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• 26 - Sancho

  Jul 10, 2007 at 6:27 pm

  Thanks, man.
  I just wanted to create friend's wedding DVD and this guide is the ultimate one.
  I skipped the torrent part, but the rest is a must read for every newbie like me.
  Thanks again.

• 27 - Bruno

  Dec 10, 2007 at 2:36 pm

  Good instructions and it works like a charm!
  
  One addition:
  
  I had this probloem that the sound kept having
  hick-ups when playing in my DVD-player... tried
  all kind of tricks from various tutorials... eventually I figured it out.. Because my test movie
  was so small, I decided to burn it to a CD-ROM rather than DVD-ROM. After trying several times, I tried to burn it to a DVD ... problem solved!!!
  
  So my advise to others: use a DVD and not a CDROM
  
  regards,
  Bruno

• 28 - Lawrence

  Jun 27, 2008 at 2:45 pm

  I'm trying to prepare myself for a huge change in operating systems ( XP to slackware ) BTW I'm a total newb! That said, as you may imagine this whole thing is rather Intimidating. I'm not a friend of the command line and haven't been since DOS and I was around 16 years old then. Needless to say I must admit one thing, the linux community is one the best I've ever encountered. People more than willing to set aside time to help newb's like me out. I loved your articile BTW and since I am pretty big into video I'm 100% sure that I will be returning here once I get slackware 12 running on this PC...Thanks Bro!

• 29 - Jonny

  Mar 25, 2009 at 10:56 am

  i followed the above instructions and it took 10 minutes , produced great results too ... What is supposed to take hours ?

• 30 - Randee

  Apr 04, 2010 at 6:12 am

  Hi,
  I know that this article is a few years old but I had been using Devede regularly on my desktop system and it has had a major upset like a board or something, so I am sitting here with an important conversion to perform on my Intel Atom powered netbook.
  
  I loaded Devede and hit the go button but it came up with a Mencoder error. I used to use Avidemux occasionally for file conversions but was not aware of the "Auto" feature - couldn't see for looking I guess.
  
  Thank you so much because I didn't know what settings to enter for a DVD and your "Auto" tip has been invaluable and will keep me out of trouble until I get the desktop sorted out. It will be interesting to see how long it takes the netbook to crunch it. I bumped the memory up to 2Gb and added a 500Gb hard drive so it should be ok there but I reckon those little processors will be working their butts off!
  
  Thanks once again and kind regards,
  Randee

• 31 - Randee

  Apr 04, 2010 at 6:22 am

  Just checked and the information on the conversion window estimates a bit over four hours which is not so bad, the Xvid file is about 1.3Gb. I am heading to bed soon so hopefully I will wake to a good result.
  
  For Jonny above, I think the writer was referring to the time it would take to download a full movie, rather than the conversion time.
  
  The conversion time has a lot to do with the size of the job and what conversion you are doing. In some instances the software needs to do little more than rearrange the components a bit and change the file extension, other times it has to re-encode both the video and audio.

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