Re: film codec conversion

[Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>]

> > Hello.  I use Debian Sarge.  Is there a Debian package of a program 
> > that converts movie file codecs?  I have used a program called Tovid 
> > to covert an avi to an mpg, and then used Dvdstyler to burn it to a 
> > playable dvd.  Is there an equivalent to Tovid that is part of the 
> > Debian packages?
> >
> > Mark
>
>
> Sounds like mencoder may be what you need. Not part of Debian "proper" 
> but available in Christian Marillat's multimedia repository (see 
> http://debian.video.free.fr/).
>
> For details of mencoder, see the Mplayer site at http://www.mplayerhq.hu


Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm not apt enough to use mencoder, 
however.  So, I bit the bullet, and installed tovid, with the 
accompanying gui (mencoder is a part of tovid, apparently.)  It took a 
while to get the dependencies correct, but at least now I have something 
that both works, and is comprehensible to me.