On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 15:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> A husband and wife at our Linux group is asking if there is easy software 
> under Linux to conver older VHS tapes to DVD or VCD...
> 
> I've never tried this - always used Mencoder/Mplayer to convert DVD to AVI 
> (Divx).
> 
> Thanks!

The easiest thing to do would be to capture the video from VHS to disk,
convert it, then transition to VCD (or DVD for that matter).

You could do the capture w/ XawTV, then convert it with divx.
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