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Originally Posted by cartunesdj
So I get the gig machine out. Get it all setup. Boot Windows, load Hoster, and guess what...no issues.
Now I really don't know what to think. I've started other applications, played videos in OtsDJ. Come back to Hoster...running fine. No lag, key change working fine, searches are as fast as ever.
So now I'm concerned about what to do at the next gig when it happens again.
Since I can't determine the root cause or find a definite resolution, I'm left with a big question mark in my mind. 
The one thing I wasn't able to do last night at the gig was reboot. I shut down and restarted Hoster a number of times without any change. Maybe a reboot would have fixed it. Buy why?
And how do you gracefully go about rebooting your machine after the show has started?
I really love using Hoster and have impressed many people over the years with it. But this uncertainty is enough to give me an ulcer. 
Guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed that this was a fluke. |
Your post is interesting. If Hoster continued to have a problem after you shut down and restarted, I'd say it was Hoster's fault.
However, since rebooting the computer cleared the problem, this sounds like what I have seen many times with various programs since 1973
(yes '73). It is related to the computer RAM.
1. If the problem happens again, I would suspect your RAM has a bad area that is going bonkers when it heats up... could run find while cooler.
2. I'm not joking here... the size of a RAM memory cell today in the silicon chip is so small that a single Cosmic Ray (Alpha particle) has enough energy to change the contents from a 1 to a 0, or 0 to 1. This was reported about a decade ago by a scientist who was doing some testing USING computers in a deep cavern in the Earth. The Earth shielded the computers from high-energy Alpha particles. Further research by the article author gave conclusive evidence that "random problems" could be caused by the RAM contents being changed once the computer was running.
Since around 1992, I have made this point, and often it "appears" to be the only explanation.
If you continue to have random problems, and Hoster is the ONLY program affected, try loading some other program first, then load Hoster. This "can" place the other program in the "bad RAM" area (depending on the size of that program versus Hoster). If a problem then occurs with the other program, replace your computer RAM.
If the problem continues in Hoster only, then it is appropriate to question whether Hoster is causing this itself.
I'll watch this Thread and see if others report the same slow down as you have here. If not, it may indicate this is a "system" related problem, not a deficiency in Hoster.
Our Beta Testers on 4.00 have reported slowness as you have. However, it doesn't "go away" when they reboot so I don't think your problem with 3.321a (see Help > About Video Hoster dialog for the running version) is what they are experiencing with 4.00.