Video Editing and Conversion (was Re: [H-GEN] CD Burner software)

[Sandra Milne]

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Christopher Biggs wrote:
> 
> Actually, it appears that the "gtranscode" frontend is only partially
> complete.  One of the mplayer/mencoder frontends, "gmencoder", is more
> mature.
> Anyway, reverting to my CLI bias, if you want VCD output from avi
> files there's a shell script in the mplayer tarball called "mencvcd"
> which makes avi-to-vcd as simple as "mencvcd foo foo.avi".

Thanks for the heads up on that. I've not used the tarball, instead I 
use the french apt source to get pre-compiled binaries. I suspected that 
mencoder might be able to do it, but the 'help' isn't very helpful and 
appears to suggest you can only convert the other way around.

Sandra.
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