Version 0.14 will have a status-report while encoding; assuming the length of the video is reported correctly (not always a safe assumption to make), you will get a line like this during video encoding:

I've been working hard on getting this functional, and it seems to have approached some stability. A similar line will most likely not be included for the other encoding phases (dumping audio, encoding audio, multiplexing) simply because those things take very little time in comparison to video encoding. Including a timer for the overall script wouldn't be too hard either; you just reminded me that I've been meaning to implement that. It will be in version 0.14.

very nice.

Indeed

Any clue about when you release tovid 0.14, wapcaplet, my hero!? Anyway, I have to get to bed now. In under 6 hours I have to get out of bed :P

I know what that's like. I work for an inventory service; I gotta be at work at 3am tomorrow. If I knew what was good for me, I'd be going to bed at 6pm. But I don't know what's good for me I'd rather stay up and hack!

I would really like to get 0.14 released sometime this week. I'm working on revamping the installer and seeing if there are easy features/fixes I can add to the other utilities. Soon, I hope.

cool.

I was wondering why it would be a bad idea to make denoise on by default instead of passing it as a option. I mean you seem to stress on the website that it *should* be used. Just curious...

Hmm, this seems to be the most popular thread by far in linuxanswers...I guess when the script is mature enough we can post links to it on other linux forums like videohelp.com, etc..What do you think?

Here is another interesting project:

http://varsha.sourceforge.net/

I've seriously been considering doing denoising by default. The only reason I can think not to is that the pp option and others may not be supported, but in that case a secondary denoiser will be used, and if not that, then it's the same as not denoising at all. It'd remove one more command-line option, which is definitely a good thing. I hope to eventually get the framerate matters resolved for all videos, and take out the -forcefps and -twopass options as well.

Varsha looks like a pretty nice program. I especially like the slideshow thing! I'll have to try it out sometime. Pity I still have no DVD burner on my Linux box

Im recently a total Linux convert. So ive been spending some hours finding replacement apps. I used autogk in windows. My friend just got a dvd player. And Im interested in changing my divx and xvid into ksvcd's. I see that you support svcd , will you support ksvcd and kvcd in the future? To my understanding it gives a divx quality that you can play on a standard dvd player. Would you ever add, like autogk, "make fit on 800mb, or two cd's etc.? Does it do two passes when converting? Does it need to?
I have lots more questions but I will leave it at these as im sure you are busy guy

When this thing becomes popular, we'll all pitch in and get a dvd burner for you.

You mean when the cost of DVD-burners decreases? :P
hehe, btw, wapcaplet, I have a DVD burner on my linux dual-box (NEC3500A or something..) so... you can "use mine" if you want. I mean to test different things, if you need

Meh, they're pretty cheap still i think. Sometimes you can get em for $70 shipped (on sale), so even if 7 people pitched in $10, we're good.
I have heard of ksvcd's, but they aren't as popular i think. But that would be something to look into in the future i say. Lets stick to regular stuff and get that running good first.
Just my opinion.

Yeah, I know... I think I bought my NEC3500A for 120$ included shipping... I do not have paypal or anything, so my option would be to withdraw dollars from my local bank and ship it over to the US in a letter...
Agreed.

Ive just started the first conversion to svcd from divx without normalizing. The processing started, and I left for Church. Im using the gui, and it doesn't look like anything was happening. Should I run tovidgui from the shell, or add it to my gnome menu? How can I tell if anything happened. I left when it said 3%. I read early in posts, that someone said it only convereted while the mouse was moving, maybe this happened to me as well.

Playing /home/ashley/fightclub.avi.
AVI file format detected.
AVI_NI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [DX50] 608x256 24bpp 23.976 fps 552.1 kbps (67.4 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
vo_yuv4mpeg: Using (default) progressive frame mode
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 608 x 256 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.38:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [yuv4mpeg] 608x256 => 608x256 Planar YV

How come it didn't detect my sound?

yeah, the gui is not what you should be using. It is basically just there to try out and to see how it looks. Use the script instead.

The no sound "error" is normal since the script encodes the video first then the audio.

Thankyou twice for the info.

I hope the developer get's a dvd writer soon. Maybe add a cod or money order POBOX address. I never touch paypal, i feel safer with plain old snail mail.

welcome.

Make sure to post any problems you run into with the script. That feedback is crucial.