[plug] Converting Video formats on Linux

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 11:24, Chris Griffin wrote:
> Thanks Marc, I will take a look.
> All of the dv to whatever utils that I have looked at so far seem to
> be using the DV as a generic term and not specifically .dv format. All

DV *is* a format. It's the recording format for digital video tapes.
Yes; the term is abused. But if you're transferring video to
computer using IEEE1394, then DV is what you get before transcoding
to another format.

More information:
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/mpeg.html

> the utils I have downed and then tried to use expect the input as .avi
> only and will not let me select anything else. I have actually tried
> to do it with Virtual Dub and it does not like the .dv files.

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