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

From despen@verizon.net
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish?
Date 2011-04-27 13:08 -0400
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despen@verizon.net writes:

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

Follow up.

Progress is calculated off file size.

An approach that is sure to fail.

They should never let the number hit 100%, perhaps a message,
"still running, taking longer than expected..."

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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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