Videos cause shutdown

[WDEWDAD7]

p.s. I know Sam sometimes uses video. Have you encountered any problems?

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by WDEWDAD7

p.s. I know Sam sometimes uses video. Have you encountered any problems?

None, but I rarely would show 6 in a row. But to check it out I just played a dozen of various formats and duration lengths from a few seconds to a couple of full length vcd karake songs and had no problems except that I noticed that memory and cpu usage went up with each succeeding video, starting at about 53% memory and ending at about 73%. Eventually I would have run out of memory and crashed, but playing a kma and stopping play to give it a rest didn't cause the memory usage to go back down so if that was your problem I would think you'd still crash when playing them throughout the night.

CPU usage creeped up and up with each suceeding video but went way down when switching to a kma or stopping play

None of this may mean anything but it might be interesting to see your results playing several in a row until it crashes with taskmanager open to see what happens when you get to that point.

Sam

[WDEWDAD7]

Thanks for replying Sam. After I sent my last post, I realized that I should have mentioned that I was playing these short video commercials in the auto mode...as if it was a singers list. Hence, I can see where there was no break, and the the usage would go up. As I stated before, if I play them randomly through the night, I have no problem. ps, the reason I was playing them so many in a row that night, was I had just installed them and everyone was getting a kick out of them. Normally, I would not have played so many in a row. Karaoke does come first. Daryl.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by WDEWDAD7

Thanks for replying Sam. After I sent my last post, I realized that I should have mentioned that I was playing these short video commercials in the auto mode...as if it was a singers list. Hence, I can see where there was no break, and the the usage would go up. As I stated before, if I play them randomly through the night, I have no problem. ps, the reason I was playing them so many in a row that night, was I had just installed them and everyone was getting a kick out of them. Normally, I would not have played so many in a row. Karaoke does come first. Daryl.

Its bad enough to have commercials on TV at home, but as filler for Karaoke....that's too much.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Its bad enough to have commercials on TV at home, but as filler for Karaoke....that's too much.

You don't know what you're missing

Sam