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Bonjour,

This is not a complain, this is rather a question to better understand what is going on. I am a total beginner with VLC, but I write asm for 35 years (so I can understand technical explanations).

I am currently converting a 5.9 GB MKV video into an MP4 file (on a 6-Core MacPro running Linux).

To speedup the process, I am using a RAM disk (both for the source and the destination files).

The VLC GUI keeps showing a fast-scrolling progress-bar repeatedly going from 0 min to 1:59 (the movie duration).

After 3 days running the conversion, the output file is 3.8 GB large (and does not seem to continue growing) but I have no clue about when / if this job will stop.

- Is there a way to find the time remaining for the task?
- Is there a better way (to convert files) than using the GUI?
- Is VLC using paralellism (only 2 threads seem to be active)

Just curious, I would appreciate insights as VLC seems to have (rare) qualities that make it valuable for many other tasks.

There is no VLC 2.5.0 as of year 2013.

It seems like you have enabled either loop or repeat. Then it will never end.

> There is no VLC 2.5.0

Right, this is VLC 2.0.5.

> It seems like you have enabled either loop or repeat. Then it will never end.

The REPEAT PLAYING option should not be taken into account for SAVING / CONVERTING (used without playing).
VLC should NOT use the "replay" option to save-a-file-on-disk-forever.

Anyway, thank you for this great product - and for the prompt reply!

There are valid use for streaming output with loop or repeat mode. You enabled it, the player obeys.

> There are valid use for streaming output with loop or repeat mode

Which one(s)?

This is not "streaming" here but merely converting and *saving a file on disk*. So, when the "repeat" mode is taken into account, the output file is repeatedly reset to a zero length and then saved again with the expected contents... but if you try to interrupt the infinite loop you will never get the whle file on disk - only a partial (corrupted) copy.

Therefore, and as you seem convinced of the fact that this VLC behavior is more than relevant, let me know how, up to you, producing a corrupted file can be useful.

This discussion has been had way too many times. I am not reopening it.

Which one(s)?

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