Video problems

[ddouglass]

What version of Hoster are you using?
Before you hit any other buttons, go to Tools/Options and click on the Reset Displays button. This will shrink the display screen back down to a smaller size for a single display.

[moonglow]

i'm useing dual display... the video shows on the tv but also takes up my entire computer screen... and it is only doing it every once in awhile... sometimes it plays on the tv and not my computer screen and sometimes the other thing happens...

[ddouglass]

What version of Hoster are you using?
What type of video are you using for your Instabuttons?
Are all the ones that show on the main screen instead of in the display the same type?
What is your operating system (XP, Vista or Windows 7)?
Run a System Information and copy the information from the Summary screen to a post here. This will tell us a lot about your computer. It will be under System Tools in your Menu.
Until we know this information I can't go any further in figuring out the problem.

[JNS02]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

What version of Hoster are you using?
Before you hit any other buttons, go to Tools/Options and click on the Reset Displays button. This will shrink the display screen back down to a smaller size for a single display.

I agree with Dale that this small fix will take care of your problem.

[moonglow]

My Operating system is XP... all my videos are in WMV format... could it be the size screen wise that is making them do this cause some of my smaller videos are not doing this... but my longer ones are.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by moonglow

My Operating system is XP... all my videos are in WMV format... could it be the size screen wise that is making them do this cause some of my smaller videos are not doing this... but my longer ones are.

That is a possibility. I know this is going to sound a bit crazy but look on the Intermission page in the Show Display tool. In the middle section you have a control called Position. What is this set to (Center, Tile, or Strecth)? If it isn't set for Stretch try doing that and check your videos. The Intermission controls also control the Video VJ settings.
Another thought to me is that Windows Media Player is also playing these Videos at the same time Hoster is which would be giving you the full screen video over Hoster on the computer. What is strange is that Hoster from 4.09 will not play veideo in the Preview screen. In other words the only place Hoster is paying the videos is on the Singer's Display.
You have said you are using dual screen. Are they playing correctly on the second screen? Also are the two displays of video in sync with each other?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

That is a possibility. I know this is going to sound a bit crazy but look on the Intermission page in the Show Display tool. In the middle section you have a control called Position. What is this set to (Center, Tile, or Strecth)? If it isn't set for Stretch try doing that and check your videos. The Intermission controls also control the Video VJ settings.
Another thought to me is that Windows Media Player is also playing these Videos at the same time Hoster is which would be giving you the full screen video over Hoster on the computer. What is strange is that Hoster from 4.09 will not play veideo in the Preview screen. In other words the only place Hoster is paying the videos is on the Singer's Display.
You have said you are using dual screen. Are they playing correctly on the second screen? Also are the two displays of video in sync with each other?

Dale, I'm not sure if I follow his problem correctly, but it may have something to do with his screen size seeting for his primary monitor vs. his extended monitor. Sounds like something that happened to me a while back and I corrected it by making the two equal.

[ddouglass]

Bryant when you were having the problem a while back it was a problem with video display on the secondary. This is not his problem. His problem is on the Primary (computer) monitor. Since the preview no longer shows videos because of the sync difference, then he should not be seeing any video there while his secondary (singer's display) is showing the video correctly. He is getting it in both locations with the one on the computer showing at full screen.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Bryant when you were having the problem a while back it was a problem with video display on the secondary. This is not his problem. His problem is on the Primary (computer) monitor. Since the preview no longer shows videos because of the sync difference, then he should not be seeing any video there while his secondary (singer's display) is showing the video correctly. He is getting it in both locations with the one on the computer showing at full screen.

Sounds like he might have it in clone mode and; some video cards allow you to operate your players in "theater mode", which means when you are playing something from a player such as wmp, or any other, and even when in clone mode, that everything playing on the player will show up on the secondary screen "fully".