On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:46:39AM +0800, csj wrote:

> FUD time: I remember reading somewhere in the site that cinelerra is
> being abandoned by its author because of lawsuit fears (maybe has
> something to do with the dominance of non-free codecs). 

No, that was Broadcast 2000, and since it's GPL someone else has picked it
up, but they aren't expecting to release anything for a while yet.

> Maybe you're better off seeking UNIX-style stream processing tools. My
> rather modest multimedia requirements are satisfied by a combination of
> xawtv, mpgtx mjpegtools and ffmpeg (sourceforge), vcdimager, lame, glame,
> etc, and viewers like xine and aviplay. Note that the foregoing are
> program packages rather than individuallly executable programs.

No problem except that they can't do what I want, namely convert DivX video
to VCD.  (This would require minimal video editing, I suspect, but I won't
know until I have a way to convert DivX AVI to MPEG in VCD format.)
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