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From: SM on 29 Mar 2010 07:28
Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote:

> John Hill wrote
> >> OK it will be transcoding things, but is there really significant
> >> quality loss compared to a DVD?
> >
> > Yes - I used it to get a DVD (from a DVD recorder) on to my mac, and
> > when I'd finished doing the editing I wanted and burnt a new DVD, ther
> > was a marked degradation. It was atrocious! So i gave up.
>
> The Handbrake people themselves strongly recommend against using Handbrake
> for this, specifically because of the loss of quality:
>
> <http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/SupportFAQ#imovie>
>
> They recommend using MPEG-Streamclip. But that doesn't preserve chapter
> marks, AFAICS.

Not sure how iDVD constructs its chapters but you might be able to
convert individual .VOB files from the DVD to DV format where DV each
file *might* be a chapter.

MPEG Streamclip will do batch conversions of .VOBs

Stuart
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cut that out to reply
From: Martin S Taylor on 29 Mar 2010 13:59
SM wrote
> Not sure how iDVD constructs its chapters but you might be able to
> convert individual .VOB files from the DVD to DV format where DV each
> file *might* be a chapter.

iDVD knows no reason or logic. It is by far the worst Apple program I've ever
used. However, it doesn't work like you think it might, but thanks for the
thought.

MST

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