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So after the failure of the initial attempt, I have to go back to the command line for video converting. Actually, it is pretty easy to convert the quicktime movie to mpeg just by issueing the following command:

ffmpeg -i input.mov -target ntsc-svcd output.mpg

Sure, you need to install ffmpeg first, which is free&open sourse, largely distributed and even available for windows system. With this tool, you also can convert flv file (flash files, which is quite popular these days, if you have downloaded video files from google or youtube) to mpeg, avi or whatever and burn a vcd/dvd. I am sure mencoder can do the conversion as well. But the reason I choose this ffmpeg is that the “-target” option makes it very clear and easy. If I want to have a VCD format, then I just simply put it in the option and I can have SVCD/DVD format as choices as well. Meanwhile adding the information of NTSC or PAL before the “VCD”, you can make it suitable for American TV players or Chinese TV (not big problem for computers though)

Note: NTSC, PAL are just different standards for TVs. The distribution (green: NTSC, yellow: PAL) is shown below.