Tovid Wiki

tovid is a collection of GPL video disc authoring tools; it can help you create your own DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs for playback on your home DVD player. This is the tovid wiki, the official homepage of tovid.

• Intro
• Get tovid
• Help
• Learn
• Contributing
• Development

Intro

• See screenshots of what tovid can do
• Run the tovid demo to create a demo DVD
• Read a simple example of how to use tovid
• Peruse some media coverage of tovid
• See what's coming in the next release
• Report a bug you've discovered

Get tovid

The short version:

1. Get the tovid dependencies
2. Download tovid-0.31.tar.gz
3. Install like this:

$ tar -xzf tovid-0.31.tar.gz
$ cd tovid-0.31
$ ./configure
$ su -c "make install"

See Installing tovid for longer instructions, and for distribution-specific packages.

Help

Help yourself!

• Be sure to read the manpages
• If manpages bore you, try some of the HOWTOs and References
• Something wrong? Could be one of the known bugs or common tovid problems

Or, ask someone else for help:

• Visit the user group / mailing list to get help, report bugs, and discuss ideas
• Chat in the tovid IRC channel '#tovid' on freenode.net

Learn

Follow our HOWTOs to make our screenshots your own:

• Making a DVD with text menus
• Making a DVD with thumbnail menus
• Making a DVD with slideshow(s) or mixed video and slides
• The Tovid demo explained

Getting to know the tovid suite:

• Making a basic DVD
• Using the tovid command-line
• Using the tovid GUI

Fundamentals of video:

• Aspect ratio and safe area
• Video disc formats
• Video authoring references

Other good things to know:

• Capturing a frame from a video
• Extracting audio from a movie
• Video encoding tips
• Make DVD chapter menus
• Progressive half-speed slow-motion
• DV field order correction
• Installing latest ffmpeg on a Debian based distro

Contributing

• Tell us what's wrong with tovid
• Add to the tovid todo list
• Become a contributor
• Edit the wiki

Development

• tovid changelog
• Development plans
• Install tovid from SVN
• tovid on Google Code
• tovid SVN tracker