dj schmidty
Hello.
Recently i've found the need to revive my old laptop (i need firewire) to use for gigs. Its a dell vostro 1520 with a 2.4 dual core, and a dedicated 256 mb nvidia card through a VGA port running at 1080) I haven't really fired this baby up for DJing in over a year, and i'm noticing that the video doesn't seem to flow as crisp as on my current gig rig (samsung rf711 w/ 1gig dedicated video card an i7, over hdmi at 1080)
I know my current lappy is a monster and comlplete overkill for video djing with virtualdj, but my old machine should be able to handle videos just fine with the card it has in it. The only thing I can think of is the codecs that would be different. I am planning on doing a full OS install fresh, this will be a purpose built laptop.
I did a side by side comparison of the two computers on the same TV running vdj (one plugged into the VGA port, and one into HDMI) and I switched back and forth and could totally notice that the video coming from the Vostro (256mb dedicated card) was more.... "ghostly"? Almost like you could tell that there was a problem loading every 3rd frame, and the video would "ghost" over the previous frame to make the animation stay with the music. Picture what the video looks like when you scratch VERY slow, but I could notice it when the video was playing normally....
I'm thinking it can't be hardware related, its gotta be a software issue, such as a codec.
What codec set should I be using to get the best output?
(PS, these were smashvidz mp4s)
Recently i've found the need to revive my old laptop (i need firewire) to use for gigs. Its a dell vostro 1520 with a 2.4 dual core, and a dedicated 256 mb nvidia card through a VGA port running at 1080) I haven't really fired this baby up for DJing in over a year, and i'm noticing that the video doesn't seem to flow as crisp as on my current gig rig (samsung rf711 w/ 1gig dedicated video card an i7, over hdmi at 1080)
I know my current lappy is a monster and comlplete overkill for video djing with virtualdj, but my old machine should be able to handle videos just fine with the card it has in it. The only thing I can think of is the codecs that would be different. I am planning on doing a full OS install fresh, this will be a purpose built laptop.
I did a side by side comparison of the two computers on the same TV running vdj (one plugged into the VGA port, and one into HDMI) and I switched back and forth and could totally notice that the video coming from the Vostro (256mb dedicated card) was more.... "ghostly"? Almost like you could tell that there was a problem loading every 3rd frame, and the video would "ghost" over the previous frame to make the animation stay with the music. Picture what the video looks like when you scratch VERY slow, but I could notice it when the video was playing normally....
I'm thinking it can't be hardware related, its gotta be a software issue, such as a codec.
What codec set should I be using to get the best output?
(PS, these were smashvidz mp4s)
Posté Wed 22 Aug 12 @ 7:57 pm
JoeyKJ
1. Do a registry clean up.here's one thats very good. http://www.winaso.com/ or free program "Care" http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html
2. Do A windows defreg on the hard drive.
3. Do A windows clean up of the hard drive.
4. Go to Start "Run", then type in "Temp" click ok, then delete all the temp files in that dir.you can, some you will be unable to delete.
5. If you use the computer every day you may want to remove some old restore points that will speed up things for you,
Go to start, my computer, right click over drive c:\ and choose properties, click disk clean Up, at dialog box choose "More Options" tab, go to System Restore at the bottom click "Clean Up", click yes to remove old restore points.
6. Turn off background services this tool will do it for you and it's free http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html?Str=download
Another Good tool to have for systen Info, Details on site: http://www.thesycon.de/eng/system_info.shtml
7. This Is Very Important "Latency" get this tool and "Use It". http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml
8. Right click anywhere on the screen and choose properties, click "Settings" tab click square "1" lower "Screen resolution" to 1152 by 864 pixels, then click "Apply" then ok.
9. Things you should turn off in Device Manager, click on device right click and choose disable.
1. Fingerprint Coprocessor
2. Bluetooth
3. USB Video Device
4. Modem
5. Any Bluetooth Audio
6. Internal Sound card your not using
7. Broadcom Netlink
8. Wireless Wifi Link
9. Under Batteries/ ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
10. All above to Lower Latency levels down as mush as possible.
When you complete your show, turn them back "ON" again.
I believe the steps outlined above will give you better results.
Additional tweak sites that can help..
http://ts.hercules.com/includes/view_faq.php?id=364&d=2008-09-26&folder=eng
http://www.blackviper.com/
http://www.audioforums.com/windows-xp-optimization.php
Let me know how it worked out.
Good Luck
Joey...
2. Do A windows defreg on the hard drive.
3. Do A windows clean up of the hard drive.
4. Go to Start "Run", then type in "Temp" click ok, then delete all the temp files in that dir.you can, some you will be unable to delete.
5. If you use the computer every day you may want to remove some old restore points that will speed up things for you,
Go to start, my computer, right click over drive c:\ and choose properties, click disk clean Up, at dialog box choose "More Options" tab, go to System Restore at the bottom click "Clean Up", click yes to remove old restore points.
6. Turn off background services this tool will do it for you and it's free http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html?Str=download
Another Good tool to have for systen Info, Details on site: http://www.thesycon.de/eng/system_info.shtml
7. This Is Very Important "Latency" get this tool and "Use It". http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml
8. Right click anywhere on the screen and choose properties, click "Settings" tab click square "1" lower "Screen resolution" to 1152 by 864 pixels, then click "Apply" then ok.
9. Things you should turn off in Device Manager, click on device right click and choose disable.
1. Fingerprint Coprocessor
2. Bluetooth
3. USB Video Device
4. Modem
5. Any Bluetooth Audio
6. Internal Sound card your not using
7. Broadcom Netlink
8. Wireless Wifi Link
9. Under Batteries/ ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
10. All above to Lower Latency levels down as mush as possible.
When you complete your show, turn them back "ON" again.
I believe the steps outlined above will give you better results.
Additional tweak sites that can help..
http://ts.hercules.com/includes/view_faq.php?id=364&d=2008-09-26&folder=eng
http://www.blackviper.com/
http://www.audioforums.com/windows-xp-optimization.php
Let me know how it worked out.
Good Luck
Joey...
Posté Wed 22 Aug 12 @ 8:12 pm
dj schmidty
Wow, thanks!!!
Thats a great list of stuff to do for the gig computer! I will be doing a fresh install of Windows 7 on that machine when it comes time (i'm aiting for my SSD to come in the mail)
Will those help even with Windows 7 64-bit?
Also, which codec for video would you recommend? I'm not sure what codec is being used by VDJ on my current gigging computer (samsung rf711), but the videos look great! How do I find out which codec Virtual DJ uses currently on my laptop?
Thats a great list of stuff to do for the gig computer! I will be doing a fresh install of Windows 7 on that machine when it comes time (i'm aiting for my SSD to come in the mail)
Will those help even with Windows 7 64-bit?
Also, which codec for video would you recommend? I'm not sure what codec is being used by VDJ on my current gigging computer (samsung rf711), but the videos look great! How do I find out which codec Virtual DJ uses currently on my laptop?
Posté Wed 22 Aug 12 @ 8:29 pm
cstoll
Unless you have change the decoding option for videos to using the Windows Media Player as the video decoder - you do not need to load any codecs.
All supported formats have the decoding codec built into VirtualDJ.
The ghosting that you are seeing very well could be the refresh rate that the VGA out is set to verse the much faster refresh rate of HDMI.
All supported formats have the decoding codec built into VirtualDJ.
The ghosting that you are seeing very well could be the refresh rate that the VGA out is set to verse the much faster refresh rate of HDMI.
Posté Wed 22 Aug 12 @ 8:57 pm
dj schmidty
CStoll,
sent you a private message...
sent you a private message...
Posté Thu 23 Aug 12 @ 9:12 pm