Clay I'll play devils advocate here for the moment. As powerful as the command-line is, very few people unfamiliar with it would use it to actually burn a video encoded dvd. Especially a video editor. Most are not geeks, their artists in need of an easy to use software tool. I could be wrong, but I bet the things your doing on the command-line can and are reproduced in a gui. They may not exist in Linux now, but they are available in Mac or Windows. I work as a Broadcast Engineer at the O&O Fox-29 in Minneapolis. Video editing software on Mac/Windows is literally years ahead in development compared to Linux. I'm not trying to bash Linux here, but I would simply ask why? Video editing on the desktop could have been a "killer app" for Linux, but it completely missed the boat. I hope it will catch up to competitors soon. You are certainly right about newbies not knowing the potencial of Linux. But they expect (demand) a gui interface not the command-line. Having said all that, I would love to see a demo sometime. On Tuesday 15 January 2002 4:48 am, you wrote: <snip> > Yea, you're probably right. This is the kind of stuff that really shows the > power of Linux/UNIX and the command-line. Some of the stuff I'm doing would > be difficult/impossible to do in a GUI. And since a lot of it is > bleading-edge and just-recently developed, most of it isn't documented yet. > Makes it really hard for newcomers to realize the capabilities and the > potential of Linux. > > I will try and schedule this topic for a future meeting. > > -- Clay <snip>