[plug] Converting Video formats on Linux

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:57, 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?

Check out
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/dv.html

> That is, convert the .dv files to something like .mpg or .avi.

Why? Don't you want them on a DVD to be used in an appliance?

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