Bill Lindley wrote:
> Anyone have a clue who would convert a VHS tape to some sort of movie 
> file?  Client gave a five-minute videotape to me and says, "Here put 
> this on our web page."  Uhhhhh.... yeah sure.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.

If you have a TV tuner card you can connect a VCR to that and use 
mencoder to capture the video to a file.  Check out the mplayer or 
mencoder documentation.

Austin