My thought is that this is NOT an audio problem, however, a video problem...described by Mindonstrike's comments here:
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Originally posted by mindonstrike
I did a little experimenting of my own. I took one of the problem disks (phmn1103) and converted it to mp3g - it plays fine in winamp with the plugin. Then I converted it back to cdg and reburned it to a disk and imported that disk into hoster, and the dropouts occur once again. So what ever it is it seems to be peculiar to kma's and it seems to be related to a code change since 2.014 . Before the upgrade, in 2.014 I would get the large cpu usage spikes and a tiny little crackle, barely noticeable if you weren't trying to hear it, but some change since then has caused the dropouts to be more noticeable
i also combined the music from a CB mp3g with the graphics from a PHM and imported it into hoster and had the same problem in the same location on the track. Combining the music from a PHM track with the graphics of a CB song played flawlessly.
Also when i made a song in kpro using the instrumental from PHM i had no problems there either.
Sam
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So by this testing it seems the dropouts originate in the video portion of these PHM CDGs, could it be that the 'flaws' are there on the disc and the CDG players are just not sensitive enough to pick up on them, or maybe they're processing a larger chuck of info at a time, while the computer working faster is getting smaller samples from the disc and hiccups when it gets that small sample with the flaw? just kinda thinking out loud, not really sure how the program or CDG players read/process the info...
I don't personally have any newer PHM discs to try, the only ones I have are from 1996-2001 (after which I have THM discs). I sampled songs from many of the ones I have and I did notice a couple had a VERY slight click in the audio in the beginning of the song. It was so slight that unless you really listen for it you wouldn't hear it... For this to happen a number of things had to be true:
Music had to start prior to the intro graphic being shown, music had to be somewhat constant, (I didn't notice it unless there was a constant note, or sound being played) and the dropout (click) occurred right as the screen switched from black (some were dark green) to the opening title page. I DID notice a very slight spike in the CPU usage up to about 20% or so from 2-4% while a song is playing, and this is running on my somewhat slow laptop, Pentium 3 850MHz w/384Mb RAM. A jump of about 3-4% in the following processes, SYSTEM, services.exe, Hoster.exe and taskmgr.exe
Just some thoughts, perhaps it will help,
Flip