Making DVDs

[RonaldRaygun]

this is an honest question, im not trying to pirate movies, as i see so many get flames for asking. How do i make a DVD that will play on someones DVD player? From what i gather the format is mp4, or mp2, it just slipped out of my head. Now i know the obvious like "you need a DVD burner" but do you know of any programs that i can get, preferably for linux to create my own DVDs.

Also what are the best video editing tools for Linux? Mac's ship with some pretty sweet software and i was wondering where i could get there equivalents if any exist.

I do have a motive behind all this but if i carry through with it all or not is a different story. Right now im just gathering info.

[mdwatts]

Have a look around the change logs etc. on www.kernel.org as I believe DVD writing is only included in the development (2.5 series) kernel which should make it to the 2.6 stable kernel series due out at the end of the year.

[sarah31]

as for the encoding to dvd you can take a look at transcode (http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/)

[RonaldRaygun]

transcode code was one of the sites i was looking for. I have actually been there before just forgot the name. I can't seem to find something like iMovie for Linux. I know there is a good equivalent somewhere.

[sarah31]

how about this (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/) frontend for transcode?