mzack
I am intersested in "adding" video to my DJ Gigs.....I have a Dell XPS M140 Laptop which works flawlessly with VDJ, but only audio......what, if any, can I add or do with htis laoptop, please forgive me Im not a computer person but there is 1GIG memory, Im not sure about the graphics card, probably standard issue, nothing fancy, porcessor is a Intel mobile centrino 1.3 I think
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Posted Tue 11 Jul 06 @ 7:38 pm
phillydj
i believe u have an intel integrated video card with 128mb why dont u just try it and see if it works for you..u have enough ram and if ur video card is the 128mb one ..videos should be able to show, but im not sure about using the hardware acceleration...just remember u have to enable spanning not cloning for the 2nd monitor. try it before a gig for a few hours
Posted Tue 11 Jul 06 @ 10:47 pm
xeon
Laptops has usualy low quality graphic cards. So you can't do anything but buy new laptop with the best graphic card in it. Many laptops can't be used to play video with VDJ. RAM is important too. Maybe with 2GB and avarage grapgic card it could go.
Posted Tue 11 Jul 06 @ 10:48 pm
yk23
I'm using a Dell Inspiron XPSM140 1.73gig and 1gig of RAM. The video card is using 128megs of that memory(shared memory). I use it for nothing but videos. It works great. I am also using the HDJC in timecode mode. The only thing is if you plan on using "hardware acceleration" you will need to change the extensions to use Windows Media Player Video decoder. If you use the built in encoder, you will get these wierd yellow/greenish bars. I've tried differnt video drivers, same problems. If you turn off hardware accleration it will work, but eat up a bunch of CPU. I use nothing but Mpg1 352x240 1800kps. Ive have tried DIVX it seems to work, but I think I still got the lines every once in a while.
Posted Fri 14 Jul 06 @ 12:04 am
Rune (DJ-In-Norway)
your setting sould work fine as you say for video mixing yes... But shared memory would maybe lead to problems if you tried to get accelerated video on the video out to external monitor.
Think you will need a dedicated card with dedicated ram for that...
Nvida or Ati ...
But mixing video for yourself at laptop with your setting works ok as you say:)
Think you will need a dedicated card with dedicated ram for that...
Nvida or Ati ...
But mixing video for yourself at laptop with your setting works ok as you say:)
Posted Fri 14 Jul 06 @ 2:12 am
mzack
Great...thanks for the help, I was almost certain that I could not do it with the machine I have , but now I will give it a try.
Posted Fri 14 Jul 06 @ 2:46 pm
DjGazUK
Laptop Specs:
Model: Fujitsu Siemens AMILO D 8830
Processor: Intel Pentium IV- 3.06 GHz
RAM: 2Gig
Hard Drive: 120GB Fujitsu (5400rpm 8MB Cache)
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
OS: Windows XP Pro. SP2
However the laptop's broke down today :(
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Before that it used to work OK. But would go jerky quite a bit. Now I'm going to use a desktop PC because laptop's are too expensive to keep replacing!
Model: Fujitsu Siemens AMILO D 8830
Processor: Intel Pentium IV- 3.06 GHz
RAM: 2Gig
Hard Drive: 120GB Fujitsu (5400rpm 8MB Cache)
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
OS: Windows XP Pro. SP2
However the laptop's broke down today :(
Read this post
Before that it used to work OK. But would go jerky quite a bit. Now I'm going to use a desktop PC because laptop's are too expensive to keep replacing!
Posted Fri 04 Aug 06 @ 2:41 am