Producing video DVDs and slideshows with 2ManDVD

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Entertainment Artist

Erik Bärwaldt

It's not just the multimedia geeks who can now produce great video DVDs. 2ManDVD can help everybody become a professional.

The rapid developments in consumer electronics and computer technology have made it easier for home users to venture into video production. To present your films, photos, and music on TV with your DVD player, you only need a Linux machine and the 2ManDVD [1] program, with which you can easily produce professional-looking multimedia DVDs.

Off We Go

2ManDVD used to be available for almost all Linux distributions. Unfortunately, many of the libraries it uses are now quite old. This has made it a problem to maintain in Ubuntu, so it was removed as of 13.10 – Raring Ringtail. For Trusty and Utopic, you'll have to compile 2ManDVD from source and modify some of the source code.

To begin, download the compressed file with the source [2]. Decompress it and cd into the directory.

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