Pete, Thanks for the info... APT sounds very nice. I was really dreading installing all of the packages that Transcode depends on.
To answer your question, there are DVD recorders that can write to blank DVD media. These disks, DVD-R or DVD+R (depending on which model DVD recorder you use) work on most TV DVD players. DVDs use an encryption scheme called CSS that makes it hard to copy the data files off the DVD and onto your hard drive. This Transcode program makes it easy to extract the video from DVDs, although I'm not sure if it can unscramble DVDs that use CSS. In any case, I opted not to use CSS because I think it sucks. I used a Mac to burn the DVD -- Apple has some nice programs for editing video and authoring DVDs. I wonder if there are simple video editing programs for Linux? I've looked at Film Gimp, but it didn't look very exciting..... Thanks for your help. Charles <snip> > stupid naive question: can you rip and burn DVD's and play them on your tv DVD > drive? or are they only playable on a computer dvd drive? > > i know nothing about dvd's other than they cost more to rent than video > tapes at blockbusters. ;-) do dvd's have something similar to > macrovision? or do they rely solely on CSS? > > pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
