Tovid package with dependencies?

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I have been using DVDFlick and avi2dvd in XP - I now want to do the same in opensuse. As an alternative to running DVDFlick/wine (not sure if this does work - older ver does I’m told, the latest - no - I’m not sure about avi2dvd/wine I googled and didn’t get any hits) however Tovid has been suggested by some on this forum as an alternative. Those of yo that use this - are you happy with the quality of the output (video and audio quality and sync)?

Also I ran at Yast>install software>Tovid to install and Yast reported lack of dependency’s - I look at the Tovid site and see ‘the list’ - is there a sequence of installation that needs to be followed or better yet is there a RPM package available that has everything together?

Thank you

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Are you installing this from Packman? Should be easy. What is the error?

Have you tried devede?? or Mandvd??

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I am installing from YaST with Packman as one of the sources… I get the following

no valid solution found with just resolvables of best archetecture.
-make solver run with ALL possibilities
libavcodec52 cannot be installed due to missing dependancies

  • install libtheora) although it would change the vendor
  • do ot install libavcodec52
    -ignore this requirement just here

thanks

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accept

install libtheora) although it would change the vendor

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Hello, running 10.3 Gnome.

I have loaded Tovid from the YaST system, but I think I have an issue with the install - In application I have 2 icons - tovid GUI: fancy and tovid GUI: simple If I select “simple” nothing happens… If I select “fancy” I will get an application that looks like the image below

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This is nothing like that I see in the tutorials - so my frustration is pretty high as I have spent the better part of the day trying to get this to run and I could have been finished if I had used DVDFlick in XP

So what did I do wrong?

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It looks OK. Unless the extra stuff around the edge is actually a part of it and not some of your editing leftovers.

I have used tovid myself but I find devede much better and easier. Or Mandvd.

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I always run tovid from the command line.

Lets say I have a video called oldcpu.avi

Then I type:tovid -dvd -ntsc -normalize -in oldcpu.avi -out oldcpuand that will create a dvd compliant mpeg file called “oldcpu.mpg” converting it to ntsc fomat.

For a complete list of tovid options, type;
man tovid

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Thank you both…
I had though the interface that I have seen in the tutorials would be what I would get (all nice and graphic like linked -here-](http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Using_the_tovid_GUI_:simple_(tovidgui-s_)) this being more in tune to what I am was expecting - this must be a KDE or another distro front end.

But I got what I had posted before and I’m not sure what settings do what, I was hoping that it was intuitive - but I don’t find it that way or a tutorial for this interface. I want to convert an avi to iso with chapters every 10 min.

I will look at DeVeDe and the command line option. Quality of video being the driver here.

Thank you

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I just installed tovid from packman via Yast, had no dependency warnings. I tried opening it from the command line because it wouldn’t start from the menu. This is what I got:

shawnr@fastback2:~> tovid
=========================================================
  mpeg2enc    MISSING!
=========================================================
  mp2enc      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.
=========================================================
shawnr@fastback2:~>
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Do you have mjpegtools-1.9.0.0-0.pm.0 installed? If not, install it.

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I searched Webpin for mpeg2enc, and got a lot of gstreamer hits. I am running 11.1/KDE4. I searched for “package provides” in Yast and got encode2mpeg and gstreamer plugins bad. I installed those, and it works via CLI. The missing libs were in one of those packages. I still can’t get the menu entry to start the gui. I tried starting it from the command line also, and got a python error. I have reinstalled the package to no avail. I think I might try another app:)

shawnr@fastback2:~> makemenugui
tovidgui requires wxPython 2.6 or 2.8.
Please install or upgrade wxPython.
shawnr@fastback2:~>
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I just installed Devede. It stated that it could make DVD’s from several formats like .mov and others. My video camera exports in .mov format. I will give it a try.

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mjpegtools-1.9.0.0-0.pm.0 provides mpeg2enc and mp2enc. I believe you need the packman (and not videolan nor Novell) packaged version of that application for tovid to work.

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I actually had the packman version installed, and it still couldn’t find the missings apps. I am having a lot of trouble with 11.1/packman. I have amarok-packman installed now with the xine engine selected, and it still says it can’t play MP3’s.

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Well, I got amarok working by using this guide http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/multimedia/400119-check-your-multimedia-problem-ten-steps.html I wish the devs could streamline this somehow after install. I installed most of the restricted multimedia by hand, and still got some that weren’t from packman. They were probably pulled in as dependencies. Is there an easier way? I think I will try and play with the repo priorities in Yast.

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That did the trick. I set the packman repo to #1 in the yast priority dialouge, refreshed, and all of the remaining opensuse packages were updated to the packman version. Tovid might work now;)