When you need to capture something from your screen, there is a great program which does the job for you, xvidcap.
LiVES, a Non-Linear Video and Multimedia Editor
“LiVES is a simple to use, yet powerful video editor and VJ tool.” Written at http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=432. It is claimed to be capable of handling a variety of file formats.
Get Codec and/or Stream Information of Media Files in Linux
Normally, it’s a pain finding stream, codec or bitrate information for media files.
Compiling HandBrake for Linux under Fedora
HandBrake is not only great a great software for Linux, but also a great software that really works and works perfectly well. It is not normally available from standard repos but it compiles pretty painless from SVN. As soon as…
Ripping a Single Audio Stream from a File or DVD
Valid for Fedora 10.
Fixing Wrong or Different Frame Rate of a Video File and Container
The problem is seen well when you get video file information with ffmpeg:
Burning an ISO Image to CD a or DVD Disk
From a command line, it looks quite simple