HOWTO: Make DVD Videos Using Tovid: The Video Disc Authoring Suite

[ubuntuman001]

Glad to have helped.:-Ddidn't think about the tovid.preferences folder, do u know if that applies to the gui and the command line?

[breakerfall]

didn't think about the tovid.preferences folder, do u know if that applies to the gui and the command line?

well, I'm using the GUI, and while i do still have to set the 'output' directory in the gui, the resulting process seems to obey the paths i set in the prefs file.

[PapaWiskas]

The last time I used the GUI it way to many issues and it frustrated me. I never looked back once I switched to the command line, to me its just easier.

I would think the GUI should reference the preferences though, so my stated method should work. However if memory serves me correctly I think you are forced to give a output directory when using the GUI aren't you? I cant remember...LOL....anyway, glad it worked out for you. ;)

[ubuntuman001]

The last time I used the GUI it way to many issues and it frustrated me. I never looked back once I switched to the command line, to me its just easier.

I would think the GUI should reference the preferences though, so my stated method should work. However if memory serves me correctly I think you are forced to give a output directory when using the GUI aren't you? I cant remember...LOL....anyway, glad it worked out for you. ;)yea i think it probably references to the tovid.preferences file. you aren't forced to give an output directory, it's just optional (it defaults it to /tmp)

and yea i like the command line so much better, once i got the hang of it. when i learn python, i'll be sure to help out the tovid project as much as possible.

[j3cakes]

I've just read most of this thread and my brain's about to explode.

What do I need to do to get this working - is the guide at the start still accurate and the link to the script(s) still the one I need to follow? The thread references three versions of tovid since the guide was first posted.

I also need to change the working directory to not be my home dir due to space restrictions so can I still use the script?

[ubuntuman001]

I've just read most of this thread and my brain's about to explode.

What do I need to do to get this working - is the guide at the start still accurate and the link to the script(s) still the one I need to follow? The thread references three versions of tovid since the guide was first posted.

I also need to change the working directory to not be my home dir due to space restrictions so can I still use the script?sorry about any confusion you may have, but the first post in this thread is always the most up-to-date post here. that is where the guide is found. to change the working dir, just follow papawiskas instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1785834#post1785834

[ubuntuman001]

***small update: finally, i was able to put all of my script stuff into the official tovid ubuntu site: http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/ubuntu

so all downloads are from there, officially. (not a big change, but cool nonetheless)

also, if i have not already mentioned this, jdong, one of the forum members here, made an architecture-independent tovid package, meaning that it doesn't matter if you have an x86 (i386) PC, or an x86_64 (amd64) PC, it works on everything (well except PowerPC)

and i have already included that package in the install script, so it's all good.

[j3cakes]

maybe I'm just doing it wrong....

I did what you said in the first post - downloaded the script and pasted that command in but I've tried it twice now and I keep getting:


Installing tovid.

Selecting previously deselected package tovid.
(Reading database ... 78451 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tovid (from tovid_0.29-0jdong1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tovid:
tovid depends on mplayer; however:
Package mplayer is not installed.
tovid depends on mencoder; however:
Package mencoder is not installed.
tovid depends on mjpegtools; however:
Package mjpegtools is not installed.
tovid depends on transcode; however:
Package transcode is not installed.
dpkg: error processing tovid (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
tovid


I can install all that stuff manually but I thought the script would do it for me... or am I just being thick? :)

if I do "apt-get install -f" it fixes it all up (ie removes tovid) but I'd like to have this in and working.

Should I just install the programs listed above manually?

[ubuntuman001]

maybe I'm just doing it wrong....

I did what you said in the first post - downloaded the script and pasted that command in but I've tried it twice now and I keep getting:



I can install all that stuff manually but I thought the script would do it for me... or am I just being thick? :)

if I do "apt-get install -f" it fixes it all up (ie removes tovid) but I'd like to have this in and working.

Should I just install the programs listed above manually?give me the full ouput of the script when you run it.

[j3cakes]

do you want me to post all of it here?

[ubuntuman001]

do you want me to post all of it here?yep!

[j3cakes]

ok, here goes. This is after I ran automatix to install mplayer and its dependencies.

This is the error dialogue box I get:


Error(s) occurred during encoding. If you want to help improve this software, please file a bug report containing a copy of the output log. Unfortunately, this also means you won't be able to continue with creating your disc. Sorry for the inconvenience!


This is the log from my attempts at getting it to convert an avi


The following commands will be run:
=========================================
makemenu -ntsc -dvd -align northwest -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -font "Default" "whatever.avi" -out "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1"
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tovid -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -full -in "/media/Maxtor 300Gb/Storage/My Videos/Movies and TV/Movies/whatever.avi" -out "/tmp/whatever.avi.tovid_encoded"
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makexml -dvd -overwrite -menu "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1.mpg" "/tmp/whatever.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_disc"
------------------------
Running command: makemenu -ntsc -dvd -align northwest -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -font "Default" "whatever.avi" -out "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1"
You are missing tovid CORE dependencies!

mplayer MISSING: mplayer_msg
mencoder MISSING: mencoder_msg
mplex MISSING: mplex_msg
mpeg2enc MISSING: mpeg2enc_msg
yuvfps MISSING: yuvfps_msg
yuvdenoise MISSING: yuvdenoise_msg
ppmtoy4m MISSING: ppmtoy4m_msg
mp2enc MISSING: mp2enc_msg
jpeg2yuv MISSING: jpeg2yuv_msg

Please install the above MISSING dependencies, run 'tovid -refresh-deps', and try again.
Running command: tovid -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -full -in "/media/Maxtor 300Gb/Storage/My Videos/Movies and TV/Movies/whatever.avi" -out "/tmp/whatever.avi.tovid_encoded"
You are missing tovid CORE dependencies!

mplayer MISSING: mplayer_msg
mencoder MISSING: mencoder_msg
mplex MISSING: mplex_msg
mpeg2enc MISSING: mpeg2enc_msg
yuvfps MISSING: yuvfps_msg
yuvdenoise MISSING: yuvdenoise_msg
ppmtoy4m MISSING: ppmtoy4m_msg
mp2enc MISSING: mp2enc_msg
jpeg2yuv MISSING: jpeg2yuv_msg

Please install the above MISSING dependencies, run 'tovid -refresh-deps', and
try again.
Running command: makexml -dvd -overwrite -menu "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1.mpg" "/tmp/whatever.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_disc"
You are missing tovid CORE dependencies!

mplayer MISSING: mplayer_msg
mencoder MISSING: mencoder_msg
mplex MISSING: mplex_msg
mpeg2enc MISSING: mpeg2enc_msg
yuvfps MISSING: yuvfps_msg
yuvdenoise MISSING: yuvdenoise_msg
ppmtoy4m MISSING: ppmtoy4m_msg
mp2enc MISSING: mp2enc_msg
jpeg2yuv MISSING: jpeg2yuv_msg

Please install the above MISSING dependencies, run 'tovid -refresh-deps', and
try again.


and this is the output from running the script:


jason@jason-desktop:~/Downloads$ chmod +x installtovid.sh && ./installtovid.sh

Downloading and installing all dependencies for tovid.

Get: 1 http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release.gpg [191B]
Hit http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release
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Hit http://www.getautomatix.com dapper Release
Hit http://www.getautomatix.com dapper/main Packages
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Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
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Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources
Errhttp://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
Errhttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’
Get: 4 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
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Get: 6 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Get: 7 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Packages
Fetched 8B in 60s (0B/s)
Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-backports/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
Reading package lists... Done
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
mplayer is already the newest version.
mencoder is already the newest version.
mjpegtools is already the newest version.
ffmpeg is already the newest version.
python is already the newest version.
python-wxgtk2.6 is already the newest version.
python-imaging is already the newest version.
imagemagick is already the newest version.
dvdauthor is already the newest version.
dvd+rw-tools is already the newest version.
vcdimager is already the newest version.
sox is already the newest version.
normalize-audio is already the newest version.
txt2tags is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
gawk libavifile-0.7c2 libfame-0.9 libpvm3 python2.4-dev
Suggested packages:
avifile-player avifile-utils avifile-mad-plugin avifile-mjpeg-plugin avifile-vorbis-plugin avifile-win32-plugin avifile-xvid-plugin
avifile-divx-plugin libc6-dev libc-dev libdvdcss xvid4conf
Recommended packages:
pvm toolame transcode-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed
gawk libavifile-0.7c2 libfame-0.9 libpvm3 lsdvd python-cairo python-dev python2.4-dev transcode
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 55.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
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Get: 3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse libfame-0.9 0.9.0-0.1 [77.7kB]
Get: 4 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse lsdvd 0.15-5 [14.3kB]
Get: 5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse transcode 2:1.0.2-0.0ubuntu2 [14.5MB]
Get: 6 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe libavifile-0.7c2 1:0.7.44.20051021-1ubuntu2 [1746kB]
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Get: 9 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe libpvm3 3.4.5-6 [82.5kB]
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Selecting previously deselected package gawk.
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Setting up transcode (1.0.2-0.0ubuntu2) ...

Downloading tovid.

--21:20:10-- http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/ubuntu/tovid_0.29-0jdong1_all.deb
=> `tovid_0.29-0jdong1_all.deb'
Resolving tovid.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209
Connecting to tovid.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.209|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 495,872 (484K) [text/plain]

100%[================================================== ================================================== ==>] 495,872 47.47K/s ETA 00:00

21:20:25 (39.61 KB/s) - `tovid_0.29-0jdong1_all.deb' saved [495872/495872]


Installing tovid.

Selecting previously deselected package tovid.
(Reading database ... 82226 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tovid (from tovid_0.29-0jdong1_all.deb) ...
Setting up tovid (0.29-0jdong1) ...

Downloading the tovid icon, the mkiso script, and the tovid menu entry.

--21:20:25-- http://images.wikia.com/tovid/images/2/2c/Tovid_icon.png
=> `Tovid_icon.png'
Resolving images.wikia.com... 216.224.121.136
Connecting to images.wikia.com|216.224.121.136|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 19,968 (20K) [image/png]

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21:20:41 (2.37 KB/s) - `Tovid_icon.png' saved [19968/19968]

--21:20:41-- http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/ubuntu/install_script/mkiso
=> `mkiso'
Resolving tovid.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209
Connecting to tovid.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.209|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 129 [text/plain]

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21:20:43 (12.30 MB/s) - `mkiso' saved [129/129]

--21:20:43-- http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/ubuntu/install_script/tovid.desktop
=> `tovid.desktop'
Resolving tovid.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209
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Moving the tovid icon to the correct folder.

Moving the menu entry to the correct folder.

Giving the mkiso script executable permissions.

Moving the mkiso script to the correct folder.

Removing debian package (not needed anymore).
You have successfully installed tovid. If it is not in the menus, the command for the tovid GUI is: tovidgui


I noticed that there are a couple of 'failure to resolve' errors but it looks like it eventually found the targets.

Any ideas?

I haven't tried running the 'tovid -refresh-deps' because the programs should already be installed.

[ubuntuman001]

ok, here goes. This is after I ran automatix to install mplayer and its dependencies.

This is the error dialogue box I get:



This is the log from my attempts at getting it to convert an avi



and this is the output from running the script:



I noticed that there are a couple of 'failure to resolve' errors but it looks like it eventually found the targets.

Any ideas?

I haven't tried running the 'tovid -refresh-deps' because the programs should already be installed.seems like you have the gpg error in your repos...let's see...
try these commands in a a terminal:

wget http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-backports/Release.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/dapper-backports/Release.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -wget http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/dapper/Release.gpg-O- | sudo apt-key add -and then try: sudo aptitude update
then try running the tovid script again, and then try running: tovid -refresh-deps

[j3cakes]

ok. thanks erik, I'll give it a go when I get home from work tonight.

[j3cakes]

I got the following error:


jason@jason-desktop:~$ wget http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
--18:26:31-- http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg
=> `-'
Resolving gb.archive.ubuntu.com... 195.248.90.35, 195.248.90.38
Connecting to gb.archive.ubuntu.com|195.248.90.35|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 189 [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 189 --.--K/s

18:26:31 (18.02 MB/s) - `-' saved [189/189]

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.


I tried it a couple of times but got the same result.

[ubuntuman001]

I got the following error:



I tried it a couple of times but got the same result.damn...i really don't know what to tell you, I'm not very experienced with the whole apt repo thingie...if i were you, i would try starting a thread on the gpg errors you're getting, because that not only affects your installation of tovid, but potentially many other programs as well.

[j3cakes]

I am having other problems with this install so there's a good chance I've done something completely wrong. It's a fresh install anyway so I might just do a rebuild and see how I go.

I have a windows program from sourceforge that does something similar, I was hoping that ubuntu would free up some system resources to make it go a bit faster (it takes 3-4 hours in windows.)

thanks for your help anyway erik.

[ubuntuman001]

I am having other problems with this install so there's a good chance I've done something completely wrong. It's a fresh install anyway so I might just do a rebuild and see how I go.

I have a windows program from sourceforge that does something similar, I was hoping that ubuntu would free up some system resources to make it go a bit faster (it takes 3-4 hours in windows.)

thanks for your help anyway erik.if you have any other questions, just ask. i think i know what program you're talking about - dvdshrink, right? i have it installed on my windows partition, but i've never used it!

and, as i've warned on the first page, you must have at least 20GB free space for the encoding process of tovid to go smoothly.

[ubuntuman001]

I requested a thread title change, and it was granted. It now more accurately represents what the guide is about. It used to be: "Howto: Make Dvd Videos from Avi Files" but that is not entirely correct, as tovid not only supports avi files, but many other formats as well.

[j3cakes]

if you have any other questions, just ask. i think i know what program you're talking about - dvdshrink, right? i have it installed on my windows partition, but i've never used it!
and, as i've warned on the first page, you must have at least 20GB free space for the encoding process of tovid to go smoothly.

disk space isn't really a problem (200GB free), neither is memory (2Gb) or processor power (3.0Ghz) but it still takes well over three hours. I just figured it was windows being inefficient but that's always just been a guess.

the program, incidentally, is called DVD Flick.

[ubuntuman001]

disk space isn't really a problem (200GB free), neither is memory (2Gb) or processor power (3.0Ghz) but it still takes well over three hours. I just figured it was windows being inefficient but that's always just been a guess.

the program, incidentally, is called DVD Flick.i think its just the buggy tovid gui acting up again, at least for you (dont know why, but it works better for some people, and worse for others...)

if you want to, i could give you specific details on using the command line, which will probably work.

all i need to know is the continent you live on, the aspect ratio of ur tv, and the location (directory) and size of your movie file. also, where in your hard drive do u have the most free space?

[j3cakes]

if you want to, i could give you specific details on using the command line, which will probably work.

that'd be great. see if it works this way.

all i need to know is the continent you live on, the aspect ratio of ur tv, and the location (directory) and size of your movie file. also, where in your hard drive do u have the most free space?

- Europe (UK - PAL)
- 16:9
- can you use <locn> and <size> for those two parameters? That way, if I need to, I can apply it to other avi files.
- biggest directory: /storage/video

another quick question, if I use dvd flick and put the output on a samba share, can I use the tovid CLI commands to make/burn the iso to DVD?

[ubuntuman001]

that'd be great. see if it works this way.



- Europe (UK - PAL)
- 16:9
- can you use <locn> and <size> for those two parameters? That way, if I need to, I can apply it to other avi files.
- biggest directory: /storage/video

another quick question, if I use dvd flick and put the output on a samba share, can I use the tovid CLI commands to make/burn the iso to DVD?do you mean use the <locn> and <size> in the ~/.tovid/tovid.preferences file?

put your movie file in /storage/video:
sudo mv /path/to/file /storage/videothen cd to the encoding dir:
cd /storage/videoand finally, the tovid command (this is assuming your original video is in avi format, and that you dont want a menu) :
tovid -pal -wide -discsize 4380 -in movie_name.avi -out desired_movie_nameand about the dvd flicker samba thing: its theoretically feasible, but i'm not entirely sure it'll work. is the file created by dvd flicker an mpeg video?

[j3cakes]

do you mean use the <locn> and <size> in the ~/.tovid/tovid.preferences file?
no, I just meant use the monikers 'locn' and 'size' to show these parameters.

the file path is /storage/video/movies
the size of the files vary but usually around 700MB.


and about the dvd flicker samba thing: its theoretically feasible, but i'm not entirely sure it'll work. is the file created by dvd flicker an mpeg video?

no, it creates two directories: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS which, I thought, was the same as tovid.

[ubuntuman001]

no, I just meant use the monikers 'locn' and 'size' to show these parameters.

the file path is /storage/video/movies
the size of the files vary but usually around 700MB.nope, these don't work as parameters. to see all possible parameters in tovid, you can use man tovid in your terminal, or you can check out the man pages online: http://tovid.sourceforge.net/manpages/

to set the default working dir and output dir for tovid, go to your /home/username/.tovid/tovid.preferences .tovid is a hidden folder---press ctrl+H to view hiddden files and folders in nautilus)

then you should see something like: # tovid preferences
# Configures working/output directories for tovid
#WORKING_DIR=/tmp
#OUTPUT_DIR=/video/outfilesfor your case, i would make it look like this:
# tovid preferences
# Configures working/output directories for tovid
WORKING_DIR=/storage/video/
OUTPUT_DIR=/storage/video/movies/
# Continent-specific format
-pal
# Aspect ratio
-widethen all you would have to do every time u used tovid from the command line, would be tovid -in Video -out New_Name_of_Video
no, it creates two directories: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS which, I thought, was the same as tovid.actually, the script "tovid" itself does not create those folders...but the script "makexml" (part of the tovid package) does. you don't have to do the whole makexml part, you could just use the mkiso script to burn the ouput file created by tovid, directly to a dvd.

[Robert.Zapata]

Please post anyone if this method has worked for you, and list any/all issues you may have encountered while taking this tutuorial. Thank you.

Hello Team and Happy Holidays..!!

Eric: Excellent How-to/Guide and Tutorial..!! Thank you very much for your patience and your hard work putting all this together.

Just for curiosity I installed tovid in my Lenovo machine following your instructions in the first post, everything went flawless..!!

Just for kicks and grins I give it a try with an AVI file and everything worked great. !! I did not "burn" the DVD because this machine (Thinkpad) is not intended for video processing. I will re-install tovid in my Toshiba notebook at home and will complete the whole process to the end (playable DVD)

(I'm at work right now..so not much time to continue testing tovid, but so far, so good)

Just as a reference, here's my tovid log file (edited to make it shorter and highlite times in bold)

In summary it took two hours to encode a 1:50 video.

KUDOS TO YOU AND KEEP DOING A GREAT JOB..!!! (sorry for the yelling)



The following commands will be run:
=========================================
makemenu -ntsc -dvd -align northwest -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -font "Default" "Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi" -out "/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_menu_1"
------------------------
tovid -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -wide -in "/home/rob/MyDocs/DVD/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi" -out "/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded"
------------------------
makexml -dvd -overwrite -menu "/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_menu_1.mpg" "/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc"
--------------------------------
tovid
DVD and (S)VCD video conversion script
Version 0.29
with: core magick dvd vcd transcode
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
tovid command-line used:
-overwrite -ntsc -dvd -wide -in /home/rob/MyDocs/DVD/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi -out /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded
Using config file /home/rob/.tovid/tovid.config, containing the following options:
(none)
Changing to working directory: /home/rob

================================================== =======

Converting /home/rob/MyDocs/DVD/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi to compliant NTSC DVD format
Saving to /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg
Storing log and temporary files in /home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0
Run 'tail -f /home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/tovid.log' in another terminal to monitor the log

================================================== =======

Probing video for information. This may take several minutes...
The encoding process is estimated to require 4622 MB of disk space.
You currently have 43554 MB available in this directory.
Analysis of file /home/rob/MyDocs/DVD/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi:
552 x 226 pixels, 25.000 fps
Duration (best guess): 01:50:03 (HH:MM:SS)
DX50 video with ffmp3 audio
Target format:
720 x 480 pixels, 29.970 fps
m2v video with ac3 audio
7840 kbits/sec video, 224 kbits/sec audio
Using explicitly provided aspect ratio of 16:9
No letterboxing necessary
Input is not 29.970 fps. Framerate will be adjusted.
Scaling picture to 720 x 480
================================================== =======
================================================== =======
Encoding audio stream to ac3 with the following command:
nice -n 0 ffmpeg -i /home/rob/MyDocs/DVD/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi -vn -ab 224 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -acodec ac3 -y /home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/audio.ac3
Waiting 30 seconds for output file "audio.ac3" to appear...
Processing started. Please wait...
Audio encoding finished successfully.
================================================== =======
Encoding video stream with the following commands:
nice -n 0 mplayer -benchmark -nosound -noframedrop -noautosub -vo yuv4mpeg:file="/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/video.yuv" -vf scale=720:480 "/home/rob/MyDocs/DVD/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi"
cat "/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/video.yuv" | yuvfps -r 30000:1001 -v 0 | nice -n 0 mpeg2enc --sequence-length 4300 --nonvideo-bitrate 304 --aspect 3 -f 8 -b 7840 -g 4 -G 11 -D 10 -K hi-res --frame-rate 4 -v 0 --video-norm n --reduction-4x4 2 --reduction-2x2 1 -q 5 -o "/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/video.m2v"

Processing started. Please wait...
Waiting 30 seconds for output file "video.m2v" to appear...
Processing started. Please wait...
================================================== =======

Multiplexing audio and video together with the following command:
Multiplexing finished successfully
Output files:
/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg
/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg (2.2G)

================================================== =======

----------------------------------------
Final statistics
----------------
tovid 0.29
File: /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg, 6603 secs DVD NTSC
Final size: 2306300 kilobytes
Target bitrate: 7840 kbits/sec
Average bitrate: 2534 kbits/sec
Peak bitrate: 8196 kbits/sec
Took 02:00:11 to encode on Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz 1596.049 mhz
-----------------------------------------
Statistics written to /home/rob/.tovid/stats.tovid
Cleaning up...
removed `/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/video.yuv'
Removing temporary files...
removed `/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/tovid.log'
removed `/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/tovid.scratch'
removed `/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/audio.ac3'
removed `/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0/video.m2v'
removed directory: `/home/rob/Revolver[2005]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.tovid_encoded.0'

================================================== =======

Done!

================================================== =======

[ubuntuman001]

Hello Team and Happy Holidays..!!

Eric: Excellent How-to/Guide and Tutorial..!! Thank you very much for your patience and your hard work putting all this together.

Just for curiosity I installed tovid in my Lenovo machine following your instructions in the first post, everything went flawless..!!

Just for kicks and grins I give it a try with an AVI file and everything worked great. !! I did not "burn" the DVD because this machine (Thinkpad) is not intended for video processing. I will re-install tovid in my Toshiba notebook at home and will complete the whole process to the end (playable DVD)

(I'm at work right now..so not much time to continue testing tovid, but so far, so good)

Just as a reference, here's my tovid log file (edited to make it shorter and highlite times in bold)

In summary it took two hours to encode a 1:50 video.

KUDOS TO YOU AND KEEP DOING A GREAT JOB..!!! (sorry for the yelling)No problem, just my way of giving back to the community. Thanks for using this guide. And damn, that is actually quite impressive...the video took only like 10 more minutes than the actual length of the video...don't see that too often.

[Robert.Zapata]

Argh......

I'm having trouble with the mkiso script...!!!

This's what I get:


rob@rob-laptop:~/tovid/encoding$ mkiso Revolver.mpg
bash: /usr/bin/mkiso: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
rob@rob-laptop:~/tovid/encoding$


The script exist at the usr/bin/ location.

What I'm doing wrong..??

I run the installtovid.sh in my Toshiba box under 6.06LTS

[ubuntuman001]

Argh......

I'm having trouble with the mkiso script...!!!

This's what I get:



The script exist at the usr/bin/ location.

What I'm doing wrong..??

I run the installtovid.sh in my Toshiba box under 6.06LTSi know the exact problem. notice that "^M" in the error message? as far as i know, that happens when you transfer a file from windows to linux (it could be more general than that, as in from one OS to another, but i dunno)

did you just use my script to install the mkiso script? u didn't transfer anything from windows right?

if the answer to the former is yes and the answer of the latter is no, then i have done something unspeakable...

[Robert.Zapata]

i know the exact problem. notice that "^M" in the error message? as far as i know, that happens when you transfer a file from windows to linux (it could be more general than that, as in from one OS to another, but i dunno)

did you just use my script to install the mkiso script? u didn't transfer anything from windows right?

if the answer to the former is yes and the answer of the latter is no, then i have done something unspeakable...

Eric:

1 - Yes. I use the script and folow all the instructions in your first post of the thread.

2 - The original avi file was created in co-worker Windoze machine (do not know the OS ver.)

3 - I connected to my co-worker machine using: Places -> Connect to Server -> Windows Share and copy the file to my Lenovo Notebook (Ubuntu 6.10)

4 - Went to home and transfer the MPG file to my external HD and then re-attach external HD to my Toshiba notebook (Ubuntu 6.10).

Note: I also rename the file to make it shorter (Revolver.mpg)

So...What's going on...?? How did you found our that Windoze was involved...??

[ubuntuman001]

Eric:

1 - Yes. I use the script and folow all the instructions in your first post of the thread.

2 - The original avi file was created in co-worker Windoze machine (do not know the OS ver.)

3 - I connected to my co-worker machine using: Places -> Connect to Server -> Windows Share and copy the file to my Lenovo Notebook (Ubuntu 6.10)

4 - Went to home and transfer the MPG file to my external HD and then re-attach external HD to my Toshiba notebook (Ubuntu 6.10).

Note: I also rename the file to make it shorter (Revolver.mpg)

So...What's going on...?? How did you found our that Windoze was involved...??I didn't find out - I just had a similar problem before, and that was what a forum member told me.

I don't think transferring the avi file from windows should do anything, but maybe it does. Nevertheless, paste this (in a terminal):
sudo rm /usr/bin/mkiso
then open gedit, and paste this into it:

#!/bin/bash
#Make iso from MPG's
dvdauthor -o dvd -t $1 &&
dvdauthor -o dvd -T &&
mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso dvd/ &&
exit save it as mkiso to your desktop, and close gedit.

Now, open a terminal, and paste the following commands:
cd ~/Desktop
sudo mv mkiso /usr/bin/ and then try running the mkiso command again with your video.

[Robert.Zapata]

Hey...!!! Now is working..!!!!


I finally got a playable DVD...!!!! Thank you very much.

[ubuntuman001]

Hey...!!! Now is working..!!!!


I finally got a playable DVD...!!!! Thank you very much.wait, so my solution worked for you? or it all of a sudden worked (with the mkiso from the script)

o and, np

[Robert.Zapata]

Sorry for not properly clarify.

I follow your instructions regarding deleting and creating a new mkiso script and that did the trick, but can not see any difference between the old mkiso and the new one...:confused:

I'll stop using my co-worker sources regarding movies.

[ubuntuman001]

Sorry for not properly clarify.

I follow your instructions regarding deleting and creating a new mkiso script and that did the trick, but can not see any difference between the old mkiso and the new one...:confused:

I'll stop using my co-worker sources regarding movies.no, you can still use your co-worker's resources...it is my fault that the mkiso script does not work. Apparently, i must have created it while in windows, and that's why that happens. I'll fix my script with the mkiso script later.

[ubuntuman001]

*fixed the mkiso script. should work now.

[sumithar]

Hi,
I used your script and installed tovid. But when I tried to convert a .avi to dvd I ran into some problems. When I posted the problems on the tovid groups they recommended I upgrade to version 0.29

Could you tell me how I should upgrade- should I modify the script and run again?

Thanks

[ubuntuman001]

Hi,
I used your script and installed tovid. But when I tried to convert a .avi to dvd I ran into some problems. When I posted the problems on the tovid groups they recommended I upgrade to version 0.29

Could you tell me how I should upgrade- should I modify the script and run again?

Thanksman that's really strange...my script should install the 0.29 version. can you post your problems here, and maybe see if I can help?

[sumithar]

Thanks.
Turned out that I had an older version of tovid that I had forgotten about. This was installed in /usr/local/bin directory which was ahead in the PATH concatenation than /usr/bin which is where the later version (yours) was installed.
I proceeded to delete everything in /usr/local/bin and then ran your remove script and then your install script again.

But I guess I mucked up something since now when I click on the menu item under Applications-Sound&Video-Tovid nothing happens
And when I run tovidgui on the command line I get the message
auser1@Wintergreen:~$ tovidgui
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/tovidgui", line 39, in ?
from libtovid.gui.frames import TovidFrame
ImportError: cannot import name TovidFrame

[ubuntuman001]

Thanks.
Turned out that I had an older version of tovid that I had forgotten about. This was installed in /usr/local/bin directory which was ahead in the PATH concatenation than /usr/bin which is where the later version (yours) was installed.
I proceeded to delete everything in /usr/local/bin and then ran your remove script and then your install script again.

But I guess I mucked up something since now when I click on the menu item under Applications-Sound&Video-Tovid nothing happens
And when I run tovidgui on the command line I get the message
auser1@Wintergreen:~$ tovidgui
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/tovidgui", line 39, in ?
from libtovid.gui.frames import TovidFrame
ImportError: cannot import name TovidFramehmm, it shouldn't be in /usr/bin at all, it should be in /usr/local/bin. maybe since you had 2 different versions installed, it installed one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local/bin. try deleting only the tovid stuff from /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, then run the removal and the install script again.

WARNING: BE CAREFUL!!!!! only delete stuff from /usr/bin that is tovid-related!!! many important system executables are in that directory!!! sorry for screaming at you!!!

[kirini]

Hi all
I had that problem with edgy
(#!/bin/sh right? => #!/usr/bin/env bash)

It fixed tovid and makemenu commands, but it did not work for makexml.

it still gives me that error.

I am using windows at moment so cannot post that error message.

another thing, tovid is slow.
I used tovid for 25 avi file each about 25min long so used bitrate limit 889 to make it fit in 4300mb.
But it is odd that in windows side similar job took lot less time with ConvertXtoDVD(also creates menu, and creates single DVD from several avi). I used GUI to create commands but copied those command to terminal and executed them there. don't remember how long it took, but closer to 10h, when in Windows it took 6h or less. Any way to speed tovid? Does tovid use ffmpeg or something else?

[binks]

yes add the option -ffmpeg ffmpeg is faster at encodeing
binks

[ubuntuman001]

tovid uses mplayer by default to encode, but like binks said, you can use ffmpeg to speed up the process, though i think ffmpeg is not as clean (no?)

edit: i found out that the only badside to ffmpeg, is if you use a lower quality option (default -quality is 8, so if you put it at less than 8, ffmpeg will produce more low-quality video than mplayer.)

[sumithar]

hmm, it shouldn't be in /usr/bin at all, it should be in /usr/local/bin. maybe since you had 2 different versions installed, it installed one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local/bin. try deleting only the tovid stuff from /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, then run the removal and the install script again.

WARNING: BE CAREFUL!!!!! only delete stuff from /usr/bin that is tovid-related!!! many important system executables are in that directory!!! sorry for screaming at you!!!

Thanks. That worked. Now I was able to do everything up to creating the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder. When I run mkiso I get the message. Vidheyan is the name of the video and inside this directory are the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder.

/mnt/hdd1/tovidwork$ mkiso Vidheyan
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing Vidheyan...
STAT: VOBU 0 at 0MB, 1 PGCS
/usr/bin/mkiso: line 6: 27916 Segmentation fault dvdauthor -o dvd -t $1


Any ideas?

Thanks

[ubuntuman001]

Thanks. That worked. Now I was able to do everything up to creating the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder. When I run mkiso I get the message. Vidheyan is the name of the video and inside this directory are the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder.

/mnt/hdd1/tovidwork$ mkiso Vidheyan
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing Vidheyan...
STAT: VOBU 0 at 0MB, 1 PGCS
/usr/bin/mkiso: line 6: 27916 Segmentation fault dvdauthor -o dvd -t $1


Any ideas?

Thankshmm strage...
try this in a terminal:
sudo rm /usr/bin/mkiso
touch mkisoin the gedit file that opens, paste:

#!/bin/bash
#Make iso from MPG's
dvdauthor -o dvd -t $1 &&
dvdauthor -o dvd -T &&
mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso dvd/ &&
exit then save, and close gedit.
again in the terminal, paste this: sudo mv mkiso /usr/bin/and retry the mkiso script

[kirini]

I tested to convert same file with different ways, i used episode of naruto
I used
Tovid
tovid (using ffmpeg codec)
fmpeg
avidemux

278233088 2006-12-14 22:59 naruto_76_avidemux_lavc_anim_type.mpg
278233088 2006-12-14 22:44 naruto_76_avidemux_lavc_notype.mpg
278233088 2006-12-14 23:16 naruto_76_avidemux_lavc_tmpeg_type.mpg
244068352 2006-12-15 00:01 naruto_76_ffmpeg_default.mpg
186720256 2006-12-13 23:20 naruto_76_tovid_default_codec_anim_type.mpg.mpg
184496128 2006-12-13 22:47 naruto_76_tovid_default_codec_notype.mpg.mpg
324032512 2006-12-14 00:03 naruto_76_tovid_ffmpeg_codec_anim_type.mpg.mpg
324032512 2006-12-13 23:45 naruto_76_tovid_ffmpeg_codec_notype.mpg.mpg

avidemux and tovid using ffmpeg codec had good picture guality.
tovid using default codec had bad picture quality and no difference with animation setting.

any other codec to create mpeg?

[ubuntuman001]

I tested to convert same file with different ways, i used episode of naruto
I used
Tovid
tovid (using ffmpeg codec)
fmpeg
avidemux

278233088 2006-12-14 22:59 naruto_76_avidemux_lavc_anim_type.mpg
278233088 2006-12-14 22:44 naruto_76_avidemux_lavc_notype.mpg
278233088 2006-12-14 23:16 naruto_76_avidemux_lavc_tmpeg_type.mpg
244068352 2006-12-15 00:01 naruto_76_ffmpeg_default.mpg
186720256 2006-12-13 23:20 naruto_76_tovid_default_codec_anim_type.mpg.mpg
184496128 2006-12-13 22:47 naruto_76_tovid_default_codec_notype.mpg.mpg
324032512 2006-12-14 00:03 naruto_76_tovid_ffmpeg_codec_anim_type.mpg.mpg
324032512 2006-12-13 23:45 naruto_76_tovid_ffmpeg_codec_notype.mpg.mpg

avidemux and tovid using ffmpeg codec had good picture guality.
tovid using default codec had bad picture quality and no difference with animation setting.

any other codec to create mpeg?hmm I don't know of any other programs or codecs that do this task, but I know that tovid only has those two options available.

[sumithar]

hmm strage...
try this in a terminal:
sudo rm /usr/bin/mkiso
touch mkisoin the gedit file that opens, paste:
then save, and close gedit.
again in the terminal, paste this: sudo mv mkiso /usr/bin/and retry the mkiso script

Thanks again. I followed your steps and that gave me the same error. So I looked at your shell script and just typed in the command
mkisofs -dvd-video -o Vidheyan.iso Vidheyan/ on the command line.

That seemed to work. It created an ISO image that I burnt to DVD like you said(right click and choose Write option). I am half way thru watching it on my DVD player.

Thanx a ton.

[ubuntuman001]

Thanks again. I followed your steps and that gave me the same error. So I looked at your shell script and just typed in the command
mkisofs -dvd-video -o Vidheyan.iso Vidheyan/ on the command line.

That seemed to work. It created an ISO image that I burnt to DVD like you said(right click and choose Write option). I am half way thru watching it on my DVD player.

Thanx a ton.ah I see..yea I don't know what's up with the mkiso script, I think I might just scratch it out...and then I could just put the recommended tovid way of doing things...

[wilberfan]

Holy crap, it actually worked!!

Start to finish, no errors...even burned properly. And it's playing in my extremely fussy DVD player! :mrgreen:

Just one thing I notice: The video seems a triffle 'jerky' (ie, not smooooooooth). It's especially noticable in scenes with a lot of camera movement... Could this be addressed by the other NTSC "film rate" option?? (I processed this one with the first, "NTSC" option...) The audio is beautiful...

If not, what IS that option intended for?

[ubuntuman001]

Holy crap, it actually worked!!

Start to finish, no errors...even burned properly. And it's playing in my extremely fussy DVD player! :mrgreen:

Just one thing I notice: The video seems a triffle 'jerky' (ie, not smooooooooth). It's especially noticable in scenes with a lot of camera movement... Could this be addressed by the other NTSC "film rate" option?? (I processed this one with the first, "NTSC" option...) The audio is beautiful...

If not, what IS that option intended for?glad it worked for you. the reason why its choppy might be cause of the -quality setting. (you did this with the command line right?) the default quality is -quality 8, but you could put it at -quality 9 if you felt like it, and it would look better, but the file size would be larger.

I'm not sure what you mean by the other NTSC option.

[wilberfan]

I didn't use the command line...it was all done from the gui.

There are two "NTSC" options: The first one says, "NTSC: Used in the Americas and East Asia"
The second one says, "NTSC Film: Same as NTSC, with a film frame rate"

The third option is for PAL.

I don't see that there are any "quality" settings in the gui--other than what I just mentioned..

:-k

[yabbadabbadont]

I didn't use the command line...it was all done from the gui.

There are two "NTSC" options: The first one says, "NTSC: Used in the Americas and East Asia"
The second one says, "NTSC Film: Same as NTSC, with a film frame rate"

The third option is for PAL.

I don't see that there are any "quality" settings in the gui--other than what I just mentioned..

:-k

Just a heads up. If you are going to use the gui, then you should be sure to use the svn version of tovid. The gui was severely neglected in the past, but there is a new maintainer who is adding/fixing things in it every day now.

[wilberfan]

Just a heads up. If you are going to use the gui, then you should be sure to use the svn version of tovid. The gui was severely neglected in the past, but there is a new maintainer who is adding/fixing things in it every day now.

That must be binks "tovidwiz"? (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311936)

I did notice that the 'standard" tovid has an "8" as a default quality setting...

[yabbadabbadont]

That must be binks "tovidwiz"? (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311936)

I did notice that the 'standard" tovid has an "8" as a default quality setting...

tovidwiz is something different. I'm talking about tovidgui.

If you use tovid very often, then you should probably follow the tovid forums too:

http://www.createphpbb.com/tovid/

There is some pretty good information there.

[wilberfan]

I guess I don't know what the "svn" version is. (It was mentioned on that tovidwiz thread, so I thought they were the same thing...)

How do I know which version of tovid I'm using?? My "about" box says, "You are using the tovid GUI, version 0.28,
part of the tovid video disc authoring suite.

Thanks for the heads up on the tovid forum...

[yabbadabbadont]

I guess I don't know what the "svn" version is. (It was mentioned on that tovidwiz thread, so I thought they were the same thing...)

How do I know which version of tovid I'm using?? My "about" box says, "You are using the tovid GUI, version 0.28,
part of the tovid video disc authoring suite.

Thanks for the heads up on the tovid forum...

http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

In the "Installing tovid" section, there is information about the svn version. Basically svn (subversion), is version control software. When you run the "svn" version, you are pulling the latest version of every file directly out of their version control software.

[wilberfan]

[Edit] Seconds too late!

I found some good stuff on the tovid wiki (duh!) here (http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page).

I'll have to investigate!

[binks]

just to add to svn is the latest version of the testing this means the files are updated as we add new features ie if your using the svn you can use the testing version of the gui by running tktodisc from a shell

and the diff between ntsc and ntscfilm are the framerate ie
as taken from www.dvdrhelp.com

PAL

Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbps* (9800 kbps*) MPEG2 video
Up to 1.856 Mbps (1856 kbps) MPEG1 video
720 x 576 pixels MPEG2 (Called Full-D1)
704 x 576 pixels MPEG2
352 x 576 pixels MPEG2 (Called Half-D1, same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 288 pixels MPEG2
352 x 288 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
25 fps*
16:9 Anamorphic (only supported by 720x576)

Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 kbps
Up to 8 audio tracks containing Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have MPEG-1, DD or PCM Audio.

Extras:
Motion menus, still pictures, up to 32 selectable subtitles, seamless branching for multiple storylines, 9 camera angles. And also additional DVD-ROM / data files that only can be read by computer DVD drives.

Total:
Total bitrate including video, audio and subs can be max 10.08 Mbps (10080 kbps)


* Mbps = million bits per second
* kbps = thousand bits per second
* fps = frames per second

For more technical DVD-Video details read the DVDDemystified DVD FAQ section 3.4 or the mpeg.org DVD Technical Notes.


NTSC (NTSC Film)



Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbps* (9800 kbps*) MPEG2 video
Up to 1.856 Mbps (1856 kbps) MPEG1 video
720 x 480 pixels MPEG2 (Called Full-D1)
704 x 480 pixels MPEG2
352 x 480 pixels MPEG2 (Called Half-D1, same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 240 pixels MPEG2
352 x 240 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
29,97 fps*
23,976 fps with 3:2 pulldown = 29,97 playback fps (NTSC Film, this is only supported by MPEG2 video)
16:9 Anamorphic (only supported by 720x480)


Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 kbps
Up to 8 audio tracks containing DD (Dolby Digital/AC3), DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have DD or PCM Audio.

Extras:
Motion menus, still pictures, up to 32 selectable subtitles, seamless branching for multiple storylines, 9 camera angles. And also additional DVD-ROM / data files that only can be read by computer DVD drives.

Total:
Total bitrate including video, audio and subs can be max 10.08 Mbps (10080 kbps)


* Mbps = million bits per second
* kbps = thousand bits per second
* fps = frames per second

For more technical DVD-Video details read the DVDDemystified DVD FAQ section 3.4 or the mpeg.org DVD Technical Notes.

Also see http://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencexplained.htm



cheers binks

[RBH]

had everything up and running in no time. encoded my first dvd from an avi and had no errors. it played fine in my dvd player but the quality just doesn't seem to be the best. it has a camcorder feel to it when watching the movie. maybe i have something setup wrong and will play around with it. an excellent project though and look forward to its further development.

[ubuntuman001]

had everything up and running in no time. encoded my first dvd from an avi and had no errors. it played fine in my dvd player but the quality just doesn't seem to be the best. it has a camcorder feel to it when watching the movie. maybe i have something setup wrong and will play around with it. an excellent project though and look forward to its further development.yea videos you make always seem to be of a lower quality, I think it's because of the default quality setting imposed in tovid (they put it at less than the max or best quality possible, so people don't run into space issues)

if you want to try making a dvd with the command line, where you can change the settings like the quality setting, let me know.

[ubuntuman001]

I guess I don't know what the "svn" version is. (It was mentioned on that tovidwiz thread, so I thought they were the same thing...)

How do I know which version of tovid I'm using?? My "about" box says, "You are using the tovid GUI, version 0.28,
part of the tovid video disc authoring suite.

Thanks for the heads up on the tovid forum...Just to clear things up (this might be a little confusing)

tovid is the big umbrella name of the entire tovid project, sometimes also known as "tovid: the video disc authoring suite"

actually, tovid is just a collection of scripts that work together, and each script has its own name. there's the makemenu, makedvd, postproc, and todisc scripts for example, and there is even a single script named tovid, which is the 'main' script, or the script that started it all.


the svn version of tovid is always the latest possible build of the whole tovid suite, but is is the development branch, and hence, is supposedly 'unstable'

as far as i understand it, both version 0.28 and 0.29 of the tovidgui both display "version 0.28" in their help > about tabs.

apart from the tovidgui, ther's the tktodisc gui, and then there's bink's tovidwiz gui. all of these are GUI's, (graphical user interfaces) of tovid, but they use different scripts of tovid to work.

apart from that, you can use each individual script of the tovid suite in the terminal, or command line interface (CLI)

that's about it

[Mushie]

This is a really long thread and I'm happy to have found it. I only have one problem. I try to see the output after i tell it to creat the audio and video ts files. Well, there's nothing in the audio part ? I'm not sure what went wrong, but I get the the encoded mpg and then try to turn that into a dvd file. I've burnt a copy and it doesn't recogize the disc since there's nothing in the audio ts folder. Any help ?

[dannyboy79]

I can honestly tell you that there is never anything in the audio folder. AH, take a look at any dvd from you living room and open it up, you'll see what I am talking about. it's not working due to something else. try it again.

[ubuntuman001]

This is a really long thread and I'm happy to have found it. I only have one problem. I try to see the output after i tell it to create the audio and video ts files. Well, there's nothing in the audio part ? I'm not sure what went wrong, but I get the the encoded mpg and then try to turn that into a dvd file. I've burnt a copy and it doesn't recognize the disc since there's nothing in the audio ts folder. Any help ?dannyboy said t, it's not something to do with the audio file. Is there some weird output from the mkiso script? or what method did you use to burn the movie to a dvd?

[bionnaki]

the install script does not seem to work with kubuntu. says package transcode cannot be found. tovid does not start.

any ideas?

edit: nevermind. figured it out.

[dannyboy79]

the install script does not seem to work with kubuntu. says package transcode cannot be found. tovid does not start.

any ideas?

edit: nevermind. figured it out.

for the benefit of the forum and all users after you please never put, "nevermind. figured it out". Always make sure you post how you solved your issue so others can solve their issue as well. This way you'll save time from people pm'ing you asking you how you solved your issue.

[hammmy]

Err http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release.gpg
Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Err http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial/main Translation-en_US
Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Fetched 56.3kB in 4m0s (234B/s)
Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-commercial/Release.gpg Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-commercial/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Reading package lists... Done
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Just tried to use the script and I ran into this. The install moved past this after a bit and tovid installs and starts up.

[ubuntuman001]

Err http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release.gpg
Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Err http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial/main Translation-en_US
Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Fetched 56.3kB in 4m0s (234B/s)
Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-commercial/Release.gpg Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-commercial/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (82.211.81.142), connection timed out
Reading package lists... Done
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Just tried to use the script and I ran into this. The install moved past this after a bit and tovid installs and starts up.that just means the servers were down for a bit. just try the script again

[mthaddon]

yea videos you make always seem to be of a lower quality, I think it's because of the default quality setting imposed in tovid (they put it at less than the max or best quality possible, so people don't run into space issues)

if you want to try making a dvd with the command line, where you can change the settings like the quality setting, let me know.

Yeah, I'd like to take you up on that one. I tried tovid and same issue - the DVD seems to skip on my quite a lot. Also, it isn't recognised as a DVD by my computer (mounts it as a CD-ROM), but it does at least play on a regular DVD player (although as I say, it's a little choppy).

Thanks, Tom

[ubuntuman001]

Yeah, I'd like to take you up on that one. I tried tovid and same issue - the DVD seems to skip on my quite a lot. Also, it isn't recognised as a DVD by my computer (mounts it as a CD-ROM), but it does at least play on a regular DVD player (although as I say, it's a little choppy).

Thanks, Tomalright, tell me a few things first:

PAL or NTSC? (americas or eurasia/africa?)
do you just want the video and a simple menu or more complicated menus?

[mthaddon]

alright, tell me a few things first:

PAL or NTSC? (americas or eurasia/africa?)
do you just want the video and a simple menu or more complicated menus?

It would be for both (let's start with PAL, UK). Just simple video would be fine.

Thanks, Tom

[ubuntuman001]

It would be for both (let's start with PAL, UK). Just simple video would be fine.

Thanks, Tomtom try this for a pal dvd (I'm replacing your actual video file name with the bold word "foo"):
tovid -pal -discsize 4380 -quality 10 -in foo -out foo_encodedalso if you want a widescreen aspect ratio, add "-wide" after "-pal"

For ntsc, do the same command but without "-pal"

[ubuntuman001]

btw, i've updated the guide and the scripts so that mkiso is no longer existent. the conventional tovid method will be used instead from now on.

[mthaddon]

tom try this for a pal dvd (I'm replacing your actual video file name with the bold word "foo"):
tovid -pal -discsize 4380 -quality 10 -in foo -out foo_encodedalso if you want a widescreen aspect ratio, add "-wide" after "-pal"

For ntsc, do the same command but without "-pal"

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Tom

[gbajosh]

Any time I try to do any apt command or any install command for anything this happens

chmod +x installtovid.sh && ./installtovid.sh

0% [Connecting to 69.117.223.248 (69.117.223.248)] [Connecting to 69.117.223.24


It stays at 0% for unlimited amount of time. My internet works fine as I am online, but the installing does not.

[ubuntuman001]

Any time I try to do any apt command or any install command for anything this happens

chmod +x installtovid.sh && ./installtovid.sh

0% [Connecting to 69.117.223.248 (69.117.223.248)] [Connecting to 69.117.223.24


It stays at 0% for unlimited amount of time. My internet works fine as I am online, but the installing does not.so did this happen like one time (like in one day) or several days in a row? cause if it was just like one day or a couple of days, it couldve just been the tovid server is down.

[ubuntuman001]

Big News: tovid release .30 is out, I'll update the script pretty soon, like tomorrow. Pretty big changes actually, read about it here: http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Tovid_changelog

edit: updated the scripts

[Robert.Zapata]

Sweet..!!!

Thanks for your hard work and infinite patience...!!!.

[Robert.Zapata]

Arghhhh...!!!!! I select the built-in "burn" option in the tovid GUI and did not work for me..!! I did not got any errors per the log file attached below.

When I put the DVD in the DVD-Player the movie does not play..!! Just a blue screen with the name it parsed from the menu options.

Then I tried using K3b with the option "New DVD-Video Project" using the files created in the VIDEO_TS folder but no luck.

Lastly I select the manual option as mentioned in the first post and got a different error refering to: "Cannot continue! DVD image (7152MB) exceeds the DVD's capacity (4482MB)."

Here's the tovid LOG file



The following commands will be run:
=========================================
makedvd -quiet -author -burn -device /dev/dvdrw /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc.xml
------------------------
Running command: makedvd -quiet -author -burn -device /dev/dvdrw /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc.xml
--------------------------------
makedvd
A script to create a DVD-Video file structure and burn it to DVD
Part of the tovid suite, version 0.30
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
Authoring disc from file: /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc.xml
================================================== =======
Creating disc structure with the following command:
dvdauthor -x "/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc.xml"
================================================== =======
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8
INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_menu_1.mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.178 .. 0.211
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.178 .. 4.178
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.178 .. 0.178
STAT: VOBU 1 at 0MB, 1 PGCS

INFO: Generating VTSM with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc

STAT: Processing /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Borat.R5.LINE.PROPER.REPACK.XViD-PUKKA.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg...
STAT: VOBU 16 at 1MB, 1 PGCS
STAT: VOBU 32 at 5MB, 1 PGCS
STAT: VOBU 48 at 8MB, 1 PGCS
.
.
.
STAT: VOBU 13088 at 2375MB, 1 PGCS
STAT: VOBU 13104 at 2376MB, 1 PGCS
STAT: VOBU 13120 at 2379MB, 1 PGCS

INFO: Video pts = 0.178 .. 4820.226
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.178 .. 4820.146
STAT: VOBU 13133 at 2381MB, 1 PGCS

INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc

STAT: fixed 1 VOBUS
STAT: fixing VOBU at 1MB (17/13133, 0%)
STAT: fixing VOBU at 5MB (33/13133, 0%)
STAT: fixing VOBU at 8MB (49/13133, 0%)
.
.
.
STAT: fixing VOBU at 2375MB (13089/13133, 99%)
STAT: fixing VOBU at 2376MB (13105/13133, 99%)
STAT: fixing VOBU at 2379MB (13121/13133, 99%)
STAT: fixed 13133 VOBUS
INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
================================================== =======
Authoring completed.
================================================== =======
Found blank DVD+R.
================================================== =======
Burning with growisofs 5.21 using the following command:
growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw -dvd-video -V "UNTITLED_DISC" "/home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc"
================================================== =======
Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video -V UNTITLED_DISC /home/rob/tovid/encoding/Untitled_disc | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvdrw obs=32k seek=0'
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.
/dev/dvdrw: "Current Write Speed" is 2.5x1385KBps.
:-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=300h, retry in 231ms
0.41% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 14 22:48:49 2007
0.82% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 14 21:31:59 2007
1.23% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 14 21:06:14 2007
.
.
.
98.38% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 14 20:16:38 2007
98.79% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 14 20:16:38 2007
99.20% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 14 20:16:37 2007
99.61% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 14 20:16:38 2007
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 4096
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 21000
1219722 extents written (2382 MB)
/dev/dvdrw: flushing cache
/dev/dvdrw: closing track
/dev/dvdrw: closing disc
/dev/dvdrw: reloading tray
================================================== =======
Done.

[ubuntuman001]

updated the guide, more fluid

[ubuntuman001]

could someone using edgy please test out my installation script?

[ubuntuman001]

Please read the message at the top of the first post in this thread. Thank you.

[PapaWiskas]

I recently installed Uberyl uses Edgy as you know. Your installation script worked flawlessly by the way.....awesome work. Not sure if I will use the GUI or not but wanted to use it to install Tovid.

And I have a problem that is really confusing me. I had been using tovid via command line for so long without issues, but now I am lost.

I get to the makedvd part and it says it cant find my dvdr? And to specify it using the -device command or whatever.

I have done everything I can think of and I can not get it to see my DVD+R disc.

I dont know what to do, my gut thinks it has something to do with my fstab, but I dont know.

Any help would be appreciated.

First I type this...
$ makedvd -burn -speed 4 -label TENACIOUS shrunk

Which then gets me this error...

Please insert a blank DVD+/-R(W) disc into your DVD-recorder
(/dev/dvdrw) if you have not already done so.
Couldn't find /dev/dvdrw! Are you sure your burner is /dev/dvdrw? Specify your
burner with '-device /path/to/burner'.
Stopping here.

[ubuntuman001]

I recently installed Uberyl uses Edgy as you know. Your installation script worked flawlessly by the way.....awesome work. Not sure if I will use the GUI or not but wanted to use it to install Tovid.

And I have a problem that is really confusing me. I had been using tovid via command line for so long without issues, but now I am lost.

I get to the makedvd part and it says it cant find my dvdr? And to specify it using the -device command or whatever.

I have done everything I can think of and I can not get it to see my DVD+R disc.

I dont know what to do, my gut thinks it has something to do with my fstab, but I dont know.

Any help would be appreciated.

First I type this...


Which then gets me this error...thanks for trying it out. please tell me if both the tovidgui and the todiscgui show up in the menus, and if they startup correctly.

as for your issue, try -device /dev/hdc (its worked for me before)

[PapaWiskas]

Yes they both showed up in the menu and both activated just fine.

I tried -device /dev/hdc and it did not work, I did find out by using gnomebaker that my drive is actually /dev/sr0

So then I tried that, but after 3 lines of percentages using makedvd it errored out.
I dont have the errors at the moment, and I am tired of trying to figure it out right now.

I will get back to you tomorrow on it....

[dannyboy79]

i am not sure exactly what you are trying to do but DeVeDe is really awesome and it worked when I needed to create a dvd from an avi file. you can download the tar, extract it, then simply run the ./install.py and you'reod to go. I would think you need python insalled to run it though.

[ubuntuman001]

i am not sure exactly what you are trying to do but DeVeDe is really awesome and it worked when I needed to create a dvd from an avi file. you can download the tar, extract it, then simply run the ./install.py and you'reod to go. I would think you need python insalled to run it though.Yes, you're not the first to mention devede in this thread, and I do agree that it is a good program, but it is not the only program that can do what it can do.

tovid happens to be an alternative, and is a much more powerful tool than devede, but it is still in its alpha stages, and more progress will be made.

i just wrote this guide to show people one way, you or anyone who wants to can write another guide if you/they wish to.

[ubuntuman001]

Yes they both showed up in the menu and both activated just fine.

I tried -device /dev/hdc and it did not work, I did find out by using gnomebaker that my drive is actually /dev/sr0

So then I tried that, but after 3 lines of percentages using makedvd it errored out.
I dont have the errors at the moment, and I am tired of trying to figure it out right now.

I will get back to you tomorrow on it....okie-doke.

[ubuntuman001]

by the way, i rendered my 0.30 deb package kinda unstable, so i decided to go with the tarball again, for now

[PapaWiskas]

Ok, so now I know my DVD drive is /dev/sr0, I can read CDs, I can play DVDs that ARENT encrypted, but it gives me an error when I play commercial DVDs, even though I got all the codecs installed via AUTOMATIX.

But my combo drive will not burn CDs or DVDs for some reason. MakeDVD gives that error and K3B does as well.

I never had this problem in Dapper....any ideas of where to start?

[ubuntuman001]

Ok, so now I know my DVD drive is /dev/sr0, I can read CDs, I can play DVDs that ARENT encrypted, but it gives me an error when I play commercial DVDs, even though I got all the codecs installed via AUTOMATIX.

But my combo drive will not burn CDs or DVDs for some reason. MakeDVD gives that error and K3B does as well.

I never had this problem in Dapper....any ideas of where to start?hmm...upgrade to feisty? (joking, but seriously if its not your production machine, you really should try feisty. i have it installed right now, its really great.)

other than that, i dont know what else to tell ya.

[PapaWiskas]

But I just got Uberyl to the point where I like it....after blowing away my just fine Dapper....which I upgraded from my just fine Breezy....it just never ends does it?

Do you recommend a clean install of feisty or upgrade?

Is it one of those Herd Cds I read about....tell you what....can you just point me in the right direction (download page), I am starting to get cranky....LMAO.....

[ubuntuman001]

But I just got Uberyl to the point where I like it....after blowing away my just fine Dapper....which I upgraded from my just fine Breezy....it just never ends does it?

Do you recommend a clean install of feisty or upgrade?

Is it one of those Herd Cds I read about....tell you what....can you just point me in the right direction (download page), I am starting to get cranky....LMAO.....heh, well you dont have to upgrade if you dont want to, if you just got beryl configured correctly, then whatever. i do recommend you at least try the live cd: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04042

[PapaWiskas]

Ok...found it here.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-4/

I also have a different thread in the beginner section trying to get some help with my burning error. Seems like I am not the only one.

Hopefully Feisty will fix the problem. But I wish I knew enough on how to fix the problem without having to do that.

[spockrock]

ok I just tried the script, and it more or less dies, tovidgui and todiscgui are not there...and tovid it self did not install I am on edgy.

ok so I just went to the tovid site, grabbed the tar.gz ran configure, and then sudo checkinstall, and poof its working....

[ubuntuman001]

ok I just tried the script, and it more or less dies, tovidgui and todiscgui are not there...and tovid it self did not install I am on edgy.

ok so I just went to the tovid site, grabbed the tar.gz ran configure, and then sudo checkinstall, and poof its working....ARGHHH!

* bangs his head on the wall a few times, and then a few more times

okay, i'll work on it

edit: hmm, im actually contemplating on whether the script is necessary at all, maybe i should just point to the tovid website...i dont know!


EDIT: okay, i finally went for it...no more installation scripts!

[Dubbayoo]

The thing I don't like about tovidgui is that:

- you can't make a disc without a menu even if there is just one video on the disc
- you don't have enough control over the size of the video. You can select QUALITY but you can't see how much of the disc that will fill beforehand.
- for whatever reason devede is like 2-3X faster anyway.

If you're putting one video on a disc use devede.

[yabbadabbadont]

ok I just tried the script, and it more or less dies, tovidgui and todiscgui are not there...and tovid it self did not install I am on edgy.

ok so I just went to the tovid site, grabbed the tar.gz ran configure, and then sudo checkinstall, and poof its working....

Don't get too attached to todiscgui, it is most likely going away soon.

http://www.createphpbb.com/tovid/viewtopic.php?p=2953&mforum=tovid#2953

[ubuntuman001]

The thing I don't like about tovidgui is that:

- you can't make a disc without a menu even if there is just one video on the disc
- you don't have enough control over the size of the video. You can select QUALITY but you can't see how much of the disc that will fill beforehand.
- for whatever reason devede is like 2-3X faster anyway.

If you're putting one video on a disc use devede.well just so you know, it's a work-in-progress, and is in its very early alpha stages. the tovidgui is not the main part of the project, the main part is the command line, and that works beautifully.

by the way, a dvd can fit about 4300 MB, or 4380 max i think. when the tovidgui is done, you could go to the location of your encoded video, and right click > properties to see if it can fit on a dvd.

the reason devede is faster is because it uses ffmpeg to author, instead of mplayer/mencoder. you can use ffmpeg with the tovid command line if you want to, you just have to add the -ffmpeg option to it.

mplayer/mencoder is used for better quality i think, or is less error prone maybe, i dont know.

but whatever, suit yourself.

[azray]

having a problem with tovid. When I envoke the gui program it begins then goes away without completing.??

[ubuntuman001]

having a problem with tovid. When I envoke the gui program it begins then goes away without completing.??please open a terminal (http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/terminal) and type tovidgui. Please post here the result.

[casfindad]

please open a terminal (http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/terminal) and type tovidgui. Please post here the result.

Here's what I get after installing tovid 0.30-1 and typing "tovidgui" in Konsole:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/tovidgui", line 43, in ?
from libtovid.gui.frames import TovidFrame
ImportError: No module named libtovid.gui.frames


Selecting tovid GUI or todisc GUI in Kmenu>Graphics gives me a bouncing icon, but the program does not start.

[ubuntuman001]

having a problem with tovid. When I envoke the gui program it begins then goes away without completing.??

Here's what I get after installing tovid 0.30-1 and typing "tovidgui" in Konsole:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/tovidgui", line 43, in ?
from libtovid.gui.frames import TovidFrame
ImportError: No module named libtovid.gui.frames
Selecting tovid GUI or todisc GUI in Kmenu>Graphics gives me a bouncing icon, but the program does not start.okay i think that the problem lies with the deb package. Please try installing from source, as described here (http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_tovid)

[Bill Statler]

okay i think that the problem lies with the deb package. Please try installing from source, as described here (http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_tovid)

I was just fighting this same problem today. I installed tovid_0.30-1_i386.deb on my Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper system.

Seems the problem is that the .deb installs a bunch of stuff in a python2.5 subdirectory where python 2.4 doesn't look for it. My kludge fix was to move the entire libtovid directory from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages to /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages.

So far, it seems to be working.

[garlicsalt2]

Okay, I normally read entire topics to search for answers. This is the first topic I've come across that has 36 pages...

I'll just skip to the end and ask. I hope no one is too upset if this question has been answered. If they are/it has, just point me to the page, and I'll take it from there.

Situation: I have several .3gp files and some .jpg files, plus one animated .gif (four-frame, repeating). I am trying to get these files onto a DVD - and have done so already. The problem? The DVD comes out full-screen. This wouldn't be a problem normally, except that the images were designed for a 3"-4" screen. When viewed on a 13" television or a 15" Monitor, one can't tell what one is seeing. It's too "blotchy". Does anyone know how to tell tovid or equivalent to resize to about 3-4x of the original, and not take up the whole screen. Centering the images on the display would be a nice touch too...

For the Jpegs, I would like them to be like a slideshow-type of deal. I had done this before, but the images seem to "hiccup" every second or so. It is as though some one was video-taping a still photo, while in a car on a bumpy road. The image is there, but seems like it is being "jostled" about once every second. I had used a combination of "transcode", "ffmpeg" and "mencoder", as well as "tovid" to do the various conversions.

I wouldn't mind putting some small text into the bottom of the videos and jpegs to denote which segment is which source file.

The last problem is with the .gif file. It's only about 4-frames long!!! When viewed in a web browser, it repeats forever. If I convert it to a video file, it lasts about 1/8th of a second. How would I convert this to, say an mpeg file that repeats a fixed number of times, like, say 20?

Thanks in advance!
--Aaron

[ubuntuman001]

I was just fighting this same problem today. I installed tovid_0.30-1_i386.deb on my Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper system.

Seems the problem is that the .deb installs a bunch of stuff in a python2.5 subdirectory where python 2.4 doesn't look for it. My kludge fix was to move the entire libtovid directory from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages to /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages.

So far, it seems to be working.I'll notify the tovid devs about this.

[ubuntuman001]

Okay, I normally read entire topics to search for answers. This is the first topic I've come across that has 36 pages...

I'll just skip to the end and ask. I hope no one is too upset if this question has been answered. If they are/it has, just point me to the page, and I'll take it from there.

Situation: I have several .3gp files and some .jpg files, plus one animated .gif (four-frame, repeating). I am trying to get these files onto a DVD - and have done so already. The problem? The DVD comes out full-screen. This wouldn't be a problem normally, except that the images were designed for a 3"-4" screen. When viewed on a 13" television or a 15" Monitor, one can't tell what one is seeing. It's too "blotchy". Does anyone know how to tell tovid or equivalent to resize to about 3-4x of the original, and not take up the whole screen. Centering the images on the display would be a nice touch too...

For the Jpegs, I would like them to be like a slideshow-type of deal. I had done this before, but the images seem to "hiccup" every second or so. It is as though some one was video-taping a still photo, while in a car on a bumpy road. The image is there, but seems like it is being "jostled" about once every second. I had used a combination of "transcode", "ffmpeg" and "mencoder", as well as "tovid" to do the various conversions.

I wouldn't mind putting some small text into the bottom of the videos and jpegs to denote which segment is which source file.

The last problem is with the .gif file. It's only about 4-frames long!!! When viewed in a web browser, it repeats forever. If I convert it to a video file, it lasts about 1/8th of a second. How would I convert this to, say an mpeg file that repeats a fixed number of times, like, say 20?

Thanks in advance!
--Aarontry this page (it describes tovid CLI commands): http://tovid.sourceforge.net/manpages/tovid.html, especially the advanced options section. (mess around with the aspect ratios)

[lgmdaniel]

I was just fighting this same problem today. I installed tovid_0.30-1_i386.deb on my Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper system.

Seems the problem is that the .deb installs a bunch of stuff in a python2.5 subdirectory where python 2.4 doesn't look for it. My kludge fix was to move the entire libtovid directory from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages to /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages.

So far, it seems to be working.

Ta, this worked for me.

[ubuntuman001]

Please try the tovid .30 ubuntu deb now, all you recent feisty fawn users. It should install with no problems.

[fatalbert]

Would anyone know if this application can help me out? My situation is that I already have NTSC files that I downloaded from Bittorrnt and so I have a buch of file like this :

VIDEO_TS.BUP VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB
VIDEO_TS.IFO VTS_01_0.IFO VTS_01_2.VOB

in a folder called VIEDO_TS and are ready to be ripped to DVD, but I don't know how to do this in Linux.

Thanks

[yabbadabbadont]

You could use tovid, but it isn't necessary since the files are already in the proper DVD format. Install k3b through synaptic (or apt-get or aptitude or adept, whichever you prefer) and then create a DVD-Video project (it might be called Video-DVD, I'm not sure). Add the VIDEO_TS directory to the project. Then burn the DVD. If you can, use a re-writable DVD first so that if it doesn't work right away, you can reuse the disc.

[fatalbert]

I'm running Gnome and I think k3b is for KDE only. Is that correct? If so, do you know of an app for Gnome?

Thanks for your time and info.

[viciouslime]

I'm running Gnome and I think k3b is for KDE only. Is that correct? If so, do you know of an app for Gnome?

Thanks for your time and info.

No, KDE apps work fine in gnome, it will look a bit odd as it uses the QT toolkit instead of GTK, but it will function just fine.

Edit: Likewise, gnome apps work fine in KDE too!

[fatalbert]

Cool! I will try this when I get home tonight!

[fatalbert]

It worked!

[goodtimetribe]

This guide is based on this (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169825) thread, but it is clearer and more-beginner oriented.


This guide took me two attempts. The CLI has always worked, but after the first install tovidgui would disappear after launching. It now works after removing and reinstalling.

Having practiced with the command line, I think I like it better anyway.

[jet2230]

thanks dude, someone asked me earlier on today to make them a DVD of a movie they saw on my laptop. i didn't know how, but i knew it was possible thru ubuntu - then i did a quick google search ´ubuntu avi to dvd´ which bought me to this thread, and my questions have been answered.

currently encoding a full DVD from 2 split avi files with covers + menus using the tovidgui... spent maximum 5mins reading your guide to accomplish this. i am so impressed. thank you for sharing this wonderful knowledge.

[ubuntuman001]

thanks dude, someone asked me earlier on today to make them a DVD of a movie they saw on my laptop. i didn't know how, but i knew it was possible thru ubuntu - then i did a quick google search ´ubuntu avi to dvd´ which bought me to this thread, and my questions have been answered.

currently encoding a full DVD from 2 split avi files with covers + menus using the tovidgui... spent maximum 5mins reading your guide to accomplish this. i am so impressed. thank you for sharing this wonderful knowledge.this kind of feedback makes my day...:)

you're welcome

[dannyboy79]

well this didn't work for me. it appeared as though it was but when it got to the point to record the menu.xml and hte 2 mpg files, it says it couldn't find the files despite them being there. I have attached the log file if anyone can help.
i posted it here,

http://www.mediafire.com/?9cbi0sp3l1j

[yabbadabbadont]

well this didn't work for me. it appeared as though it was but when it got to the point to record the menu.xml and hte 2 mpg files, it says it couldn't find the files despite them being there. I have attached the log file if anyone can help.
i posted it here,

http://www.mediafire.com/?9cbi0sp3l1j

Try putting the log somewhere that doesn't require cookies to be enabled in order to see it.... :roll:

[dannyboy79]

well I don't know of any places where I can put files for free and I had trouble finding that one. BUT I figured it out on my own. Theres 1 bug, 1 aspect that I don't understand that I think they should allow control on and then there's a weird occurance. I'll explain all 3 issues.

There's a patch here for the xml file fix and the -noask error just prior to burning.
http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Known_bugs
http://www.createphpbb.com/tovid/viewtopic.php?p=3209&mforum=tovid#3209

but to be honest i have never patched anything before so I am not sure if I have to UNINSTALL tovid suite first OR if I apply the patch and then redo the ./configure sudo -c 'make install'
commands will it just overwrite the existing files that don't have the patch?

So i was able to just edit the .xml on my own like the link says and it made the dvd structure so I could burn it . THere was another issue however but I am not sure if it was because I had problems originally due to my ~/ having only 2.4gb of space when tovid said it needed way more. So i ended up going back and forth between encode and the first screen so maybe that's why it appended a "1" onto the file names of the end .mpg files?

So here's my grip and would like to be able to control where it puts temp files. I don't get that, why would tovid use a location other then the output directory for temp files? so, I was able to move some stuff around since I wasn't able to find a way to have it put all it's temp files in the output directory.
Then the other issue was that the names of the .mpg files was this
mvs-potc3a.avi.tovid_encoded.1.mpg
mvs-potc3b.avi.tovid_encoded.1.mpg
BUT tovid was looking for
mvs-potc3a.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg
mvs-potc3b.avi.tovid_encoded.mpg
so I just simply renamed them before issuing
the makedvd command from this manual fix
So, before I say that the tovid has a bug about naming, I'll try again and this time make sure that I have enough room so maybe it won't happen again. BUT I would like to know from anyone if they know how to make tovid use the same directory for temp files as the output directory.

MY last question, it has create 2 .mpg files that are 4.1 gb each, is there any way you can tell it to make them a certain size so that it'll fit onto a dvd5 instead of a dvd9? I think I will just create 2 dvd's for this one but my menu will only be on the first disc and who likes to have to pull out the dvd and put in the next one?

Why I like Winbloz for this task is because I use Winavi and it just does everything for me and create the Video and Audio folders and they are never this large and I can just burn it with Nero BUT I am sure I'll figure this out soon and not have to count on winbloz much longer.

[yabbadabbadont]

http://pastebin.ca/ is a good place to dump log files.

Not to be mean or anything, but you really should read the manpages for tovid and the documentation provided at their wiki. :D

/home/daffy/.tovid $ cat preferences
# tovid preferences
# Configures working/output directories for tovid
WORKING_DIR=/home/daffy/temp
#OUTPUT_DIR=/video/outfiles


There is a new option "-fit" in the SVN version of tovid that allows you to specify the final size of the video. Otherwise you have to mess with the "-quality" setting to roughly adjust the size.

[dannyboy79]

thanks for the info. You're absolutely correct, I always tell people to read the man pages and for some reason it didn't even cross my mind as some packages that I install from source don't have man pages. None-the-less, I should have tried, man tovid.

I also always tell people to look thru gogle before posting and I did look thru gogle and couldn't come up with a good way to phrase the questoion (temp files location for tovid) and kept getting crap results. As far as the wiki, that's how I solved the -noask issue so I did read it, just not in regards to the working directory issue.

As for my question about applying the patch and reinstalling, will that work if I DON'T uninstall it first and just hope that the patched files overwrite the other ones. Also, now that you say the SVN version has a way to spcifiy the final video size, will I have to uninstall the current version before installing the SVN? also, do you know if the patch for the -noask error is applied within the SVN source?

Thanks again for your help!

[yabbadabbadont]

Just to be safe, you should probably uninstall the old version before installing a new one (patched or otherwise). Your ~/.tovid config directory will not be touched. If you install the SVN version, you will need to uninstall the previous one first. Yes, the SVN code has been patched. It is always the most current development version.

[dannyboy79]

my movie is finally created, I had to use quality 5 for 2 avi's files that were 700mb in size, it ends up being around 3.5gb dvd movie. the menu appeared to have worked (meaning there is a menu.mpg which has my chosen music and pic and it located within the working dir) but isn't loading when I chose to play the dvd thru mplayer, the movie just starts right away? and since I chose to enable the working directory to be the same as the temp dir per the ~/.tovid/preferences file I can't seem to find any log file anymore? i've done a find for it using *tovid and it only found these files:
sudo find / -name *tovid
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libtovid
/usr/local/bin/tovid
/usr/local/bin/pytovid
/home/daniel/.tovid
/home/daniel/.tovid/stats.tovid
/media/500gb/downloaded/linux-programs/tovid-0.30/src/pytovid
/media/500gb/downloaded/linux-programs/tovid-0.30/src/tovid
/media/500gb/downloaded/linux-programs/tovid-0.30/libtovid

i know when I had the working dir still what it was as the default, it put them in ~/.tovid but now that has only stats files, preferences, and tovid.config. Any help from yaba................. would be apprecaited and yes, I did google this and I did read the man pages.

[yabbadabbadont]

Sorry, no clue on this. Try posting your issue on the tovid forums. Just FYI, there is a special thread there for you to use so that you have five posts. The forum software there won't let you post anything that looks like it might be a URL until your user has five posts.

[dannyboy79]

ok, very quick response, now that's the best support I have ever had and I didn't even have to pay for it. thanks for the reponse despite not being able to specifically help (don't get me wrong, i didn't think without the log file, you'd be able to tell me why the menu isn't showing up) I don't want a menu so it's actually ok,. but I spent all this time resizing the image I downloaded from the net with gimp and chosing a song to play for 90 seconds and what not so I was kind of like, WOW, this is gonna be cool but now that it doesn't work it's not a big deal as I am used to watching discs with no menu (avi files)
And the log file issue is very weird I might add.

[unabatedshagie]

Apologies for bumping this thread but I'm having a small problem when I try to encode any videos.

The process seems to be successful but when I burn it to disk or try and view the .mpg file the audio is out of sync with the video.

I have tried various combinations of settings with no luck.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I could solve the problem?

[dannyboy79]

Apologies for bumping this thread but I'm having a small problem when I try to encode any videos.

The process seems to be successful but when I burn it to disk or try and view the .mpg file the audio is out of sync with the video.

I have tried various combinations of settings with no luck.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I could solve the problem?

check the tovid forums as I can almost guarantee there are instructions about how to fix this. I am lucky and the 3 I have done so far have been in sync but I am sure that sooner or later I'll have to read it. If you find out the answer be sure to post back here what ya did. Which encoder are you using? I left it the way it was and like I said, I don't have any issues. Are your .avi files in sync before you encode them?

[unabatedshagie]

I have tried every combination of settings.

The two NTSC one's and PAL, with both mpeg2enc & ffmpeg.

Whatever settings I seem to choose the audio is off by the same amount everytime.

The avi file plays perfectly with no problems with the sound.

[dannyboy79]

what kind of hardware do you have? are you performing other cpu intensive stuff while encoding? I would try to encode it when you're not doing anything at all and see if that helps. if it does, than that's your problem possibly. Also, I have read that avidemux can resync audio but I think it's for avi files but I am not sure as I haven't tried it yet since I haven't had the need. You know, when you this happens to me in Winbloz like on Winavi or AutoGK, I never knew how to fix it in winbloz either, so hopefully there is a fix for this in linux!!

[unabatedshagie]

I have a dual core 64 bit processor (5200+) with 2 gig ram.

I usually start the file encoding before I go to bed and leave it running overnight.

There are no significant programs running, I sometimes have transmission downloading in the background.

[dannyboy79]

well then your hardware certainly isn't the problem! you have plenty of power there. not sure then, sorry.

[morequende]

Hey to all! So i followed the guide, and though it says that Tovid is for AMD64 i'm getting the following when i try ro install it

morequende@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb

does anybody have any idea?

thanks in advance :D

[sagarhshah]

Hey to all! So i followed the guide, and though it says that Tovid is for AMD64 i'm getting the following when i try ro install it

morequende@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb


dude the one your trying to install is for x86 and not amd64 notice the i386.deb at the end of the file? the i386 means its for those with x86 versions of ubuntu.

you need to get the one made for amd64

[ubuntuman001]

Hey to all! So i followed the guide, and though it says that Tovid is for AMD64 i'm getting the following when i try ro install it

morequende@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb

does anybody have any idea?

thanks in advance :DI have no idea why you're trying to install tovid version 0.27, the latest version is 0.30 http://tovid.org

edit: as dannyboy states below, just install from source using the instructions on the main tovid site, because then you don't have to worry about architecture.

[dannyboy79]

Hey to all! So i followed the guide, and though it says that Tovid is for AMD64 i'm getting the following when i try ro install it

morequende@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
tovid_0.27_0.27_1_i386.deb

does anybody have any idea?

thanks in advance :D

not to mention, he states in his guide that the .deb doesn't even work for Ubuntu so use the source, it's all scripts so Platform doesn't matter.

[morequende]

Ok thanks... it's just that i'm new to Linux and i'm still learning... anyway, thanks:p

[Beastofomous]

hey everyone I managed to use todisc to make a menu on a dvd successfully before, actually using the same .avi file im about to show you an error report from, but now i changed a couple settings that i didnt want and it wont work... heres the log file if, if anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated.

[todisc]:
[todisc]: Creating a title image
Running convert -size 620x100 xc:none -font Helvetica -pointsize 30 -fill black
-stroke black -gravity center -annotate +0+0 Die Hard With a Vengeance -fill
#CDC0B0 -stroke gray -strokewidth 1 -annotate +1+1 Die Hard With a Vengeance
miff:- |
convert - -trim +repage -blur 0x0.4 /tmp/todisc-work1/title_txt.png

Running: ffmpeg -i /home/craig/myDocuments/iso_movie/diehard3.mpg -an -ss 2
-vframes 1 -s 320x240 /tmp/todisc-work1/pics/0/%06d.jpg

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
built on Jan 28 2007 22:48:38, gcc: 4.1.2 20070106 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21ubuntu7)
Input #0, mpeg, from '/home/craig/myDocuments/iso_movie/diehard3.mpg':
Duration: 00:59:46.9, start: 0.178022, bitrate: 6263 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 9800 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
PIX_FMT_YUV420P will be used as an intermediate format for rescaling
Output #0, image2, to '/tmp/todisc-work1/pics/0/%06d.jpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 320x240, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c)
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 1 q=1.6 Lsize= 0kB time=0.0 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s

video:2kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead -100.000000%
[todisc]:
[todisc]: ================================================== =======
[todisc]:
[todisc]: Preview OK, continuing.
[todisc]:
[todisc]: ================================================== =======
[todisc]:
[todisc]: Checking /home/craig/myDocuments/iso_movie/diehard3.mpg for
compliance...
[todisc]: Running nice
tcdemux -f
29.970 -W
-i /home/craig/myDocuments/iso_movie/diehard3.mpg > /tmp/todisc-work1/nav0_log
[todisc]:
[todisc]: ================================================== =======
[todisc]:
video codec: MPEG2
video bitrate: 1813.307 kbps
framerate: 29.970 fps
audio codec: a52
audio bitrate: 224.0 kbps
video length: 3586.95 seconds
transcode v1.0.2 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg
[todisc]: todisc encountered an error:
[todisc]: Problem creating images from the video.
tc_memcpy: using sse for memcpy
[import_vob.so] v0.6.0 (2003-10-02) (video) MPEG-2 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM | (subtitle)
[export_null.so] v0.1.2 (2001-08-17) (video) null | (audio) null
[export_jpg.so] v0.2.1 (2003-08-06) (video) *
[demuxer.c] (pid=15880) processing PU [0], on at PTS=2.0132 sec
[demuxer.c] (pid=15880) AV sync established for PU [0] at PTS=2.0020 (-0.0112)
[demuxer.c] (pid=15873) processing PU [0], on at PTS=2.0132 sec
[demuxer.c] (pid=15873) AV sync established for PU [0] at PTS=2.0020 (-0.0112)
tc_memcpy: using sse for memcpy
tc_memcpy: using sse for memcpy
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 0.4.0b loop decoder
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 acceleration: 3dnow
[transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms
[transcode] auto-probing source /home/craig/myDocuments/iso_movie/diehard3.mpg (ok)
[transcode] V: import format | MPEG-2 (V=vob|A=vob)
[transcode] V: AV demux/sync | (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence
[transcode] V: import frame | 720x480 1.50:1 encoded @ 16:9
[transcode] V: zoom | 320x240 1.33:1 (Lanczos3)
[transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.782
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 29.970,0
[transcode] V: Y'CbCr | YV12/I420
[transcode] A: import format | 0x2000 AC3 [48000,16,2] 224 kbps
[transcode] A: export | disabled
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 29.970,4
[transcode] A: bytes per frame | 6408 (6406.400000)
[transcode] A: adjustment | -1600@1000
[transcode] V: IA32/AMD64 accel | sse2 (sse2 sse 3dnowext 3dnow mmxext mmx asm C)
[transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x480
[import_vob.so] tccat -i "/home/craig/myDocuments/iso_movie/diehard3.mpg" -t vob -d 1 -S 60 | tcdemux -a 0 -x ac3 -S 0 -M 1 -d 1 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x ac3 -d 1 | tcdecode -x ac3 -d 1 -s 1.000000,1.000000,1.000000 -A 0
[import_vob.so] tccat -i "/home/craig/myDocuments/iso_movie/diehard3.mpg" -t vob -d 1 -S 60 | tcdemux -s 0x80 -x mpeg2 -S 0 -M 1 -d 1 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x mpeg2 -d 1 | tcdecode -x mpeg2 -d 1 -y yv12

encoding frame [10], 11.20 fps, 1.0%, ETA: 0:00:52, ( 7| 1| 0)
encoding frame [20], 13.82 fps, 2.7%, ETA: 0:00:42, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [30], 14.96 fps, 4.3%, ETA: 0:00:38, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [40], 14.39 fps, 6.0%, ETA: 0:00:39, ( 4| 1| 2)
encoding frame [50], 15.04 fps, 7.7%, ETA: 0:00:36, ( 2| 1| 0)
encoding frame [60], 14.73 fps, 9.4%, ETA: 0:00:36, ( 5| 1| 2)
encoding frame [70], 15.11 fps, 11.0%, ETA: 0:00:35, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [80], 14.80 fps, 12.7%, ETA: 0:00:35, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [90], 15.13 fps, 14.4%, ETA: 0:00:33, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [100], 15.05 fps, 16.1%, ETA: 0:00:33, ( 8| 1| 0)
encoding frame [110], 14.86 fps, 17.7%, ETA: 0:00:33, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [120], 15.30 fps, 19.4%, ETA: 0:00:31, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [130], 15.09 fps, 21.1%, ETA: 0:00:31, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [140], 15.01 fps, 22.7%, ETA: 0:00:30, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [150], 15.05 fps, 24.4%, ETA: 0:00:30, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [160], 15.17 fps, 26.1%, ETA: 0:00:29, ( 7| 1| 0)
encoding frame [170], 14.99 fps, 27.8%, ETA: 0:00:28, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [180], 15.08 fps, 29.4%, ETA: 0:00:27, ( 7| 1| 0)
encoding frame [190], 14.89 fps, 31.1%, ETA: 0:00:27, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [200], 14.92 fps, 32.8%, ETA: 0:00:26, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [210], 14.85 fps, 34.4%, ETA: 0:00:26, ( 5| 1| 3)
encoding frame [220], 14.94 fps, 36.1%, ETA: 0:00:25, ( 5| 1| 1)
encoding frame [230], 14.86 fps, 37.8%, ETA: 0:00:25, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [240], 14.80 fps, 39.5%, ETA: 0:00:24, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [250], 14.99 fps, 41.1%, ETA: 0:00:23, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [260], 14.90 fps, 42.8%, ETA: 0:00:22, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [270], 14.98 fps, 44.5%, ETA: 0:00:22, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [280], 14.91 fps, 46.2%, ETA: 0:00:21, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [290], 14.97 fps, 47.8%, ETA: 0:00:20, ( 4| 1| 1)
encoding frame [300], 14.92 fps, 49.5%, ETA: 0:00:20, ( 5| 1| 2)
encoding frame [310], 14.88 fps, 51.2%, ETA: 0:00:19, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [320], 14.91 fps, 52.8%, ETA: 0:00:18, ( 5| 1| 3)
encoding frame [330], 14.98 fps, 54.5%, ETA: 0:00:18, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [340], 14.95 fps, 56.2%, ETA: 0:00:17, ( 8| 1| 0)
encoding frame [350], 14.98 fps, 57.9%, ETA: 0:00:16, ( 8| 1| 0)
encoding frame [360], 15.03 fps, 59.5%, ETA: 0:00:16, ( 5| 1| 1)
encoding frame [370], 14.99 fps, 61.2%, ETA: 0:00:15, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [380], 15.02 fps, 62.9%, ETA: 0:00:14, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [390], 14.98 fps, 64.5%, ETA: 0:00:14, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [400], 15.02 fps, 66.2%, ETA: 0:00:13, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [410], 14.96 fps, 67.9%, ETA: 0:00:12, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [420], 14.94 fps, 69.6%, ETA: 0:00:12, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [430], 14.99 fps, 71.2%, ETA: 0:00:11, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [440], 15.00 fps, 72.9%, ETA: 0:00:10, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [450], 14.99 fps, 74.6%, ETA: 0:00:10, ( 8| 1| 0)
encoding frame [460], 15.00 fps, 76.3%, ETA: 0:00:09, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [470], 15.00 fps, 77.9%, ETA: 0:00:08, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [480], 14.98 fps, 79.6%, ETA: 0:00:08, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [490], 15.02 fps, 81.3%, ETA: 0:00:07, ( 7| 1| 0)
encoding frame [500], 14.99 fps, 82.9%, ETA: 0:00:06, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [510], 14.97 fps, 84.6%, ETA: 0:00:06, ( 7| 1| 1)
encoding frame [520], 15.01 fps, 86.3%, ETA: 0:00:05, ( 8| 1| 0)
encoding frame [530], 15.03 fps, 88.0%, ETA: 0:00:04, ( 6| 1| 1)
encoding frame [540], 15.06 fps, 89.6%, ETA: 0:00:04, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [550], 15.03 fps, 91.3%, ETA: 0:00:03, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [560], 15.03 fps, 93.0%, ETA: 0:00:02, ( 6| 1| 0)
encoding frame [570], 15.00 fps, 94.6%, ETA: 0:00:02, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [580], 15.09 fps, 96.3%, ETA: 0:00:01, ( 7| 1| 0)
encoding frame [590], 15.06 fps, 98.0%, ETA: 0:00:00, ( 6| 1| 2)
encoding frame [600], 15.09 fps, 99.7%, ETA: 0:00:00, ( 7| 1| 0)
failed to write Y plane of frame(demuxer.c) write program stream packet: Broken pipe
(decode_ac3.c) write failed

[yabbadabbadont]

@Beastofomous: If you haven't already, start a thread on the tovid forums and post your log. The forum software there won't let you post the log until you have made at least five posts. There is a thread there specifically for making five junk posts, so that you can then post your log.

http://www.createphpbb.com/tovid/

[robertmf]

Thank You for figuring out the Ubuntu tovid install and posting this HOW-TO. :)

[ubuntuman001]

Thank You for figuring out the Ubuntu tovid install and posting this HOW-TO. :)you're welcome! though I have had much help from many people on this, so don't give all the credit to me!

[ubuntuman001]

In recent tovid news, the devs have patched up version 0.30 to 0.30.2, which is now downloadable at here (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/ubuntu/tovid_0.30.2-1_i386.deb).

Also, they have moved their program's site from sourceforge.net to google code: http://code.google.com/p/tovid/

[ubuntuman001]

Okay I have uploaded tovid's first true deb package to the main site (thanks Frak!)

It is still the same link as the one I posted several hours ago: here (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/ubuntu/tovid_0.30.2-1_i386.deb)

This time, however, it auto installs all dependencies for you.

[robertmf]

FEISTY - tovidgui generates makexml -noask illegal parameter

(FEISTY - mencoder is broken)

[ubuntuman001]

FEISTY - tovidgui generates makexml -noask illegal parameter

(FEISTY - mencoder is broken)Please report this in the tovid IRC chatroom: irc.freenode.net/tovid

or post a bug report on the tovid forums (link is on the first page of this thread)

[VON_CAPO]

I installed the package " tovid_0.30.2-1_i386.deb " and I created a new entry in Applications/Sound & Video/tovidgui to launch the GUI.

I used 2 MPG files (they were already encoded from AVI to MPG using DeVeDe),
and I burnt a DVD... ---> SUCCESS!!!

Also I included a very crude menu, and all the process took some 10 minutes.

Very neat software indeed.

Thank you for let us know this jewel. :popcorn:

EDIT: I am attaching the log file

[dannyboy79]

Please report this in the tovid IRC chatroom: irc.freenode.net/tovid

or post a bug report on the tovid forums (link is on the first page of this thread)

it's already been reported, there's a solution on the website

[BGreet]

After installing the .deb I get a weird error:

Found 2 installations of tovid on your system!
I won't run until there is only one of me :)
Installed versions:
/usr/bin/tovid
/usr/bin/X11/tovid
Exiting...

I tried removing tovid from one or the other directories and it then tells me that there are no copies of tovid available. Not sure what to do, any help appreciated. Thanks!

[dannyboy79]

well you should never just remove a file and think that's the whole program. sometimes it is but not always. you should use a package manager to remove it. if you downloaded the .deb for debian than that was a mistake as it's not working I read somewhere. you need to go to tovid website and read a little. So to remove it you can use this command:
sudo dpkg -r package_name
then just to double check, do a search for tovid again.
sudo find / -name *tovid*
and see if there's anything left around. if so, then you can remove it
Then you'll want to download the source and configure, make, make install. there's great info in the faq on the tovid website, also read teh know common problems and the install page.

[dannyboy79]

does anyone know how to keep .avi resolutions the same? for example I have a file that per MediaInfo is:

Width : 640 pixels
Height : 272 pixels
Aspect ratio : 2.35
Frame rate : 23.976 fps


and when I run it through tovid (option for full dvd), it stretchs it to the standard dvd width and height (720x480, I think?), anyway, everything is stretched vertically very noticeably. the movie is watchable but it's just not right! can anyone suggeest anything to how I can fix this? thank you

[ubuntuman001]

does anyone know how to keep .avi resolutions the same? for example I have a file that per MediaInfo is:

Width : 640 pixels
Height : 272 pixels
Aspect ratio : 2.35
Frame rate : 23.976 fps


and when I run it through tovid (option for full dvd), it stretchs it to the standard dvd width and height (720x480, I think?), anyway, everything is stretched vertically very noticeably. the movie is watchable but it's just not right! can anyone suggeest anything to how I can fix this? thank youdo u have a widescreen tv?

[ubuntuman001]

by the way, tovid 0.31 came out

an ubuntu deb will prolly soon be made.

[dannyboy79]

do u have a widescreen tv?

i don't see what the point of that question is? I do but that shouldn't matter. what's happening is that the video is being stretched vertically to be 720 x 480 I think and since the video is only 2 hundred something tall, it's making the poeple and everything look stretched vertically. anyone have a suggestion?

[ubuntuman001]

i don't see what the point of that question is? I do but that shouldn't matter. what's happening is that the video is being stretched vertically to be 720 x 480 I think and since the video is only 2 hundred something tall, it's making the poeple and everything look stretched vertically. anyone have a suggestion?well i just thought maybe the tv's aspect ratio might stretch it out in weird ways, since every time I've made a video with tovid, resolutions always work out so that the movie looks fine to me on my tv

as to your particular problem, I have no idea, try the tovid forums or the irc channel #tovid on freenode

[ephman]

After installing the .deb I get a weird error:

Found 2 installations of tovid on your system!
I won't run until there is only one of me :)
Installed versions:
/usr/bin/tovid
/usr/bin/X11/tovid
Exiting...

I tried removing tovid from one or the other directories and it then tells me that there are no copies of tovid available. Not sure what to do, any help appreciated. Thanks!

i go the same error installing the .deb, and i know 100% i didn't have it already installed. when i installed by svn it was totally fine. try installing that way.

thanks for the bandwidth,

ephman

[ubuntuman001]

i go the same error installing the .deb, and i know 100% i didn't have it already installed. when i installed by svn it was totally fine. try installing that way.

thanks for the bandwidth,

ephman
really? are you talking about the 0.30-2 ubuntu deb?

[dannyboy79]

that deb is broken and it specifically stated that on their website I believe. just build from latest source which is 0.31, it doesn't have the error's anymore and it works straight away! I just need to figure out how to get the video to encode it the same as it's source instead of stretching it verically.

[JungleJoker]

Hi, I've got a stupid question: I succeeded in installing tovid 0.31 and am trying it out right now, the only problem I have is that the GUI interface is to big for my screen. So I can't see the buttons on the buttom which would help me configuring the dvd-buttons etc. Anyone know how to fix this? (simpy resising the window doesn't help, off course)

[dannyboy79]

i suggest asking on the tovid forum. not sure sorry.

[ubuntuman001]

Hi, I've got a stupid question: I succeeded in installing tovid 0.31 and am trying it out right now, the only problem I have is that the GUI interface is to big for my screen. So I can't see the buttons on the buttom which would help me configuring the dvd-buttons etc. Anyone know how to fix this? (simpy resising the window doesn't help, off course)this actually has happened to me too, but I haven't researched about it yet. If anything comes up, I'll let you know.

[dannyboy79]

this actually has happened to me too, but I haven't researched about it yet. If anything comes up, I'll let you know.

i looked into it, if you didn't get any suggestions from the tovid forums, check out devilspie. http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/25/how-to-set-default-workspace-size-and-window-effects-in-gnome/

[grepster]

Hi, I've got a stupid question: I succeeded in installing tovid 0.31 and am trying it out right now, the only problem I have is that the GUI interface is to big for my screen. So I can't see the buttons on the buttom which would help me configuring the dvd-buttons etc. Anyone know how to fix this? (simpy resising the window doesn't help, off course)

This appears to be a bug in todiscgui. I've posted an link to a temporary patch below that should serve until we can think about a better solution..
Using the smallest font size in the File-> config option may help a bit, but probably won't solve it without the patch if your screen res is not large enough.

As a side note, I recommend trying 1152x864 in your xorg.conf for screen resoltuion, once you get the fonts tweaked how you like you might not want to go back !

http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/tovid-0.31.patch

Use by cd'ing into the top level directory of 0.31.
cd tovid-0.31/
Then issuing ( lets say you downloaded the patch to /tmp):
patch -p1 < /tmp/tovid-0.31.patch

HTH,

grepper

[yabbadabbadont]

As a side note, I recommend trying 1152x864 in your xorg.conf for screen resoltuion, once you get the fonts tweaked how you like you might not want to go back !

Assuming, of course, that your monitor will go that high... (mine won't :( then again, I only use the command line tools ;))

[crouzilles]

I have a bit of a problem.
I have installed everything success fully, but when I want to run tovid i get the following error:
tovidgui requires wxPython 2.6; please install or upgrade wxPython.

The last thing I installed was wxPython so i tried to do an install again and here is what I get:
python-wxgtk2.8 is already the newest version.

Does anybody know what's wrong?

Thank you

[ubuntuman001]

I have a bit of a problem.
I have installed everything success fully, but when I want to run tovid i get the following error:
tovidgui requires wxPython 2.6; please install or upgrade wxPython.

The last thing I installed was wxPython so i tried to do an install again and here is what I get:
python-wxgtk2.8 is already the newest version.

Does anybody know what's wrong?

Thank youfor some reason the latest version of wxPython returns this error, I believe if you install the 2.6 version it'll work

[herbster]

Okay, I've gotten it up and running, was going through the motions with random videos to test the program and no matter the video I choose, the Preview Video button opens up Mplayer which gives me this error everytime:

http://www.bobgill.net/mplayerrorr.png

:confused: And I cannot watch anything with it. I've never used mplayer and after going through the Preferences I can't find anything that would fix this. Any help appreciated, TIA.

[ubuntuman001]

Okay, I've gotten it up and running, was going through the motions with random videos to test the program and no matter the video I choose, the Preview Video button opens up Mplayer which gives me this error everytime:

http://www.bobgill.net/mplayerrorr.png

:confused: And I cannot watch anything with it. I've never used mplayer and after going through the Preferences I can't find anything that would fix this. Any help appreciated, TIA.do you have the necessary codecs for the specific video you're watching? install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, and that covers most codecs. also, you can always try another media player, such as totem, xine, kaffeine, etc.

[herbster]

do you have the necessary codecs for the specific video you're watching? install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, and that covers most codecs. also, you can always try another media player, such as totem, xine, kaffeine, etc.

Yup, every video format works just fine with VLC and Xine, but how do I tell the tovidgui program to use one of those players instead of mplayer when I click the Preview button ???

EDIT: Wait a sec, I just realized that Preview is only playing the video as it currently is, I was under the impression it was playing the video or a clip of it as a preview of how it will look after being encoded. Woops :)

[kr0n1x]

why i haven't "python2.6" in Synaptic? :( i've this error when i try to start tovidgui:

pasquale@pasquale-desktop:~/Discarica/tovid$ tovidgui -s
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Running command:
makemenugui
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/makemenugui", line 26, in <module>
import wxversion
ImportError: No module named wxversion
There was an error importing the 'wx' libraries. The above
output should help you find what went wrong. Re-installing
wxPython 2.6 (or upgrading from wxPython 2.4 to 2.6) may
help. Consult the tovid homepage (tovid.org) for further
assistance.
Sorry, 'tovidgui' will not work.
pasquale@pasquale-desktop:~/Discarica/tovid$


i've python2.4 and python2.5...you?

[yabbadabbadont]

why i haven't "python2.6" in Synaptic? :( i've this error when i try to start tovidgui:

i've python2.4 and python2.5...you?

Try installing python-wxversion.
/home/daffy $ aptitude show python-wxversion
Package: python-wxversion
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.6.3.2.1.5ubuntu6
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 90.1k
Depends: python-central (>= 0.5.8), python (>= 2.5), python (< 2.6)
Conflicts: wxpython2.6-0
Replaces: wxpython2.6-0
Description: wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython version selector)
wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) is a class library for C++ providing GUI components and other facilities on several
popular platforms (and some unpopular ones as well). For more information see http://wxwidgets.org

This package provides the wxPython version selector.

[kr0n1x]

ok...did..but:
pasquale@pasquale-desktop:~$ tovidgui -s
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Running command:
makemenugui
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tovidgui requires wxPython 2.6 or 2.8.
Please install or upgrade wxPython.
pasquale@pasquale-desktop:~$

[kr0n1x]

my dvds born correcly.
i born 1 dvd yesterday, and another one today (not the same film/file), and i had 2 times the same error:

99.69% done, estimate finish Tue Oct 16 17:05:57 2007
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 4096
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 0
827575 extents written (1616 MB)
builtin_dd: 827584*2KB out @ average 7.8x1352KBps
/dev/dvdrw: flushing cache
/dev/dvdrw: reloading tray
:-( unable to reload tray: Input/output error
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
makedvd encountered an error during the DVD creation process:
Could not burn the disc to /dev/dvdrw
See if anything in the above output helps you diagnose the
problem, and please file a bug report at tovid.org (_not_
the dvdauthor list) containing the above output.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
pasquale@pasquale-desktop:~/dlcompleti$


unable to reload tray...why?

but the dvds work correctly

[ubuntuman001]

my dvds born correcly.
i born 1 dvd yesterday, and another one today (not the same film/file), and i had 2 times the same error:

99.69% done, estimate finish Tue Oct 16 17:05:57 2007
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 4096
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 0
827575 extents written (1616 MB)
builtin_dd: 827584*2KB out @ average 7.8x1352KBps
/dev/dvdrw: flushing cache
/dev/dvdrw: reloading tray
:-( unable to reload tray: Input/output error
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
makedvd encountered an error during the DVD creation process:
Could not burn the disc to /dev/dvdrw
See if anything in the above output helps you diagnose the
problem, and please file a bug report at tovid.org (_not_
the dvdauthor list) containing the above output.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
pasquale@pasquale-desktop:~/dlcompleti$
unable to reload tray...why?

but the dvds work correctlywell tovid is at an alpha version stage, so it won't always be perfect. The good thing is that your dvd worked after all; as for the error message, try looking for it in the tovid wiki (http://tovid.org/
or look for it in the tovid forums (a link is in the wiki)

[ubuntuman001]

i have finally made a deb (well with checkinstall, but it actually download all dependencies for you) and posted it on the tovid site.

so please try it and see if it works: http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_tovid/Ubuntu

I will make this type of deb from now on.

[lukon]

Error as a result of double clicking the tovid_0.31.all.deb:

Dialog box reports:

"Error: Dependency is not satisfyable: python2.5"

This is a Dapper 6.06 system.

Any suggestions?

[mssever]

Error as a result of double clicking the tovid_0.31.all.deb:

Dialog box reports:

"Error: Dependency is not satisfyable: python2.5"

This is a Dapper 6.06 system.

Any suggestions?

The easiest thing is to upgrade to a more recent version of Ubuntu. There was a major change in Python between Dapper and Edgy. Alternatively, if you know what you're doing, you might be able to backport either Tovid or Python 2.5. But that probably wouldn't be a simple process.

[ubuntuman001]

Error as a result of double clicking the tovid_0.31.all.deb:

Dialog box reports:

"Error: Dependency is not satisfyable: python2.5"

This is a Dapper 6.06 system.

Any suggestions?yep, as mssever said, dapper used python2.4 while edgy and onward uses python2.5
the 2.5 version is not in the repositories of 6.06, so unless you upgrade to a newer release, then there's not much you can do.

[yabbadabbadont]

Error as a result of double clicking the tovid_0.31.all.deb:

Dialog box reports:

"Error: Dependency is not satisfyable: python2.5"

This is a Dapper 6.06 system.

Any suggestions?

Try manually installing tovid using the instructions on the tovid wiki. As long as Dapper has wxPython 2.6 (or newer) it will probably work. There is no version requirement listed on the wiki for python itself.

http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[lukon]

Thanks for the explanation and suggestion.

So I am to understand that the tovid installer simply won't work with Dapper, but there is a way to install a less functional version of tovid on Dapper by doing some complicated things specified on the wiki.

So here's my suggestion. Let's have the wiki clearly state these facts. Also, perhaps the person who designed the tovid installer might also make another tovid installer just for Dapper, one that will install the appropriate, although less functional, version of tovid. This can be a big help to linux novices like myself.

Oh, and, if tovid isn't for me: where can I get a DVD authoring program that both runs on Dapper AND is usable by someone who has never authored a DVD before (such as myself)?

[yabbadabbadont]

Thanks for the explanation and suggestion.

So I am to understand that the tovid installer simply won't work with Dapper, but there is a way to install a less functional version of tovid on Dapper by doing some complicated things specified on the wiki.

So here's my suggestion. Let's have the wiki clearly state these facts. Also, perhaps the person who designed the tovid installer might also make another tovid installer just for Dapper, one that will install the appropriate, although less functional, version of tovid. This can be a big help to linux novices like myself.

Oh, and, if tovid isn't for me: where can I get a DVD authoring program that both runs on Dapper AND is usable by someone who has never authored a DVD before (such as myself)?
The tovid authors do not provide (to the best of my knowledge) native packages, just the standard "./configure ; make ; make install" of linux source packages. The deb package you are trying to install was created by an Ubuntu user, not a tovid developer. The tovid wiki provides generic instructions that should work on any linux distribution, not just Ubuntu. Just FYI. If you have trouble following the wiki's instructions, then I suggest that you follow the links provided there to the tovid community pages. One is to a forum that is not that active these days, but still contains a lot of information. The other is to the tovid group on google. For that matter, if you post your questions about the wiki instructions in this thread, I'm sure that someone will be able to help you.

[ubuntuman001]

Thanks for the explanation and suggestion.

So I am to understand that the tovid installer simply won't work with Dapper, but there is a way to install a less functional version of tovid on Dapper by doing some complicated things specified on the wiki.

So here's my suggestion. Let's have the wiki clearly state these facts. Also, perhaps the person who designed the tovid installer might also make another tovid installer just for Dapper, one that will install the appropriate, although less functional, version of tovid. This can be a big help to linux novices like myself.

Oh, and, if tovid isn't for me: where can I get a DVD authoring program that both runs on Dapper AND is usable by someone who has never authored a DVD before (such as myself)?FYI, I made the latest deb package, and I edited the ubuntu installation instrucitons on the tovid wiki. the reason I didn't include dapper debs was because
a) dapper is a relatively old release and not tat many people use it
b) the new LTS version will come out in the spring
c) I erased the GUI from my ubuntu pc, cause I turned it into a server, i.e. I can't test debs anymore (though I can still make them and you can test them if you want)

[lukon]

FYI: someone should fix this wiki page here:

http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_tovid/Ubuntu

because the following statement on that wiki page has been proven false:

If you're using Ubuntu dapper 6.06 or newer, just double click the package to open gdebi and install it.

Dapper 6.06 should not be included among the operating systems for which the installer works.

[lukon]

So now I’m curious about something.

I’m told by implication (by yabbadabbadont) that Tovid can be installed on basically any distribution so long as you follow a given generic and complicated procedure. This means that Tovid can indeed work on Dapper 6.06. And it means that Tovid presents NO necessary dependency conflict with whatever version of Python I happen to have.

yabbadabbadont: The Tovid wiki provides generic instructions that should work on any linux distribution, not just Ubuntu.

But then I am also told by implication (by ubuntuman001) that the Python version DOES matter.

ubuntuman001: …Dapper used Python2.4 while Edgy and onward uses Python2.5. The 2.5 version is not in the repositories of 6.06, so unless you upgrade to a newer release, then there's not much you can do.

Something is wrong here.

Perhaps it is the code of the installer itself that needs a specific version of Python. Is this the case?

Otherwise, either Tovid does care about my Python version (and won’t run on my system) or, the installer is needlessly specific about Python’s version. Which is it?

[yabbadabbadont]

I ran tovid on Dapper. Nuf said. ;)

[yabbadabbadont]

I'm also running it on my current Gentoo system:
/home/daffy $ equery l tovid
[ Searching for package 'tovid' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ~] media-video/tovid-0.31 (0)
/home/daffy $ equery l python
[ Searching for package 'python' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2 (0)
[I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6 (2.4)
[I--] [ ] dev-python/notify-python-0.1.1 (0)
[I--] [ ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 (0)
[I--] [ ] dev-python/python-xlib-0.12-r3 (0)
[I--] [ ] dev-python/wxpython-2.6.4.0 (2.6)


Notice that I am using python 2.4.

[ubuntuman001]

Here's the deal:
I didn't want to complicate things too much, so I just told you (lukon) that there wasn't much you can do.

But really, tovid is just as compatible with dapper as with any other ubuntu release. It's just that I made the latest tovid deb package depend on python 2.5, since that was the lastest version used in the last few releases of ubuntu. So it's not tovid, it's the required dependency list that I made for that package.

You could install it from source code (instructions are on the wiki), but I think I'll make a dapper deb just for you and everyone else who uses dapper, just because I'm that nice :)

I also edited the wiki page, you were right, the information there was wrong.

[ubuntuman001]

lukon, please download this deb (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/ubuntu/tovid_0.31_dapper_all.deb) and see if it works. I made its dependency python 2.4, so it should work (as tovid is compatible with python 2.4 and newer.)

[ubuntuman001]

just curious: has anyone gotten tovid to work for PPC architecture comps?

[r9mcgon]

I had used tovid before, but it stopped working for some reason, so I tried to uninstall it. I couldn't figure out how do this (no make uninstall?), so I reinstalled a new version (deb package). Now it tells me it won't run because 2 versions are installed. Can anyone help me get rid of tovid/todisc completely so I can start again?

[dannyboy79]

I had used tovid before, but it stopped working for some reason, so I tried to uninstall it. I couldn't figure out how do this (no make uninstall?), so I reinstalled a new version (deb package). Now it tells me it won't run because 2 versions are installed. Can anyone help me get rid of tovid/todisc completely so I can start again?

according to the tovid wiki, you just cd to the location you compiled it in (where ever the Makefile is), then just run
sudo make uninstall

[ubuntuman001]

I had used tovid before, but it stopped working for some reason, so I tried to uninstall it. I couldn't figure out how do this (no make uninstall?), so I reinstalled a new version (deb package). Now it tells me it won't run because 2 versions are installed. Can anyone help me get rid of tovid/todisc completely so I can start again?do what dannyboy said, try to find the original tovid driectory where the makefile was (it should be in /home or some folder therein, maybe try locate tovidin a terminal to search for it, or you can use the graphical file search too.

also, uninstall the deb version, and don't reinstall it until you're removed both versions.

[r9mcgon]

Thanks for the fast response guys. I'm still not having any luck with this;

Edited results of 'locate tovid' (leaving out the man, share, doc, icon, python directories)
/usr/share
/usr/share/applications
/usr/local/share/applications/tovidgui.desktop
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/home/rob/.tovid
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tovid.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tovid.conffiles

What I tried:

rob@Beag-laptop:~$ cd .tovid
rob@Beag-laptop:~/.tovid$ sudo make uninstall
[sudo] password for rob:
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
rob@Beag-laptop:~/.tovid$ cd /usr/bin
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/bin$ sudo make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/bin$ cd /usr/local/bin
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/local/bin$ sudo make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/local/bin$ cd /usr/share/applications
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/share/applications$ sudo make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.

[r9mcgon]

Forgot to mention, I was able to uninstall the deb version ok.

[ubuntuman001]

Thanks for the fast response guys. I'm still not having any luck with this;

Edited results of 'locate tovid' (leaving out the man, share, doc, icon, python directories)
/usr/share
/usr/share/applications
/usr/local/share/applications/tovidgui.desktop
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/home/rob/.tovid
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tovid.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tovid.conffiles

What I tried:

rob@Beag-laptop:~$ cd .tovid
rob@Beag-laptop:~/.tovi (rob@Beag-laptop:%7E/.tovi)d$ sudo make uninstall
[sudo] password for rob:
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
rob@Beag-laptop:~/.tovi (rob@Beag-laptop:%7E/.tovi)d$ cd /usr/bin
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/bin$ sudo make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/bin$ cd /usr/local/bin
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/local/bin$ sudo make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/local/bin$ cd /usr/share/applications
rob@Beag-laptop:/usr/share/applications$ sudo make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.the problem is you seem to have deleted the original source code file you downloaded form the tovid site. remember the one you had to unpack, and then it became a folder called 'tovid-0.31' ?

that has the makefile and everything...you probably deleted it accidentally as it doesn't show up with the locate command.

anybody else know what to do...I'm stumped (I almost never install through source code.)

[yabbadabbadont]

Download the source again. Then reinstall it from source. This will overwrite the existing orphaned install. Now "make uninstall". It will clean it up for you. Finally, install the deb. :D

[ubuntuman001]

Download the source again. Then reinstall it from source. This will overwrite the existing orphaned install. Now "make uninstall". It will clean it up for you. Finally, install the deb. :Done more thing learned from you, yabbadabbadont :)

[yabbadabbadont]

one more thing learned from you, yabbadabbadont :)

And this time, it isn't just bad habits.... :lol:

[r9mcgon]

Thanks guys. That worked perfectly and tovid is working again. I appreciate the help.

[bayvista]

Don't think anyone has looked at this recently. When I tried to install on Feisty following the Wiki, i get a message that there are several missing modules. I have enabled all the repositories as instructed, so where to next?

[schmolch]

I stopped reading where it said you have 3 options if you want to use a GUI.

[ubuntuman001]

Don't think anyone has looked at this recently. When I tried to install on Feisty following the Wiki, i get a message that there are several missing modules. I have enabled all the repositories as instructed, so where to next?Please give me more info; what modules were missing? Did you install using the ubuntu instructions or from source?

[ubuntuman001]

I stopped reading where it said you have 3 options if you want to use a GUI.yep, I realize that this guide is a little confusing; I find it pretty difficult to make a guide because so many faqs/guides/howtos/tutorials are already on the wiki, so it seems like a contradiction that I write things in here when there are already guides out there.

However, I will revise this sometime soon.

[robertmf]

At the next release - tovid-0.32 - ttovid.org intends to incorporate todisc into the tovid package.

[ubuntuman001]

At the next release - tovid-0.32 - ttovid.org intends to incorporate todisc into the tovid package.Hmm, then I'll definitely need to revise this guide...:guitar:

[buried]

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

[lukon]

Hey ubuntuman001,

I just finally returned to this forum to see that you had made an instal file for Dapper.

I used it. It seems to work.

So thank you for making it. Yes. Very nice of you.

[ubuntuman001]

Thanks, just what I was looking for.no problem!

Hey ubuntuman001,

I just finally returned to this forum to see that you had made an instal file for Dapper.

I used it. It seems to work.

So thank you for making it. Yes. Very nice of you.no problem!

[santaslittlehelper]

I can't get thumbnail menus to work.

todisc -pal -aspect 16:9 -widescreen -videos-are-chapters -button-style text-rect -menu-length 120 -menu-title "foo" -menu-fontsize 22 -bgaudio foo.wav -menu-audio-length 48 \
-files foo1.mpg foo2.mpg \
-titles "foo 1" "foo 2" \
-out foo

That creates a AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder.
Then I make it in to a iso.
The menu will show and play fine in both vlc, mplayer. Totem wont see it at all.
It seems like all dvd functions are missing, episodes, can't make use of chapters etc...

If I need to do the xml thing how would I do that when it has already created a dvd structure and leaves me with no main_menu.mpg

ps
works fine with makemenu and makexml just can't figure out how to do the thumbnail menus.

edid

Oh...My...God

So it's working, for some reason neither vlc, mplayer or totem can handle the menus? Uhm ok, thinking that something on my end.
But they do work fine in a dvd player or on windows with vlc.

[ubuntuman001]

I can't get thumbnail menus to work.

todisc -pal -aspect 16:9 -widescreen -videos-are-chapters -button-style text-rect -menu-length 120 -menu-title "foo" -menu-fontsize 22 -bgaudio foo.wav -menu-audio-length 48 \
-files foo1.mpg foo2.mpg \
-titles "foo 1" "foo 2" \
-out fooThat creates a AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder.
Then I make it in to a iso.
The menu will show and play fine in both vlc, mplayer. Totem wont see it at all.
It seems like all dvd functions are missing, episodes, can't make use of chapters etc...

If I need to do the xml thing how would I do that when it has already created a dvd structure and leaves me with no main_menu.mpg

ps
works fine with makemenu and makexml just can't figure out how to do the thumbnail menus.

edid

Oh...My...God

So it's working, for some reason neither vlc, mplayer or totem can handle the menus? Uhm ok, thinking that something on my end.
But they do work fine in a dvd player or on windows with vlc.Hmm, that is strange that it doesn't work properly under ubuntu, probably has something to do with the codecs you have. Did you install all of the restricted codec packages? (in add/remove programs)

[santaslittlehelper]

Hmm, that is strange that it doesn't work properly under ubuntu, probably has something to do with the codecs you have. Did you install all of the restricted codec packages? (in add/remove programs)

I had totem with gstreamer backend changed to totem-xine with xine-lib backend as I understand it, that got the menus working in totem(well-xine).

What I was doing with vlc was "right click menu" open iso with vlc, no menu, nothing.
If I go "Open Disc > costumize "path to iso" menu works with vlc too! If I cd to directory and do "vlc iso, menu works.
Can't figure howcome.

So it's all good except it took me way to long to figure that it might be the players and not me screwing up with todisc. 8-[

ps
I am not on ubuntu right now so might make the difference.

[nova on fire]

Awesome How-To! I have a problem with playing the new DVD on my TV DVD player. I'm using NTSC and I burned it with the tovid GUI. Is it a problem with finalizing? Sorry but I'm a new ubuntu user trying to learn!:)
Thanks,
Nova

[ubuntuman001]

Awesome How-To! I have a problem with playing the new DVD on my TV DVD player. I'm using NTSC and I burned it with the tovid GUI. Is it a problem with finalizing? Sorry but I'm a new ubuntu user trying to learn!:)
Thanks,NovaWell, I can't really help you much with that little info! Did you save a copy of the output of the tovid GUI? (i.e. all the text that was showing while it was running)

Perhaps you can redo it, and see if something went wrong, or if you can't see anything obvious, you can post it here.

[nova on fire]

Okay I actually tried making the disk multiple times already. I don't really know much about what the output says but some of it is pretty self explanatory to me. Could you look and see if anything is wrong? Here is the output:

The following commands will be run:
=========================================
makemenu -noask -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -align northwest -menu-title "Thanksgiving Movie" -menu-title-fontsize 32 -background "/home/nc/Pictures/NC Pics/Misc/3765220_011f29b9c6_o.png" -font "Helvetica" -fontsize 24 -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -fontdeco '-stroke rgb(0,0,0) -strokewidth 1' -button-font "Helvetica" -button ">" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -button-outline "rgb(140,140,140)" "thanks.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1"
------------------------
tovid -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -full -quality 8 -in "/home/nc/Videos/ThanksgivingMovie/thanks.mpg" -out "/tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded" -from-gui -noask
------------------------
makexml -quiet -overwrite -dvd -menu "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1.mpg" "/tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_disc"
------------------------
Running command: makemenu -noask -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -align northwest -menu-title "Thanksgiving Movie" -menu-title-fontsize 32 -background "/home/nc/Pictures/NC Pics/Misc/3765220_011f29b9c6_o.png" -font "Helvetica" -fontsize 24 -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -fontdeco '-stroke rgb(0,0,0) -strokewidth 1' -button-font "Helvetica" -button ">" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -button-outline "rgb(140,140,140)" "thanks.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1"
--------------------------------
makemenu
A script to generate DVD/(S)VCD menus
Part of the tovid suite, version 0.31
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
================================================== =======
Font: "Helvetica" does not appear to be either a font file or registered with ImageMagick.
A similarly-named font was not found. Sorry!
The font "Helvetica" will be used instead.
================================================== =======
================================================== =======
Button: "Helvetica" does not appear to be either a font file or registered with ImageMagick.
A similarly-named font was not found. Sorry!
The font "Helvetica" will be used instead.
================================================== =======
Adding 1 titles to the menu:
1: thanks.mpg
Making the DVD buttons...
Creating the text menu...
Creating the DVD button overlays...
Adding the menu title...
Placing text menu in the safe area...
Placing DVD buttons in the safe area...
Working on the background...
Centering the safe area over the background...
Positioning the DVD button overlays on the background...
Creating 4-second silent ac3 audio...
Converting menu image to video. This may take a while...
Multiplexing video and audio streams...
Adding the DVD buttons to menu...
Cleaning up...
================================================== =======
Done!
Running command: tovid -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -full -quality 8 -in "/home/nc/Videos/ThanksgivingMovie/thanks.mpg" -out "/tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded" -from-gui -noask
--------------------------------
tovid
DVD and (S)VCD video conversion script
Version 0.31
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
Using config file /home/nc/.tovid/tovid.config, containing the following options:
(none)
Converting /home/nc/Videos/ThanksgivingMovie/thanks.mpg to NTSC DVD format
Encoding quality is 8 of 10 (use -quality to change)
Saving to /tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.mpg
Storing log and temporary files in /home/nc/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.0
Run 'tail -f "/home/nc/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.0/tovid.log"' in another terminal to monitor the log

================================================== =======

Probing video for information. This may take several minutes...
The encoding process is estimated to require 1029 MB of disk space.
You currently have 7802 MB available in this directory.
Analysis of file /home/nc/Videos/ThanksgivingMovie/thanks.mpg:
720 x 480 pixels, 29.970 fps
Duration (best guess): 00:24:31 (HH:MM:SS)
MPEG2 video with ac3 audio

================================================== =======

Audio and video streams appear to already be compliant with the
selected output format. If you want to force encoding (for instance,
to change the bitrate or take advantage of denoising), run tovid
again with the '-force' option. A symbolic link has been created
in place of the output file:
/tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.mpg --> /home/nc/Videos/ThanksgivingMovie/thanks.mpg

================================================== =======

Done!
Cleaning up...
Removing temporary files...
removed `/home/nc/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.0/tovid.log'
removed directory: `/home/nc/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.0'
Running command: makexml -quiet -overwrite -dvd -menu "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1.mpg" "/tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_disc"
--------------------------------
makexml
A script to generate XML for authoring a VCD, SVCD, or DVD.
Part of the tovid suite, version 0.31
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
Adding a titleset-level menu using file: /tmp/Untitled_menu_1.mpg
Adding title: /tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.mpg as title number 1 of titleset 1
Calculating the duration of the video with:
idvid -terse "/tmp/thanks.mpg.tovid_encoded.mpg"
This may take a few minutes, so please be patient...
The duration of the video is 00:24:31
Closing titleset 1 with 1 title(s).
Done. The resulting XML was written to /tmp/Untitled_disc.xml.

Also, this is only what it says for the encoding process. Not the burning. Does this help? Thanks, Nova

[ubuntuman001]

Okay I actually tried making the disk multiple times already. I don't really know much about what the output says but some of it is pretty self explanatory to me. Could you look and see if anything is wrong? Here is the output:

Also, this is only what it says for the encoding process. Not the burning. Does this help? Thanks, NovaHmm It all seems ok. Can you provide the output for the burning process? Or maybe try in another dvd player (does it work on your computer dvd player?)

[reiki]

Hmm It all seems ok. Can you provide the output for the burning process? Or maybe try in another dvd player (does it work on your computer dvd player?)

Doesn't matter if it plays in VLC on the computer that created it. I'm not sure what's broken in Hardy, but I had the same problem. Every DVD... no matter what I used to AUTHOR them... resulted in "unsupported" on any other player in the house. I used the exact same tools to burn it when booted to Gutsy and it came out beautifully.

HOWEVER... I can make a complete DVD copy using GnomeBaker in Hardy and create an iso... and then burn that iso and it plays on all machines in my house. *SOMETHING* is borked in Hardy and it has to do SPECIFICALLY with the burning.

In Hardy I used Tovid and Todisc to do all preparation. Running makedvd -burn resulted in a coaster. Rebooted to Gutsy, ran makedvd -burn and it worked flawlessly.

[ubuntuman001]

Doesn't matter if it plays in VLC on the computer that created it. I'm not sure what's broken in Hardy, but I had the same problem. Every DVD... no matter what I used to AUTHOR them... resulted in "unsupported" on any other player in the house. I used the exact same tools to burn it when booted to Gutsy and it came out beautifully.

HOWEVER... I can make a complete DVD copy using GnomeBaker in Hardy and create an iso... and then burn that iso and it plays on all machines in my house. *SOMETHING* is borked in Hardy and it has to do SPECIFICALLY with the burning.

In Hardy I used Tovid and Todisc to do all preparation. Running makedvd -burn resulted in a coaster. Rebooted to Gutsy, ran makedvd -burn and it worked flawlessly.that's weird...I'm thinking it could be the new python version installed in hardy; I know for sure some people had problems installing a python2.5-dependent version of tovid on a python2.4 ubuntu install. But hardy seems to have python 2.5.2, so it really shouldn't be a problem :confused:

I don't have an answer for ya man, I'll have to look more into it.

[reiki]

that's weird...I'm thinkinh it could be the new python version installed in hardy; I know for sure some people had problems installing a python2.5-dependent version of tovid on a python2.4 ubuntu install. But hardy seems to have python 2.5.2, so it really shouldn't be a problem :confused:

I don't have an answer for ya man, I'll have to look more into it.

And I, for one, appreciate anything you can do to figure this out. I might just be lucky that I kept my Gutsy installation around. I was going to wipe it because Hardy was doing everything fine. Until a friend asked me to author some DVDs for her from bits and pieces of other DVDs and video tape. I made about 5 or 6 coasters trying various programs to create the structure and burn a DVD with a menu.

For some reason after I had created the structure for about the billionth time I thought..."I wonder if Gutsy can do this"... reboot... run makedvd -burn ... and voila! done deal. So all of the preparation done by tovid and todisk in Hardy work fine. Because I USED the structure created in Hardy using those tools. It was only when it came time to put that all onto a DVD that the process failed to produce a proper DVD. I could play it in VLC on the machine that created it, but no other DVD player could read it properly.

Now I'm not smart enough to figure out WHY it is that I can burn an iso that GnomeBaker made.... in Hardy... and it works fine. But it DOES have me wondering what's different about burning the structure created by todisk as opposed to an iso.

Does GnomeBaker not have to use makedvd because I'm burning an iso instead of having to interpret the file structure and burn that?

Regardless.... thank you for looking into this. At age 56 there are some things I've learned to leave to others to resolve. :)

[ubuntuman001]

And I, for one, appreciate anything you can do to figure this out. I might just be lucky that I kept my Gutsy installation around. I was going to wipe it because Hardy was doing everything fine. Until a friend asked me to author some DVDs for her from bits and pieces of other DVDs and video tape. I made about 5 or 6 coasters trying various programs to create the structure and burn a DVD with a menu.

For some reason after I had created the structure for about the billionth time I thought..."I wonder if Gutsy can do this"... reboot... run makedvd -burn ... and voila! done deal. So all of the preparation done by tovid and todisk in Hardy work fine. Because I USED the structure created in Hardy using those tools. It was only when it came time to put that all onto a DVD that the process failed to produce a proper DVD. I could play it in VLC on the machine that created it, but no other DVD player could read it properly.

Now I'm not smart enough to figure out WHY it is that I can burn an iso that GnomeBaker made.... in Hardy... and it works fine. But it DOES have me wondering what's different about burning the structure created by todisk as opposed to an iso.

Does GnomeBaker not have to use makedvd because I'm burning an iso instead of having to interpret the file structure and burn that?

Regardless.... thank you for looking into this. At age 56 there are some things I've learned to leave to others to resolve. :)Well to tell you the truth, I'm quite stumped on this one...I really have no idea. If I were you and gnomebaker works fine, then I would just use that for now, and if you're really interested in the reason why, I would ask in the tovid forums or IRC channel.

[ubuntuman001]

In other news, tovid is officially in the ubuntu repositories now! (hardy only)

all you need do now is a simple sudo apt-get install tovid

[gaspard.leon]

Fixing missing fonts if you follow instructions at the tovid site and it still doesn't show any fonts:

In the tovid scripts, replace convert -list type with convert -list font

if your version of ImageMagick has updated that feature as mine had...
(run those 2 commands in a shell to test)

i found that the following files had to change:
/usr/share/tovid/makemenu
/usr/share/python-support/tovid/libtovid/gui/configs.py

And another bug I found was the menu titles appeared right next to the menu items (no space)... this was a bug referenced on this page: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10367

I used the -flip -flip work-around:
In /usr/share/tovid/makemenu
change this line:
convert "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT" -background none -splice 0x$TILE_HEIGHT "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT"
to this line:
convert "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT" -flip -background none -splice 0x$TILE_HEIGHT -flip "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT"

It worked!! :guitar:

I have fonts in the list in the gui and working in makemenu and I have a nice space in-between the title and the items.

[EnigMattic]

Or you could just use ManDVD (http://www.getdeb.net/app/ManDVD) :)

[SchindlerShadow]

ok help needed here XD i try to encode it and i get an error!

Error(s) occurred during encoding. If you want to
help improve this software, please file a bug report
containing a copy of the output log. Unfortunately,
this also means you won't be able to continue to
burning your disc. Sorry for the inconvenience!

=========================================
makemenu -noask -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -align northwest -menu-title "Rush Hr. 2" -menu-title-fontsize 32 -background "/home/youssef/Pictures/eternalubuntu.png" -audio "/home/youssef/Music/3 Days Grace - Home.mp3" -length 450 -font "Helvetica" -fontsize 24 -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -fontdeco '-stroke rgb(0,0,0) -strokewidth 1' -button-font "Helvetica" -button ">" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -button-outline "rgb(140,140,140)" "Rush Hour 2.mp4" -out "/tmp/rush_hr_2"
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tovid -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -full -quality 8 -in "/home/youssef/my ex hdd/Downloads/Rush Hour 2.mp4" -out "/tmp/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded" -from-gui -noask
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makexml -quiet -overwrite -dvd -menu "/tmp/rush_hr_2.mpg" "/tmp/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Rush_hr_2"
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Running command: makemenu -noask -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -align northwest -menu-title "Rush Hr. 2" -menu-title-fontsize 32 -background "/home/youssef/Pictures/eternalubuntu.png" -audio "/home/youssef/Music/3 Days Grace - Home.mp3" -length 450 -font "Helvetica" -fontsize 24 -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -fontdeco '-stroke rgb(0,0,0) -strokewidth 1' -button-font "Helvetica" -button ">" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -button-outline "rgb(140,140,140)" "Rush Hour 2.mp4" -out "/tmp/rush_hr_2"
--------------------------------
makemenu
A script to generate DVD/(S)VCD menus
Part of the tovid suite, version 0.31
http://www.tovid.org
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================================================== =======
composite MISSING!
================================================== =======
convert MISSING!

You are missing dependencies required for making menus! Please install the
above MISSING dependencies and try again. See
tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Tovid_dependencies or tovid.org for help.
================================================== =======
Running command: tovid -quiet -overwrite -ntsc -dvd -full -quality 8 -in "/home/youssef/my ex hdd/Downloads/Rush Hour 2.mp4" -out "/tmp/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded" -from-gui -noask
--------------------------------
tovid
DVD and (S)VCD video conversion script
Version 0.31
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
Using config file /home/youssef/.tovid/tovid.config, containing the following options:
(none)
Converting /home/youssef/my ex hdd/Downloads/Rush Hour 2.mp4 to NTSC DVD format
Encoding quality is 8 of 10 (use -quality to change)
Saving to /tmp/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.mpg
Storing log and temporary files in /home/youssef/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.2
Run 'tail -f "/home/youssef/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.2/tovid.log"' in another terminal to monitor the log

================================================== =======

Probing video for information. This may take several minutes...
The encoding process is estimated to require 3782 MB of disk space.
You currently have 12839 MB available in this directory.
Analysis of file /home/youssef/my ex hdd/Downloads/Rush Hour 2.mp4:
480 x 224 pixels, 29.970 fps
Duration (best guess): 01:30:03 (HH:MM:SS)
avc1 video with faad audio
Target format:
720 x 480 pixels, 29.970 fps
m2v video with ac3 audio
7200 kbits/sec video, 224 kbits/sec audio

================================================== =======

Using explicitly provided aspect ratio 4:3
Overriding auto-detected aspect ratio 133:100
No letterboxing necessary
Input is already 29.970 fps. Framerate will not be altered.
Scaling picture to 720 x 480

================================================== =======

Encoding audio stream to ac3 with the following command:
nice -n 0 ffmpeg -i /home/youssef/my ex hdd/Downloads/Rush Hour 2.mp4 -vn -ab 224k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -acodec ac3 -y /home/youssef/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.2/audio.ac3

Waiting 30 seconds for output file "audio.ac3" to appear...
Processing started. Please wait...


Encode stopped, killing all sub processes
Keeping temporary files used during encoding in /home/youssef/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.2
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
tovid encountered an error during encoding:
There was a problem with encoding the audio to ac3 format.
Check the contents of /home/youssef/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.2/tovid.log to see what went wrong.

See the tovid help page for what to do next:
http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Contents
Sorry for the inconvenience!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
Running command: makexml -quiet -overwrite -dvd -menu "/tmp/rush_hr_2.mpg" "/tmp/Rush Hour 2.mp4.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Rush_hr_2"
--------------------------------
makexml
A script to generate XML for authoring a VCD, SVCD, or DVD.
Part of the tovid suite, version 0.31
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
The file /tmp/rush_hr_2.mpg was not found. Exiting.




and the vid is an mp4! :confused::confused:

[yabbadabbadont]

ok help needed here XD i try to encode it and i get an error!

================================================== =======
composite MISSING!
================================================== =======
convert MISSING!

You are missing dependencies required for making menus! Please install the
above MISSING dependencies and try again. See
tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Tovid_dependencies or tovid.org for help.


Make sure that you have imagemagick installed.

[robertmf]

PS I did make sure all the dependancies were installed before begining, and it DOES seem to work w/out the GUI, aka if I enter just "tovid", however as a recent convert from windows, I am a bit bewildered as how to run programs entirely from the command prompt, a GUI interface is highly desired. Well thanks in advance for your help:)

Try using "tovid-interactive [filename]" from the cli.

[wetinwales]

Hi All
Using Ubuntu 8.04. Installed (I hope) ALL the dependencies listed in the tovid WIKI. Re-installed tovid.
It will not Encode (from a .vob file)

The log gives:-

The following commands will be run:
=========================================
makemenu -noask -quiet -overwrite -pal -dvd -align northwest -font "Helvetica" -fontsize 24 -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -fontdeco '-stroke rgb(0,0,0) -strokewidth 1' -button-font "Helvetica" -button ">" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -button-outline "rgb(140,140,140)" "VTS 01 1.VOB" -out "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1"
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tovid -quiet -overwrite -pal -dvd -full -quality 8 -in "/media/disk/Fallout Decrypt/VTS_01_1.VOB" -out "/tmp/VTS 01 1.VOB.tovid_encoded" -from-gui -noask
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makexml -quiet -overwrite -dvd -menu "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1.mpg" "/tmp/VTS 01 1.VOB.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_disc"
------------------------
Running command: makemenu -noask -quiet -overwrite -pal -dvd -align northwest -font "Helvetica" -fontsize 24 -textcolor "rgb(255,255,255)" -fontdeco '-stroke rgb(0,0,0) -strokewidth 1' -button-font "Helvetica" -button ">" -highlightcolor "rgb(255,255,0)" -selectcolor "rgb(255,0,0)" -button-outline "rgb(140,140,140)" "VTS 01 1.VOB" -out "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1"
================================================== =======
mencoder MISSING!

You are missing CORE tovid dependencies! Please install the above MISSING
dependencies and try again. See tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Tovid_dependencies or
tovid.org for help.
================================================== =======
Running command: tovid -quiet -overwrite -pal -dvd -full -quality 8 -in "/media/disk/Fallout Decrypt/VTS_01_1.VOB" -out "/tmp/VTS 01 1.VOB.tovid_encoded" -from-gui -noask
================================================== =======
mencoder MISSING!

You are missing CORE tovid dependencies! Please install the above MISSING
dependencies and try again. See tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Tovid_dependencies or
tovid.org for help.
================================================== =======
Running command: makexml -quiet -overwrite -dvd -menu "/tmp/Untitled_menu_1.mpg" "/tmp/VTS 01 1.VOB.tovid_encoded.mpg" -out "/tmp/Untitled_disc"
================================================== =======
mencoder MISSING!

You are missing CORE tovid dependencies! Please install the above MISSING
dependencies and try again. See tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Tovid_dependencies or
tovid.org for help.
================================================== =======
Can anyone shed light on it for me ???
Daf

[yabbadabbadont]

Even though installing tovid through synaptic or apt should have pulled it in automagically, make sure that the mencoder package is actually installed.

If you open a terminal window and type mencoder and hit enter. If it is installed, and in your PATH, then it should spit out it's version information and an error message about "no file given".

Edit: I saw your message on the tovid mailing list. I'm sure that you'll get the same answer there as I have just given you. :D

[wetinwales]

Hi Thanks for that. In terminal typing mencoder gives me:-

*******@*******:~$ mencoder
MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13+medibuntu1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
No file given

Exiting... (error parsing command line)

Don't quite understand that lot yet..!

Thanks
Daf

[yabbadabbadont]

I saw your messages on the tovid mailing list, but I wasn't sure about what was going on there. Have you gotten past the mencoder error and are now getting a dvdauthor error?

[RavUn]

Is tovid better than ManDVD? I tried using ManDVD on my other computer and something always seemed to screw up... the menu items wouldn't highlight so I could never tell which video I'm selecting and sometimes only half of the videos would actually play.

Can you burn multiple videos on a dvd with Tovid?

[Rocko262c]

Did you ever find a solution to your problem?
Thanks,
Rocko

[jake3988]

Is tovid better than ManDVD? I tried using ManDVD on my other computer and something always seemed to screw up... the menu items wouldn't highlight so I could never tell which video I'm selecting and sometimes only half of the videos would actually play.

Can you burn multiple videos on a dvd with Tovid?


Yes. Simply create a menu and create an entry for each movie. Then click on the movie you want to play.

Remember that converting the movies to mpg will DRAMATICALLY increase the size of the movie to that of a real dvd. If they're motion pictures unless short (~100 minutes or less each) you probably will not be able to fit two on one dvd. But you're certainly welcome to try.

[sofasurfer]

I tried the tovid gui. I performed 'layout' and 'encode'. But when I did 'burn' I got the message that it could not open /dev/dvdrw. So I tried getting it to use /dev/dvd3, /dvdrw3, /media/cdrom and /media/cdrom0. Kept getting the same message.

What should I do?

[labinnsw]

Here is something I have found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6795022#post6795022.

How to install tovid DVD creator on Ubuntu 8.04

1.Install the following from Synaptic
tovid
tovidgui
tcl8.4
tcl8.4-dev
tcl8.4-doc
mencoder
dvdauthor
qdvdauthor

Optional:
You can also install the following if you wish to have an alternate GUI.
todiscgui

2.Run the following commands in a terminal
cd /usr/share/tovid
sudo ln makemenu makexml /usr/bin
which makemenu
which makexml

[dannyboy79]

Yes. Simply create a menu and create an entry for each movie. Then click on the movie you want to play.

Remember that converting the movies to mpg will DRAMATICALLY increase the size of the movie to that of a real dvd. If they're motion pictures unless short (~100 minutes or less each) you probably will not be able to fit two on one dvd. But you're certainly welcome to try.
I regularly will convert 700mb avi movies downloaded from internet using tovidgui, using quality 7 and can fit 2 movies on 1 dvd disc. the source movies normally have an aspect ratio of 16:9 or sometimes even worse, where the width is more than twice the height. ANyway, that's just my experience. I love tovidgui though. Oh, I am still using Feisty if that matters to anyone.

[dannyboy79]

I tried the tovid gui. I performed 'layout' and 'encode'. But when I did 'burn' I got the message that it could not open /dev/dvdrw. So I tried getting it to use /dev/dvd3, /dvdrw3, /media/cdrom and /media/cdrom0. Kept getting the same message.

What should I do?
this is listed as a common problem on the tovid.org website. here is the solution:
http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Common_tovid_problems#unable_to_open64.28.22.2Fdev .2Fdvd.22.2CO_RDONLY.29:_Permission_denied
this solution is only for after the .xml file has been created by tovid and it's stored in the /tmp directory or whatever directory you chose to have temp files stored. the way to permanently solve this issue to make sure that you as a user can write to /dev/dvd0 or whatever your dvd writer is.
what does this command return for ya?
ls -la | grep dvd

[trksh22]

How does this compare to using Handbrake to rip two DVD's and using DeVeDe to combine them into one? It's a lengthy process.... but it works. I just can't shake the feeling that there might be something easier out there.... like this Tovoid. *installing it now*

[ubuntuman001]

How does this compare to using Handbrake to rip two DVD's and using DeVeDe to combine them into one? It's a lengthy process.... but it works. I just can't shake the feeling that there might be something easier out there.... like this Tovoid. *installing it now*
well yes, ripping DVDs and using DeVeDe can do the job for that basic process, but tovid has a plethora of options to customize your project in whatever way you want it, a lot more than DeVeDe does

[ubuntuman001]

I've edited the guide yet again (after not doing so for a long time) this time making it far simpler, less wordy, and cleaner in general. Enjoy ;)

[stoppage]

Fixing missing fonts if you follow instructions at the tovid site and it still doesn't show any fonts:

In the tovid scripts, replace convert -list type with convert -list font

if your version of ImageMagick has updated that feature as mine had...
(run those 2 commands in a shell to test)

i found that the following files had to change:
/usr/share/tovid/makemenu
/usr/share/python-support/tovid/libtovid/gui/configs.py

And another bug I found was the menu titles appeared right next to the menu items (no space)... this was a bug referenced on this page: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10367

I used the -flip -flip work-around:
In /usr/share/tovid/makemenu
change this line:
convert "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT" -background none -splice 0x$TILE_HEIGHT "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT"
to this line:
convert "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT" -flip -background none -splice 0x$TILE_HEIGHT -flip "$MENU_TITLE_TEXT"

It worked!! :guitar:

I have fonts in the list in the gui and working in makemenu and I have a nice space in-between the title and the items.

I spent sooo long looking for a solution to my fonts being "stuck" at Defect....but are there still only four choices for buttons?
Much obliged for this

[rey1321]

Why you guys have to go thru all this
headache using command lines?

There's a nice application called
DeVeDe that make everything for you.

you just add the video files and relax!
it will convert them to dvd files, and playable
in any commercial dvd player. period:guitar:

[ubuntuman001]

Why you guys have to go thru all this
headache using command lines?

There's a nice application called
DeVeDe that make everything for you.

you just add the video files and relax!
it will convert them to dvd files, and playable
in any commercial dvd player. period:guitar:
yea you're probably like the 1000th person to post about how awesome devede is in this thread.

and for the 1000th time, I'm gonna say that they are two different programs with different capabilities. tovid is much more customizable, as you can add a customized menu complete with pictures and sounds,can even add subtitles and a whole range of things.

and it is not just command-line, there is a GUI.

[rey1321]

ManDVD
does everything you just said

[ron999]

ManDVD
does everything you just said

So maybe you should start your own thread:-
HOWTO: Make DVD Videos Using ManDVD

[travellinghunter]

as of 2010 the tovid and tovidgui can be installed through the ubuntu package manager and work very easily.
I found an article in a book called "Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux" which shows how to use this very good program and other things. Similar to the original posters directions here.
Btw the original poster motivated me to look more in to tovid and hence the discovery of this book about this program.
Good luck.

[Sempfinger]

I have the following problem:

I am using the gui v. 0.31. After choosing the menu for the dvd - basic stuff with image and sound - I click on "Start Encoding". Now the script runs and sets things up.

But it gets stuck at:
Probing video for information. This may take several minutes...

This runs for 45 minutes now, which seems odd. I checked the running processes and it appears tovid started the following mplayer process:
mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 90 -channels 6 -identify

which is running at 2% CPU usage and is running and running...

tovid runs as:
bash /usr/bin/tovid -quiet -overwrite -pal -dvd -full -quality 8 -in <inputfile>

and

bash /usr/bin/idvid -terse <inputfile>

<inputfile> is of course the path to my mpeg video which I converted to mpeg via ffmpeg...

Any ideas / hints would be greatly appreciated

cheers

edit: Ok, after some testing it seems that mplayer does not work as expected. As I understood it, tovid probes for Information and tells mplayer to play the file, but only the first 90 frames and then to stop. When I try the above command that tovid uses, i.e.:
mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 90 -channels 6 -identify -aid 128 <inputfile>

mplayer does not stop! It continues to play the first few frames in a loop... tovid is presumably waiting for mplayer to return which never happens...

Any Ideas on that one?

[Sempfinger]

Just for reference, there was the option
loop=0

in the .mplayer file, which caused the looping

In my opinion it would be better for tovid to use a call to mplayer which ignores the users customizations in .mplayer to make the probing more robust...

[yabbadabbadont]

I would try using the current release, 0.33. (or better yet, the svn version) You should probably also read through the tovid-users google group. http://groups.google.com/group/tovid-users/

Tovid had pretty much died for a long while, but it seems to be showing signs of life recently. http://groups.google.com/group/tovid-svn

[mrady]

So here are the steps to take if you want to have a dvd movie, that's playable in a home dvd player, and created from a video file on your computer.

Tovid should work on any architecture (x86, x86_64, PPC, etc.) and any desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc.). This guide assumes that you already have a video file saved on your computer, that you own a dvd burner, and that you have a blank dvd.

Tovid will accept many different types of video formats for your initial video. In fact, whatever formats the programs mplayer and ffmpeg support, tovid supports. There are very few formats it doesn't support, but you'll probably have one of the more common ones, so there's nothing to worry.

Also, please know that for tovid to work optimally, it's recommended to have at least 20GB of free space, so that it can author and encode the video smoothly.

- - - - -

Installation

To install tovid, just search for it in the Software Center, or else type this in a terminal:sudo apt-get install tovidIf that doesn't work, install from source (http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_tovid).

If you don't see any tovid menu entries under Applications > Sound & Video, refresh the gnome panels: killall gnome-panel- - - - -

Using the GUI:

Go to Applications > Sound & Video > tovid. If for some reason it doesn't start up correctly, run the command in a terminal to diagnose the cause of the issue: todiscguiOR

Using the CLI:

You have an avi file named 'foo' in your home directory, and you live in the Eastern Hemisphere (not Japan, they use NTSC), and you have a widescreen TV. You would simply type in a terminal:
tovid -wide -pal -in foo.avi -out foo_encoded The -wide command tells tovid to make it widescreen, the -pal command tells tovid to make it PAL format, the -in file is the original, and the -out is the final product. Simple huh?

Consider the more complicated scenario: You have 3 videos, File1.mpg, File2.mpg, and File3.mpg. You want the menu to have titles Episode 1, Episode 2, and Episode 3. You want the dvd to be called Season_One. Your command would be:
todisc -files File1.mpg File2.mpg File3.mpg \
-titles "Episode 1" "Episode 2" "Episode 3" \
-out Season_One- - - - -

Once it is finished encoding, you could try to burn the video to a dvd using the burn tab in the GUI, but sometimes it doesn't work, so just minimize tovid (you dont want to close it, just in case if the encoding output is needed for support.) Then open a terminal and paste (this is just an example; replace the italic words accordingly):
makexml -menu Menu.mpg \foo1.mpg foo2.mpg foo3.mpg \
-out MyDiscThat created an xml file, which in this case would be called: MyDisc.xml
Now, you have to burn to a dvd, using this command (again, replacing the italic word with your actual file name): makedvd -burn MyDisc.xml When it's finished, you'll have a dvd that's playable on your computer and on all (or most) dvd players!

If you wish to make more dvd's using this guide, you'll have to delete the dvd folder that was created, and move any completed files to your completed folder, or delete it if you wish. These should be moved from the encoding directory so that tovid can encode anew with a fresh place, no left-over trash, so that it doesn't run into space problems or errors.

Official tovid website (installation/info/guides): here (http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page).

Official tovid forums (bug reports and general info/help): here (http://www.createphpbb.com/tovid/).

Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for anything related to this howto. Be aware of the laws in your country.


good one will give it a go