>> Right. So when everybody tells me that WMM is a fantastic piece of 
>> software that everybody in the world uses, they're actually lying?
> 
>   Probably. Personally I have never heard anyone saying WMM being a video
> editing software.

Interesting. When I ask people how the hell all those videos on YouTube 
are put together, everybody invariably reply "oh, they probably just use 
WMM".

> (For that matter, I don't consider VirtualDub a video
> editing software either.

Technically, you can edit video with it. *Technically* you can edit 
video with a hex editor. No, it isn't really the same, is it?

>   *This* is an example of a video editing program:
>   http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/

My dad has this. (I don't know if he's ever installed it, but he has 
it.) Maybe I'll have more luck with that...

>   I don't remember any free software alternative right now. As I said,
> too low demand + too complicated of a program, I suppose.

Hmm... Somebody wrote a complete PostScript interpretter just for the 
hell of it (there must surely be zero demand for such a thing, and it's 
far more complex than any video codec), yet no free video editors? Oh 
well, I guess it goes that way sometimes...

>> The difference being, of course, that the video data on a DVD *is* MPEG 
>> encoded. :-P
> 
>   The video data may be mpeg-encoded, but that doesn't mean the surrounding
> container format is mpeg-compliant. (I don't know if it is.)

True. But given that I don't have any tools for manipulating it 
correctly, I figured it was worth a shot.

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