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Old April 20th, 2010, 01:53 AM
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Lyrics OUT of Sync Revelation

On my laptop, when running on battery power, even though in power settings to run on max performance during battery power, the lyrics slow right down. Plug the power lead in and then it all becomes good.

Is there a fix for this?

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Old April 20th, 2010, 02:16 AM
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On my laptop, when running on battery power, even though in power settings to run on max performance during battery power, the lyrics slow right down. Plug the power lead in and then it all becomes good.

Is there a fix for this?

Stef
Yup, plug it in and then leave it plugged in. Just kidding, but had to say that!
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Old April 20th, 2010, 11:55 AM
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Re: Lyrics OUT of Sync Revelation

Bryant is correct, though he was joking. Laptops normally lower power output when on battery. When plugged in it can use the AC to push the levels up to full power so no limitations.
You are lucky this works, because many laptops are under-powered even with the AC plugged in.
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Old April 21st, 2010, 10:50 AM
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You are lucky this works, because many laptops are under-powered even with the AC plugged in.
With that being said and all. Hoster is designed to work on a laptop isn't it? I would think that the software would be designed with that in mind, since mtu sells laptops for their products. And laptops are meant to be moved from place to place, whereas, some computer manu's have stated in their "small print" on their warranty. That use of a PC for site to site work will void it. I had thought about purchasing a small mini tower to use for my shows. But after thinking about it, i would have to carry along a monitor as well, more wiring to do, so i choose a laptop, and not sorry that i did. Of course i purchased a good laptop. I know...i know...some guys have cases where their PC and everything fits together....
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Old April 21st, 2010, 12:19 PM
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With that being said and all. Hoster is designed to work on a laptop isn't it? I would think that the software would be designed with that in mind, since mtu sells laptops for their products. And laptops are meant to be moved from place to place, whereas, some computer manu's have stated in their "small print" on their warranty. That use of a PC for site to site work will void it. I had thought about purchasing a small mini tower to use for my shows. But after thinking about it, i would have to carry along a monitor as well, more wiring to do, so i choose a laptop, and not sorry that i did. Of course i purchased a good laptop. I know...i know...some guys have cases where their PC and everything fits together....
First the laptops that MTU sells are top quality "rugidized" laptops that they make sure will run Hoster effectively, just as they make sure the disk drives they sell will work with CDG disks.
I don't know of any programs designed specifically to run on under-powered lower quality laptops. Hoster is designed to try to use the least amount of processor time possible to prevent overloading the system. However there is no way to design a program to work with a slow sound card or a video card with too little memory.
The situation was running on battery rather than A/C. When a laptop goes on battery everything is slowed down because the amount of power fed to each of the items decreases slightly to make the battery last longer.
Laptops were originally designed for businessmen who travel and was never designed as an entertainment device. They still are not up to what desktops are capable of and probably never will be.
I wouldn't know about your warranty statement as I have never seen that on any of mine. As far as my show machines I built them so I guess they have a lifetime warranty. They are the Shuttle-type cases complete with handles and travel quite well.
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On my laptop, when running on battery power, even though in power settings to run on max performance during battery power, the lyrics slow right down. Plug the power lead in and then it all becomes good.

Is there a fix for this?
Stef, I wish I could say yes, but that is approaching impossible to write code for.

As Dale pointed out, Hoster and other demanding Audio/Video applications can be compromised when the hardware is lacking.

CDG Karaoke players contain a special dedicated chip that computes the video images from the RW codes coming from the CDG Disc. Hoster must do this major computation using the computer CPU processor, video chip and VRAM. Over the years from 1996, we have tweaked this "graphic computation" code to its minimal requirements. I can't imagine there is anything else we can do.
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Old April 22nd, 2010, 03:15 AM
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I don't know of any programs designed specifically to run on under-powered lower quality laptops.
Dale if you will reread my post, i never mentioned a word about power...no idea where you came away with that statement from what i typed, and if you will also read my post again you will clearly see the words....
[quote]Of course i purchased a good laptop.[/QUOTE] Actually, after looking, i have better specs on my lappy then the folks at mtu have on theirs. I was just speaking in general terms, about the mobility of laptops vs towers. I dug out my old papers i recieved with my dell. And it clearly states what i mentioned about using it for mobile purposes. And...it says no smoking around my machine either, that will void the warranty as well..even the paid extended ones like i have. If they don't git ya one way...they will the other....
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Old April 23rd, 2010, 10:19 AM
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Dale if you will reread my post, i never mentioned a word about power...no idea where you came away with that statement from what i typed, and if you will also read my post again you will clearly see the words....
If I can give my assessment, Dale is trying to keep the discussions on topic, which was started by Stefan's discussion of "running on battery power". I don't think Dale was criticizing your posts. Often Dale and I only quote (or don't quote any) the last post to answer. I see Dale's post being more general than just answering your post.

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On my laptop, when running on battery power, even though in power settings to run on max performance during battery power, the lyrics slow right down. Plug the power lead in and then it all becomes good.

Stef
This established the Topic for this Thread.

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I don't know of any programs designed specifically to run on under-powered lower quality laptops. Hoster is designed to try to use the least amount of processor time possible to prevent overloading the system. However there is no way to design a program to work with a slow sound card or a video card with too little memory.
Dale has been an active Beta Tester for some time. He has watched MTU engineers try "this and that", and seen the results of all the testers. He understands Hoster and its evolution very well. We have tried to work around poorly performing systems, with mixed results. Most often, after wasting MTU's and our Tester's time, we revert back to a requirement for a hardware system that is able to do the job.

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The situation was running on battery rather than A/C. When a laptop goes on battery everything is slowed down because the amount of power fed to each of the items decreases slightly to make the battery last longer.
Dale's several decades as a Technical Support expert for the Air Force, through actual hands on of over 6,000 computers if I remember right, allows him to be aware of things like this that even MTU would not consider.

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Laptops were originally designed for businessmen who travel and was never designed as an entertainment device. They still are not up to what desktops are capable of and probably never will be.
This is an accurate statement. It also is driving the latest evolution in processor designs, as everyone now wants a laptop or netbook or... iPad. Due to heat and battery power savings requirements, Laptops are handicapped versus larger cased systems.

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I wouldn't know about your warranty statement as I have never seen that on any of mine. As far as my show machines I built them so I guess they have a lifetime warranty. They are the Shuttle-type cases complete with handles and travel quite well.
I too have never heard of a warranty that restricts mobile use. I can't imagine a manufacturer stating this in writing. If o, stop looking at it and leave that store... they are WAY out of touch with reality.

Thank you for pointing out that Dell has this warranty limitation. I'm shocked... but that is why we sell our Ruggedized Laptop designed for Mobile Karaoke Hosts.

If I may add... this Thread has run its course of Problem-Discussions--Answer. Dale and I will leave it open a while longer, but probably will close it tonight ot tomorrow.
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Old April 23rd, 2010, 03:08 PM
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I thought i did
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The topic was laptops? correct? although he did mention about low power. I took away from dales reply this:
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They still are not up to what desktops are capable of and probably never will be.
Hense my question on topic so i thought???
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With that being said and all. Hoster is designed to work on a laptop isn't it?
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