I thought the process was ugly but since then GUI menu editors have been released ( DVDStyler and Q DVD-Author in particular look pretty good.) I followed an online tutorial and did this with a graphics program ('gimp') and composed the result with 'dvdauthor'. The program 'transcode' ultimately worked out. This part was the most awful for me and will probably require the most reading and tweaking. Convert video to DVD format (if necessary.) If your editor isn't capable of editing MPEG2 video/audio then after you're done cutting you need to convert your finished product to DVD-compatible video.Cinelerra was too buggy for me at the time, so I went with 'avidemux' - it was more straightforward for me, but probably far less advanced than this new version of Cinelerra, and I'm sure there are other editors out there. The programs I found for this are picky about what video format you're editing, so you'll need to tell mencoder to output something compatible with your video editor in the step above. ("mplayer tv://88 -tv driver=v4l2:norm=ntsc:chanlist=us-cable:input=0:a l sa" with no break in alsa (thanks Slashdot) gets me channel 88, but you may need to tweak this line depending on your area and Linux version.)
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First figure out how to watch a live stream from the TV card using 'mplayer', because once you get that working you can reuse most of those parameters with 'mencoder'. As suggested, 'mencoder' is probably the best program for the job. Capture video from the TV input card to the disk.I know it's possible because I've managed it, but the process is confusing (and, at least at the time I did it, buggy - I had to use one version of a DVD tool to make the menu and an older version of the tool to put the image together because the newer one was causing skips in the video.) I don't think there is a simple way to do what you want under Linux yet.