I've occasionally used ffmpegx, which includes mencoder/mplayer as among its modules. No cinepak support, though.
I don't really watch too many movies in cinepak, so for me, there's no particular need to streamline the process. In any event, there is a certain charm to using a low-end mac to produce content for viewing on a lower-end mac. But if I were to contemplate doing this on a regular basis, I'd definitely take a look at the link you generously provided. In the meantime, I just play Star Wars and Galaxy Quest ad nauseam on the old 550 I have in the corner of my office. It always provokes a two-step response:
1) Wow -- that looks like dog poop!
2) Oh -- that's a 33MHz '030? Wow -- that looks great!
If you do ever put together a "one-click" conversion tool that goes from, say, divx, into cinepak + IMA audio, let me know. That might get me off my brains and convert my copy of 2001 into Cinepak. There's a perverse retro appeal to watching that masterpiece on a computer with distinctly non-HAL abilities.
I don't really watch too many movies in cinepak, so for me, there's no particular need to streamline the process. In any event, there is a certain charm to using a low-end mac to produce content for viewing on a lower-end mac. But if I were to contemplate doing this on a regular basis, I'd definitely take a look at the link you generously provided. In the meantime, I just play Star Wars and Galaxy Quest ad nauseam on the old 550 I have in the corner of my office. It always provokes a two-step response:
1) Wow -- that looks like dog poop!
2) Oh -- that's a 33MHz '030? Wow -- that looks great!
If you do ever put together a "one-click" conversion tool that goes from, say, divx, into cinepak + IMA audio, let me know. That might get me off my brains and convert my copy of 2001 into Cinepak. There's a perverse retro appeal to watching that masterpiece on a computer with distinctly non-HAL abilities.