About Freedom:
The philosophy of uinix is to build systems reusing the programs that already exist in the system as filters. A good implementation of of unix allows an efficient interconnection of filters via pipes, performing in a concurrent consumer-producer way.
Programs like DeVeDe are an interface to that programs.
If one need to have more control and knows how the things work, it is possible to use directly the filters, instead of the default values defined in graphical interface, like DeVeDe.
Where does the freedom come? apart from the obvious open source philosophy of Linux, and other free software. One have the option to configure the systems with enough control to fulfill one’s needs as far as one knows what is needed.
On the other side, the commercial products, under closed and forbidden source code licenses, try to standardize their systems, they wish their users just use their marvelous, copy righted and patented in a limited way that they decide is more convenient to them.
Apart of all the money they charge for programs that are not so original inventions as they claim, many of them using free software under hood (see the hall of shame link in ffmpeg site), they impose standards like AVCHD, limiting our freedom. They say that is because piracy is a problem, but their obstacles are jumped by pirates, but place many problems in users producing their own movies.(that is just an example).
The happy mouse-clickers are just using the more general, standard, options of the software, once they want to take more control, they see limited to have it, with linux you may have both, the friendly interface for mouse-clickers and full control with the programs under hood. As I learn more of video formats and properties, I will wish to have more control, to produce better quality videos, and select the way to record in the limited options of the camcorder. Just a question of experience, that Linux allows to achieve, thanks to users like Vivek that share their knowledge.

On windows I was a Mac man for along time, then I went to windows because the Mac software to much to pay for. But Mac is very stable. Then I heard about Linux and found it to be much like Mac, except the software, is open source. Now not only am I able, to have more control over what I do with my system, but I don’t have to pay for a dam penny to Bill Gates and his pals. You see I don’t have much of a problem learning something new, the problem I have is every time I fix windows for some body they don’t want to learn how to fix there own windows they just want to click,click click and crash! I have a great DVD converter that works well on linux Ubuntu 9.10. Now! I will admit there are some issues but not as much as windows. I been using linux for 8years now and I don’t get spy ware. add ware pop ups, nor do I get anyone from M$ tell me to activate a product Key for activation. And just to top it off! I don’t have to worry about my system catching viruses because Linux user who know how to use linux know how to keep their system stable through such a stable command line and great fire wall structure. I so far, have been on a mission to prove to window user, if you keep clicking you will keep crashing. Lets go back to the source what was the first OS system UNIX OR WINDOWS AT&T? If I am wrong I believe it was Unix first! Then came Bill Gates and Apple. But Unix was use by the Military and AT&T. Linux is just off shoot of Unix with some command line still present to this very day. I think windows user, did better when they were using DOS. Because if you know commands its easer to fix your system. But now everybody is sold on the concept that clicking means you have more command, but in reality you have less. And don’t for get to activate your product key every 30 days or else you want be able, to get inside your own system! Good Luck to all those Clickers! Out there! Have fun!

Thank the programmers for Linux and its Chief designer Mr. Linux himself,
I Love Linux systems I am free of Windows!

excellent article! created a script and my server does it all automatic :-)
only thing to mention: i removed the -aspect option of ffmpeg because the video was resized not correctly –

thx a lot
cheers

As far as I know the last command should be:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso

to burn the already prepared image to DVD.

The command written in the article probably will use the directory structure instead of the prepared image.