Tools you'll need - Avidemux Varsha DVDAuthor Transcode FFMPEG Varsha is a standalone app that only needs java to be installed. The other apps are available in RPM and DEB packages for most major (Mandrake, Fedora, Suse, PCLinuxOS, Debian, Mepis, Knoppix) Distros. I compiled them all on my Slackware and Vector Linux machines without too much trouble.