On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 21:11, John Hagen wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have my hauppage tv card working and I can use xawtv to capture avi files > from my sony handycam. I was wondering about converting them to mpg files. > Any one have suggestions??? > > Thanks > John the best one that i know of is a win32 version called "tmpgenc" and the package name is "TMPGEnc-2.01.30.116*.zip". the author has no plans for a linux version (although there was talk of one)...so it's windows only. it handles dual cpu also i think...very nice. the big thing is you have to have your video files on a fat32 filesystem in which your limited to the 2GB file size limitation. if anybody has any other ideas, i'll also definitely take note and research those options.