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On Wednesday 20 August 2003 01:10 pm, Erich Zigler wrote:

> Primarily it has to do with encoding video, I do a lot of video work.
> (It's my hobby) and must be able to encode video to DVD specs and
> burn DVD's. I can handle the video extraction from the cameras easily
> enough.

You can burn to DVD's under FreeBSD easily enough (either burncd or 
dvd+rw-tools). The video encoding is going to be much more difficult. 
There are a few ports that are related, but I have no idea how useful 
they are. Check under the multimedia ports for some ideas.

David