Making a DVD with thumbnail menus

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This page demonstrates the use of todisc for creating a DVD with animated-thumbnail menus, like those you often see in commercially-produced DVDs.

A sample of todisc's output

Before you begin

todisc takes a collection of video files, optionally encodes them, and generates a DVD Video filesystem structure suitable for burning to a disc.

Examples

You must provide at least a list of video files and titles to animenu (along with a name for the output file):

$ todisc -files BatmanBeyond.mpg GoodEats.mpg \
          -titles "Batman Beyond" "Good Eats" \
          -out dvd_dir

This creates a DVD filesystem in dvd_dir; when complete, you should be able to preview it like so:

$ gxine dvd://path/to/dvd_dir

todisc supports a wide range of customizations, allowing you to configure the style, fonts, and effects applied to the menu. For example, to include a background image and custom menu title:

$ todisc -files [...] -titles [...] \
          -bgimage rainbow.png \
          -menu-title "Random video clips" \
          -out dvd_dir

More to be written