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Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish?

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Subject Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish?
Date Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:53:23 -0400
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

> despen@verizon.net wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> despen@verizon.net wrote:
>>>> philo <philo@invalid.not> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 04/26/2011 03:43 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>> I am trying to make an DVD ISO of a 3.5GB mpeg.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Devedee is still going 4 hours later saying 1/4 and 100%.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> at least 7 GB of mpg has built up in the temporary directory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WTF is happening? will it ever stop? where is the ISO?
>>>>> I'd stop it and get rid of any temporary file created
>>>>> Personally I use k3b for burning iso burning...
>>>>> Unfortunately  many of the other burning apps I've tried just did not it
>>>> devede creates isos, not burn them.
>>>>
>>>> I've had it take a long time but 4 hours is a lot.
>>>> It does need a lot of CPU.
>>> well its finished BUT it said the size would be 2.3GB. but the actual
>>> ISO is 7.3GB!!! WTF is happening?
>>
>> Hard to say.
>>
>> There are 8.5GB DVDs to put the file on.
>>
>> There's an "adjust disk usage" thing that lets you
>> control the ultimate ISO file size.
>
> The actual tunable turned out to be 'video bit rate' or something.
>
>
> The 'adjust disk image' does nothing, it seems.

I seem to remember it doing something for me.
I had a file that was just over 4.7...

But as long as you found a solution.

> And the telltale that goes from 0-100% is valueless. It goes to 100%
> about 1/4 of the way through.

I'd have to look at the code, but likely the underlying library doesn't
provide good numbers so they are taking a wild guess.  You could see if
there's a place to file a bug report.

> This is probably the worst piece of Linux software I have used. But
> then it appears to be written in Python, so no surprises there..

I  just  rewrote  a large  amount  of  PerlGtk  as  Python Qt4  and  was
pleasantly surprised at Python. I'd still pick Perl first but I couldn't
find PerlQt4. I didn't see any major failings in Python.

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devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-26 21:43 +0100
  Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-04-26 16:23 -0500
    Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-26 17:43 -0400
      Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-26 23:43 +0100
        Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-26 21:48 -0400
          Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 08:22 +0100
            Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-27 10:41 +0000
              Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 17:58 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 13:10 -0400
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 18:18 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 16:59 -0400
            Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 12:53 -0400
              Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 13:08 -0400
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 18:17 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-28 11:05 +0000
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-28 12:20 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-28 09:10 -0400
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-29 08:20 +0000
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-29 08:20 +0000
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-04-29 21:11 +0000
  Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Mysterious Traveler <mysterious.traveler@dot.net> - 2011-04-27 02:20 -0500

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