Richard Wilson wrote:
> I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages...
> My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's
> on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format.
> 
> I need to pull in the video files and edit out "empty space" and
> (hopefully) get three mini DVD's onto one regular size one.  
> 
> I am able to play the DVD's and copy them, but so far haven't found
> anything that will allow me to edit them.  The HandyCam came with Nero
> Express 6 Software (for XP of course) that does NOT allow editing.  
> 
> I am running Fedora 8, in case it makes any difference.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Richard Wilson

I found this article in my archives of bookmarks that may be of some
more help to this discussion.  Not too deep but a good starting of
information.

"A quick guide to DVD authoring"
http://www.linux.com/feature/118910

Alan