Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:18:33 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net tcQLDJXnnawSqlxFOHKzJe/8eVdYBjtMOGcMDrM1LtPfOeEFfHJFjY2afI2gyAL2aVE/skoZHUDT0ibOTIEPVtxcycUmkYI89t7maiohy14PxH9G61LMpk8t31ETqAWd NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="lfxaBPDILgfH7Hu7EbT4TwJnDNPmdedyoZS440IH3ldF/u73ezWSvaUib8b2IBgx7oFanDvuc+iozuVZIJEzxOuvt/Q6DVxLDsu5XkWxqxoJ+qdunJ116eeN09pXv7TO"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:YWn04BxeClsYhelxp58kJb4N+nQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:949 despen@verizon.net wrote: > The Natural Philosopher writes: > >> goarilla wrote: >>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:22:46 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> 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.