[nzlug] Video files

[Nevyn]

I'm running Ubuntu and found something rather odd.
aptitude search tovid

returns:
c   tovid                           - collection of video disc authoring tools

apt-cache search tovid

returns:
absolutely nothing.

Trying to install it comes up with a "No package candidate" message.

On 6/6/07, Toby Collett <tcollett+lists at plan9.net.nz> wrote:
> tovid (tovid.sf.net) has an interactive GUI for setting up DVD's and command
> line tools if you want to automate it.
>
> Toby
>
> On 6/6/07, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> >
> > Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I've been encoding avi files into mpegs suitable for dvd's of late.
> > > It's all terribly repetitive and so I thought a bash script might be
> > > able to sort out the task for me. I can't seem to find a command line
> > > application that can report back the aspect ratio of a avi file. Does
> > > anyone know of a command that can do this?
> >
> > mplayer has an appropriate mode, designed for shell parsing.
> >
> > ffmpeg, as noted by another correspondent, can output this.
> >
> > The file command will output the size from the AVI header.
> >
> > transcode includes tools that can report this.
> >
> > Regards,
> >         Daniel