Forty Two Newbie Question Regarding Test / Sample Encoding

[xtrawidth]

First of all congrats on what appears to be a wonderful program (i've sent you a small donation to your cause).

So I wanted to convert my 'Swingers' DVD to SVCD. And so I set it going with the default SVCD settings right before I went out for the evening.

It appeared to be encoding a test sample, but on my return later this evening, the 'test' files I noticed it was creating had disappeared and the program had presumably ejected the DVD, and had gone ahead with encoding the whole movie, deleting the files I noticed were there.

Is this correct? If they were indeed test files (for my benefit presumably), what happened to them?

Andy

[jefwest]

the test file will come up automatically and play for you if you let it, right after it's done encoding, and after 42 is all done ripping evrything and making images it does some simple cleanup steps, if you had your test file in the same directory as the other video files then most likely it was cleaned up, i'm assuming kai's usin a basic unix script here to delete the temporary shit after you get the final product, i mean, after all, who really cares about the temp stuff and if you do don't use 42, that's not what it's made for, us osex. But to answer your question, the test file was most likely deleted in the cleanup process, my test files werent after first run but i saved em in a weird spot i think like my home directory instead of where i saved everything else, well anyways, that's my thoughts, it was removed during cleanup with an rm command, but kai could probably answer your question better.