When you update the value of a progress indicator, it's marked as needing display the next time through the runloop (with setNeedsDisplay: YES). Your code, however, never returns …

Quote: Originally Posted by smeger When you update the value of a progress indicator, it's marked as needing display the next time through the runloop (with setNeedsDisplay: YES…

He already said that, for some reason, an NSTimer is really impractical for what he's doing. I'd think that indicates a problem with the program's structure, but y'know, whatever. …

Thanks for the responses. I was hoping to avoid pthreads as it's a bit overkill. As for some people who are unhappy with my design I can elaborate as to why it's uncomfortable to…

Couldn't you just pass those things in as the timer's userInfo object (e.g., in an NSDictionary)?

I don't think that would work. If I declared the array on the stack and then passed it into the user info of the timer wouldn't it already be popped off the stack by the time the …

Yeah, it would be off the stack; that's why I suggested an NSDictionary. Actually, the userInfo object is declared to be an id, so it should be an Objective-C object, anyway (it's …

Ahh, I didn't know the userinfo got retained by the timer. That's very interesting. Thanks for the info! gabe

i've downloaded various movies and things from various share and pay forums and for some reason toast hates 'em toast usually won't even recognize it as a file to burn and on th…

oh, btw, they're always either avi's or mpgs, etc., in case that wasn't clear any help greatly appreciated! i would love to put 500 short avi's (totally only 2-3 gig) onto a 4.3 …

Are you burning DVD Data or DVD Video? You need to convert all the clips to MPEG2 (which will make them larger or lower quality) and burn a DVD Video if you want it to work in set-…

i download movies from limewire as well as pay sites i belong to, and they DL as avi's or mpgs or mov's. so it's video (they're movies - - not data), rt? are you saying i need to…

You are not understanding. If you want these to work in a DVD player, then they will have to be converted to "video DVD", and one of the things along that process is converting th…

you sound very very knowledgeable ok, so i have this FFmpegX converter thingy can i put these avi's in a format playable by a dvd player by selecting, what?, "DVD mpeg2enc"? or …

btw, i'm experimenting converting an ".avi" to dvd mpeg 2 enc, and just so you know, it is VERY slow going. it's a 700 MB file, and it will prob take hours. it's at 3% done after…

lastly, this 700 MB file i'm converting to dvd mpeg2enc looks like it's gonna be about 8 gig when the conversion is done? is this to be expected? that would be a roughly 10 to 1 …

With FFMpegX, you can change how bit the MPEG-2 file is going to end up by clicking on the "Video" tab and using the bitrate calculator to change the VIdeo Bitrate to fit on 1 DVD.

ok, i'll try that, thanks will it affect how long it'll take. my 700 MB conversion has taken 3 hrs and is 38% done? thanks again

fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB i did that video tab / bitrate calculator thing and it says "170 mins…

Conversion to MPEG2 can take a while, espically on a pokey machine. To get 10 hours of video on a DVD you need to encode them all at about 1002kbps (in MPEG2, of course). Currentl…

thanks for the info, i'll experiment. btw, i have a G5, twin 2.5 mhz when i took a quick look at how it was doing (after about 5 hrs, about halfway done), there was no sound. i …

ok it finally finished converting. the final file was 10 gig so, it wouldn't fit to one disc. i'll have to try changing that bit rate as mduell suggests BUT, when i popped the …

ok, i did the whole thing again and again it's asking where the audio component is (and it's not accepting as a 'valid' audio file the similarly named file w/.wav at the end, which…

Quote: Originally Posted by smileLP fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB) That's WAY too much to fit…

best thing is to just get a phillips DVP 642 that will play your .avi files without conversion. They're like $60 and worth every penny. If you must make a DVD, i think you're on t…