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Old October 21st, 2008, 07:41 AM
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FACTORY ANNOUNCEMENT... Hoster 4.06 is Released!


In the Tools menu > Options command, we added a new control to select our OLD video player (used in 3.321a and prior) and our NEW video player which you may not want to use!

OLD VIDEO PLAYER FEATURES:
1. Mux works
2. Key change works
3. Plays all video formats
4. Plays in the Show Display Video VJ View
5. Fully resizes both horizontally and vertically to fill the screen area
6. Can have the Scrolling Marquee and Singers Names Display above/below it
7. DOES NOT appear in the Preview window, only Video VJ
8. Works excellently on XP and Vista (all versions)


NEW VIDEO PLAYER FEATURES:

NOTE: This IS Windows Media Player 11, and on Vista it stinks! We spent over $20,000 to make this sucker work professionally, but it won't!

1. Mux DOES NOT work
2. Key change DOES NOT work
3. Plays all video formats
4. Plays in the Show Display Video VJ View
5. Resizes only one direction until a screen edge is met (leaves black bars either beside or above/below)
6. Can have the Scrolling Marquee and Singers Names Display above/below it
7. DOES appear in the Preview window
8. Works excellently on XP and marginally on Vista (all versions)


So, why do we offer both? Some folks want to see the Video in the Hoster Preview Display (small screen at the top left). The only way we can do this is with WMP. But... that is the ONLY advantage of the NEW player. We ship with the OLD player defaulted to appear.


We are now back working on Hoster 4.10. Among other advanced features, this will allow importing your Video files (all types) as a new type of KMA file that does not duplicate the video file, and should process video files in about a half-second... very fast! This will allow adding Video files from the Songs Database, printing them (or select not to) in your Song Books, and store the Artist, Title, Genre, Mux, Duet, etc. status Hoster now provides on CDG and Audio files.

We also are adding an upgrade that will allow importing VCD and DVD disc song tracks DIRECTLY into Hoster's Songs Database using the Import CD Tracks screen.

We may be able to also import SCDG disc tracks directly also, and index them in the Songs Database.
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