If you thought creating DVDs was a lost art, adding subtitles into the mix is even more off in the weeds. One of the other reasons I chose ffmpegX was that it actually provides a handy walkthrough for this whole process, including one particularly troublesome part: subtitles.
You have to jump through a couple of hoops to grab further components for encoding video, but ffmpegX itself provides URLs for downloading them, and I had no trouble installing them either.
Ffmpegx el capitan update#
There are plenty of conversion tools out there, but the one that I settled upon is a shareware tool based on-albeit kind of dated-open-source software: ffmpegX.Įven though the tool doesn’t seem to have seen a single update since 2011, it’s still available for download and, somewhat amazingly to me, it still launched fine on a system running El Capitan. The video file in question was an AVI, with an MPEG-4 video stream and MP3 audio, so the first step was converting it into a format compatible with DVD players. Turning a video file into a DVD that you can pop into a set-top player is increasingly esoteric and surprisingly complicated. As optical drives have waned on Macs, so has software to support them. Hardware, however, was only part of the battle. Fortunately, I have a 2011 iMac that may be getting a little long in the tooth otherwise, but turns out to be just the right age for this little adventure, so I didn’t have to run out and buy an external drive for this project. You authored some content in iDVD, popped in a blank disc, and burned away.īut that was then-these days, iDVD is long dead and Apple barely even ships a Mac with a DVD drive.
I probably haven’t burned a DVD in a decade, but back in the day, this was pretty straightforward. (A digital file would have been easier, to be sure, but her setup doesn’t make watching that super easy, and there were other considerations, which I’ll go into in a bit.) It occurred to me that there was a particular video she’d wanted in DVD form. Note: This story has not been updated for several years.Ĭhristmastime was rolling around, and I was looking for a gift for my mom.
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