Vob & Mpg not playing on ext. desktop

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Originally Posted by Chad Slater

Is anyone or has anyone had a problem with .vob & .mpg files not playing on the extended desktop in Hoster? When I pull the window over to the main computer screen and play the files, they show up. Any ideas?

Chad, I brought this up in our Engineering meeting this week. Here are the answers I was given, based on our experience and knowledge of PC computer technology.

1. The Graphics card memory management is not set up to perform on the extended desktop. If you start a video in Hoster's Show Display, then click and drag it to the second monitor, the video stops playing if the memory management (Graphics card driver/hardware) cannot transfer to the second monitor.

2. If you move the Show Display to the second monitor, THEN play the video, if the Graphics card can play on the second monitor it will. If not, get another Graphics card.

3. What Graphics card are you (Chad) running and what software driver version is installed?


We are doing some deep diagnostics in our code, and are finding that recent Windows upgrades are more sensitive to:

1. How many folders deep a file is stored

2. How long the path name is to the file

3. How many files are in the same folder

We are working on extending our code support, but... it also is limited by how much memory you have in your computer. An XP system with 1GB may not cut it any more. Don't know for sure, but we're testing this also to make an educated SWAG.

The recommendations we can make right now are to; 1) keep your files in SHORT named folders not more than 4 levels down, and 2) have at least 2GB RAM in your computer, NOT shared with video (i.e. Graphics card must have its own video memory).

More to come...