How do u call up the Bourne shell($)

[Smoke187]

I've been trying to install filmgimp for the past few weeks. I wanna make the root installation but the firsts 4 lines start with a $, does it mean I have to call the Bourne shell?

[fingers99]

I'm not sure why you're doing it from source. Anyway, filmgimp is now CinePaint. There are debs available:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/...cinepaint.html

If you're in the command line, you're already in bash (the Bourne Again SHell) . There's no way you want to use the old Bourne Shell.

The root prompt looks different to the user prompt (usually). I have (as myself): john@niglo:~$

as root

root@niglo:/home/john#

But it looks to me as though you're reading part of an installation script.

Exactly what are you reading and what are you seeing?

[Smoke187]

It's from the install text wich tells me how to install cinepaint, but anyways it's not what I need, I need a program that will allow me convert avi to kvcd.

[fingers99]

I think kvcd is just a sort of template for cramming as much mpeg as possible onto a vcd.

What you need -- what I need, too -- is a method of converting .avi to .mpeg. I'm happy enough being able to stuff 45 minutes of Buffy on a vcd.

I think the answer is transcode, but the manpage is truly frightening.

Any takers?

[fingers99]

In the meantime, some useful looking stuff here:

http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goetti...ranscode/html/

http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/

[boudie]

Noticed this in mplayer docs (never tried)

mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video \
-oac copy [other options] media.avi -o output.mpg

[fingers99]

That does look interesting. I'd completely forgotten about memcoder!

[edit] I just tried it on an .avi ripped from a dvd and it works just fine: file length is reduced, too! Now all I need is someone to lend me all their Buffy DVDs and ........ Many thanks![/edit]

In the meantime, the aswer to the previous question:

I think you're seeing "something" like

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

and here the "$" just indicates that you're in the shell. You can literally copy and paste the rest.