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. The tovid suite, also known simply as tovid, is a collection of shell and Python scripts for creating DVDs and (S)VCDs. The tovid script does the big task of converting your video files, which might be in 10 different random formats into the one of the specific MPEG format.