HS 1.0 Intro vid choppy

[garnerb350]

Did a install, and was looking over the new changes...first thoughts were , whoa!, but give me a weekend and plenty of study and i can get it...

The intro vid...I know we had some probs in the past with the previous version...upon startup, it was choppy, so I went to HQ, did the changes for low optimize running pc... Ran HS again... video still choppy...well I went to the media folder, found the into vid...ran it by itself...played smooth...perfect...went back and ran HS again...still choppy...

other than that...1.0 runs great...smooth transitions, perfect...but that intro vid still choppy...thought i inform you guys...:smokin:

My PC is a Dell 4600 p4 3.0 ghz 2gig ram...

[BadBoyBill]

Optimizing doesnt affect the intro video, you need to download the low bitrate version of the intro floating in the forum here. Someone might be able to point you to it.

[garnerb350]

That what i figured i would do...( dl Low bitrate)...but what gets me is why is it choppy when HS is loading, but when played by it self...it runs fine? Not trying to make a hassle, I just wanted to let you guys know...

I'm not that worried bout it...I figured i use my last intro vid...

[Dazz]

The intro video is choppy because HyperSpin is doing other things in the background while loading.

[SophT]

because a very high bitrate full-video flash video (cpu based) + loading hyperspin in the background (cpu based) is more intensive than just the video.

[cathaldub]

strange, just testing out the new version here on my Macbook(core duo2, 4gb ram) using Parallels(XP SP2), with nothing closed(still have about 6 programs running on in osx) at all the video runs smooth as ever, could it be a codec or video card problem

[billpa]

I have another version that I will upload in the next few days. The high bit rate
was a bit overkill and the low bit rate looks s bit blocky.

[garnerb350]

I have another version that I will upload in the next few days. The high bit rate
was a bit overkill and the low bit rate looks s bit blocky.

Awesome...Thanks billpa, I remember you talking about that earlier...hopefully it will make things better...Thanks for everything you do...

[evecomm]

Great can't wait, trying to build a system at the moment.

P4 3.0Ghz HT - 4GB Ram with Windows 7

The intro was choppy, stuck in a beefy 512Mb graphics card and still the same thing. I assumed it was just the spec of the machine, so did the same on a higher spec and it was better but not perfect. I also noticed the wheel movies had some stutering. I'll wait for the lower bit rate moive to be released.

Thanks in advance, can't wait to get it all running sweet.

Rossi

[billpa]

yea the most important spec is proc speed. HS does not use any gfx card hardware acceleration. I have the new intro video completed. I will see if I can get it to Dazz so he can upload it since I believe the dl area is closed to uploads currently.

billpa

[pmindemann]

Hey guys, I've got the same choppy intro video issue (a shame, really, because it's pretty cool). Granted, my computer specs aren't as high as some:

Dual Core Pentium, 2.8GHz
4 GB RAM
512 MB ATI Radeon
Xonar Sound Card
500 GB WD 7200 RPM Hard Drive


But even so, it seems odd that the intro video would run so poorly... I get skipping even on the "medium bit rate" version.

I was with you on the "there's stuff going on in the background" theory, except that when you skip the intro, it goes right in to HS. So how could that be if stuff is supposedly still loading?

A PHP programmer and HS user that I work with tried to run the video in a stand-alone app with other things running, and found it played just fine. But then when he tried it in HS with nothing else running, it bogged down (and his computer was much higher spec'd than mine). He thinks its an issue with how HS is handling the video.

Any further thought?

[theob42]

sometimes if you have some usb joysticks plugged in, when hs runs for the first time, it is choppy because windows is loading the joysticks. not sure if that would be a cause, but that only happens to me when i FIRST run hs. if i was to clsoe it and reopen it it then it would work fine after that

[billpa]

there are some issues especially on slower PCs with running the intro video since I believe HS is doing some stuff during playback. I also made a low bit rate version...it is included in the intro video set in the downloads section. You might want to try that. It has some pixelation but I suppose it is better than nothing.

[pmindemann]

Thanks, guys. I do have two wireless joysticks hooked up via USB, so that may have something to do with it, but it's basically the same the second or third time, etc. that it loads. My friend with the higher-powered PC is just running it all as sort of an experiment right now and doesn't have ANY joysticks hooked up (just a keyboard and mouse), and he has similar issues.

I did try the low bit-rate version, and it does run better. I'm just surprised that a dual core, 2.8 GHz machine with 4GB of RAM can't handle even the medium version without significant hang-ups when it can stream high-def content over the web just fine. :dontknow:

[SophT]

that's high-resolution, low bitrate streaming