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Hello! We'll try to solve this problem ASAP. Please let me know: 1) This problem occurs when start PicturesToExe v5.00 beta or when you start EXE file with created slide show or fullscreen Preview? 2) What protection software you use? I'll download and try it. 3) Can you run this slide show? http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip 4) What Windows you use and what CPU.

Yes, DVD burning works only under Windows 2000, XP, Vista

Harry, I've sent you the new key. If you plan to buy new video card it's a good choice to prefer NVIDIA Geforce 6600 or 7600 or ATI Radeon 9600 or X1600 It better to have 256 MB on board video memory now for future Windows Vista. For PTE v5.00 it's enough 128 MB. With more powerful video card Vista will work more fast (graphical interface of new Windows uses Direct3D with hardware accelleration as PicturesToExe v5.00).

Please don't set Large font in Windows. It brings a problem in many applications. This mode only increases size of fonts without enlarging of buttons, windows, etc. Set 120 dpi or higher instead of 96 dpi in Display properties dialog. In this mode Windows proportionally scales all controls in applications.

Thanks, Lin! I would like to add to Lin's observation that if don't take in attention question of video memory and time of loading, showing of images 1024x768 and 1600x1200 takes exactly same time. For video card it's important screen resolution, not images resolution. But on modern video cards like Geforce 6800 or Radeon X1600 no difference, because these video cards so powerful that can do everything. Even for 1920x1080 displays.

Yesterday I bought NOD32 for my home PC. This antivirus can work in special mode without popuping of splash screen or update windows.

Yes, it will work ideally on Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (or higher) and 128 MB of video memory.

Please try this slide show created in v5.00: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip How it plays on your PC? If this slide show also has problem with smoothness, please download and install latest drivers for your video card from ATI web site: www.ati.com

Probably I'll try to add playing of sound comments on timeline in v5.00

Hans, We will not continue works on v4.00 because it's difficult to work on two diffierent programs. And no sense. I I hope to fully replace old v4.48 with new v5.00 PicturesToExe v5.00 should be better in all aspects than previous version. If you don't like that we're using hardware accelleration and DirectX now, since v5.00 beta 9 you will able to turn on second CPU based graphical engine that works excellently on old PCs (with simple transition effects as earlier) and will work even under Windows 95 with very old video card. This old engine will be automatically turned on if slide show sees that no DirectX installed or very old video card. So you can entrust this choice on slide show. We will offer PicturesToExe v5.00 - $30 and PicturesToExe Deluxe v5.00 - $50 The only difference between simple and Deluxe editions - Video Builder in Deluxe edition.

Current beta supports all sound modes and synchronization in AVI and Video Builder. We're working on same thing for EXE/Preview now. Andrew, I sent you emails concerning Video Builder today.

I'm sorry for this problem! Kula slide show NOT infected. This slide show created in old version of PicturesToExe v3.60 and this false detection of AVG already happened two years ago Now it seems that authors of AVG antivirus forgot about this and again marks slide shows created in PTE v3.60 as virus. I'll write them again. If you can please write also to GriSoft it will help to solve this problem more quickly: Example of slide show created in v3.60: http://www.kulamaui.com/slideshow/kula.exe (20 MB) GriSoft, authors of AVG antivirus: http://grisoft.com p.s. it seems that we are not able to send a letter to GriSoft because technical support and any contact information only for registered users. We'll try to send the letter to sales department.

I'm very glad! Thanks Happy New Year!

Al, Hans, Please try newest beta 8s: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_29-12-2006.zip It should fix problem with 16:9 slide shows.

Thank you, Lin! A very interesting technique of snow and good slide show! p.s. I found only one problem with a sound: a music contains "clicks". I played extracted MP3 file in WinAmp and also reproduced this problem there. Because of this I suppose the problem in this MP3 file.

Robert, We can add this feature later, but personally I think that it better to show images on fullscreen, as all commercial movies. Overscan area varies on different TV displays (but not larger that shown in PTE with "Show safe TV zone" option).

Robert, If it possible, please send to Sergey and copy to my email address all these .pte project files and .ptv file saved in VideoBuilder. We'll try to reproduce this problem. What size of all 6 project files (including images and music)?

Thank you, Al! It we've found reason of this problem. For 16:9 video we set "Pan & Scan" flag on DVD that in case of 4:3 display says to DVD player enlarge picture to fill all screen without black strips. We'll fix it in the next beta and will use "Letterbox" flag for 16:9 slide shows.

Please try newest beta 8R I published yesterday

Robert, This option "... % of a slide to show main images" exists in beta 8. It will work for all new slides and click "Set for existing slides" button to assign this option for current slides. But it's not a good way, because some TV screens can show whole picture, and all PCs. I have a LCD projector and I disabled overscan to see all picture, because all commercial DVD movies uses all size of DVD picture.

Dave, Please create in Video Builder DVD folders (on output options choose only "Create DVD folders" option). Start Nero, choose create DVD-Video, then add files from VIDEO_TS folder which Video Builder created to Nero. And add your 54 folders and 3000 files as you tried in Video Builder earlier. Will Nero able to burn DVD-Video disc?

1) Pure DVD-Video disc should not contains other files, but as I said many years all DVD players can play such discs. So you can forget about that old limitation. 1a) Sorry, I was wrong, Nero allows to add additional folders/files to DVD-Video disc. 2) You're right Video Builder shouldn't crash in this case. We'll try to reproduce this situation. Probably it's our bug. Please try to burn created VIDEO_TS folder with additional files/folders in Nero. How it will work?

Al, Sergey will write you tomorrow and we'll try to solve this problem! I remember about your question. Thanks.

In Video Builder, second page, main menu -> Edit -> Safe TV zone