Marcovelo

I use "Comodo Firewall". Marco

Hi Ken, Lin and all! Thanks for your help! I finally found the problem, and I should have found it easily by myself without asking here, sorry. The issue was not linked to a lack of free disk space, but... to my firewall !!! During the HD AVC encoding, VideoBuilder calls several external programs (OpenSource applications): - x264.exe: H.264 video encoder - faac.exe: HE-AAC audio encoder - MP4Box.exe: MP4 multiplexer (creates the MPEG4 file container with video + audio tracks) The problem was that only MP4Box.exe was not authorized to be run from another application (Videobuilder) on my PC by my Firewall (reinstalled recently), and this program is called at the end of the process (after hours of encoding, when I'm not in front of my screen). So a pop-up window of my Firewall asked me to authorized Videobuilder to run MP4Box.exe, with a time-out, and as nobody present to answer "yes", so MP4box was refused automatically after the time-out... After I built a short 4 slides show and encoded it in HD AVC (thanks to Lin for the idea!), I realized the problem… Thanks for your help, Marco PS: I want to congratulate very strongly all the WnSoft team and developers for the outstanding work put in this VideoBuilder part of PTE, this is a very very good job! (and not easy, I know it!). This is the first time I use VideoBuilder and I very appreciate it. Big thanks and congratulation Igor and all! Happy new year to everybody

Many thanks Lin for your advices. I will do some testing and make sure to have more free space available. I let you know the result, anyway. Thanks Marco

Hi Lin, Thanks for your help ! I have tried your idea (with 4 slides PTE 6.0.1, same HD mp4 settings) and it works... The MP4 file is created and correct. My original slideshow includes 234 slides for a duration of 17"34' My PC is a Dell Dimension 8400 with 3 GB RAM, Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, Windows XP. I think I have enough available disk space for temporary files... Well, I will try with 100 slides... Very strange problem... Marco

hello , I have wasted more than 24 hours of encoding in HD AVC for my PTE show using official and latest PictuesToExe version (including 6.0.0 and 6.0.1...) without any success... I have already paid for this feature... Any help avalaible ? Where is the Technical Support ? Igor ? Happy new years to all Marco

Hello all, A long time since I haven't posted here ( I apologize)... This time I need your help: I have problem to encode a PTE show in HD AVC (Menu Create/Video for PC and Mac). I have tried with PTE 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 without any success (see screenshots). I have attempted several settings: all 1920x1080 25fps, with standard setting or customs (1 or 2 passes, “Pan and scan “enable" or "disable" …) without any success. My PTE show (17m30s) works pefecteky in .EXE and DVD, AVI, mpg, etc... My license Deluxe is OK, all my HD disks have enough free space ( > 50GB, all NTFS formatted), so I don't understand where is the problem ... The audio and video encoding seems to be Ok without any problem, no error message (Faac.exe and x264.exe working OK during hours and hours …), but the final expected MP4 file is... 0 byte ! -> this does not work ! Sorry if I have missed the right tread with the solution to this problem. If someone can help me, I would be very very grateful.... Merry Christmas and happy new year to every body ! Marco

I'm a little bit late on this issue, sorry . (Please Dominique feel free to send me a MP or email in such case ...) Your were right, HideTaskBar.exe version 2.0 was not working with PTE version 5.6 and later, sorry for the inconvenience. I have fixed the problem and released a new version 2.1 of HideTaskBar.exe (compatible PTE 4.x, 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 beta 9 as far as I know). You can download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e68f1c7db3910a036b21be4093fab7ace04e75f6e8ebb871 Dominique, you can also share this PTE utility via your web site for downloads (it is released on freeware license). Cheers, Marco Warning: please note that it seems there is a recurrent bug in PTE 5.6 and 5.7 beta X with the option "Run external application" which does not work at all on first slide (Slide #1: you can try with calc.exe). Check this reported issue on this thread: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10379&st=20&p=66105&hl=\run%20external%20application&092;&entry66105. A workaround can be to insert a "dummy" slide #1 (a copy of your original Slide#1 with a duration of 200ms for example) in order to skip the slide#1 bug.

Yep, the link given by xahu34 is the good one for HideTaskBar compatible with PTE 5. Thanks to TheDom ! I'm glad if this small tool can help. Marco

You' re welcome Dominique . Thank you for your feed-back about HideTaskBar, and for your contributions on this forum. Cheers Marco

Dominique, Please find attached the updated version of my HideTaskBar utility. It should work with both PTE v4 and PTE v5 (although it has not been not heavily tested , and only on Win XP). Hope it can help ! Marco HideTaskBar_v2.zip

Hey !!!! What a slidewhow! it's wonderfull! really very very good! I love it. Congratulation Stéphane! Hey! sounds like a "newbye" to PTE (and coming from Proshow) is able to build a great creative Slideshow (and not only a demo) with PTE 5 beta ! I can't even imagine what you can do with the "coming soon" release version. Thank you for sharing your show with us, I think this is very good for PTE too. Hope Igor appreciates. Your show is better than any "demo" I ever seen. I like it. Fantastic Stephane! Congratulation. Marco

Yes ! definitely !!!! Thank you Igor.

Thank you Jean-Claude ! That's good news to read Sy(P) will be compatible (in the future) with PTE 5.xx ! Sy(P) is a very powerfull and usefull companion tool for PTE ! (and it's free !) Thanks Jean-Claude ! Marco

Nice demo, and good idea ! Thanks thedom, for sharing this (and the source project).

Thanks, but the man to congratulate is Cèlou, he is the author of this demo.