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

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

> goarilla wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:22:46 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> And the telltale that goes from 0-100% is valueless. It goes to 100%
>>> about 1/4 of the way through.
>>>
>>> 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..
>>
>> have some quarrel with python or with using scripting languages
>> for heavy GUI apps in general ?
> Both :-)
>
> But its more that the sort of person who choose python, tends to
> be..ahem..an enthusiastic amateur

Well, I chose Python.

If starting programming in 1964 makes me an amateur...

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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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