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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 6, 2007

“This last week I’ve been trying my hand at a bit of DVD
authoring and I thought I’d pass on everything that I’ve found out!
A couple of the most useful tools are command line based, hence the
title, but I’m also going to talk about a fantastic GUI that brings
these bits and pieces together. To my horror, just as I sat down to
write this I discovered Mitch Meyran had just posted a very similar
blog entry! This post, however, is a bit more command line based
and HOWTO-like in structure.

“I think the tool I’ve found to be most useful so far is
ffmpeg…”


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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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