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Well, this is a topic I am still sore about. People say, oh just go get another laptop, or hey just get another video card. I should not have to do any of those. What about us people who are not as computer literate, and I know a good amout, I made sure all my specs were top notch and then come to find out these Nvidia cards are having all these problem, after I am $1500 deep in a brand new laptop? Its not like changing a video card in a desktop where you can get a cheap good card and it takes seconds to replace. I LOVE this program, but when it comes to video and karaoke, I don't like it due to the problems I have had with it the last 2 years.
 
dj-e-lectric wrote :
I was wondering the same about vista....I just did an instore demo (Frys Electronics was niice enough to allow me to install VDJ and a couple videos on several laptops to test it our)....by the way I did remember to uninstall them all!

EVERY laptop I played with worked swimmingly (mind you all I did was experiment with video loading and beatmixing/crossfading/looping and setting to cue points well into the video as that is when I have my freeze problem). The machines I tried all had a 2.0 (or better) core 2 duo, 3 gigs ram (pc5300), 667mz front side buss, 250 hd (5400rpm) and Vista Home 32bit. I tried an Intel GMA x3100 video card, an 8400gt mobile and a 9200gs mobile....all three laptops were under $1000 and all performed my basic Video Dj tests flawlessly.

It would seem to me based on the specs of my computer, other VDJ users I personally know that do video and my store test that the (3) key factors to great video performance are 2.0 or faster core 2 duo, Windows Vista and something nobody mentions the front side bus with the pc5300 memory (667 mz) or faster. It seems like if these three remain constant it doesn't really matter what video card you use!

By the way, the best performaer I tested for under $1000 was a Toshiba L305-S5883 T5750....$749 + $129 for 2 year anything warranty with the above specs (with the GMA X3100 video) plus a dual layer dvd, wireless internet, built in webcam, card slot, usb 2.0 and other minor niceties)

I'm gonna wait to see if it is on sale over the weekend and then I think I will finally pull the trigger on a laptop


All this is fine and dandy, but here is the question I have, were you able to set them up with VIDEO OUT?? If you werent then these tests mean nothing. I tried 3 laptops and still never got the results my current TDS (Touchscreen Dj System) gets. Mind you I watch these videos like a hawk and notice every glitch I can see. I am still leaning on ATI as I have always used them since the start. Hell I used to use a P4 with an ATI 9550 AGP card and it ran flawlessly.

My biggest pointers are this:

If it was built for Vista USE VISTA and make sure it is a clean install. Mind you I do EVERYTHING on my gig machine, I am online all the time and also use it to play my games. I think people are missing the fact that In order for a smooth running system YOU NEED TO GO ONLINE often to get all the latest updates and such.

Yes agree make sure you have at least a Dual Core with 800mhz ram

Keep your music and videos on a SEPERATE drive than the OS.

Lastly 90% of the time you can BUILD a system CHEAPER and BETTER than buying a store bought and it is not that difficult to do if you have some patience.
 
Well I have the same problem of the video freezing for one second as the new video starts to load. I never used to have this problem but here is what happened...

Everything was fine until I needed new codecs that play DVD quality mpg files.

I loaded K-Lite and that's when the freezing started.

I just removed K-lite and it is working fine now...

I notice that someone on this thread said they use ffshow... which is k-lite. Get rid of it!

Anyone recommend another codec pack that is VDJ compatible?
 
I use K-Lite and 8600GTS 256mb on Vista and no video freezing. Machine is VDJ dedicated, so turn off Aero and all the fancy staff that you do not need (Sidebar, System Restore etc.). I have some problems with the clipbank, so I don't use it for now.
 
 
hi. sorry for taking so long to get back to this topic..
after some thought and deliberation. my 8600gt DID workd flawlessly under VISTA.
and that was without codecs.. on a clean install. (playing VOBs and h264 mpegs)
after that, on a clean XP install (without extra codecs) i had the same video issue..

seriously, you should consider that virtual dj could handle its own file types, on a clean syestem


but now i have an XFX gf8800gs alpha dog edition and it works in xp (on the original xp install)

i think we need a sub-forum just for hardware > graphics cards and another for codecs (maybe, if they are needed)
 


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