need some software tips

[Beng]

What software is available to perform following functions:

Encode divx movies to mpeg-2
dvd authoring
burning dvd and cd-rom

all tips would be appreciated :o

[jayemef]

For burning I would recommend k3b, which comes with Fedora. Very user friendly and easy to work with. As for the other two, I haven't gotten into that, so I'm not sure.

[sailor]

Main Actor may be the software you are looking for, I don't do this kinda thing so I am not sure ..
this link may be more helpful
http://marc.waeckerlin.org/linux/dvd.php.en

[jtang613]

The software you are looking for is as follows:
- Avidemux to convert divx to mpg. Doesn't look like much, but is actually pretty powerful. Really just a frontend for transcode. Some would suggest Kino, but it never seems to recognize any avi or mpg files.

- dvdauthor with qdvdauthor frontend for preparing a DVD file structure and menus. Although some people seem to like dvd-styler, I've found qdvdauthor to be far superior.

- k3b or xcdroast for burning. It's really a matter of personal preference here.

[Pechorin]

Encode divx movies to mpeg-2


I suggest using ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php).

So the command would be something like (this is off the top of my head):
ffmpeg -i input.avi -f avi -vcodec mpeg2video -b 2000 output.mpeg

Just make sure you specify bitrate (to something around 2000 for mpeg2) , since ffmpeg uses 200 as a default.

Then you can use K3B or something like that to burn it to a CD or DVD. I personally use mpeg1 to burn movies to CDs (I don't have a DVD burner), with a bitrate of about 1150. Works nice on most DVD standalone players.

ffmpeg is doing relatively fast conversion. Too bad there isn't a nice GUI around, or at least I didn't find one.