[geeks] I haven't gotten into this yet but I need some advice

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Ethan wrote:

> > Using a DC-30 and making VCDs is easy on the mac.  Just buy nice burning
> > software.  I don't know how hard it is to make Divx files, but in theory it
> > is just a matter of telling the video program to export the divx.  But that
> > assumes someone bothered to make a proper divx codec for MacOS.  Getting
> > a copy of the sorrensen encoder would also produce nice-ish CD sized files,
> > and would certainly be easy to use.
>
> But DivX is not playable on the set top units.

Doesn't matter.  It's a good safe high-quality way of archiving until
DVD-R's cheapen up well.

Peace...  Sridhar