Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:53:23 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="jHG/q4CDuHQ12inYDCpZIQ"; logging-data="4777"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181J15LZcpRCPHNG87ivG1NF4wxkZsFi48=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wbd5Bf/yAsXzso8wUFknAnzVfw8= sha1:ruPVvl5iSTU7OaoXXMJCBk/fGPk= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:944 The Natural Philosopher writes: > despen@verizon.net wrote: >> The Natural Philosopher writes: >> >>> despen@verizon.net wrote: >>>> philo 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.