVD to
>> SLP6 standard upconverted from a mp4 file - yuk!!
>
> The AVI files I play are not bad in terms of resolution but they
> have
> a slight but noticable jump between frames. It is very subtle and
> easily overlooked unless you focus your attention on it.

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