from the website : "ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec"
Just because something is OSS, doesn't mean it works on all OS's. Neither DirectShow nor VFW exist on Linux, so it'll never be on Linux. There are _plenty_ of equivalents, however.
FFDShow is based on libffmpeg, the same libraries used by vlc etc. There's no kind of unified codec system for linux like Directshow or Video for Windows. So your media player or encoder needs to support the ffmpeg libraries.
mplayer / mencoder are a good bet. I use mencoder myself to convert flv files into xvid.
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