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Sorry that this is posted twice. It occured to me that it would be better to post it as a separate question since the previous is now marked solved... Anyway:
Hi there Jim. just wanted to say that your suggestons worked. Many thanks. However, I am still curious as to why the dvd burned the first time round on such a high bitrate.
In fact after having concluded that the only difference of any significance between the first and second projects, was the additional audio, I did try removing it and burning the project again but had no success. That was before my first post on this forum. This seems to me to represent an inconsistency that I cannot fathom. Any insights?
While we're at it I'm curious about the one pass CBR versus one and 2 pass VBR what's the difference ans is there a significant quality variation? I noticed there was only one variable bitrate option on the CBR preference you had suggested. What will get me the best possible quality video and audio with the amount of video you mentioned and still actually build... as a rule anyway. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW the late reply is due to a bad link from my end.
Thanks again.
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Sorry to post so many threads -- I hope I'm not pinching any nerves around here, but I've been in a programming trance recently, and I'm trying to learn as much as I can. If anyone has time to spare, there's still some things about pointers I'd like to try to understand. To start with, consider this simple character pointer declaration:
char * pChar;
What I'd like to know is what exactly is going on internally when this statement is compiled (before any other pointer or string literal assignment or anything like that -- just the declaration above). I mean, in terms of memory addresses and what not, what is happening here? This pointer variable would be created on the stack, right? What else happens?
To expand on this question, let's say the above statement is the only statement in the entire program (so, again, there's no additional assignments to a string literal like +pChar = "a string"+ or to a character's address like +pChar = &charVariable+ -- I simply declare the character pointer +char * pChar+ and leave it at that.) If I then add the following printf() statement after it, like so:
char * pChar;
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then the character '[' (an opening brace) is printed to the console. All this seems odd to me given that the pointer hasn't been assigned to anything, so I would think it would produce a null value or something like that.
I would really like to understand all this. Even after all the work I've put into trying to understand pointers, and even after all the help I've gotten from the devs around here, I still feel lost whenever I go back to pointers after having left them alone for even a short period of time.
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Yes -- I was referring to a local variable. Should have specified -- sorry about that.
So we have a random address consisting of 4 bytes, e.g. in hex: [FE] [00] [09] [4B]. Assume when we tell printf to make a single char out of those bytes, it will select the lowest byte in the address (for extra credit, the student may determine if this assumption is true on his or her Mac; however students who fail to close this thread until that question is resolved will get no credit).
hehe -- are you referring to the time you gave me that pointers exercise to do and it took me like two weeks to actually get around to actually doing it? Sorry about that, Ray -- it just took me awhile to find a time where I could put as much time and effort into as I wanted to (I don't know if you ever got around to reading the response, but I did put quite a lot of time and effort into that exercise, and it really was very helpful to me, so it didn't go to waste by any means, and I really appreciate your putting it up there for me to do). Anyways, the student apologizes to the instructor for that.
This time around, though, the student would like to respond promptly to the instructor's exercise in order to receive his extra credit. The question that the instructor asked was to find out if "this assumption is true on his or her Mac" (this particular student is a he, by the way). I'm confused, though, about what particular assumption I'm supposed to be confirming. In the paragraph above, you said "we declare the char pointer pChar, and we assume that its value is random" -- is this the assumption I'm supposed to be confirming?
I had changed the code a few times over the last 24 hours since I wrote this thread, and this time, when I went back and ran the following code:
char * pChar;
printf("%c", pChar);
The student didn't get anything but a blank line. Instead of 'K' like before, nothing was written to the console that could be seen. Maybe it was a space or something this time, and that's why it wasn't visible? So, the student added another declaration after the first and used the same printf() statement to print the char-formatted value of the first char pointer, like so:
char * pChar;
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And this time I got a 'K' like before. If I change the printf() statement to print pChar2 instead of pChar then I get the space (or blank line or whatever) again. If I add another declaration, before the other two this time instead of after, like so:
char * pChar3;
char * pChar;
char * pChar2;
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This time I still get 'K' for pChar. If I change the printf() statement to print pChar2, I get the blank line again. If I change the printf() statement to print pChar3, I get the blank line with it as well.
I don't really know what to make of all that to be honest -- it seems like the pointer's value is pretty random to me, though. I don't know if that's the assumption you wanted me to check on or not. The only other one I can think of that you may have been referring to is when you mentioned that some compilers will check to see if the printf() function's arguments match the format specifiers, but I don't know what code I should run to find out if this is true or not for my compiler. I tried using printf() to print an int with a %c specifier and that ran fine, and when I did the opposite and used it to print a char with a %d specifier that worked fine too. But characters are integers (right?), so that's no surprise. If I declare an int, however, and try to use printf() to print it with a %s specifier, then the debugger comes up with a signal 10 error after the program starts, but I don't get any warnings ahead of time, so maybe that means the answer is no (meaning that the compiler does not check to see if the arguments match the format specifiers)
Anyways, I think the student is butchering the instructor's exercise completely. The student feels very unintellegent at the moment, but he wanted to try...
If the address stored in pChar is random, then the contents at that address will also be random.
I would have thought that if the address is random, then the contents of that address would be empty since it is not an address that's being used, right? Does this mean that all memory addresses have something in them, even if they are not in use? I mean the frequently used "mailbox" analogy for pointers says that when you declare a variable, an empty mailbox is used to hold it, right? And if that's the case, doesn't that mean that the empty mailboxes have no contents? So how would the contents be random? I don't if any of that made any sense or not -- feel free to ignore me. I can't seem to get myself to understand how all this memory address business and everything surrounding it works -- I feel very lost.
What do you expect to happen in this case?
You asked this about running the following code:
char * pChar;
*pChar = 'A';
Honestly, I really have no idea what to expect here. I mean, I know that usually, before you dereference a pointer to assign the value it points to to something (like in the second statement above), you usually assign the pointer to the address of another variable or something (like +pChar = &charVariable+). So, the student proceeded to cheat and run this code in his compiler, at which pointer the program ran, but he received a signal 10 error. He doesn't know what to make of this.
My understanding of pointers is much, much better than what it used to be, and most of that is thanks to you and the other devs around here in previous threads I've started. Nevertheless, I still feel like I don't know much of anything in the realm of things when it comes to pointers.
Thanks to the rest of you guys as well for all your responses. They were all helpful, and I read them all thoroughly, but it seems like, for every answer I get, five more questions come up that I'm equally confused about. I'm determined, though -- I'm not going to give up until I understand how all this works, so thanks to everyone for continually answering my questions.

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          >Thanks, Aravind.
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