Using Hoster 4.0 KMA files with Older versions of Hoster

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Originally Posted by marklwood

If you can hang on a couple more days, the problems you are having are being addressed in the newer version due out on monday. It will be version 4.04.

4.04 is now scheduled for release Tuesday... at the earliest.

Turns out with Vista, playing a video on the Show Display Video VJ View, and it being coped in the Preview Display in the Hoster Screen, sometimes (on Vista) it won't play on one screen or the other, sometimes neither.

It is Vista that is NOT LOADING the video activex code so we can play.

We are adding 2 new buttons in the Tools menu > Options command.

These two buttons switch between video players.

The "Play Video + Preview Display" button should work fine with Windows XP. With Windows Vista it may not show the video in both the Show Display Video and Preview Display every time.

If you run Vista and sometimes Videos don't appear in the Show Display Video view, then click the "Play Video In Show Display Only" button. When you play a Video file, this will not show the Scrolling Marquee or Singers Names Display, and will not play the Video in the Preview Display. This is the older "player" used in Hoster 3.40, 3.321a and prior. There is no Marquee or Singers Names possible with this view... when playing a Video.

When playing CDG or Audio or Intermission Views, you can have the Marquee and Singers Names... unless you disable them in some or all of these Views. All graphic content (Lyrics, video, graphic images, etc.) play in the Show Display AND the Preview Display.

It is only the Video view that is affected by these buttons that "switch" which video player is in use. Again, only Vista has the problem.

Another proof that Vista was NOT READY for release to the public, or even to developers. More wasted time... more complexity to make Hoster work on XP and Vista.