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Demo-snap — Main menu from tovid-demo. Other screenshots.

tovid is a collection of 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

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

Get tovid

The short version:

Get the tovid dependencies
Download tovid-0.35.2.tar.gz
Install like this:

$ tar -xzf tovid-0.35.2.tar.gz
$ cd tovid-0.35.2
$ ./configure
$ su -c "make install"

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

Help

Help yourself!

Be sure to RTFM
If manpages bore you, try some of the HOWTOs
Something wrong? Could be one of the known bugs or common tovid problems
Some bugs can be fixed with official patches

Or, ask someone else for help:

Visit the tovid forum to get help, report bugs, and discuss ideas
Chat in the tovid IRC channel '#tovid' on freenode.net
Join the users mailing list

Contributing

Report a bug you've discovered
Tell us what's wrong with tovid
Add to the tovid todo list
Become a contributor
Edit the wiki

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