Varsha is a DVD authoring tool for Linux. It is written in Java. It uses already available command line programs such as dvdauthor, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs to do various things in background. It is still in early stages of development but is usable in general.
See http://varsha.sourceforge.net/ for more information.

Major new features include metadata editing, 3 point insert editing, some dvdauthor integration, mouse wheel support, and numerous user interface enhancements.

The first High Definition Disk Drive Recorder running on Linux in which the clients receive the source code. (From the editor: This is not directly related to Kino or dvgrab, but the article was submitted, and we like these guys.)

I just wanted to share my happiness with everyone! I managed to get my Panasonic MX500 to work with my Gentoo Box, and i must say it works like charm!

Pan and zoom your stills to make dv files with stills2dv

This release fixes bugs in AVI writing, the --every option, and when using camera mode. Also, --autosplit is enhanced.

Using DV Pipe mechanism you can adjust the parameters for your preferred export format and save them for later convenient use from inside Kino. I will show you what I did to export a movie into DivX with custom bit-rate and crop band size values.

[Ed. This was submitted in May 2003, but it was overlooked, so I wanted to post this since the user has such an enthusiastic success story. :-) ]
Red Hat 9 - JVC GR-DV3000U, Pyro ADS firewire card

This release fixes bugs in AVI writing, the --every option, and when the camera is in camera mode. Plus, --autosplit is enhanced.

Finally, the GTK2 (GNOME2) port of Kino has arrived! It was not a simple, straight port. We tried to make nice improvements to the GUI overall. Plus, there is a new feature, a scriptable Export/DV Pipe.

This is a bugfix release and might be the last GNOME1 release before upcoming potentially less stable GNOME2 releases.

This is a bugfix release to the new features in dvgrab 1.3 plus a new option to select a device if more than one DV device is available.

Once again, my proprietary OS gave up the ghost, stuck it's legs up in the air and died. Now what? The fear of leaving Pinnacle Studio for a Linux solution put fear and dread in my heart. However, I found that most of my fears were unfounded.

smilutils 0.3.0 features a bunch of new utilities for video fx, fullscreen DV playback (supporting all of kino's file formats and DV pipes) and even a utility to transcode DivX, mpeg and many otler formats to Raw DV.

dvgrab 1.3 is a another major update with new features including AV/C interactive mode, automatic detection of camera on any 1394 card, rawdv on stdin, .dif rawdv support, and capture duration option.

Thomson VMD 130 works great with Linux !

After I have seen reports on a new very cool design featuring the new Mini-ITX main boards from VIA Technologies Inc., I decided to try this one. It has on-board firewire too, besides the usual interfaces, so it should make a decent DV/MPEG/MP3 player/ripper/copier.

I just have managed to configure my system to grab the videos from the Digital8 camera and convert them to MPEG.