Problems playing video files on extended desktop

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Chad Slater

I am not sure what exactly is going on. All went well on my previous show but then my show on Wed I ended up with studdering video/audio when playing video and didn't have much going on in the background. Still have issues with MP4 but others play fine (except for the studder). Which oddly ONLY happens when played through Hoster. I ended up playing videos through media player classic on my ext.desktop and all went well. Which leads me to believe that it is Hoster giving me the issues. I think I will just continue to play videos outside hoster till I figure this mess out.

Found this in the questions and answers section of K-Lite: Which can be found from K-light/Help/FAQ.

Q:	The video stutters a lot when I play it fullscreen
A:	This can be a result of certain graphics card settings. Try changing the following settings in your graphics card control panel: - Set FSAA to 'Let the application decide' - Disable anisotopic filtering (AF) - Disable antialiasing

May be of some help

[billyo]

just wondering if you're using a pc to tv/monitor adapter, the reason i asked was that this adapters are not really good enough to play music videos , i bought all kinds of adapters, installed all kinds of codec.( vdj has a list of diff. codecs).downloaded videos from hd to low quality resolution..nothing help..problem still exist when playing in fullscreen, minimizing the screen to about 3/4 to all extended monitor helps and a lot it decreases my cpu usage, since music videos does takes a lot of cpu power.. i think the only solution was to get a very powerful graphic/video cards...

[KenKelley]

Originally Posted by billyo

just wondering if you're using a pc to tv/monitor adapter, the reason i asked was that this adapters are not really good enough to play music videos , i bought all kinds of adapters, installed all kinds of codec.( vdj has a list of diff. codecs).downloaded videos from hd to low quality resolution..nothing help..problem still exist when playing in fullscreen, minimizing the screen to about 3/4 to all extended monitor helps and a lot it decreases my cpu usage, since music videos does takes a lot of cpu power.. i think the only solution was to get a very powerful graphic/video cards...

Billy,

Just curious, what Make & Model Video card(s) are you using?

Thanks!

[billyo]

Originally Posted by KenKelley

Billy,

Just curious, what Make & Model Video card(s) are you using?

Thanks!

just an integrated video card..i have a laptop that has an ati card and i get the same problem...updating/upgrading the graphic card didn't do anthing..video files plays w/o a problem on primary monitor in fullscreen view, but not on extended, once its minimized problem goes away

[KenKelley]

Originally Posted by billyo

just an integrated video card..i have a laptop that has an ati card and i get the same problem...updating/upgrading the graphic card didn't do anthing..video files plays w/o a problem on primary monitor in fullscreen view, but not on extended, once its minimized problem goes away

Have you tried stretching the singers display to fit the extended monitor?

[billyo]

Originally Posted by KenKelley

Have you tried stretching the singers display to fit the extended monitor?

tried that too..i can stretched it up to my 3rd monitor and still the same problem, extend it to 2nd monitor, i'll get a glitched, music goes out of sync..play it on primary monitor alone using wmp and vdj program, no problem at all, extend it back to 2nd display and minimizing it. problem goes away...so in my opinion Hoster has nothing to do with it..it's the graphic cards thats is not powerful enough to play music videos, and also when playing music videos, cpu uses too much power, so you might wanna check on that too

[KenKelley]

Originally Posted by billyo

tried that too..i can stretched it up to my 3rd monitor and still the same problem, extend it to 2nd monitor, i'll get a glitched, music goes out of sync..play it on primary monitor alone using wmp and vdj program, no problem at all, extend it back to 2nd display and minimizing it. problem goes away...so in my opinion Hoster has nothing to do with it..it's the graphic cards thats is not powerful enough to play music videos, and also when playing music videos, cpu uses too much power, so you might wanna check on that too

Everything works fine on my machine and setup (laptop, singers LCD monitor, and 60" Plasma). I will be setting up in about an hour for tonights show.

I can understand the CPU working overtime especially if the video card's GPU isn't up to the task.

This one has me baffled! Will play with it more.

The videos that you are having problems with (studdering), Did you rip them straight from the DVD or did you use DVD Ripping Software?

If you used DVD Ripping software, what is the Name of the program?