using the scripts from tovid with the current stable ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330 fails because ffmpeg now has a new command-line syntax for bitrates. there's a patch http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/patches/tovid-0.30.2.patch.gz but it's buggy, so I fixed it diff to ebuild and (working) patch following...
Created attachment 117421 [details, diff] tovid-0.30.2-ffmpeg.patch patch mentioned above
Created attachment 117422 [details] diff to tovid-0.30.ebuild adding the patch from above
fixed in cvs, thanks for the patch!