IDVD and the Apple MPEG-2 Component
Is there a benefit to one over the other when it comes to encoding MPEG-2? I download MPEG Streamclipl and it's telling me that I need the MPEG-2 Component if I want to encode to MPEG-2. But why do I have to spend $20 on a component that I have already got in iDVD?
Isn't that exactly what a VOB file is, only with a different extension? If not, what is the difference?
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From several wiki articles:
A VOB file (DVD-Video Object) is a container format that contains the actual Video, Audio, Subtitle (VobSubs) and Menu contents in stream form. When you play an MPEG video from a DVD, for instance, the MPEG stream is actually composed of several streams (called Elementary Streams, ES): there is one stream for video, one for audio, another for subtitles, and so on. These different streams are mixed together into a single Program Stream (PS). So, the .VOB files you can find in a DVD are actually MPEG-PS files.
VOB files are encoded very much like standard MPEG-2 files. If the extension is changed from .vob to .mpg or .mpeg, the file is still readable and continues to hold all information, although most MPEG-2-capable players don't support subtitle tracks.
I'm going to settle with with making the content in DV and Quicktime, and then simply putting it in iDVD to make the VOBs. At that point if I want to edit my DVD compilations, I can arrange the VOBs however I wish, after saving them out of the DVD compilation images that were created to house them. I want to be able to use the files independent from their DVD structure, until I'm ready to archive them on disc.
ah... if you want to do that, I'd get DVD SP and use the Compressor application that come with it because, among other things, you could use Dolby compressed audio instead of just the uncompressed audio supported by iDVD. It also gives you many more encoding options. Getting DVD SP is NOT a low cost option, however.
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