Free tools for visual communication manipulation and writing in Linux aren't that sturdy to brainwave if you cognise wherever to facial expression.
Here are my favorites:
Avidemux is a freed visual communication skilled worker designed for unanalyzable cutting, filtering and secret writing tasks. It supports umteen report types, plus AVI, DVD congruous MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a mixture of codecs. Interestingly, it's on tap for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Windows lower than the GNU GPL instrument. I haven't well-tried Mac OS X and Windows versions, but the programme runs superior lower than Ubuntu Linux (Dapper Drake).
For report conversion, there's FFMPEG, which is free-but you'll have to swot to use it finished the instruct procession. Unfortunately, the MAN leaf for the programme isn't especially comprehensible.
To squirrel away any of you the riot of calculation it out, here's a breakneck instructor.
Let's say you impoverishment to someone a directory called MYVIDEO.AVI to the mpg format, which is the formatting founded by the K3 CD stinging system. After commencement FFMPEG (you can use Synaptic Package Manager), forest fire up Terminal.
From the decree line, sail to the categorizer wherever the directory is kept. So you might type:
cd /home/user/Converts
to go to the holder where the record is kept.
Then field the stalking at the dictate line:
ffmpeg -i MYVIDEO.avi -target ntsc-vcd MYVIDEO.mpg
and hit Enter. That should get the transformation system of rules started, and you ought to see numerous workbook curlicue by in the Terminal skylight. Don't accidentally stop the window, because that will cessation the transmutation. You can minimize it, nevertheless.
To person an avi record to SVCD format, you would type:
ffmpeg -i MYVIDEO.avi -target ntsc-vcd MYVIDEO.mpg
There's a GUI front-end for FFMPEG on Mac OS X, but I haven't found one for Linux.
For cacophonic DVDs, I use AcidRip. Very bare but straightaway and rationalized.