[plug] Converting Video formats on Linux

[Michael]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, 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.
> 

Cinelerra! 

Its a complete A/V editor that can import .dv and output mpeg2 :)

Regards
Michael Collard