Igor

I've read two topics where at least several users found problem with sound/music in PicturesToExe. Please can you help me with solving of this problem: 1) Please describe shortly your PC or laptop (CPU with one or dual core?), version of Windows and what sound card you have. 2) As I've understood "Duration button" (in Project options | Music tab) shows 00:00 empty length of added sound files? And 00:00 in the timeline window and warning when you try to press Preview button? 3) And problem occurs with WMA and MP3 files, too? 4) Please try with this MP3 file (192 kbit, 44 KHz): http://www.wnsoft.com/test/1.mp3 (1.6 MB) 5) What version of PTE you have installed - most likely - v4.45? 6) If problem occurs with newest v4.45, please download previous v4.44 here and try again: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/pte444.zip (1.5 MB) (Please make sure that you will work with v4.44 - check up the caption of the main window) 7) Try this example of slide-show, which I've created in PTE v4.45: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/v445_Per_aspera_ad_astra.zip (1.5 MB) p.s. I've checked up code of v4.45 several times - it shouldn't contains new errors - I very carefully change old code. And since June (v4.42) I've changed only one line of the code with not critical place in the music player. Anyway I'll try to solve this problem ASAP.

You are right, it's a very important feature and we added Undo/Redo to the next v5.00

Alexander, Thanks for idea about time ruler. I thought about this moment a year ago. It could be added as possible view of timeline in the next versions (after v5.00). Alexander, Michel, In future v5.00 you can work with the timeline before adding of a soundtrack. p.s. v5.00 beta #1 can be ready at any moment, we tested all features and it works. I know we worked so long time. Only new Circle, Hour hand and other transition effects with smoothing line took 2 weeks to write difficult mathematical formulas. I'm guessing that Aleksey even will not understand own formulas - how this code works - after some time But now these effects can work simultaneously with Pan/Zoom/Rotate.

I just sent you the key again. Please run (attached to the mail) file.

Unfortunately, Aleksey, my colleague, said that it's difficult to fix it now. Probably he will find time to fix it, but currently he is very busy with new transition effects for v5.00 It's highest level of mathematics that v5.00 contains.

I agree. Some users informed me about this moment, and in the next version 5.00 PTE will ask name of EXE file on "Create" button click after "Save as".

You're right. I just reproduced this visual bug. We'll try to fix it ASAP.

The main reason why we still use AsPack - reliability shown during over 6 years. I'm afraid to change something in this question if all works OK. I just checked UPX 1.93 and it created EXE file larger on 500 bytes than AsPack. With compression parameter "-9" UPX packs EXE file exactly as AsPack with "Max compression". Both - 248 KB (246 KB with normal compression). You can see that no difference and no reason to replace compressor. Maybe EXE files created in PTE v5.00 will be more compact that v4.xx. I hope on your understanding. p.s. If you need to create really small slide-shows, please use MIDI music and small JPEG images. Be aware that "Save as" in Photoshop adds additional 15-25 KB (!!) of EXIF data to each JPEG image, even if it could be only 30 KB! Use "Save for Web" instead of our PixBuilder Studio which also produces compact JPEG files. (Concerning "Save/Save as" in Photoshop, for example, one large slide-show, 30 MB of EXE file with 100 slides, may contains 1 MB of useless in slide-show EXIF data. And this slide-show could be reduced down to 29 MB without any losses in quality.)

Just I forgot to remove this option from Project options in PTE v4.xx. Now slide-shows start immediately, and this option is not actual any more.

I compared AsPack with UPX two years ago, and AsPack compressed better than UPX. We use AsPack for a very long time and it shown ideal reliability. Also I have personal contacts with authors of AsPack and we can solve any possible difficulties immediately. If you really want to repack EXE file, I suppose that there is utilities which can unpack EXE file compressed by AsPack . p.s. in AsPack we can use more strong compression option. But it will delay start of EXE file 1 second or so.

You can temporarily find this file here: OlgaBoritsch.exe

Now we're finishing main transition effects for new graphical engine. I promiss that after the first beta next betas will be every week or more often.

Both reasons. We'll try make it possible to use 0 ms. and small intervals as earlier. Also as usually we're open for all responses and it's always not late to rework some important moments which we might skip.

For v5.00 I've wrote unified system of times/synchronization. At any moment, you can adjust time points on the timeline, or open "Customize slide" window and change time of a slide(s). You can use simultaneously both ways. Now the value specied in "Customize slide" window means the exact time of show of a slide (including transition effect).

No problem, because I have special and very warm clothes. We have -26'C ... -35'C and sunny weather and wind. Really it even interesting

In v5.00 I tried to make more friendly timeline. And timeline will be available for all modes of slide-show. Even without music.

Ok, I've understood. In v5.00 there will be no such problem with 1 pixel border of a picture.

Yes, you're right. This algorithm works in several times faster especially because we use CPU only. However hiding of 1 horizontal and 1 vertical lines outside the screen shouldn't be noticeable? In v5.00 we will use video card and resizing will be absolutely exact.

Ralph, Thanks, I even didn't think about this variant!

Try also to select slide No. 88 in the Slide list in PicturesToExe and then press Ctrl+R. Preview will start from this slide. And let me know about result. If is possible, please send me to int_support@ ............... wnsoft.com only small .pte project file of your slide-show. It will help me to find exact reason of the problem and solve it. I have PC Celeron 900 Mhz for testing.

What time interval between slides you set? (for 89th, 90th, 91th slides) What size of images in pixels (e.g. 1024 x 768) and in bytes (e.g. 500 KB) and is it JPEG or BMP image? Does it happen when you watch Preview or created EXE file? What CPU you have in your PC and version of Windows?

Next 5.00 version can pack (Alt+B or from main menu) all files of a project into one ZIP archive.

No fees for upgrade to v5.00

Of course, we can output 24-bit audio. But I'm afraid almost all (or all) sound card just will resample it to 16-bit. Creative probably uses own API and special features of drivers for 24-bit audio playback. As I know (may I'm wrong) that still there is no common API for guaranteed correct playback of 24-bit audio. Also you need to use WAV files only for 24-bit.

Invision yesterday reported that they released critical security update for the forum. Of course, we asked them to install this newest patch. And it already installed several minutes ago.