tovid-users — Announcements about tovid

Re: [Tovid-users] todisc no output file -SOLVED-

[grepper <gr...@gm...>]

I have copied your email to the list - please send replys there so others can 
benifit from help.  (unless sending large attachments to me personally )

On Sunday 13 April 2008, you wrote:
>> grepper wrote:

> > This is a good example of why you should not use -noask unless you really
> > know what the results are going to look like.
> > -titles-fontsize 36 and the long title you used doesn't leave any room
> > for the switched menu video ! (hence the negative value for the padding)

> Thank you, that -noask was a leftover of the previous project where I
> copied the command line from.

> > p.s: you can use \n in titles to create a multiline title
> > -titles "This is a\nmultiline title"

> I know about that, but I find it confusing that only the last line of
> the multiline title gets underlined. (See the attached image.)

-- image removed --

Yes, that is the way of the -button-style line which is default.  There are 
other button styles, but the only alternative that will suit this arrangement 
is -button-style text,  as 'text-rect' will use a lot more space (that you 
don't have).  Note: the 'line' style would look better if you had more space 
between your titles, but at that fontsize you have no room.   (you can also 
increase space between titles with -title-gap PIXELS, but again you have no 
room. )

Add -button-style text to your command to test.

grepper

p.s I noticed the new (old) method of reducing colours for spumux buttons 
messes up the 'return' buttons ( << ) using Imagemagick 6.3.8 - I'll have to 
do some more research there.

Re: [Tovid-users] Ruminations

[grepper <gr...@gm...>]

On Saturday 27 October 2007, grepper wrote:
> But there appears to be a relatively easy solution. =A0With textmenu the X
> and Y co-ordinates are known, so I can just use those in the spumux.xml
> <button name=3D"1" =A0x0=3D"+50" y0=3D"+189" etc ...
> I'm not sure how reliable specifying co-ordinates is, or how forgiving it
> is, as I have avoided them up to now.

OK, this one is done.
I'd be interested to know if you can use this one without having to modify =
any=20
of your titles.
This removes the option to align the titles in column 2 left.  Do you think=
 it=20
should be left as an option ?

The diff:
http://phebehouse.dyndns.org/tovid/todisc.diff

The full script if you don't feel like applying the diff:
http://phebehouse.dyndns.org/tovid/todisc

If you have trouble accessing these with a browser try just using wget, I h=
ave=20
just changed my webserver around and it might need tweaking.

grepper

Re: [Tovid-users] tovid gui fancy: previews and output

[JoeHill <jo...@te...>]

grepper wrote:=20

> Does running the gui not bring up a terminal ?  It can not run without on=
e. =20
> If one does not come up there is something wrong with your=20
> tovidgui-fancy.desktop: it should have Terminal=3Dtrue in it.
> Possibly the desktop enviornment you are running is not XDG (freedesktop.=
org)=20
> compliant.

You were right on d00d. For some reason, the xfce-appfinder, which finds ap=
ps
based on .desktop files in /usr/share/applications, did not properly pass t=
he
terminal=3Dtrue parameter to the menu editor.

For now I've simply added 'run in terminal' and it works fine :-)

--=20
JoeHill
++++++++++++++++++++
Bender: "Tell the Donbot I'm quitting organized crime. From now on I'll sti=
ck
to the regular kind."

Re: [Tovid-users] tovid gui fancy: previews and output

[The M. of D. <iam...@gm...>]

It really is better to use the current mailing list. This one is no longer
used since Tovid moved to Google code:

tovid-users (at) googlegroups.com
groups.google.com/group/tovid-users

Good luck on your troubles




--poweruser



On 10/20/07, grepper <gr...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 20 October 2007, JoeHill wrote:
> > That's the strange thing. I click 'run todisc now', and the entire GUI
> > disappears. The only thing I see after that is the previews, then a
> > dialogue saying 'todisc is finished', then the GUI reappears. I don't
> see
> > anything at all which shows the command being run, there is no log
> output
> > in the directory I specified or in /tmp.
>
> The GUI disappearing is by design - at that point the terminal should be
> the
> focus. ( see next comment )
>
> > Is the GUI supposed to show the terminal output somewhere? I don't see
> it
> > at all.
>
> Does running the gui not bring up a terminal ?  It can not run without
> one.
> If one does not come up there is something wrong with your
> tovidgui-fancy.desktop: it should have Terminal=true in it.
> Possibly the desktop enviornment you are running is not XDG (
> freedesktop.org)
> compliant.
> You can always run 'todiscgui -f' from a terminal
>
> grepper
>
>
>
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Re: [Tovid-users] tovid gui fancy: previews and output

[grepper <gr...@gm...>]

On Saturday 20 October 2007, JoeHill wrote:
> That's the strange thing. I click 'run todisc now', and the entire GUI
> disappears. The only thing I see after that is the previews, then a
> dialogue saying 'todisc is finished', then the GUI reappears. I don't see
> anything at all which shows the command being run, there is no log output
> in the directory I specified or in /tmp.

The GUI disappearing is by design - at that point the terminal should be the 
focus. ( see next comment )

> Is the GUI supposed to show the terminal output somewhere? I don't see it
> at all.

Does running the gui not bring up a terminal ?  It can not run without one.  
If one does not come up there is something wrong with your 
tovidgui-fancy.desktop: it should have Terminal=true in it.
Possibly the desktop enviornment you are running is not XDG (freedesktop.org) 
compliant.
You can always run 'todiscgui -f' from a terminal

grepper

Re: [Tovid-users] tovid gui fancy: previews and output

[JoeHill <jo...@te...>]

grepper wrote:=20

> On Saturday 20 October 2007, JoeHill wrote:
> > Kept it relatively simple, but used switched menus with quick menu for
> > speed. Added four AVI's, changed the font and aligned the title 'north'=
. =20
>=20
> Hm, what version of tovid ? svn ?

Rev 2381, from today.
=20
> > The GUI disappears, which I wasn't expecting, and I don't see any output
> > anywhere, though I did specify an output dir. The preview comes out like
> > so:
> >
> > http://www.freeyourmachine.org/todiscgui_1.png =20
>=20
> yikes

Yeah :-\
=20
> > I go through each preview (4), then it says that todisc is finished run=
ning
> > and nothing happens. I never get a chance to answer as to whether the
> > previews are 'ok'. =20
>=20
> strange, it should prompt you unless you use -noask
>=20
> I would have to see todisc.log and terminal output to see what is up.
> (which should include the command lines that todisc is running)

That's the strange thing. I click 'run todisc now', and the entire GUI
disappears. The only thing I see after that is the previews, then a dialogue
saying 'todisc is finished', then the GUI reappears. I don't see anything at
all which shows the command being run, there is no log output in the direct=
ory
I specified or in /tmp.

Is the GUI supposed to show the terminal output somewhere? I don't see it at
all.

I did try running the videos that I used through tovid, just to make sure t=
hey
were at least not causing a puke during the conversion process, and that pa=
rt
came out okay.

> Does the same command line work from a terminal ( ie. without using the=20
> GUI ) ?

I don't have anything to paste in from output, so I'd have to just run what=
 I
would guess is the appropriate command line. I'm heading out for a bit, but
I'll give it a shot in the AM.
=20
> grepper
>=20
> P.S
> It works here, though my local copy is more recent than svn, containing s=
ome=20
> new putterings to do with sideshows.  If your svn copy is not too recent =
you=20
> may be running into the bug I mentioned in passing to Anne, where non=20
> compliant files are not symlinked properly when doing switched menus or=20
> titlesets.

--=20
JoeHill
++++++++++++++++++++
   Were-Bender: Oh boy, I feel like a car in a candy store. =20

Re: [Tovid-users] tovid gui fancy: previews and output

[grepper <gr...@gm...>]

On Saturday 20 October 2007, JoeHill wrote:
> Kept it relatively simple, but used switched menus with quick menu for
> speed. Added four AVI's, changed the font and aligned the title 'north'.

Hm, what version of tovid ? svn ?

> The GUI disappears, which I wasn't expecting, and I don't see any output
> anywhere, though I did specify an output dir. The preview comes out like
> so:
>
> http://www.freeyourmachine.org/todiscgui_1.png

yikes

> I go through each preview (4), then it says that todisc is finished running
> and nothing happens. I never get a chance to answer as to whether the
> previews are 'ok'.

strange, it should prompt you unless you use -noask

I would have to see todisc.log and terminal output to see what is up.
(which should include the command lines that todisc is running)

Does the same command line work from a terminal ( ie. without using the 
GUI ) ?

grepper

P.S
It works here, though my local copy is more recent than svn, containing some 
new putterings to do with sideshows.  If your svn copy is not too recent you 
may be running into the bug I mentioned in passing to Anne, where non 
compliant files are not symlinked properly when doing switched menus or 
titlesets.

[Tovid-users] tovid gui fancy: previews and output

[JoeHill <jo...@te...>]

Just tried my first run at the fancy GUI.

Kept it relatively simple, but used switched menus with quick menu for spee=
d.
Added four AVI's, changed the font and aligned the title 'north'.

The GUI disappears, which I wasn't expecting, and I don't see any output
anywhere, though I did specify an output dir. The preview comes out like so:

http://www.freeyourmachine.org/todiscgui_1.png

I go through each preview (4), then it says that todisc is finished running=
 and
nothing happens. I never get a chance to answer as to whether the previews =
are
'ok'.

Now someone will surely say 'you missed something painfully obvious' and I =
will
be very embarassed.

--=20
JoeHill
++++++++++++++++++++
"Please select mode of death: quick and painless or slow and horrible."
 "Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call." -Fry=20
 "You have selected slow and horrible." -Automated voice=20
 "Great choice." -Bender=20

Re: [Tovid-users] makevcd and slides

[grepper <gr...@gm...>]

On Saturday 22 September 2007, grepper wrote:
> There are whole blocks that need to be put in an if/then that will save
> time as well -  I haven't got around to that yet, soooo

Shaved the time in half by removing uneeded operations.

88 images SVCD slideshow:
"todisc took 00:02:32.000 to finish on  AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2900+ 2000.331 mhz"

I could cut that down more by not doing stats and chapters stuff on every 
image - but its tough to figure out when to do that and when not without 
another option like -slideshow, which I have been avoiding.
I haven't commited yet, I want to test the new changes as they are extensive.

grepper

[Tovid-users] todisc update: -quick-menu works with -background VIDEO now

[grepper <gr...@gm...>]

Just thought I would keep potential svn testers current.

=46rom the svn log:

"Log:
* -quick-menu no longer needs a -showcase VIDEO, a
  -background VIDEO will suffice
  If both -showcase VIDEO and -background VIDEO are
  given, only the showcase video will be animated -
  The background video will become a static image taken
  from a frame at the -bgvideo-seek position"

This will allow making a very rapid 'text' menu with an animated background.
On my machine a 20 second menu takes about 60 seconds to make.

grepper

Re: [Tovid-users] Error running Todisc

[Robert S. <gr...@gm...>]

On Monday 20 August 2007, Gunstick wrote:
> > Duh, I think I know what is going on.  How old is your ffmpeg ?
> > "ffmpeg -version", or even just "ffmpeg -i" should give an idea.

> > The change to using bits happened about a year ago, and I"m betting your 
> > ffmpeg version is at least that old or older.  I think I will go back to 
> >using 224KiB with the extension, which seemed to work ok even for older 
> > versions.  Can you report both your ffmpeg version and as well test
> > -bufsize 224KiB ?

Since you didn't comment on trying out -bufsize 224KiB I assume you didn't 
have time to test it ?

> Vanilla ubuntu 7.04 (feisty) here. The distrib which is the most
> probable candidate for tovid users :-)
> ffmpeg Version: 3:0.cvs20060823-3.1ubuntu4
> Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/
> ffmpeg_0.cvs20060823-3.1ubuntu4_i386.deb
>
> $ ffmpeg -version
> 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)
> ffmpeg      SVN-rUNKNOWN
> libavutil   3211264
> libavcodec  3345152
> libavformat 3278080

Yep, looks to be a few weeks before the change to bits, and almost exactly a 
year old.  In any case, 0.31 was just released, and -bufsize has been changed 
(back) to 224KiB to allow support of older ffmpeg's.  Thanks for the report !

grepper

Re: [Tovid-users] "WARN: attempt to update aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3; skipping"

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

On 7/31/07, rodrigo <rod...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm trying to burn 2 movies to a DVD. One has 16:9 aspect and the other,
> 4:3.
>
> When I author the dvd, the following warning appears when it comes to
> the second (4:3) movie:
>
> "WARN: attempt to update aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3; skipping"
>
> What happens is that the second movie is stretched to 16:9 format. I
> took a screenshot here: http://tinyurl.com/377m6d
>
>
> How can I correct that?

Use -titlesets and -topmenu in your makexml command. Titles in the
same titleset must have the same aspect ratio, a/v properties, and
resolution/frame rate.

Joe

[Tovid-users] "WARN: attempt to update aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3; skipping"

[rodrigo <rod...@gm...>]

I'm trying to burn 2 movies to a DVD. One has 16:9 aspect and the other,
4:3.

When I author the dvd, the following warning appears when it comes to
the second (4:3) movie: 

"WARN: attempt to update aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3; skipping"

What happens is that the second movie is stretched to 16:9 format. I
took a screenshot here: http://tinyurl.com/377m6d


How can I correct that?



Here's the output of makexml and makedvd commands:

$ makexml -menu REANIMATOR.menu.mpg REANIMATOR.mpg BRIDE.mpg -out
REANIMATOR
--------------------------------
makexml
A script to generate XML for authoring a VCD, SVCD, or DVD.
Part of the tovid suite, version 0.30
http://www.tovid.org
--------------------------------
Adding a titleset-level menu using file: REANIMATOR.menu.mpg
    REANIMATOR.menu.mpg has aspect 133 (standard).
    REANIMATOR.mpg has aspect 177 (widescreen).
Adding title: REANIMATOR.mpg as title number 1 of titleset 1
    Calculating the duration of the video with:
        idvid -terse "REANIMATOR.mpg"
    This may take a few minutes, so please be patient...
    The duration of the video is 01:26:09
    BRIDE.mpg has aspect 133 (standard).
Adding title: BRIDE.mpg as title number 2 of titleset 1
    Calculating the duration of the video with:
        idvid -terse "BRIDE.mpg"
    This may take a few minutes, so please be patient...
    The duration of the video is 01:36:26
Closing titleset 1 with 2 title(s).
Done. The resulting XML was written to REANIMATOR.xml.
You can now author, image and/or burn the disc by running:
    makedvd "REANIMATOR.xml"
Thanks for using makexml!
rodrigo@starkey:~/Desktop/dvdcreation$ makedvd REANIMATOR.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/rodrigo/Desktop/dvdcreation/REANIMATOR.xml
<!-- makexml 0.30 -->
Putting output in ./REANIMATOR/
=========================================================
Warning! Making a DVD image larger than a standard single-sided DVD.
Current DVD image is 4534MB.
=========================================================
Authoring DVD-Video disc structure, estimated to require 4534MB.
Creating disc structure with the following command:
dvdauthor -x "/home/rodrigo/Desktop/dvdcreation/REANIMATOR.xml"
=========================================================
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvd...@li...>

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

STAT: Processing REANIMATOR.menu.mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.178 .. 4.148
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.178 .. 4.178
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.178 .. 0.178
STAT: VOBU 7 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 REANIMATOR.mpg...
STAT: VOBU 8576 at 2263MB, 2 PGCS
INFO: Video pts = 0.500 .. 5170.498
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.500 .. 5173.012

STAT: Processing BRIDE.mpg...
WARN: attempt to update aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3; skipping
STAT: VOBU 18125 at 4526MB, 2 PGCS
INFO: Video pts = 0.500 .. 5786.613
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.500 .. 5786.580
STAT: VOBU 18133 at 4527MB, 2 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 16:9
INFO: Resolution: 720x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc

STAT: fixed 7 VOBUS                         
STAT: fixed 18133 VOBUS                         
INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning REANIMATOR/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
=========================================================
Disc structure successfully created in directory: REANIMATOR.
Authoring completed.
If you'd like to preview the disc before burning, try:
    gxine "dvd://home/rodrigo/Desktop/dvdcreation/REANIMATOR"
You can burn the disc with a command like this:
    makedvd -burn "REANIMATOR"
=========================================================
Thanks for using makedvd!

Re: [Tovid-users] tovid twice?

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

Hi, please note that this list isn't used any longer. The new list is
at groups.google.com/group/tovid-users . You can subscribe from there.

On 7/19/07, Peter Lesterhuis <pet...@ti...> wrote:
> Hi
> When I am starting todisc I get this message:
> "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/tovid
> Exiting..."
> But ... I have only one version running. In /usr/bin/ there is only one
> "tovid".
> I am running tovid-0.30-4 on fedora7.
> What should I do to solve this?

Apparently 'type -a tovid' reports tovid twice for one installation.
When this happens, it may mean that you have your PATH environment
variable is redundant -- /usr/bin could be listed twice if you 'echo
$PATH'. For each /usr/bin in PATH, typa -a will report an instance of
tovid.

You can do one of a few things:
 * fix your path if it is indeed redundant
 * install the development version of tovid (from Subversion checkout)
which uses version numbers to find multiple tovid installations. Two
tovids of the same version won't cause an error.
 * remove the multiple installation finder in /usr/bin/tovid-init

Joe

[Tovid-users] tovid twice?

[Peter L. <pet...@ti...>]

Hi
When I am starting todisc I get this message:
"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/tovid
Exiting..."
But ... I have only one version running. In /usr/bin/ there is only one 
"tovid".
I am running tovid-0.30-4 on fedora7.
What should I do to solve this?
Peter

Re: [Tovid-users] tovid Sourceforge mailing list closed: new list is on Google Groups

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

On 7/17/07, Joe Friedrichsen <pen...@gm...> wrote:
>  * posting is easier. You can post by web or mail.

Forgot to add: you don't have to worry about the 5-post minimum to
post URLs in the group as well.

Joe

[Tovid-users] tovid Sourceforge mailing list closed: new list is on Google Groups

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

As mentioned earlier by wapcaplet, tovid has moved hosts to Google
Code. The new user list is a Google Group:

tovid-users (at) googlegroups.com
groups.google.com/group/tovid-users

Google Groups are especially nice since:
 * the search is better. In addition to Google searching in the list,
if you use words in your subject that match previous posts, Google
will point those older posts out for you without any mouse clicking --
a new box just shows up.
 * reading is easier. You can read three different ways: web, mail, RSS.
 * posting is easier. You can post by web or mail.

Thanks!
Joe

Re: [Tovid-users] Proposed: move tovid to Google hosting

[Eric P. <wap...@gm...>]

We've moved!

Forum announcement:
http://www.createphpbb.com/tovid/viewtopic.php?p=3568&mforum=tovid#3568

Re: [Tovid-users] how to make tovid add black bars just like DeVeDe?

[Riviere I. S. <sv...@ri...>]

Rodrigo,

If you really want to do this, you can use avidemux2 (Not part of the 
tovid suite).
Load the file, choose DVD video format, select 'filters' and then 'Add 
black borders'. You will have to calculate manually what border size to 
put in.

Regards,
Steven.

Joe Friedrichsen wrote:
> On 7/14/07, rodrigo <rod...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> Joe, I want to scale the widescreen into fullscreen, adding black bars
>>     
> I'm sorry, but this is not possible with tovid. DeVeDe's behavior
>
>   

Re: [Tovid-users] how to make tovid add black bars just like DeVeDe?

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

On 7/14/07, rodrigo <rod...@gm...> wrote:
> Joe, I want to scale the widescreen into fullscreen, adding black bars
> and shrinking the movie, what's this technique called? Letterboxing? To
> explain better I took a screenshot, please take a look:
> http://tinyurl.com/2mfsh6
>
> the left video was created with tovid and the right with DeVeDe.
> I would like to do the same as the right one, using tovid, but haven't
> figured out yet. Is it possible?

Hi Rodrigo,

I'm sorry, but this is not possible with tovid. DeVeDe's behavior
looks to be buggy, or inefficient :-) If you burn the tovid mpeg to a
DVD, your television will automatically do the letterboxing. DeVeDe is
wasting bits on encoding black pixels. tovid uses the whole 720x480
frame to capture the details; it looks like DeVeDe is using about 30%
of the frame for just black bars, which means the actual video will
have lower quality.

Joe

Re: [Tovid-users] how to make tovid add black bars just like DeVeDe?

[rodrigo <rod...@gm...>]

Joe, I want to scale the widescreen into fullscreen, adding black bars
and shrinking the movie, what's this technique called? Letterboxing? To
explain better I took a screenshot, please take a look:
http://tinyurl.com/2mfsh6

the left video was created with tovid and the right with DeVeDe.
I would like to do the same as the right one, using tovid, but haven't
figured out yet. Is it possible?

Em Qua, 2007-07-11 =C3=A0s 22:40 -0600, Joe Friedrichsen escreveu:
> On 7/11/07, rodrigo <rod...@gm...> wrote:
> > Greetings...
> >
> > I want to encode a DivX 576x304 video, but I want tovid to add black
> > bars, so I can get a 720x480 mpeg2 file, just like the DeVeDe
> > application does. How can I accomplish this?
>=20
> This is automatically done by tovid. tovid will recognize that your
> file is widescreen and will encode it that way. If you use the GUI
> (tovidgui), then you will need to specify the aspect ratio.
> Unfortunately, the GUI isn't as smart as the command line.
>=20
> Joe
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Re: [Tovid-users] Proposed: move tovid to Google hosting

[Eric P. <wap...@gm...>]

Which of these two web interfaces would you rather use on a semi-regular basis?

http://code.google.com/p/tovid/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tovid

It's a no-brainer.

Eric

Re: [Tovid-users] Proposed: move tovid to Google hosting

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

Just a follow-up. . .

> Plan of action:
> I will move my berlios project (vidprofile) to Google Code to learn how to
> move svn repositories and update the other services. Having one round of
> mistakes and learning will make tovid's move much easier.

This worked out rather smoothly -- code.google.com/p/vidprofile .
Shall I try it with tovid and then we can see how it looks?

Joe

[Tovid-users] Proposed: move tovid to Google hosting

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

Proposed: move tovid to Google hosting

Existing assets:
 1) Sourceforge project page (sf.net/projects/tovid)
  * download host & history
  * mailing lists & history
  * svn host & history
  * web host
  * bug tracker
 2) Forums (createphpbb.com/tovid)
 3) IRC (chat.freenode.net/#tovid)
 4) Wiki (tovid.wikia.com)
 5) Fresheat listing (freshmeat.net/projects/tovid)
 (6. Berlios project page)

Google Code offerings:
 1) Google Code project page (ex: code.google.com/p/tovid)
  * download host & history
  * svn host & history
  * bug/issue tracker
 2) Google Groups:
  * mailing lists (ex: groups.google.com/group/tovid-users)
  * image hosting
  * page hosting


My recommendation:

Discontinue using sourceforge and berlios sites and services and move to
Google Code hosting. Discontinue using the createphpbb forums and move to
Google Groups. Keep IRC, the wiki, and Freshmeat.

Considerations:
 1) Moving: In moving to Google hosting, there are a few things that we
    __cannot__ move:
  * mailing list archives
  * forum archives
  * bugs and feature requests (well, we can move these, but one-at-a-time and
    by-a-human)
  * download counts
  * tovid's web/ftp space (most can be moved to the project or groups portal,
    but not as-is: Google limits the style of pages)
 2) Legacy: since some information cannot be moved, we should preserve it.
  * Reduce the Sourceforge project page to only the mailing list archives and
    old version downloads.
  * Lock the forums so that no new posts may be made.


Plan of action:
I will move my berlios project (vidprofile) to Google Code to learn how to
move svn repositories and update the other services. Having one round of
mistakes and learning will make tovid's move much easier.

Thoughts and opinions?

Joe

Re: [Tovid-users] how to make tovid add black bars just like DeVeDe?

[Joe F. <pen...@gm...>]

On 7/11/07, rodrigo <rod...@gm...> wrote:
> Greetings...
>
> I want to encode a DivX 576x304 video, but I want tovid to add black
> bars, so I can get a 720x480 mpeg2 file, just like the DeVeDe
> application does. How can I accomplish this?

This is automatically done by tovid. tovid will recognize that your
file is widescreen and will encode it that way. If you use the GUI
(tovidgui), then you will need to specify the aspect ratio.
Unfortunately, the GUI isn't as smart as the command line.

Joe