On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:27 -0400, Jeff Tickle wrote: > Howdy.. > > My Dad wants to start a fun little conversion project. He has a bunch > of VHS tapes that he'd like to convert to DVDs, plus some stuff he's > recorded on a digital video camera (not sure of the model... so we'll > just assume it works with Linux until I find out otherwise.) > > Does anyone have experience doing this with Linux? One thing I'm going > to have to do is make the entire process as easy as possible. I haven't > done much research yet but I just wanted to get word from any of your > experiences. The two things I have absolutely no clue how to do are > take the video from the camera and write video to a DVD.
No direct experience, but I just picked up the April* issue of Linux Format at the Barnes and Noble at Triangle Town center, and it has a feature article on how to do things like this. In skimming it last night, they seemed to imply that you could actually write a DVD format file system to a CD if it would fit. Has anyone tried this? If so would such a CVD work on a home entertainment DVD player? Note that I'm not talking about a VCD here. * Yes, April, it's a British mag so the newsstands seem to be a bit behind. The TTC B&N had two copies, but I had to return the first one since someone had cleverly liberated the DVD that came with it from the keepcase inside the plastic wrap. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
