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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