Hoster 3.321 locking up following video

[bryant]

A few weeks ago my wife was using hoster 3.3 at a show and mentioned the program locked up after using a video from another program.

As some of you may already know, I use virtual DJ for the videos and audio w/slide shows before the Karaoke portion of the show begins about 45 minutes later, as she was doing. We have learned that anytime after playing a video from VDJ, we have to deactivate the video (second display) screen within the VDJ program, as VDJ somehow has priority over the second monitor. If we don't, we get (and expect) a Hoster crash. Hoster locks up and reports a "crash and must close" error after hitting the play button to begin a karaoke song.

What is happening now, but is hard to duplicate as it seems random, that even after we Deactivate the second display video from VDJ, hoster still may crash sometime,. almost as if the VDJ program didn't fully Deactivate its second monitor, although she saw the Hoster SND on the second display.

I'm sure this is not entirely Hoster's fault, or maybe not even at all, but can someone fill me in with what may be happening from one program to the other. Obviously a weird conflict is going on between the two programs, which we understand and thought we had control over.

[Joe Nieves]

All you need todo is press Ctrl V before starting Hoster program to deactivate VDJ control of Video monitor. Joe....

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

All you need todo is press Ctrl V before starting Hoster program to deactivate VDJ control of Video monitor. Joe....

Yes,
I do that now, or hit the video tab, or use the deactivate button in the congig, all those De-activate the video. My problem is that there are some times even after I do this that Hoster will crash and give the same error as if I had not done it.

My question is, is something else going on now, either with Hoster or VDJ, or some conflict I need to know about?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by bryant

What is happening now, but is hard to duplicate as it seems random, that even after we Deactivate the second display video from VDJ, hoster still may crash sometime,. as if the VDJ program didn't fully Deactivate its second monitor, although she saw the Hoster SND on the second display, indicating that the secondary had passed on priority to Hoster.

This is what I am dealing with now?

[Joe Nieves]

The other problem that may be causing this is 1gig Mem is not enough you will need 2 gigs Mem or more would be even better. what rpm is your hard drive?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

The other problem that may be causing this is 1gig Mem is not enough you will need 2 gigs Mem or more would be even better. what rpm is your hard drive?

7200 rpm internal, and the machine that it is happening on is 2 Gb, with a dedicated 256 Mb video card.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

The other problem that may be causing this is 1gig Mem is not enough you will need 2 gigs Mem or more would be even better. what rpm is your hard drive?

Any other ideas, can there be some kind of memory leak in the VDJ slideshow plugin?

[Joe Nieves]

Well are all your other music and video programs working fine with no problems?

If thay are all working fine then maybe it cauld be that Hoster video may not work on all computers I have 4 Gig Ram and nVidia card with 512 video ram and hoster still crashes on me so I stopped using it and stick to my VDJ program.

I'm having a problem with Hoster staying on my default sound card E-Mu 1616m when I plug in my hercules MK2 controller after using VDJ it automaticly swithes to the MK2 card instead.

When will Hoster and Microstudio be able to assign the audio card?

[ddouglass]

Joe it sounds like your MK2 takes control and becomes the default audio card when it is plugged in overriding the normal default.
Check you Sound settings in the control panel with the MK2 plugged in and I bet playback is set to that card.