Comments on: Now with Stitching, Chapters & MP4

By: st373n

st373n — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:37:49 +0000

Jdog, thats interesting to know that it did complete the conversion ok in Leopard, even with the applescript error . Thanks for the feedback.

By: jdog

jdog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:16:29 +0000

I also like how you reply to all the comments, too.
So, I did get the error message but let the file (~750mb) run to completion (the only way to tell it had run to completion was to check in the location where the new file was being written and, when it was able to playback, I knew it was done) and it did indeed convert the flv to mv4. Thanks, again for everything.

By: st373n

st373n — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:10:02 +0000

Hey jdog, yep thats a known Leopard bug – but pleased your liking what works.

By: jdog

jdog — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:05:19 +0000

Same error message: Illegal comparison or logical. (-1726)

I think it is because I am running leopard AND trying to convert a flv to dvd?

Other than this glitch (if it can be called a glitch), I love the software.

By: st373n

st373n — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:23:21 +0000

Hi /tmp is in the root of your harddisk but its a hidden folder,
choose Finder, Go, Go To Folder.. in the box type /tmp/retemp

By: SecretNinja

SecretNinja — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:23:09 +0000

Hello, I am having the same issue as robchadwick. Everything seems to be working perfectly but I just end up with the two files. I am not sure where to locate the /tmp/retemp/. I am at the point where it is asking me to select okay upon completion.

I am on a current generation iMac 3.06 with 8GB RAM.

Thanks!

By: st373n

st373n — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:39:23 +0000

Hi whitney there is no region code added by ReduxEncoder – perhaps it should add one or at least set a region of 0. I need to do a bit more work on the dvd section anyway as currently is doesn’t process more than a single file, but thanks for that info.

By: whitney

whitney — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:05:49 +0000

First of all, thank you for reviving the Visual Hub in this new format. I am sure that it will soon be the hit that Visual Hub once was. I have a question for you….I have converted and burned to disk two different files, but both times my DVD player refused to play the file, and displayed the notice “Playback prohibited by area limitations”. Is there some sort of regional coding that happens during the conversion that prohibits playback in North America? Or am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance for your advice and assistance.

By: st373n

st373n — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:14:54 +0000

Hi robbchadwick

When stitching files together the process of events is that first the files are converted to the output file, so if for example you input 2 avi files and export to m4v you should end up with 2 m4v files, these two files are then stitched together and output as a combined m4v file. Upon completion you then end up with 3 files, I have chosen not to automatically delete the two converted files because if the stitch were to fail then at least the time spent converting to another format is hopefully not wasted as you end up with playable files albeit not joined.

Regarding your issue it sounds as though for some reason the resulting stitched file is not being moved to the destination on completion , if you look inside /tmp/retemp/ you should find a file called reduxencoder_combined.mov which is the temporary stitched file. (Do this before clicking ok in the Conversion complete dialog and before closing ReduxEncoder otherwise the temp files are deleted)

However your problem will hopefully be resolved when I next release an updated ReduxEncoder as the stitching code has had quite a big makeover since last week. (It was starting the stitch when the first file had finished causing problems if the second file wasn’t ready)

By: robbchadwick

robbchadwick — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:19:26 +0000

Reply to the stitching issue:

I have two m4v files in the window. I change the place for the export to my desktop. I include just a filename for the file I want to be a combined file; but what I get is another copy of each of the files in the window … no combined file.

I thought perhaps the combined file was going someplace else; but I have used Easy Find, Find Any File & File Buddy and cannot find a combined file anywhere. I have repeated this exercise at least ten times. I know I must be doing something wrong; but I can’t see where I’m going astray.

Thanks for your help. BTW I am using a late 2008 Intel MacBook, running Snow Leopard. I have 4 gb of matched memory.