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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Here's the deal. I just upgraded my machine at home to an Anthon XP 2000+ and it is performing WAY better than my celeron 1.7ghz was. I am dual-booting Windows and RedHat Linux 8.0 and Linux runs fine but Windows is messing up on me. It freezes up and reboots on its own free will and various other things that should never happen in any operating system. Well I have finally decided that it is time to just wave adios and take the Windows boot line out of grub.conf (I know a lot of you still swear by lilo but I'm trying to stay with the times) and convert /dev/hda1 from to ext3, recovering the wasted disk space. However I have a dilemma. There are two things that I cannot do<U> effeciently</U> in Linux yet so I am turning to NTLUG for some advice.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(1) I love playing around with video capturing and I have been playing around with XAWtv but it just is not doing the trick. I am going to check out Broadcast 2000 when I get home this evening but I am not even sure if it supports video capturing and it is not being developed any longer according to what I have read.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(2) This is pretty cheesy but I have not had much luck with cd burning in Linux. I know you have to install what seems to be a scsi compatibility layer if you are using IDE drives, which I am but I have only been able to burn audio tools. The only catch is that I refuse to use the command line to burn cds. I love it for most things but it just is not convenient when burning cd's ( I dig the drag-n-drop feature).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anyways, I am asking for suggestions on these two things. I'm even open for another distro if someone knows of one that is geared towards multimedia. Thanks in advance as I know y'all will be a big help! :-)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">T.J. Davis</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Southwestern A/G University</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Computer/Network Technician</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tjdavis@sagu.edu</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1 Timothy 4:12</FONT>
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