QDVDAuthor: Slideshow rendering issue

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello
I have made progress since the response I got to my ffmpeg issue.
But, while attempting to create a slide-show using QDVDAuthor (instead of
QSlideshow like I was trying before,) sometimes the individual chapters will
just stop rendering.  I can't remember for sure how many chapters were set to
render at once, but I changed the setting to "1" and tried again.  I started the
slide-show over again, and started the rendering process, and then went to bed.  
About eight hours later, only three out of twelve chapters had completed, and
one was stalled at about 41%.

Here is a screen-shot that will give you some idea about how many pictures are
in each chapter:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/QDVDAuthor-Screenshots-0008.jpg

During the time that I thought QDVDAuthor was rendering my slide-show chapters,
nothing else was being done on this computer.

Right now, rendering only one chapter (the only reason it is rendering now is
because I right clicked on it and chose "Re-Render") this is what the resources
on our system look like:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/QDVDAuthor-Screenshots-0009.jpg

As you can see, only one processor (this is a quad-core processor) is maxing out
at 100%.  Also, only about 1.2GiB of memory (out of the 8 that are on this
system) is being used.  So at least on the surface anyway, it's not like our
system is being over taxed :)

I am at a loss as to what might be the issue here.  It was implied elsewhere in
this message, but for the sake of clarity, I will restate some relevant
statistics about our system:
1. Processor: Intel Xeon 2Ghz Quad-core
2. Memory: 4x2Gib, for a total of 8Gib.

I know that all four processors are used to their full capacity when I compile a
lot of different projects from source code all at the same time.  This is with no
noticeable reduction in the usability of the system.

Thank you,
Steven P. Ulrick

P.S.: I really apologize for my last two question to this list.  Some of the
information that you gave me I did need to know.  But a lot of it you needed to
tell me because I was too lazy to look into it just a LITTLE bit further.  So, I
apologize, and hope that I do not become a nuisance.

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[Varol Okan-2]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:

> Hello
> I have made progress since the response I got to my ffmpeg issue.
> But, while attempting to create a slide-show using QDVDAuthor (instead of
> QSlideshow like I was trying before,) sometimes the individual chapters will
> just stop rendering.  I can't remember for sure how many chapters were set to
> render at once, but I changed the setting to "1" and tried again.  I started the
> slide-show over again, and started the rendering process, and then went to bed.  
> About eight hours later, only three out of twelve chapters had completed, and
> one was stalled at about 41%.
>  

Even if it only shows 41% take  a look to see if it might have rendered
the whole slideshow.
> Here is a screen-shot that will give you some idea about how many pictures are
> in each chapter:
> http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/QDVDAuthor-Screenshots-0008.jpg
>  
Did you add background audio as well ? If so what audio format, mp3,
ac3, ogg ?
Did your slidhow have short vids included ? Can you put one ( the
shortest ) on a server so I can take a peek at it ?
> During the time that I thought QDVDAuthor was rendering my slide-show chapters,
> nothing else was being done on this computer.
>
> Right now, rendering only one chapter (the only reason it is rendering now is
> because I right clicked on it and chose "Re-Render") this is what the resources
> on our system look like:
> http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/QDVDAuthor-Screenshots-0009.jpg
>  
For now this seems to be the workaround, to start each slideshow
manually until I debug this issue and fix it.  Sorry.

> As you can see, only one processor (this is a quad-core processor) is maxing out
> at 100%.  Also, only about 1.2GiB of memory (out of the 8 that are on this
> system) is being used.  So at least on the surface anyway, it's not like our
> system is being over taxed :)
>
> I am at a loss as to what might be the issue here.  It was implied elsewhere in
> this message, but for the sake of clarity, I will restate some relevant
> statistics about our system:
> 1. Processor: Intel Xeon 2Ghz Quad-core
> 2. Memory: 4x2Gib, for a total of 8Gib.
>  

What a slow box, only ONE Xeon Quad core ... ;)
My development box has 1/4th of your spec.

> I know that all four processors are used to their full capacity when I compile a
> lot of different projects from source code all at the same time.  This is with no
> noticeable reduction in the usability of the system.
>
> Thank you,
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
> P.S.: I really apologize for my last two question to this list.  Some of the
> information that you gave me I did need to know.  But a lot of it you needed to
> tell me because I was too lazy to look into it just a LITTLE bit further.  So, I
> apologize, and hope that I do not become a nuisance.
>  

No problem, actually I believe if you have this questions, other people
will too, so I will try to put up some more vids on Youtube to show how
to use the dialogs or how to create a slideshow etc. It all helps, now
if I only would have enough time to do all of this :)

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[Varol Okan-2]

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Okay, I played around with the slideshows a bit and hope I fixed your issue.

You can use the latest CVS source to give it a try.

Varol :)

Varol Okan wrote:

> Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>> Hello
>> I have made progress since the response I got to my ffmpeg issue.
>> But, while attempting to create a slide-show using QDVDAuthor (instead of
>> QSlideshow like I was trying before,) sometimes the individual chapters will
>> just stop rendering.  I can't remember for sure how many chapters were set to
>> render at once, but I changed the setting to "1" and tried again.  I started the
>> slide-show over again, and started the rendering process, and then went to bed.  
>> About eight hours later, only three out of twelve chapters had completed, and
>> one was stalled at about 41%.
>>  
> Even if it only shows 41% take  a look to see if it might have rendered
> the whole slideshow.
>> Here is a screen-shot that will give you some idea about how many pictures are
>> in each chapter:
>> http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/QDVDAuthor-Screenshots-0008.jpg
>>  
> Did you add background audio as well ? If so what audio format, mp3,
> ac3, ogg ?
> Did your slidhow have short vids included ? Can you put one ( the
> shortest ) on a server so I can take a peek at it ?
>> During the time that I thought QDVDAuthor was rendering my slide-show chapters,
>> nothing else was being done on this computer.
>>
>> Right now, rendering only one chapter (the only reason it is rendering now is
>> because I right clicked on it and chose "Re-Render") this is what the resources
>> on our system look like:
>> http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/QDVDAuthor-Screenshots-0009.jpg
>>  
> For now this seems to be the workaround, to start each slideshow
> manually until I debug this issue and fix it.  Sorry.
>> As you can see, only one processor (this is a quad-core processor) is maxing out
>> at 100%.  Also, only about 1.2GiB of memory (out of the 8 that are on this
>> system) is being used.  So at least on the surface anyway, it's not like our
>> system is being over taxed :)
>>
>> I am at a loss as to what might be the issue here.  It was implied elsewhere in
>> this message, but for the sake of clarity, I will restate some relevant
>> statistics about our system:
>> 1. Processor: Intel Xeon 2Ghz Quad-core
>> 2. Memory: 4x2Gib, for a total of 8Gib.
>>  
> What a slow box, only ONE Xeon Quad core ... ;)
> My development box has 1/4th of your spec.
>> I know that all four processors are used to their full capacity when I compile a
>> lot of different projects from source code all at the same time.  This is with no
>> noticeable reduction in the usability of the system.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Steven P. Ulrick
>>
>> P.S.: I really apologize for my last two question to this list.  Some of the
>> information that you gave me I did need to know.  But a lot of it you needed to
>> tell me because I was too lazy to look into it just a LITTLE bit further.  So, I
>> apologize, and hope that I do not become a nuisance.
>>  
> No problem, actually I believe if you have this questions, other people
> will too, so I will try to put up some more vids on Youtube to show how
> to use the dialogs or how to create a slideshow etc. It all helps, now
> if I only would have enough time to do all of this :)
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