Forum: MAC Version Technical Support - Topic: Mac improves and priorities for the next release - Page: 1

Oks, after my purchase of virtuldjpro and several tastes, there are some issues that MUST be fixed immediately.

1.- Video freezing.
2.- Freezing (Load & Play) after 1 or 2 hours of running vdjpro (this should be priority #1)
3.- Echo effect and others available (like pc)


those are BASIC functionality that a user that buy the SW should have available.

i could add more if i find out something else.

community, something else?

What type of video files are you using? I've noticed that while VOB gives the best video/audio quality, it puts more strain on your HD and GPU compared to other formats. It can produce a certain hang while in transition, but other than that it should work fine.
Maybe you should try running a MP4 format. It seems they work fine and maintains overall video/audio quality.

I've been running this software for years now on MAC with no MAJOR flaws. I've yet to experience a freeze as you are describing.
Could you explain how/when this occurs? Also, can you reproduce the fault? And do you have the possibility to post a hang-log (or crash log even.)
(If you don't know how to do this, I can help you out.)

In regards of effects, all additional effects to the standard set-up are made by VDJ-users. This means that for those effect to work on MAC they have to be ported by the programmer that made the effect in the first place, not Atomix.
If there is a certain effect you want, please contact the specific developer of that plug-in. (You will find contact info on the download page)

I hope this was of some help to you ;)

Hi k_one. Im using a Macpro @ 2.8 GHz with 4GB RAM and 500 HD @ 7200 RPM so you say...

1.- My videos are mp4, and still has freezes and delays while playing.

2.- (VDJPRO for mac), after an hour or some times an hour and a half or maximum two, the software doesn't allow load or play songs. This issue has been experimented by other members of the community. (how can i do the hang-los or crash log?)

3.- oks, if i want the echo effect, what you're are saying is that i have to pay for the development? im not requesting a special effect, i just want the echo effect that is a standard in the DJ SW niche.

Saludos

1. What type of MP4 file is it? Have you also tried other formats?

2. I have never come across this bug. To get the hang long you need to open "Console" and check for faults related to VDJ. You can copy/paste the text from there to the forum if you'd like.

3. I'm not saying you would have to pay for it, but you would however have to ask the person who made the plug-in in the first place to port it to MAC. It's not Atomix responsibility to fix plug-ins made by third party developers ;)

1.- Im using mpeg-4 like this one.



2.- Oks.. you mean this?

Hum I use a mac book pro with Snow Leopard, as I saw on this forum, many Snow leopard users experienced many software crashes on start up or worst while playing...

So as far as I'm concerned the top priority for the next version is to solve these crashes with Snow Leopard!

then maybe is the snow leopard thing... all those ### issues, btw im running snow leopard too

I'm no developer, so I can't answer this correctly, but as far as I know VDJ is NOT Snow Leopard compatible just yet.
Most users using Snow Leopard are doing fine, but you might experience problems that have yet to be tested.
I will try to get some of the other guys to take a look at this.
Other than that it seems you have figured out the Console.
But you should also be looking for hang reports and not only crashes, since hanging is what occurs with your videos.

There is no basis in real fact to the above statement. I'm running a mix right now in 10.6.2 and I'm not having any problems that would lead me to believe that at all.

Hi Dj Cyder,

so.. should we change something in the config section (performance maybe) in order to avoid those issues? ( i cant load or play songs, after 1 or two hours of running the SW, it doesn't crash it just don't allow play or load more songs... i have to exit the program and relaunch it again and again).

About the freezing in videos, as i know we have to wait for a next release.

THKS

isrort ... have you downloaded v6.0.3 ? Check your download center ...

hi cstoll at least... i just did and ill taste it... hope all these bugs would be fixed...

Saludos

I have played several gigs with 95% .vobs and 5% MP4's (itunes) and I have had no crashes nor freezes with VDJ 6.0.2 and 5.2.1 And I only do video. Once I played for 10 straigth hours with Snow Leopard and VDJ 6.0.2 and cero crashes. My problem was when I loaded certain .vobs, the size of a .vob goes from 150 MB to 250MB on average, it felt like a little strain on the cpu and did not freeze but I could feel that it was hard to load and play, but nobody noticed it, only me. I recently I ditched the MAC OSX drive format beacuse I read that it was heavier and changed to FAT32. Now It feels faster on the loads and I am happier. The only thing I don't like it's the flicker on the mac (6.0.2) and the lack of plug ins. So it must be a configuration problem somewhere.

you guys should write to apple and tell them to allow hardware decoding of video, currently apple will not allow this so a lot of the video problems are related to this. its like running the pc side with hardware acceleration off.

As Dj Cyder says, if apple doesn't allow ......


MAC Community lets email apple and tell em allow run the "ferrari"

Saludos

Ok, noted ;)
(My only point was that I can't remember seeing anyone going out and officially say that Snow Leopard is supported/compatible.)

So what does this mean exactly? The OS itself has the ability to do this, but it's artificially locked for Apple-software only?

It means apple does not allow hardware decoding of video its all done in software which means its a lot slower, if you want to see what its like on pc turn off the hardware acceleration on vdj win version.

Now that's just plain dumb. Why on earth have they seen fit to implement such artificial criple-feature, if the hardware could support it? x(

sadly even 10.6.2 doesn't support it either. If and when it does happen it probably won't work in older macs.