Video Editing & Linux

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Last year i got a cheap video capture card. It's an STB TV PCI. It came with a burnt cd of drivers for win98se, win98se, win98se, and winme. I use win2k because it is stabler. I also have an old P1 166 running SuSE Linux. My video capture card wouldn't work on win2k, so i decided that i might as well try it on linux. I think it has the driver installed, but i'm not sure. Ok here's my questions.
How do i tell if a driver is installed?
If it is installed, what is some good video editing software for linux?
If it isn't installed, i found some drivers, and software for it (BBTV) but they r in .tgz format. How do i open them?

Thanx peoples

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how to tell what is loaded:
lsmod
man lsmod for more info

Not having a capture card .. all the following are from searchs:
http://linux.davecentral.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?query=video+editing
http://www.google.com/linux?site=search&restrict=linux&hl=en&safe=off&q=video+editing

as to .tgz formats:
t means the file was tar'ed
gz means it was gunzipped

where filename is the name of the software file

"tar tzvf filename"
lists the files in the archive without actually unpacking them.

"tar xzvf filename"

I'd recommend a "man tar" for more info.

for an over view of file compression issues with linux:
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-11/lw-11-compression.html

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