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Software Support => DOS/WinCab => Topic started by: Karaokedude on January 21, 2007, 11:53:11 am
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I have a small Form Factor PC P3 550 i have installed XP on to it and some MPs
just wondered if there is a recomended min spec
as i have noticed it runs fine but if i use the left right keys to scroll through selections the music stutters
unless there is a buffer issue and i can increase the buffer for the music apart from that seems to work fine
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CD skins require more resources than classic skins because they have to load the cover art. Try going into the skin file and disabling the scrolling animation. If that makes it go away we can tinker from there. If it doesn't, the problem is probably a slow hard drive, which is possible in an SFF PC. Another possibility is oversized cover art files: the entire file has to be loaded and resampled to match the size onscreen; if you have high-resolution cover art images this could be the problem. My cover art images are generally 200x200 or 300x300 and 10K or less in file size. How large are your cover art images?
--Chris
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cheers i will have a play about
i disabled the animation and didnt make any difference so i put a hash in front of everything in the cd art section in the jukeebox.ini so that it loaded the default image and seems ok so looks like its down the file res and size
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cheers i will have a play about
i disabled the animation and didnt make any difference so i put a hash in front of everything in the cd art section in the jukeebox.ini so that it loaded the default image and seems ok so looks like its down the file res and size
Let me know how big the files turn out to be. If they're megabytes in size, I'd suggest making them smaller, but if they're 50K or less I may need to rewrite the image loader.
Thanks!
--Chris
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resized the jpgs to 100 X 100 come in at about 69K with quality set to 10 and seem ok just loose the quality a bit but still look OK
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69K at 100x100? That's odd... even a completely uncompressed 32-bit bitmap at 100x100 takes less than 40K. Is that 100x100 pixels, or 100x100 DPI?
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my mistake
thats what i tried first and looked awful
150 X 150 pixels
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my mistake
thats what i tried first and looked awful
150 X 150 pixels
Probably be better at 200x200 with slightly lower quality. What size were the files when it wasn't working?
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they were various although some i noticed were 1200 by 1200 but none were any bigger than 260k
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they were various although some i noticed were 1200 by 1200 but none were any bigger than 260k
With four images per page by default, that's a full megabyte of data to load from disk on each page change. A modern PC might be able to do it without skipping, but an older one certainly couldn't.
I should probably at least throw a warning into the log file if images of this size are being encountered. Thanks for your help!
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small form factor pc is only p3 550 not sure if it will take a faster CPU but i will try 200 by 200 and see what happens
main pc is a 3.4 p4 so prob not a good benchmark for testing as it will run most anything
looking for a small and cheap pc to fit into the rockola tri vues when they arrive due to space
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Sound still skips now and then if you select a different page on a cd skin
havnt worked out whats causing it im not sure of the bit rate of the files would it be worth dropping to 128 I had a quick look at a few and some are 192 and some are 256
so wondered if the file gets loaded into a buffer and if so can i increase the buffer size
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Sound still skips now and then if you select a different page on a cd skin
havnt worked out whats causing it im not sure of the bit rate of the files would it be worth dropping to 128 I had a quick look at a few and some are 192 and some are 256
so wondered if the file gets loaded into a buffer and if so can i increase the buffer size
The playback buffer is not currently adjustable. I think I need to break down and just rewrite the image loader to poll the playback engine every 100K or so, or at least make it an option (as doing so will slow down the loader.)
--Chris