Question: I have several MPEG files of old movies on my computer and I want to start trying to convert old VHS films as well but I don't know what kind of burning software to use. I have a MAC and it has iDVD but that doesn't seem to work.

Answer: If the iDVD doesn’t work, you can use some other third party program such as MPEG to DVD Converter for Mac, which can convert and burn mpeg movie files to DVD on Mac with no quality loss.

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This step-to-step guide helps you to convert MPEG file to DVD on Mac by using the Mac MPEG to DVD Converter. The output files can be played on TV or on portable and home DVD players.

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Step1. Add MPEG files

Add MPEG files by clicking the Add button. The added MPEG files will be listed on the right of the main interface, and each file will be a title in your DVD. Double click the added file and it will be played in the right Preview Pane. Use the player control panel to control the preview.

Step2. Edit MPEG Files

You can trim and crop the added MPEG files and adjust the effects before burning the videos to DVD on Mac OS X.

Step3. Edit DVD Menu

Click the Menu button on the bottom of the main interface to edit the DVD's menu. You can also customize your DVD menu by: Customizing Thumbnail, Customizing Background Image, and Adding Background Music. Learn more about adding DVD menu on Mac.

Step4. Burn MPEG to DVD

After you choose the correct DVD disk and the suitable video quality, you can click the Burn button to set burning settings and burn your DVD project.

Tips:

MPEG stands for the Motion Picture Experts Group, part of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), charged with creating and publishing standards for various areas of technology, respectively. MPEG standards address audio and video formats used online, in television broadcasts, and in DVD media.

The major MPEG standards include the following:
MPEG-1: The most common implementations of the MPEG-1 standard provide a video resolution of 352-by-240 at 30 frames per second (fps). This produces video quality slightly below the quality of conventional VCR videos.

MPEG-2: Offers resolutions of 720x480 and 1280x720 at 60 fps, with full CD-quality audio. This is sufficient for all the major TV standards, including NTSC, and even HDTV. MPEG-2 is used by DVD-ROMs. MPEG-2 can compress a 2 hour video into a few gigabytes. While decompressing an MPEG-2 data stream requires only modest computing power, encoding video in MPEG-2 format requires significantly more processing power.

MPEG-3: Was designed for HDTV but was abandoned in place of using MPEG-2 for HDTV.

MPEG-4: A graphics and video compression algorithm standard that is based on MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and Apple QuickTime technology. Wavelet-based MPEG-4 files are smaller than JPEG or QuickTime files, so they are designed to transmit video and images over a narrower bandwidth and can mix video with text, graphics and 2-D and 3-D animation layers.

The MPEG-4 standard is developed in “parts” associated with some well-known codecs. For example, DivX, Xvid, Nero Digital and Quicktime6™ are a few codecs that use MPEG-4 part 2. A different version of Nero Digital (AVC), and Quicktime (version 7) use MPEG-4 part 10, as does the x264 codec. Blu-ray discs and some types of HD DVDs also use this flavor of MPEG-4.

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