Thanks - ffmpeg does install and works thanks (though I haven't yet tried to play in most people's environment). In fact synaptic might have been enough - I haven't used it before and it found and fixed a stack of broken rpm dependencies.
Kevin. You could check out ffmpeg (available via Synaptic Package Manager) to do the conversion (MPEG2 to DivX) and K3B to do the burning. I have used ffmpeg for other conversions. I'd be interested to hear whether it does your job. Marghanita -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
