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DVD-V Resources : DVD Authoring HowTO VCDimager article describes how authoring DVD-V may be realized with GNU/Linux and other unices (brief and a bit dated). MJPEG Tools The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux. MJPEG HOWTO - An introduction to the MJPEG-tools MJPEG capture/editting/replay and MPEG encoding toolset description. For those who REALLY want to start at the beginning... DVD Author (Great links to other projects, some of which I've linked to directly below) DVDRTOOLS Q-DVD-Author Qt front end for DVD Author DVD-Styler DVDStyler is a crossplatform GUI frontend to the dvd authoring and recording programs dvdauthor and dvdrecord. Polidori Gnome front end- no releases yet! DVD-Create (looks like this project is not active)
Thinking Small: Small Form Factor (SSF) Mini PC Resources Small Form Factor Pentium 4 PC Roundup - March 2003 Top 5 Small Form Factor PC Barebone Kits - January 2004 Shuttle Biostar CPU Parts International CappuccinoPC iMicros Ebay Store NewEgg The HTPC Store
DVD-Recording Status I successfully installed the new NEC DVD±RW from newegg and burned a sample VCD using 300mb worth of Star Trek Enterprise episode teasers from Mr. Video Productions . I used K3b 0.11 witht the VCDImager v0.7.14. Although the vcd didn't work in my old RCA DVD player, I was able to enjoy the teasers on my son's e-machine running WinXP. I had to compile and install k3b and vcdimager from the source since there were runtime issues with the latest versions of vdcimager. Note: The vcdimager website was down for several days. Keep trying if the link doesn't work. Also, I had to upgrade to College Linux 2.5 because vcdxbuild kept dying under CL 2.3. I wanted to add a second disk and upgrade sound support to ALSA anywat. Unfortunately ALSA didn't work out of the box (configuration at install time caused a kernel panic). aRTs didn't work either for some reason. Guess I'll have to become a Linux Sound support expert to fix this.