tovid is a suite of utilities designed to make VCD, SVCD, and DVD
authoring a little less painful. tovid can create MPEG output
from arbitrary video formats; other components in the suite can
help you identify video files, generate graphical menus for DVD,
and write the XML for authoring DVDs. Video files converted with
tovid can subsequently be burned to a CD or DVD, using software
that can create the appropriate file structure for VCD or SVCD
such as k3b or dvdauthor.