CD problems

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:00:48 +0100
Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > That explains that. Now what does the error message, and 75% cpu usage
> > mean ???
> 
> I am afraid it's herd to debug as I am not in your shoes to see exactly
> what you did (and also because I have used serpentine only once, and
> that was nearly 2 years ago when it was introduced IIRC !), but the
> high CPU load might be good news, since Serpentine will take quite a
> bit of time ( a few minutes) of hard CPU work, to convert all your
> sounds files  before it can actually write them to the CD !
> But I would have thought you would get a progress bar to indicate
> progress ! If you got high CPU load while Serpentine was apparently
> doing nothing, then indeed something might be wrong !


  No progress bar, nothing. It just sat there; I checked with top and it had
two instances of Python taking up all the cpu time. As I said before I suspect
Serpentine is buggy.

> 
> To help figure out, as I said in a previous mail, try other burning
> apps, like Gnomebaker, and then if that fails, try K3B.
> 

  That's what I ended up doing - GnomeBaker works, although esthetically its a
little sloppy looking. But it does work - and I now have my audio cd's.

Thanks for the help.

p.s. It seems Linux is still a little behind Windoze when it comes to
multi-media etc. Please....all comment to /dev/null



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Cheers

Frank

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