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Al, Ok, perfect! 1) Please download this utility http://www.wnsoft.com/test/CopyPreview.exe 2) Open again this project and run preview (I know, without music yet). 3) Press Alt+Tab and (don't close this preview) run my new utility, press "Copy" button there. 4) You'll find new Preview.exe file in C:\ptemusic folder. Please send it to my email address.

Bill, If you don't have problems with music described in this topic, most likely that you didn't unpack ZIP archive into disc C:\ I specially prepared two variants of EXE files - created with embedded pictures/music and EXE without pictures (as in Preview).

Download this ZIP archive http://www.wnsoft.com/test/ptemusic.zip (3.8 MB) and extract to disc C:\ (After extracting there should be: C:\ptemusic folder with files inside). 1) Please run 4 EXE files you'll find inside. And let me know about result. (For example, ptemusic1.exe - OK. ptemusic_synced.exe - NO MUSIC) 2) If all four EXE file work, open ptemusic.pte project file (you will find it in this folder) in PicturesToExe and try to run Preview. Thank you all for testing and help!

Re-download it again, please. The file should be uploaded now.

I prepared new test. Please download again this file http://www.wnsoft.com/test/ShowLength.exe 1) Press "Open file and play" button. After it show duration of MP3 file, it should start playback. Close this utility. 2) Start again this utility. Press "Play" button. Music should plays. Please let me know about two results.

Al, Gilbert, 1) So when you press "Show Music Duration" button (Project options | Music tab) you always see "00:00" length and when you try to open timeline window you see the text "Please visit Music tab and add sound file"? 2) Please download this utility I've prepared, it will show duration of selected MP3 file. http://www.wnsoft.com/test/ShowLength.exe (400 KB) If it shows "Length: 0 ms.", it will help me to more exactly determine the problem.

A terrific problem! Fullscreen preview button in fact just same EXE file which doesn't include embedded music/pictures, but plays/shows original files. Al, The only additional thing that I'd want to exactly learn. Does this problem happen with ALL MP3 files or only with PARTICULAR MP3 file? For example, please try with my "1.mp3" file (see the link above) and let me know about result. If it's possible, please send me to int_support(..replace..)wnsoft.com your .pte project file and MP3 file. p.s. I just thought, maybe MP3 file is locked by some program (sound editor, player?)? Try to make a copy of this MP3 file (with whom the problem occurs), place to another folder, and use it in the project instead of original MP3 file?

Ron, Can you try with another MP3 file? For example this file: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/1.mp3 Also please run http://www.wnsoft.com/test/mdiapp.zip this small application (240 KB). Main menu | File | New | choose that MP3 file and let me know what length you'll see. Look at attached screenshot.

Please read my topic with questions here http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4042

Please read my topic with questions here http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4042

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).

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