On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:46 pm, Richard Babcock wrote: > Thank you for the discussion. I do see via a number of web sites and > discussion lists that the dvdrw drive can easily be set up for writing > data. > My focus in this instance is making dvd movies. I teach newbie classes > on whatever newbies want to learn and I see this as an area of interest. > There are several companies working on making the 'home dvd' revolution > happen, sort of like the desktop publishing revolution some years back. > Of course, I would like to include Linux in the curriculum.
This is much tougher. There are several video editing packages out on the net, none of which I am familiar with since I don't own a DV camera. There is a project to create a DVD-Video authoring GUI called DVD-Create, but it is not in a stage where there is an actual tool to use. Copying existing DVD's is easier and there are tools for that but I don't know of any that exist currently for Linux. Also, since a lot of these types of tools require licensing from the guys that have patents on the industry standards, like MPAA and others, finding Linux developers for them can be tough. Many of the tools that are necessary to work with DVD Video would effectively be illegal under the DMCA since editing tools, by definition, can be used to bypass copy protection schemes. This would probably be one of those things that would cause me to suggest newbies should maintain a dual-boot scenario, at least currently. Hopefully, the DVD-Create project will move along and make that unnecessary at some point. Of course, there might be a budding cinematographer on the list that knows more than I do. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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