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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...