Thanks for the quick response Wapcaplet, i appreciate it. Anyway, I'm an error about the audio like before.
tory@Neji:~/transcode$ tovid -vcd -wide antitrust.avi antitrust
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tovid video conversion script
Version 0.18b
Written in 2004 by Eric Pierce
http://tovid.sourceforge.net/
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Probing video for information. This may take several minutes...
Input file is 640 x 272 at 23.976 fps.
Reported running time is 6513 seconds.
Source is not 29.970 fps. Adjusting to 29.970 fps.
Scaling and/or padding with letterbox bars
Letterboxing widescreen aspect to fit in 4:3 aspect
The encoding process is estimated to require 2240 MB of disk space.
You currently have 5981 MB available in this directory.
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Testing mplayer stability with -vc dummy option:
Test succeeded!
Creating WAV of audio stream with the following command:
mplayer -quiet -vo null -ao pcm "antitrust.avi" -vc dummy -aofile stream.wav
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with tovid.log reading
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
-aofile is deprecated. Use -ao pcm:file=<filename> instead.
cat: stream.wav: No such file or directory
**ERROR: [mp2enc] EOF in WAV header
**ERROR: [mp2enc] failure reading WAV file
++ WARN: [yuvfps] Converting from 23975999:1000000 to 30000:1001
tovid.log (END)
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What i did was i changed the "tovid" script in the installation folder of tovid 0.18 . Was i supposed to then re-run the configure script, so that the tovid command that is exectued when i type it in a shell is changed? or will that have done it by itself?
Encoding WAV to mpa format with the following command:
cat stream.wav | mp2enc -b 224 -V -o "antitrust.%d.mpa"
Audio encoding finished successfully
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Creating and encoding video stream using the following commands:
nice -n 0 mplayer -benchmark -nosound -noframedrop -noautosub -vo yuv4mpeg -vf-a dd pp=hb/vb/dr/al:f -vf-add hqdn3d -vf-add scale=352:180,expand=352:240 "antitru st.avi"
cat stream.yuv | yuvfps -r 30000:1001 -n -v 0 | nice -n 0 mpeg2enc -M 0 -a 2 -f 1 -F 4 -v 0 -n n -4 2 -2 1 --keep-hf -o "antitrust.%d.m1v"
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*** Encoding video: 99% complete. Estimated remaining time: 00:00:0-1
Encode stopped, killing all sub processes
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tovid encountered an error during encoding:
The audio stream did not encode properly, and no output file exists.
Please view the contents of tovid.log to see what went wrong.
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What i did was i changed the tovid script in the tovid 0.18 installation folder the way you said to. Was i supposed to then re-run the configure script? Or is something else going on here? I really appreaciate the help, thanks.