trouble with hoster and laptop

[dhkluesner@clas]

I can listen to music and watch dvd's or short movie clips downloaded off my camera.

[MikeP]

Another question.
Is your desktop also running Vista?
It might be useful to know what's different (or the same) about your 2 systems.

MikeP

[hwheeler43]

This is a very strange problem. Are you logged in as administrator on the machine? How much ram does it have? Does your Graphics Video card have 32MB or more of RAM and support Direct-X 9.0 or higher? Just some things to look at. I may be off base as usual. The graphics card info is a requirement to run hoster. I am no expert, but I believe direct-x has control of both audio and video, so if it is the wrong version it might be the culprit. Again, I could be wrong, but I would check to see which version is on the laptop. It seems like it should be 9.0 or greater with vista.

[bobcox- with the Lord]

can you hook that external drive up to your desktop and have hoster play from it. (Make sure you change the path so hoster plays from external drive only)
and see if those files play.


could you tell us what is the size of one of the files,

[dhkluesner@clas]

Acer Aspire 5570 2067
intel pentium dual core processor T2080
(1.73 GHZ; 533 MHz FSB; 1 MB L2 cache)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
160 GB HDD
DVD Super Multi DL
1 GB DDR2
802.11b/g wlam
Realtek High Definition audio


I can't find anything with direct-x. I am going to take a more indepth look at my hardware.

[MikeP]

I don't know how old your laptop is or how up to date it is.
Has it got .NET Framework 2.0, DIRECTX9
Perhaps it might be worthwhile downloading and installing this little free program that conducts a complete Audit of your PC.
I have it installed on all my machines and it is very enlightning
Here is the link if you want to give it a go:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
MikeP

[bobcox- with the Lord]

if it has vista on it it should already have direct-X 10

[dhkluesner@clas]

I just wanted to let you know that I finally resolved the issue. I used my desktop to copy all my cd's onto an external hard drive. I then figured out the merge files and whala.

On March 8th I ran an opry show from Hoster from my laptop. They thought I was a technological genius but little did they know that it was Hoster, LOL.

Thank you for such a great program!

[ddouglass]

DirectX 9.0 is required for both Vista and XP.

[hwheeler43]

Dale,

Do you think it could be a direct-x problem? It seems strange that both audio and video are affected. Sure glad both my Toshiba's are workin' good. Knock on wood...

[ddouglass]

Anything is possible especially with Vista, but I think we are dealing with more than one problem. It may be a permissions thing with Vista and all the locked down security. It is hard to troubleshoot something like this without being able to see for yourself exactly what is going on.

[George]

Dolly,

Probably draw another blank, but go to the folder where your KMA files are stored and right click on one of them.

What does it tell you the size of the KMA track is? Average should be around 3 to 4 Mg (approx) at 128 compression..

Also make for sure that in the ATTRIBUTES at the bottom of the page READ ONLY and HIDDEN are UNCHECKED.