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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Macs can play DVDs out of the box. iDVD can create DVDs, transcoding from
> whatever format the video is into MPEG2.
I'm betting it's still the case that iDVD won't work with a non-Apple DVD
writer. Hence, you've paid the licensing fees when you bought the DVD writer.
At least, that's how it used to work.
> Yet Quicktime cannot play MPEG2 files, and iDVD can't create a DVD from a
> video that is already in in the correct MPEG2 format, without buying a $20
> Quicktime component for MPEG2 decoding. WTF?
You didn't pay the licensing fees for QuickTime yet.
> [cue Darren's rants about XML]
I have no rants in this case. ;-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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