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Originally Posted by bryant
64mB ram is not very much at all when trying to force video and visual effects on a computer. Also, most laptops video card is "shared" ram, which means some of that 64 mB is also shared with the computer.
I am guessing that on a laptop you may need close to 256 mB "dedicated" ram for good operation in video use.
Sometimes you can uncheck "graphics" acceleration in your preeferences and that seems to help, but then again it has been known to disallow other video functions at the same time. This is my experience with mixing videos for DJ'ing and VJ'ing at night clubs.
For some reason laptops are notorious for "bad" video mixing, may have something to do when they tend to heat up, they actually "remove" ram from the machine as a cooling effect. ,i.e., using less ram produces less heat, and that combined with shared ram from the video card. The FX7300 Nvidea has been singled out as causing videos to freeze in laptops using dj programs.
The 8000 series has not been recommended either.
I spent two years on VJ forums trying to get my laptop to run videos properly, very difficult. I ended up buying a shuttle (Mini-PC) with a 256 mB "deicated" video card ATI. ATI has been recommended for "better" video usage in laptops as well.
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Bryant,
These are not videos I'm having the sync problem with, and it was Bub-01 that gave you his video ram specs for video card ( Mine happen to be the same / 64 mb ). My problem is with kma's created from cdg's and upon initial start of hoster 4.06 or 4.xx the first song in the playlist has had a lyric sync problem. If I restart the song, with restart button, or /stop/play combination it will put the lyrics and music /audio & video back in sync. I am not knowledgeable enough to understand what is happening with the video card, that allows the audio/video to re-sync correctly after this start/restart proceedure. Then I may understand the capabilities of, or the need for increasing the video memory (shared/dedicated), and whether another video card with either 124mb, or 256mb, ...., would be warranted!
Thanks!
Rick
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