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By the way (and this is in regards to Dejan's video being the wrong proportions) - what web browser do you use? And what version of flash (right lick and the video and choose about). Thanks!
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Nov 18 2008, 11:58 AM
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@ berko - upgrade flash and you will get rid of the size problem in Dejan's lesson (it will not solve buffering or chopiness though).
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=DXLUJ |
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Nov 18 2008, 03:39 PM
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QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Nov 18 2008, 03:04 AM)  Thanks for all the feedback! We want the new player and video format to work for as many as possible - if those of you who are having problems could answer the following it would be really helpful: Do you notice any difference in "chopiness" between these two lessons? 1 Trond's Solo from "Spindles" 2 Dejan's Palm Mute Workout The more objective and detailed description we get from you - the bigger our chances of improving this. Thanks! Hi Kris, I tried both videos and they pretty much act the same. Dejan's palm mute loaded in about 5 seconds and Trond's loaded in 12 seconds. For me both the video and the sound are skipping. It acting like when you fast fwd a cd with the sound going however it's playing in it's normal tempo. I'm using the latest version of Flash Player 10.0...... and I running Firefox 3.0.4 Thanks for tackling this, tommyboy -------------------- Rock Hard or Not at ALL!!
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Nov 18 2008, 03:53 PM
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QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Nov 18 2008, 04:04 AM) Thanks for all the feedback! We want the new player and video format to work for as many as possible - if those of you who are having problems could answer the following it would be really helpful: Do you notice any difference in "chopiness" between these two lessons? 1 Trond's Solo from "Spindles" 2 Dejan's Palm Mute Workout The more objective and detailed description we get from you - the bigger our chances of improving this. Thanks! I realize what you are getting at, Trond has a much larger size file. It matters nothing regarding the choppiness. It does matter wrt having to wait for 5 minutes to load a large video, which Kris, is an annoying long time. Having long waits on videos slows you down learning a lesson. I like to review and move fast and furious, and this is not good. i am being objective there. But to the immediate issue. I noticed that running either, CPU usage is very high on Foxfire, pushing towards 100%. And this continues even after the video is fully loaded, and has quit playing. I see little change in CPU usage after the video has completed. Then if I switch out of the page to the home page, CPU usage drops down to near the zero range for Foxfire. Evidently there are bugs in the programming. Sounds like the thing is busy even when it is doing nothing. This post has been edited by fkalich: Nov 18 2008, 04:00 PM |
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Nov 18 2008, 03:57 PM
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QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Nov 18 2008, 10:04 AM) Thanks for all the feedback! We want the new player and video format to work for as many as possible - if those of you who are having problems could answer the following it would be really helpful: Do you notice any difference in "chopiness" between these two lessons? 1 Trond's Solo from "Spindles" 2 Dejan's Palm Mute Workout The more objective and detailed description we get from you - the bigger our chances of improving this. Thanks! Big difference!!! Trond's video was one big chop  For viewing it I should have put it on pause first, but Dejan's video just worked straight away, no pauses!!Just saw that the lesson from Dejan even loaded faster then Trond's "Normal" lessons! This post has been edited by kaznie_NL: Nov 18 2008, 03:59 PM |
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Nov 18 2008, 05:17 PM
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QUOTE (tommyboy @ Nov 18 2008, 04:23 PM) The one problem I'm not having which you seem to be is the time for the file to download. The files are loading plenty fast enough however, I suffering from all of the same video and sound problems you are. Personally I like the old layout of the old player better anyhow. Ironic that I joined the site because of the quality of the videos and how smooth they played. Only to have things changing but not for the better. tommyboy Don't feel that way, I'm sure after the initial "real" world tests are done and with some tweaking. the new lessons will play as fast and smooth as in previous player...Than everyone gains from new resolution and format (16:9).It just takes a little time... Please check out this topic : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=21607 -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Nov 18 2008, 06:31 PM
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QUOTE (Matt23 @ Nov 18 2008, 10:27 AM) Here's my findings. I have a fairly new Windows Vista computer and a 512MB broadband connection. I also did nothing else on the computer whilst loading and playing these videos. Spindles: Took 10 minutes to load but had no problems playing. Palm Mute: Took 2 minutes and 20 seconds to load, and was basically dine playing. It did seem to sort of click and pause for a millisecond a few times but i might have just imagined it or it could just be some clipping in the audio. I also would like to suggest that when you move the player dot back to the start when it is paused it should stay paused so you don't have to click pause again. Could I just ask something, when people say "chopiness", do you mean when the video gets to a bit it hasn't loaded, like where the old player would have put up its buffering sign, or do you mean something else? Something else. Even after the full video has loaded it still plays choppy. The best way I can describe it is like if the video had say a 100 frames to play only 50 have loaded even though the whole video has buffered so it's not running smoothly. In fact you can see this by watching the little white dot move through the file as it's playing it looks like it's skipping ever so slightly. tommyboy QUOTE (OrganisedConfusion @ Nov 18 2008, 09:23 AM) I'm sure the problems will be ironed out soon enough. Hope so but it's frustrating nun the less. tommyboy QUOTE (Bogdan Radovic @ Nov 18 2008, 10:17 AM) Don't feel that way, I'm sure after the initial "real" world tests are done and with some tweaking. the new lessons will play as fast and smooth as in previous player...Than everyone gains from new resolution and format (16:9).It just takes a little time... Please check out this topic : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=21607 I just think that the implementation could be been handled much better. I understand the need for real world testing but new lessons should be produced in the old player until the new player is up and running. I'm concerned as are some others it may take quite some time to fix this and any new lesson will be unusable to us. tommyboy -------------------- Rock Hard or Not at ALL!!
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