Hi Patrcik! I suppose automating the process would suite her just right. But whatever works will be appreciated for the moment I guess. I think her DVD-drive can't write doulbe-layer DVDs. It's not the most recent of hardware and she couldn't afford any new hardware. Do you have anything in mind? Kindly yours Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Hi Julien, I'm not sure how double layer DVDs are lay out, as I hardly ever used one, so the following might not be useful... But, I've done quite a lot of this for an event using 'regular' DVDs and having to split and cut files which eventually had to play from a single machine. In that case if the DVDs weren't encrypted it was simply copy the vob files and often reconcatenating them on hard disk (vob files can be simply concatenated using cat), then splitting them. If all I needed was split and cut (with some useful stuff like de-interlace etc) I used avidemux. Otherwise for full editing etc., cinelerra. IF the DVDs were encrypted the process was much more of a hassle (and longer) but doable: I mostly used k3b and (if I recall correctly) certain codecs and libs for handling (even just playing) encrypted DVDs (I'm on ubuntu). Hope this helps, Lorenzo.

Hello Lorenzo and Igor! Thanks for both your repklies. These sound very helpful. I'll pass them on. My friend already uses DeVeDe, but in this case not to her satisfaction, but k9copy is a good pointer. Thanks as well for the cat, split and cut stuff, Lorenzo. this might be useful, if I ever decide to do something like it. I didn't know, that vob is so easy to work with. Cool! :-) I like those shortcuts. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de