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Understanding Music
The delay is 4 seconds, but I'm not sure you are understanding my question. Here is a follow up question - when a song repeats, do the bits for the song get duplicated on the CD, or are they just referencing the same copy within the structure of the VCD? Does the PCSLIDE Show act the same (duplicating song bits versus referencing existing ones?). I have started my own experimentation to determine the numbers for my situation. I am finding sound dramatically increases size: A 345 Slide CD: - 137 MB VCD with no sound - 365 MB with sound (unique songs for each minute of VCD) - 16 MB PCSLIDE show without sound - 36 MB PCSLIDE show with sound PC slide show amounts can simply be added together to get the numbers for a VCD that has both on it. I would like to suggest a feature that predicts how many photos could be placed on a VCD. I could envision it using the following techniques / algorithms: *) Ask me to have a certain number of sample images for my average composition (assumes that many users will be using the same camera and similar picture types - but averaged across enough photos this should be able to be relatively accurate. *) Perform benchmarking of those images (most likely creating sample temporary shows and tracking the time and size). *) Report the approximate number of pictures per disk for the following composition scenarios: - VCD slide show(s) only - VCD Slide shows w/ sound - VCD slide show(s) only w/ PCSLIDE show - VCD slide show(s) w/ sound and w/ PCSLIDE show - PC slide show only - PC slide show w/ Sound You could output it as a slider scale in MB that shows each of the above on the slider and then shows the capacity of 650 MB CD, 700 MB CD, 2.4 GB DVD I would be great to let it do the calculations and then let me dynamically change the following items and it could change the graph: - number of slides - length of delay - with or without music - with or without PC slide show - with or without full archive copy (when the feature becomes available) Optionally this procedure could predict how long it will take to build a show on a given PC since you could benchmark the time as well. *) Also a pie in the sky feature idea - what about building a plug-in for Canto Cumulus - now that would sell like hotcakes - especially if all the above prediction algorithms were built in so I could have XATSHOW build a full archiving system that included musicfied VCDs with canto cataloged images. Anyway, please drop a line on the issue of whether song bits are duplicated - which would mean there is no benefit to purposely configuring shorter, repeating songs - or whether repeating songs cause the same song bits to be referenced multiple times. D. _________________________________ Darwin Sanoy Principal Consultant / Instructor DesktopEngineer.com WindowsInstallerTraining.com Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:26 AM Hello Let me answer these first: >PS - A couple follow up questions: >*) If I add sound that is shorter than the slides, does the sound file >get repeated, or does it just end? It gets repeated. >*) Is there a way to add a sound file that applies to the entire disk >that has more than one slide show on it? No. In your post you haven't given the delay between images. This is a critical factor. Chris. |
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