Tovid is alive!

I submitted a bug report to Tovid's developers, about ffmpeg not using the -threads parameter when the computer has multiple CPUs/cores. I thought I probably wasn't going to get a reply or anything, noting that their wiki didn't seem to be modified after early 2007, so it was probably an unfortunately dead project.

This morning, my bug report was set to "Fixed", with the comment from one of the main developers that the feature was added in the svn version.

If you only need one menu in your project, I urge you to try the "Todiscgui" program. It's ugly, and looks a little confusing. But you can make menus with lots of eye candy. Unfortunately, one of the VOBs I was using seemed to be corrupted or something, so during the authoring stage the dvdauthor program fell flat on its face. I'll convert that VOB to DV or Xvid or something to try and get around the problem.

Here's a picture of a simple, but attractive, menu that Todiscgui created for me.