[Goodies-dev] New Member

[Petr Zelenka]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Erlend Davidson
<E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>  I had an idea about 4 months ago, but I haven't had time to do anything
>  about it. One of my friends got a digital video camera, she uses Ubuntu
>  Linux, and she's been having trouble getting the video on to a DVD.
>  There are solutions (avidemux and command-line) but if you're doing it
>  regularly it's tedious, and it's hardly intuitive.
>
>  I think it would be useful to have a "Burn these Videos to a DVD"
>  program. No fancy options or effects - just do it. Of course there would
>  have to be a few options (set on first run, and use these thereafter).
>  It would be fairly similar to the Wizard mode of iMovie, and would do
>  any transcoding without bothering the user about codec options.
>
>  I'm not great with codecs, they sometimes confuse me, so I'm not sure
>  just how difficult the above is. I do think it would be useful to the
>  Linux desktop.

Definitely agree, this would be _very_ useful application. And having
it in Xfce, it could be a killer-feaure for someone ;).

Petr