Queuing multiple files results in conversion of only one

[Jason]

Hi,

I am using 0.9.3 version. I have added 4 avi files to the queue. Upon reviewing the final output, there were 4 m4v (itouch) files that had corresponding titles for the filenames. The issue is that one movie was basically copied 4 times with the title changed for each. I can't use the queue function and have to process each avi file separately.

[Mike B. (mcbarron)]

I also experienced this issue. I was converting to mp4 format (computer/high). I had four movies in queue and ALL of them used the first movie as the source (though their file names were the same).

It took hours to encode - what a waste!

[Mike B. (mcbarron)]

typo correction:
* (though their file names were DIFFERENT)

[rigues (rigues)]

Same thing here in 0.9.3 on Ubuntu 9.04. 13 files were added to the queue, and with the exception of the very first one, ALL of the others used the second file as source, but were written to disk with the correct filenames. Like this:

CLIP0039.AVI - OK
CLIP0040.AVI - OK
CLIP0041.AVI - Same as CLIP0040.AVI, pattern repeats until the last clip in the queue

[Everthon Valadão (valadao)]

Same problem with version 0.93 on Ubuntu 9.10, BUT I got a different behavior (the correct one) when launching arista-gtk from the command line after cd'ing for the folder containing the source videos, like this:

$ cd /home/user/Videos/
$ arista-gtk ./

After this the queue worked! All my videos were transcoded to ipod/low with correct filenames and different file sizes, corresponding to each individual video added to the queue, not multiple copies of the first video as before.

P.S.: I'm not sure if this is the reason why I got the correct behavior, so I'm gonna try it again with both ways.

[Everthon Valadão (valadao)]

No, still bugged: actually only the first three videos are transcoded correctly. The later videos added to the queue were just copies of the 4th :(
Anyway, a strange and annoying bug.

[Nigel (outerspacerace)]

I'm also unable to transcode multiple files. I've only tried using the PS3 preset, though so far each time the first file completes and nothing else happens. I'm also on version 0.9.3 from the lucid repos. Great program otherwise!

[Daniel G. Taylor (danielgtaylor)]

Fixed as of http://github.com/danielgtaylor/arista/commit/adff657aa14b7f4bec40414de830ef0cfbc7c99b

Nice find guys - I didn't realize that the way I was copying objects around was just a shallow copy and it caused strange issues like this which my simple testing never caught.

[Mike B. (mcbarron)]

That is excellent, Daniel! Thank you!!

Do we need to nominate this bug for a release now that it's fixed, or will that process run along without our voting intervention?

[Daniel G. Taylor (danielgtaylor)]

I don't know how the voting works, but this is in trunk and will eventually be moved into a release. I'm hoping to knock out a few more pressing issues and push out 0.9.4 soonish, but free time is a limiting factor and even though Arista is a featured app in Ubuntu now I'm still the only developer.