[plug] Converting Video formats on Linux

[Chris Griffin]

Many thanks to all, I will try all this tonight and expect that I will
now be able to resolve the issue. I should have come here in the first
place and saved myself a week and a half of frustration searching for
a solution elsewhere.
Thanks again everyone.

Chris G

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:43:51 +0800, Rob Davies <rob at rjdarts.com> wrote:
> 
> On 18 Aug 2004, at 10:57am, 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).
> 
> ..dv is the compressed video from your minidv camcorder that can be
> edited or played back through any video editing software, then compiled
> further for dvd or film.
> 
> Too convert to something that can be played on a PC or even played try
> Quicktime Pro, then export to which ever format you require, this is a
> standard for me  on a mac, remember it must be the pro version.
> WindowsMovie Maker is another for that platform?
> 
> Cinelerra is one that works on linux quite well, but if you have never
> used editing software before this could be a bit  daunting.
> http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
> 
> Then as mentioned before it depends on what you plan on doing with
> completed documentary to be able to answer it any further.
> 
> Cheers!
> Rob Davies
> rob at rjdarts.com
> 
> "It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a
> subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the
> manufactured objects." Sartre.
> 
> 
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