[plug] Converting Video formats on Linux

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Hi Chris,

DVto avi is a free program for winblows that does it.  Also virtual dub 
and a few others here are some links that will help you.

http://desktopvideo.about.com/

http://www.robfisher.net/video/  Linux version

There are a few more if you google about video editing you will find 
heaps of free or open source can't remember for winblows.  I have never 
seemed to get it to work on Linux.  Thats not to say it doesn't work it 
does quite well however I'm incompetent.

HTH

Marc

Chris Griffin wrote:

>My Father asked me if I could take the contents of a VHS tape he had
>borrowed from a friend (a 2 part series off the ABC entitled
>"Longitude") and put it onto a DVD for him. I set about and  (via a
>borrowed DigiCam) copied the 3 hour VHS tape in stages to 2 x 1 hour
>mini DigiCam tapes and then down to my PC via the Cannon Video
>Presenter software that came with the DigiCam (thought it would be
>most compatable). Trouble is it saved it in a .dv format (what this is
>I know not).
>So after all this I end up with Longitude-1.dv, Longitude-2.dv and
>Longitude-3.dv.
>The next step was to convert these to something that I could then put
>onto a DVD, trouble is anything that will read these files will only
>allow me to play them, attempting to convert them works but I get no
>sound. As you would have guessed, this is all on Windblows.
>Does anyone know if I can get this completed using Linux?
>That is, convert the .dv files to something like .mpg or .avi.
>I no longer have the VHS tape and only two of the three on mini dv
>tape. I have borrowed the DigiCam again and used Nero to download the
>two mini tapes directly to mpg without trouble but the third file is
>where I am stuck.
>Sorry for the long saga.
>
>Chris Griffin
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