dj-e-lectric
Can't Get 4.0 to work without freezing when loading or transitioning videos on the computer at the main club I work at (Pentium D Dual Core, 2 gig ram, with ati x300 128mg video card), can't get it to work on home computer (amd athlon 64 3200+, 2 gig ram, Nvidia fx5500 with 256mgs) same freezing problem, can't get it to work on my laptop (amd Turion 64 1.8 mobile, 2 gigs ram, ati mobility with 128megs) again, same freezing problem..................I was at wits end.....even tried compressing videos down to 25% of normal size regardless of quality just as a test (in case it was a big file issue, but it wasn't) and that didn't help..............in a last ditch effort to salvage the program, just for the heck of it, I loaded it on the computer at my other club (that doesn't do video, thinking I could at least really play with some of the audio features) so of course it works almost perfect there! This is an old pentium 4, 2.0 with 1 gig ram and intel onboard graphics only 64meg!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only problem I have here is a few clicks and pops with the sound which was solved by turning the latency down to 1024.....why why why will it not work on my newer, more powerful, more expensive computers but it works at the club's old piece of crap???????????????.....I downloaded another copy tonight just to be sure i did not have a corrupted one, if that doesn't work I may just resort to going to the computer store tomorrow to find the biggest piece of crap used computer I can find!
Posté Fri 01 Sep 06 @ 7:28 am
phillydj
Thats a bummer, Moving up on the software But backward on Hardware compatibility Lol, It might have something to do with Nvidia's drivers or do you have the latest DX? My system is almost identical to your first and it works great
Posté Fri 01 Sep 06 @ 9:04 am
dj-e-lectric
Wasn't the NVIDIA, besides 2 of the systems have ati cards.............Thanks in a round about way to ANDREW87 and the discussion thread about Divx and h.264. In my effort to try to find a program to experiment with h.264 which he seems very excited about it led me to Quicktime 7.1............don't ask me why, don't ask me how but the virtual gods were with me tonight. I downloaded Quicktime 7.1 (previously had only version 5, installed 7.1 , rebooted my laptop and not only did I have the latest and greatest Quicktime BUT NOW VDJ 4.0 worked. Well my curiousity got the best of me and I looked on our crappy computer and saw it had Quicktime 6.5 on it. As soon as I got home tonight I uninstalled Quicktime 5.0 on my home computer, installed 7.1 and dollars to donoughts my home computer now plays VDJ 4.0 just fine, mpeg2 plays, .avi plays, mp3 plays, wav plays, mp4 audio plays.............don't know if I'll get any sleep tonight but Friday afternoon I'm rushing to the club I actually need VDJ for video work and installing 7.1 on there also and pray the trend continues.................my only guess is VDJ didn't like some driver in Quicktime 5.0 and when I upgraded it set itself free (but what do I know, maybe the little nano gremlin just up and died)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......... Now how to get videos encoded with h.264 and acc audio to work in VDJ (can I get that greedy now?).............Note to SUPACON your video vision skin will get a workout Friday & Saturday nights.
Posté Fri 01 Sep 06 @ 2:09 pm
jasontgrove
Hey, I have a question for you dj-e-lectric. After you installed quicktime 7.1, did you continue to use the "video codec" from VDJ or did you continue to use the "windows media video codec"? And if so, were all of your avi, mpegs, etc using the same codec?
I've been having similar problems and once I read this thread I got all excited...only to verify that I had 7.1. So instead I deleted Divx completely, set my codecs for all video-types to "windows media codec"...and while it would freeze on my screen for a hot 20 seconds each time I loaded a video, virtual kept the video going on the tv monitor. I was able to go a few hours for the first time, without a video freezing or locking up. I'm not sure if Virtual's internal video decoder works well with many systems.
Also, mine would usually only freeze, if i had "hardware accel" turned on. But with it off, the entire system was quite sluggish.
JasonG
I've been having similar problems and once I read this thread I got all excited...only to verify that I had 7.1. So instead I deleted Divx completely, set my codecs for all video-types to "windows media codec"...and while it would freeze on my screen for a hot 20 seconds each time I loaded a video, virtual kept the video going on the tv monitor. I was able to go a few hours for the first time, without a video freezing or locking up. I'm not sure if Virtual's internal video decoder works well with many systems.
Also, mine would usually only freeze, if i had "hardware accel" turned on. But with it off, the entire system was quite sluggish.
JasonG
Posté Mon 04 Sep 06 @ 10:26 am
dj-e-lectric
I did not (knowingly) change any other codecs. I am guessing Qicktime installed some generic codec(s) over what I already had that may have been corrupted or old versions. I still get the freezing for a few seconds when a new video is loading, but just like you only on the computer monitor and not the external tv's or sound. I am using the "windows mediaplayer codec" as I was before, which uses the divx 6.2.5 codec. I have discovered that when I use the generic "video codec" I do not get any freezing ; however, a good percentage of my videos do not load (the sound will play but the video will not). All of my computers have hardware acceleration on, they still freeze the external monitors without it.............another thing that seemed to lessen the "freezing" was I defragged my hard drive Saturday night and Sunday it appeared the videos loaded faster. I have not defragged this drive (500gig maxtor external usb2) in over 4 months since I bought it and it has over 2000 hi-res videos installed on it......I use only .avi files all of which use the divx codec (but without any further compression from the original). I have tried some mpeg2's and the freezing time seems considerably less, but I can't bring those into Adobe Audition to edit/remaster the audio so I don't rip to mpeg2. I am going to see if update 4.1 solves this frezzing problem before I commit to changing over any formats. I REALLY like the divx compression I have been testing as I can drop my files sizes to about 1/6 original without any noticeable quality loss. I do like h.264 a bit batter, but so far I haven't got them to work in VDJ.
Posté Mon 04 Sep 06 @ 10:24 pm
jasontgrove
Yeah, the divx compression works awesome. I can rip a promo only to avi and it's like 34MB in great qualtiy. Virtual recommends mpegs but avi's load quicker. Your problem is so similar yet so different then mine. See I only have the freeze problem, if I'm using the internal video decoder with hardware accel turned on. If I switch to windows media...everything works fine, just that few second freeze on load. Hoping like you, that maybe in an upcoming update, the team can find a few solutions to the video problems. I use mine for karaoke too and it has always been flawless no matter what. Also I've noticed that the longer I video mix, the more likely the program is, to become unstable. Like if I mix for 3 hours with videos, then click "sonique"...
Posté Tue 05 Sep 06 @ 12:32 am