Re: two questons about import

Hi.

> 2) My local school district often films district events and makes them
> available in as completed DVD.  A local organization I work with would
> like to take this DVD, "open" it (so to speak) and be able to take clips
> and put them on our web-site.  If need be I suppose I could go back to
> the district and ask for video in DV format but I don't want to hassle
> them.  Can I use Kino / Ubuntu to reverse engineer the DVD?

You could first make a "copy" of the DVD with the "dvdbackup" program, then
use "ffmpeg" to convert the VOB files to DV:

  ffmpeg -i IN.VOB  -f dv out.dv


Best,
Gilles

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