DeVeDe Crashing [SOLVED]

[canuck.farmboy]

Hi all...

Very fine distro here people....one of the best nixes I've had occasion to use in quite some time. Everything just seems to work!!!

Well up until a day or two ago anyway...

Please excuse me if this was covered before...if so point me to a linky...tried searching but to no avail.

I downloaded a divx movie...I can view it without any problem at all. But I would like to convert it to dvd format, and share with friends. I downloaded and installed DeVeDe. It starts the conversion fine...but crashes about 60% thru. I even tried setting it up so it would just convert and not create the iso...still crashes.

I am running an early version of Bea....updated fully using the auto-updates. Will an update/upgrade to the up and coming Bianca be beneficial or can I do something or use other conversion software for the job?

Thanks again for a great distro....gord

[clem]

Upgrading to Bianca won't solve that problem (I'd still recommend the upgrade though). Does it give you any error message? Otherwise try looking for other equivalent software...

Clem

[scorp123]

How much RAM have you got?

[canuck.farmboy]

I have 1 gig of ddr ram and 500 meg swap....running dual channel on an Albatron KX18D board. I ran 'top' with the prog running....92% processor usage...and just about all memory was gone, but hadn't touched the swap file.

The only thing that seemed peculiar was that the first time I ran DeVeDe it complained that mencoder was not installed or properly installed. So I ran synaptic and installed mencoder. After that everything seemed fine....till the crashes. Possibly a version conflict or something of that nature? Others (other forums) seem to have good success with DeVeDe....so I am thinking it could be a software issue, or conflict of some sort.

thanks...g

[pghjake]

How big is your root partition? That is probably where your program is writing its temp files (/tmp). I had a similar problem because my root is only 4GB and my home is 16GB. When I set the program's temp dir to /home/user/tmp the problem went away.

[canuck.farmboy]

Wowzers....good thing somebody is awake....never thought of that!!!

Haven't tried yet, but sure enough / is 5 gig, /home is 40 gig.

Thanks. Will give it a try and report back.

[canuck.farmboy]

Sure enough...../ partition size was the trouble.

I waited for Bianca stable and did a fresh install. 10 gig / partition this time.

Worked great!! Converted DivX----->DVD then burnt the iso with K3B. Playing in home dvd as I write this.

Thanks...gord