To confirm Roland's assessment, I was able to get Kino working flawlessly with Debian Etch -- Kino 0.90 + kinoplus. My issue with Dapper (kino 0.80) is that I can get kino's import feature to work. In Debian Etch I was able to import all types of video formats with Kino's new transcoding support using mencoder and ffmpeg.
* FYI, kino 0.80 seems to be working fine with kinoplus installed on my Dapper system. -- kinoplus 0.3.5-3 breaks kino 0.9 https://launchpad.net/bugs/66537 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs