BC Magazine: Making DVDs in Linux | Linux Today

BC Magazine: Making DVDs in Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 11, 2007

“To do this we will use three pieces of software: a BitTorrent
client to download the movie with, software to do the conversion to
MPEG2 format, a process called transcoding, and authoring software
to create the menus and file structure for the DVD. Technically,
you also need a program to burn it to DVD as well, but the
authoring program recommended here will do that for us.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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