[H-GEN] CD Burner software

[Christopher Biggs]

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Sandra Milne <silne at optusnet.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Now all I need is something that
> will re-encode AVI to MPEG and I'll be one step closer to ditching
> this OS. It's frustrating to reboot just to encode something, when if
> I had it in MPEG format already I could just make the image and burn
> it.

So you want to convert .avi files to Video-CD?   What's your orginal
source format? files off the 'net?   DVD?   Home video?

There are tools to handle all those chores in linux.  I tend to stick
to command-line tools (mostly mencoder, transcode, and ffmpeg), but if
you're after a GUI converter, a quick freshmeat search indicates that
"gtranscode" may suit your needs (except if the source medium is dvd,
in which case check out "dvd::rip" which is very cool piece of
software for crunching DVD movies down to CD-size[1]).

--cjb

[1] I even have a legitimate application.  :-)  Childrens videos tend to be
very short, sometimes only 30 minutes long...being able to combine
several onto one disk is a godsend when you have child who goes
berserk every time her favourite video ends, and doesn't cope with "I
just have to {change disk,rewind this one} and then we'll have another
episode".




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