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

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despen@verizon.net wrote:
> 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...

says nothing about it.

Depends what you did in between.

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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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