The stabilization for Sox 14.2 (Bug 250671) has caused tovid to stop working. the "todisc" relies on the "-w" but it has been changed to "-2". I've backported the patches from thee tovid SVN to work with either version of SoX. Compile and run tested.
Created attachment 175929 [details, diff] Patch for new version of SoX
Created attachment 175930 [details, diff] patch to tovid ebuild
+*tovid-0.31-r1 (20 Dec 2008) + + 20 Dec 2008; <ssuominen@gentoo.org> +files/tovid-0.31-sox.patch, + +tovid-0.31-r1.ebuild: + Backported patch from tovid subversion to support new sox wrt #251706, + thanks to Salah Coronya. And pushed it straight to stable for amd64/x86. I hope this was the right call, as it seems.