[MPlayer-users] MP4 to DVD

[Giacomo Comes]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:16:05AM -0600, jmmckee at flinthills.com wrote:
> This is likely a naive question.  And, potentially to the wrong forum.
> 
> I downloaded the CBS Evening News.  It is an MP4 file.  Obviously, I can play it
> on a computer.  My question is:  How can I get this to a form that is playable
> on a standed DVD Player, onto a television?  Is it even possible?

Yes it is. The html documentation of mplayer contains several examples on
how to do it.

Otherwise encode2mpeglight in the TOOLS directory can do the job for you:
  encode2mpeglight -o output source.mp4 -dvd -encode 6:3:2 -n n (or -n p)

Giacomo