Question about what kid of movie Dvds one can burn with the Superdrive??

[theCaptain]

Considering I will be recieving my new iMac G4 Superdrive fairly soon I was wondering what kind of movie DVDs I could burn that can be played on a standard player. Im aware that iDVD 2 will let me burn Quicktime, is their anyway I could burn and .avi with DivX encoding, or convert an avi to quicktime and burn it that way. Can I burn and other movies that I can watch on my set top DVD player that arent the standard ones you get from iMovie2?

 

[ulrik]

DVDs always have MPEG 2 on them, regardless of what the "source" material is, DVD only works with MPEG 2. What you feed to iDVD 2 is your choice, IIRC it accepts Quicktime encoded movies and DV streams, so of course you could decode a DivX and reencode it into Quicktime. I'm doing this all the time (allthough I go directly from DivX to MPEG 2, then again I also don't own iDVD 2, I use DVDSP).

 

[theCaptain]

Wow, its seems you are the man to talk to. If you could give me some kind of overview as to how I would go about burning a divX movie to DVD, I would really appreciate that. Also where what is DVDSP and what can I do with it? Thank you very much for your response. So when you burn these divX movies to DVD, what is the quality like?