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Both my computers are using XP. I have checked the laptop and it is set on multiple monitors, it this is what you were talking about.
I have even tried to run the AD on the laptop from the PC thru the network and it still wouldnt work. I have even copied the whole AD file from my pc to the laptop and nothing either.
roberson3 wrote: This might should be somewhere else, but I couldn't find a place.
I am trying to use video with my display this year, just simple family pictures fading and such. I have use Most Wonderful Time of the Year and made a .wmv file out of it and when I use the .wmv file in AD on my pc there is a pop up window that opens that I can make full screen.
The problem however is I will have to run the show from my laptop which has an svideo output for the projector. The same .wmv file when using in AD will not open a pop up window for the video on the laptop.
Is there something that I am missing or doing wrong? This .wmv file I actually made using Windows Movie Maker on my laptop and copied it to my pc thru my network. Why it seems to work right on my pc and not the laptop is a mystery to me.
I can open windows explorer on my pc and double click on the .wmv file and windows media player will open and play the audio and video.
Any ideas or suggestions? I will greatly appreciate.
I have compared the files on the pc and laptop and after searching and searching I have found that the laptop was missing WMV-9 VCM RTW. I found the file and installed it and it works on the laptop now.
What codec are you using. I have found I cannot play out wmv encoded videos through the GeForce card with LOR. Uncompressed AVI's play out great but they are 400 mb. The wmv encoded files play fine in media player though. Any thoughts. Also I have a couple of videos ready and would like t share. I just want to make sure we are all using the same codecs and I need aplace to send them.
radiomarsh wrote: What codec are you using. I have found I cannot play out wmv encoded videos through the GeForce card with LOR. Uncompressed AVI's play out great but they are 400 mb. The wmv encoded files play fine in media player though. Any thoughts. Also I have a couple of videos ready and would like t share. I just want to make sure we are all using the same codecs and I need aplace to send them.
Use MPEG-2 Custom... I found I can actually encode useable videos at 640 X 480, about a 3600 bit rate, forced to Constant bit rate. Three minute songs end up being about 75 megabytes, but it works great with Animation Director. I am recompressing my videos to the better resolution.
MPG is more desirable then WMV because MPG takes longer to compress at creation time but it uses the least CPU energy in playback time of any codec, so you wont swamp your computer operating lights, playing sound and video on two monitors. WMV if it did work and I think it will, will take more CPU power at playback time. AVI takes very little CPU power, but its larger size makes it so you "could" have bottlenecks on your computer because of the super huge file and how long it takes for your hard drive to fetch the data. Playing 400 megabytes for every 3 minute song is going to stress your computer!!
Last edited on Monday September 24th, 2007 03:23 pm by Joseph Ayo
radiomarsh wrote: What codec are you using. I have found I cannot play out wmv encoded videos through the GeForce card with LOR. Uncompressed AVI's play out great but they are 400 mb. The wmv encoded files play fine in media player though. Any thoughts. Also I have a couple of videos ready and would like t share. I just want to make sure we are all using the same codecs and I need aplace to send them.
Thanks,
Marshall Hi there,
I have been struggling with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS card on the LOR desktop and an ATI FireGL 5200 on a laptop. They would play my .wmv video through WMP fine but not under LOR v1.6.1.
On a desperate measure, I downloaded the Hot Chocolate video from this coop and created a new/tmp LOR sequence. It worked! After viewing the properties of that video and mine I realized mine was encoded using the Windows Media v7 encoding. The Hot Chocolate was using v9. A short google search found the v9 encoding page, dowload, install, re-encode my video and yippee! It works. At least on the NVIDIA. I can't get it to work on the ATI.
As many have said, your mileage may vary but re-encoding with v9 worked for me. You might give it a shot.
Oh, and I'm using plain, old Windows Movie Maker saving to a 640x480 .wmv file. No other special settings after installing the v9 codec. Just under 4 minutes, 35Mb. So far, so good.
Does anyone know if there is a way to save the visualizations that are in Windows Media Player? (like make a WMV out of it?) I would like to use something like that on a few of my songs.
roberson3 wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to save the visualizations that are in Windows Media Player? (like make a WMV out of it?) I would like to use something like that on a few of my songs.
I would love to hear of one that doesnt miss frames. The visualizer would be great if it captured the way it plays but all the ones I have seen are jerky animation. There is a professional one that will "precalculate" a perfect playback AVI out of its visualizer, but its a pay software, I believe about $100 or so and if memory serves me right the visualizer is called Spectrum or Spectra, something like that.
Last edited on Tuesday September 25th, 2007 04:15 am by Joseph Ayo
Joseph Ayo wrote: roberson3 wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to save the visualizations that are in Windows Media Player? (like make a WMV out of it?) I would like to use something like that on a few of my songs.
I would love to hear of one that doesnt miss frames. The visualizer would be great if it captured the way it plays but all the ones I have seen are jerky animation. There is a professional one that will "precalculate" a perfect playback AVI out of its visualizer, but its a pay software, I believe about $100 or so and if memory serves me right the visualizer is called Spectrum or Spectra, something like that.
I have tried a few free ones and you are right they do miss frames playback is real jerky. I will look for the one you mentioned to see what their web site says if I can find it.
radiomarsh wrote: Also I have a couple of videos ready and would like t share. I just want to make sure we are all using the same codecs and I need aplace to send them.
If you upload to this link, I will add it to the coop. Login is automatic. Please send me an email at: keng@tyler.net to let me know that you have uploaded a video.
Ken
Last edited on Tuesday September 25th, 2007 06:55 am by Ken W. Good
Upgraded to Windows Media 11 and everything works perfect using wmv9 encoded files. I would have thought wm9 would play wm9 encoded files. That's what I get for thinking!
radiomarsh wrote: Upgraded to Windows Media 11 and everything works perfect using wmv9 encoded files. I would have thought wm9 would play wm9 encoded files. That's what I get for thinking!
Glad it is working out for you. I guess the encoding is the important thing. Kinda weird, but oh well. Then again, WMP is being run to drive this whole thing.
If I have the time (or if someone else does), I'll try different encoding/types to see if I can get the ATI card to work. I'd really rather run my Halloween video/show off the laptop so I don't have to drag the desktop to work.
rstephenrrtx wrote: radiomarsh wrote: Upgraded to Windows Media 11 and everything works perfect using wmv9 encoded files. I would have thought wm9 would play wm9 encoded files. That's what I get for thinking!
Glad it is working out for you. I guess the encoding is the important thing. Kinda weird, but oh well. Then again, WMP is being run to drive this whole thing.
If I have the time (or if someone else does), I'll try different encoding/types to see if I can get the ATI card to work. I'd really rather run my Halloween video/show off the laptop so I don't have to drag the desktop to work.
I could be wrong but I think I might have gathered the idea that LOR II is supposed to depart from WMP? You guys in the LOR camp would know otherwise. It seems last I heard earlier in the year was the big 3 lighting companies didnt place much value on video compatibility nor do any of them directly support it and treat it as a bonus if you happen to get it to work. Any news as far as if LOR II will keep its video compatiblity if they separate from WMP?
Found this one over at You Tube. It would be great for halloween. Unfortunately you would have to convert it to a better format and the quality needs to be better to be used on a large scale. But it is pretty cool!
Two good dvd collections on
Ebay. I have these and they are very good quality . If you need any of these songs this is a pretty good deal. If you need only acouple of the songs let me know. FYI these aren't mine.
I have a few videos I can upload but I clicked your autologin link... can it be done thru internet explorer? I have a couple rather generic ones to send, Gloria Excelsis in Deo by Halle-lujah and Macarena Christmas... also how do you download others? I do a Let it Snow by Frank Sinatra but I think Paul's video could be remixed to work with the Frank Sinatra version.
I see AL figured out DJ Santa is the band Crispy (actually the voices from Aqua but they didnt want to be identified as Aqua so they changed their name for the Christmas songs), curious how their version looks.
Yes you can do it through Internet explorer. It should display a blank screen that you can paste your video onto. If you let me know they have been uploaded, I will add them to the site.
Joseph Ayo wrote:
I see AL figured out DJ Santa is the band Crispy (actually the voices from Aqua but they didnt want to be identified as Aqua so they changed their name for the Christmas songs), curious how their version looks.
Joseph,
AL version of DJ Santa looks pretty good I have it and have adapted it to my display. I will have a "Joseph Ayo design" dancing man this year, although mine is probably considered a dancing boy. I used 18' rope light and mine is only around 4' tall. My display doesnt have any chasing light strings like yours does, so mine looks calmer than yours (not that that is a good thing)
Ken W. Good wrote: Yes you can do it through Internet explorer. It should display a blank screen that you can paste your video onto. If you let me know they have been uploaded, I will add them to the site.
At least on the NVIDIA. I can't get it to work on the ATI. 
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