One of the computing jobs that I mean to get around to is transferring our limited home videos to DVD. It's mostly stuff of the kids. I did some on Windows using Pinnacle Studio DV. This did pretty good job, but at the time I only had a CD writer so ended up creating a S-VCD. Good enough quality for home movies.

Now I'm moving to Linux I want to do some more editing/DVD creation. Actually I need to put together a better PC first with lots of disk space and a DVD burner. Both are relatively cheap these days. Meanwhile I wanted to get some footage off the camera of a bird in our garden.

I installed Kino and gave it a go. Didn't work at first, but after some false starts and some help via Google, I got it to work! Only runs as root for now, but I'm still impressed.