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

[user1397]

I am a very avid tovid user, the gui is in dire need of repairs, and it is way out of date. The command line is VERY easy to use, not hard at all. Heck if I can do it anyone can do it, trust me, I am serious.

The gui does not work well at all, since I switched to command line only, I have done over 30 DVDs without ANY issues at all.

yes i know that the gui is way behind, but it is still beginner-oriented, and many people are afraid to use the command line. as i get more proficient with the command line, i will post more and more terminal sections, or if you would like to post some easy terminal steps, go ahead. the gui will improve however, as the tovid project is an ever-changing one.

[daFoos]

any advice on how to install that file on a 64-bit system?

oh and how do you write an image in K3b? It says it only wants to write the dvd.iso to a CD and I have to force it to write to a DVD+R (which didn't work).

[daFoos]

k I think I figured everything out

[user1397]

k I think I figured everything out

sorry for the late reply, and it seems you've got it figured out, but just to explain, in k3b you would have to go to tools > burn dvd image. for .iso files, you always have to burn the image, not burn the file as a data file.

[thunderduck3141]

great tutorial
and btw, compiling from source for tovid is fast and easy, plus program is faster afterwards
peace out

[NinjitsuStylee]

When that's done, you'll have a file named dvd.iso in /home. Now, put your blank dvd in the corresponding drive, right-click on the dvd.iso file, and click Write to Disc.

Maybe you already mentioned this somewhere else in this [growing] thread, but is there a way to modify that script so it doesn't put dvd.iso in /home and puts it in another directory that we can specify? I have lots of space on my fat partition and even more on another hard drive but not that much left in /home

[user1397]

Maybe you already mentioned this somewhere else in this [growing] thread, but is there a way to modify that script so it doesn't put dvd.iso in /home and puts it in another directory that we can specify? I have lots of space on my fat partition and even more on another hard drive but not that much left in /home

well looking at the script itself, it seems that it doesn't specify any directory within itself, so i guess it just matters where yourt current directory is and then run the script. in other words, do this:

cd <where_your_fat_partition_is>

then do the mkiso command. see if that works.

[lifeform23]

whenever i trying use tovid for encoding i get this error
91 audio & 204 video codecs

Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing /home/lifeform23/fiona elizabeth nixon.avi.
AVI file format detected.
AVI: ODML: Building odml index (1 superindexchunks)
AVI_NI: No video stream found.


BENCHMARKs: VC: 0.000s VO: 0.000s A: 0.000s Sys:-1323.374s = -1323.374s

Exiting... (End of file)
[tovid]: Encode stopped, killing all sub processes
[tovid]: tovid encountered an error during encoding:
[tovid]: Couldn't create file: "/tmp/fiona elizabeth nixon.avi.tovid_encoded.m2v"


I'm quite sure that all dependencies are installed....

[dimatrod]

whenever i trying use tovid for encoding i get this error
91 audio & 204 video codecs

Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing /home/lifeform23/fiona elizabeth nixon.avi.
AVI file format detected.
AVI: ODML: Building odml index (1 superindexchunks)
AVI_NI: No video stream found.


BENCHMARKs: VC: 0.000s VO: 0.000s A: 0.000s Sys:-1323.374s = -1323.374s

Exiting... (End of file)
[tovid]: Encode stopped, killing all sub processes
[tovid]: tovid encountered an error during encoding:
[tovid]: Couldn't create file: "/tmp/fiona elizabeth nixon.avi.tovid_encoded.m2v"


I'm quite sure that all dependencies are installed....

Are you sure you've got Mplayer installed? Also try changing the filename from fiona elixabeth nixon to fiona_elizabeth_nixon, and see if that works

[Bosonator]

The tovid dependencies list you give says that it is necessary to have wxPython installed. Even after updating my repositories as you recommend (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources.php.) and doing an apt-get update, I can't seem to find any package called wxPython (though others refer to it). Should I be looking for another package name?