Hoster 3.321 locking up following video

[Joe Nieves]

Thanks I will Check it out tomorrow I'm running to my gig tonight I'll let you know how it go's Thx Joe......

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

Thanks I will Check it out tomorrow I'm running to my gig tonight I'll let you know how it go's Thx Joe......

My problem is different than this however.

It is completely understood why Hoster ceashes when VDJ has priority over the secondary monitor, and that is why I need to deactivate the video in VDJ, but lately, even when I do that (deactivate video in VDJ), sometimes Hoster STILL RANDOMLY acts the same way (crashes because video is NOT deactivated in VDJ, when in fact It is.)

I'm just wondering what could cause this condition for Hoster to think the VDJ video is NOT deactivated, when in fact it is?
Bryant

[Joe Nieves]

Simple

Do any other video program you have in your system crash the same way when you use them?

If not them the problem is with Hoster. I have experienced the same problems you have and all my other programs with video operate normally.

All I can share with you is my own personal experience maybe MTU will fined a solution eventually. Joe.....

[Joe Nieves]

Hi Bryant

I checked the control panal and it's set to asio driver for my E-MU 1616m sound card not the MK2 sound card all my other audio programs don't have this problem thay all run on the default sound card and do not switch to my MK2 sound card when plugged in Only Hoster and MicroStudio?

Any chance of Hoster and Microstudio getting a assignable sound card option?

This would be a BIG PLUS because then you are able to assign 1st Hoster to main sound card and the 2nd Hoster to another sound card for cueing or having the added feature of letting someone hear the song before they sing it you don't know how many times this was requested.

Thx Joe....

[ddouglass]

Joe I know that it has been mentioned before and is supposed to be in the specs for future addition. Both programs have to be reworked with a new player that will have a lot more capabilities than even the existing set up according to Admin.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

Any chance of Hoster and Microstudio getting a assignable sound card option?

This would be a BIG PLUS because then you are able to assign 1st Hoster to main sound card and the 2nd Hoster to another sound card for cueing or having the added feature of letting someone hear the song before they sing it you don't know how many times this was requested.

Thx Joe....

Joe, Microstudio 4.006 already has this now.

As soon as we finish Hoster 4.02 running reliably on Vista, we'll finish intigrating our new Sound Manager technology, already about 90% done and used in Microstudio. SoundMan in Hoster will provide at least these functions:

1. Choose the Output Audio Port the Playlist plays through.

2. Assign a new Play function in the Search menu to a different Audio Port to allow previewing a song before adding it to the Playlist. Could you assign a different port to a second Hoster copy running? Don't know, but my guess would be no as they would both use the single instance of the Hoster Registry Keys. If we didn't make the port selection "persistent" it may work, but the new Search-Play function an port assignment is designed to do this.

3. Crossfade one playing track out while the next one fades up

4. Play Instabuttons with MP3 and WMA and Video (11 formats currently supported) simultaneously with the Playlist song now playing. Hoster 4.00 allows one .WAV file assigned to an Instabutton to play at the same time as a Playlist track.

5. Have (target design goal) 10 simultaneously playing audio files, auto-mixing so no one amplitude swamps out the others.

.... more I'm sure, but I'm running from memory right now.



NOTE: We will be activating Hoster's Intermission View "Play Videos" option in V4.03, so you may no longer need your VideoDJ to do this.


This weekend, our beta testers and programmers identified there is a problem when Hoster's Show Display (Lyrics, Intermission, Audio DJ, Video VJ 4 views) is moved to the second display/TV. Under some now identified conditions Hoster can crash. I expect that is what Bryant is seeing that is mentioned here.

We will work on this first thing this morning, expecting a fix by Tuesday eve for beta testing. We believe this is "THE" problem that has been plaguing Hoster 4.0x for some time. We're on it!

[Joe Nieves]

Thank you very mush for your reply

Under Record Settings select audio card option in Microstudio
I think this is setup for Input Not Output because when I plug in my MK2 Hercules controller the output go’s to my MK2 controller sound card
not the selected card E-DSP Wave (6000).

I don’t have this problem with my VDJ program.
Now I’m trying to be objective here explaining only what I experience.

So doing what you explained to Hoster would have the same results?

In Microstudio when ripping a CDG Disc. The music skips playing the same beat twice and the lyrics don’t sweep across screen.

In Microstudio when ripping a CD Disc. The music skips playing the same beat twice before it proceeds to the next section of the song.

In Hoster I can rip a CDG or CD with no problems. (Audio files have Kma Ext not Wav?)

All this while using my E-MU 1616m PCMCIA sound card.

Thank you for listening,
Joe…..

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

Thank you very mush for your reply

Under Record Settings select audio card option in Microstudio
I think this is setup for Input Not Output because when I plug in my MK2 Hercules controller the output go’s to my MK2 controller sound card
not the selected card E-DSP Wave (6000).

I don’t have this problem with my VDJ program.
Now I’m trying to be objective here explaining only what I experience.

So doing what you explained to Hoster would have the same results?

In Microstudio when ripping a CDG Disc. The music skips playing the same beat twice and the lyrics don’t sweep across screen.

In Microstudio when ripping a CD Disc. The music skips playing the same beat twice before it proceeds to the next section of the song.

In Hoster I can rip a CDG or CD with no problems. (Audio files have Kma Ext not Wav?)

All this while using my E-MU 1616m PCMCIA sound card.

Thank you for listening,
Joe…..

Joe, are you talking about Importing them and then playing them from the imported file or are you playing them directly from the CD?
When you import any file into Hoster they are wrapped with a KMA header which lets Hoster know where and what type of file it is. If you add those audio files to the playlist you will see in the last column "HDAUD" designating that it is an audio file.