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  3. MOODS OF AUTUMN

    in Slideshows & AV Shows

    Posted

    Beautiful as always Maureen.  Great title.."Moods"  love it.  The music fits perfectly!

    On my Dell XPS 13 (i7/Intel Graphics 620), it seemed that there was some moire in some of the moving images.  Vertical lines moving across the screen.  I wondered that was an NTSC/PAL issue between our two video standards.  Would be interesting to see if an MP4 version would appear the same?  Will try the Mac version on my MBP to see if it behaves the same.

    Dick

    Edit:  Mac version is perfect.  New Intel update on the Graphics 620 installed yesterday...  I think I have hardware problems on my Dell XPS...

    Delay at the start of an executable file [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    Sure.  Will do.  https://www.wnsoft.com/en/support/?

    I just noticed that I have several mp3 encoders. 

    MP3 means I have to use Lame to encode right?

    I appear to have three copies...

    First is in the common folder of PTE v9 in Programs (x86)
    Second is in a folder called Lame for Audacity in Programs (x86)
    Third is in a folder called Free M4A to MP3 Converter in Programs (x86)

    PTE 10 is a 64bit program that lives in Program Files.  There does not seem to be a copy of lame_enc.dll in common folder of PTE 10 beta?

    Wonder if is this part of my problem with creating mp3 files???

    Dick
     

    Delay at the start of an executable file [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    Hi Igor,

    Strange one.  It starts instantly from the small play button.  I thought it might have been a problem with my WIndows 10 1903 system or the new Intel graphics 620 driver I installed on Friday.  But I created the project on my desktop with an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, and it behaves the same with an even longer 20 second delay before starting.  It works fine with Ogg, but stalls with MP3.  Wonder if the issue is my Lame encoder???  Testing continues...

    Dick

    Delay at the start of an executable file [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    13 minutes ago, Igor said:

    Dick,

    When you start a fullscreen Preview in PTE 10 Beta do you see same delay as in EXE file?

    Can you open same project in previous PTE 9, create an EXE file, and compare possible delay?

    Also please try the following in PTE 10 Beta. In Project Options > Audio tab set "Export soundtrack of MP3" option. Then create an EXE file. PTE will convert all audio clips to a single MP3 file. Do you observe same delay in this EXE?

    Yes.  Delay shows in full screen preview, and delay does not show in slide list before blank 7 second slide with title of the show at the beginning.

    No delays in same project made with v9.0.22

    Created in v10.20 with convert audio clips to single mp3 file -  Delay of 7 seconds is still there...

    Oh.  I zoomed into the audio file with Audacity, and found approx 7 second blank time before music started.  I cut that out, but still has a start delay of 7 seconds or so in the clipped version...  None in V9 version.

    Dick

     

    Delay at the start of an executable file [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    Hi Igor,

    I confirm that changing the Audacity clipped segment to mp3 from ogg brought the start delay back.  Much shorter now because the audio file is smaller I expect.  

    But hold on a minute.  I tried a different mp3 audio file from my library and there is no delay.  So it's not an mp3 issue.

    I dowloaded the music from Croatia from the net.  Perhaps there is a delay at the beginning of the file...  

    Dick

    Delay at the start of an executable file [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    23 hours ago, Igor said:

    Dick,

    Did you found what caused this problem? A certain large MP3 file? Can you reproduce this problem again? 

    P.S. I recommend to use MP3 audio for EXE shows to optimize EXE file size. Not OGG

    Hi Igor,

    The music I had chosen were long mp3's 44 min and and 1 hour, and I only needed 22 minutes.  I clipped them in PTE at the end.  After your advice, I loaded them into Audacity, and reduced the duration to 25 minutes.  Then I exported them to ogg files.  I will repeat the exercise, and export the files to mp3 instead, and report the results shortly.

    Delay at the start of an executable file [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    Strange behavior here this morning.  Ver 10 beta 20.  Created a 22 minute show, added a blank file at the beginning for a title.  Made an executable for PC.  Fine.

    Added an audio file for background music, and repeated.  For some reason, the executable begins with a blank 15-25 second delay before starting the show.  Remove the audio,  and it begins fine.

    Created an MP4 and it starts fine.

    Loaded the project with Ver 9.0.22 and created the slideshow, and it starts immediately.

    Is there a setting I'm missing?  Audio is added with 0 offset and start time...

    Dick

    Laptops and Hardware acceleration for video encoding

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    Hi Barry,

    On my Dell XPS-13 laptop with an i7 processor and 16gb ram, Intel UHD Graphics 620 processor, here are the results of a 38 slide, 2 short video 5 minute slideshow I created.  

    Output                                    Render time    File Size          
                
    1920x1080 HQ  no HA            15 min          318 mb        
    1920x1080 HQ   HA                4.5 min         518 mb        

    Dick

    Hardware Acceleration Intel graphics 620

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    False alarm Igor.

    Don't know why.  Large image only (370), no video Ver 17 slideshow instantly put up the HA not available sign.   Went back to Ver 16, and it worked fine.  Saw that Ver 18 was just out, and it failed like Ver 17.  At first I thought it was a bad image file, so divided the slideshow in two  pieces to see if I could find the culprit...  No problem with HA...  Tried the whole thing again, and this time it worked perfectly.

    All is well.

    Dick

    V10-Hardware Acceleration-changes bitrate??? [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    You are right on Igor!

    I've been using an old screen driver because the latest Intel Graphics driver disables screen brightness keys after waking up from sleep.  Installing the new driver fixes everything!  my flicker file is now 2.48 mb instead of 126 mb!  From now on, I will just have to log out and log in if the screen brightness keys don't work.

    Thanks very much for fixing this!

    Dick

    V10-Hardware Acceleration-changes bitrate??? [SOLVED]

    in PicturesToExe 10 Beta

    Posted

    Thanks Igor.

    Yes, flickerhahq.mp4 was created by PTE 10 beta 9.  I created it again tonight using 1920/1080, High quality, 30 p and got a 126 mb file. Mediainfo reports a bit rate of 70.5 mb/s for a duration of 15s 49 ms.  Interesting that the same encoding parameters with no HA selected created a 2.0 mb file with a bit rate of 1114 kb/s!

    I use DxO PhotoLab 2 for all my images and resize them to 1920x1080 for the slide show. PL2 has an antihazing filter called Clearview Plus that improves the contrast and clarity of images.  That might be the cause of the apparent sharpening you mentioned.  

    I would be interested to learn if you get different results by publishing this image... The slide show consists of a single image with a duration of 15 sec.

    Dick

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