Main menu from tovid-demo. Other screenshots. Switched-menus demo.
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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
- 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
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 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
- Some bugs can be fixed with official patches (to be moved to the tovid google code site)
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:
Getting to know the tovid suite:
Fundamentals of video:
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
- 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