Stingray Vids not playing back smoothly

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seanphafer
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Stingray Vids not playing back smoothly

Post by seanphafer »

Hello,

I wonder if anyone else is having this problem. I bought some mp4 karaoke songs from Stingray, and kJams is really struggling to play them. I'm talking unresponsive, spinning pinwheel, struggling. I have an older 13" macBook pro, and it plays the vids back fine, but when kJams is brought in the mix they are unusable due to hangs and stutters. I am running my music off of an external SSD, which I've used with USB 3 and FW800. Quicktime plays them fine off the same drives. Any thoughts? I may try using Adobe Media Encoder later to half the resolution, but I thought I'd check here first.

Thanks,
Sean

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Re: Stingray Vids not playing back smoothly

Post by dave »

make sure the video screen you play back on is set to 720p if the videos are hi-def. if they're SD, set the screen to 480p.
and yes, lowering the rez will also help, but you can NOT play them on a screen larger than 720p.

kJams currently doesn't use hardware for playback, it's all in software. sorry about that

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