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Alrobin, I would be interested in your surround experiments and if PTE can use a surround encoded wma or mp3. Tony, it could be the fact that your sound card doesn't have Pro Logic (or similar circuitry) or it could be that you just don't have it turned on. If your sound card has it's own mixing or configuration software, look in there for the different settings. Also if you could post your sound cards make and model, I'd be glad to look up the specs for you. If your not sure of the make and model, go here http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...p?pid=1〈=en and download and install Everest. it will show you the hardware in your system.

Hi Tony, sorry about all the confusion. For now, as to avoid confusion, let's keep it simple and ignore the new surround format for MP3's and stick with the old standards. An MP3 or wave file is a two channel stereo containing no surround information what-so-ever. PTE has nothing to do with it. All PTE does is incorporate the sound file into the executale slideshow, it does not alter the sound in any way. Now there are electronic circuitries such as Dolby Pro Logic that can take a two channel signal and emulate a surround sound. This is done by phasing. Lets look breifly at how a song is mixed together. I am going to over simplify this, (all you audio engineers can stop laughing now!) Usually the main vocal is mixed in mono meaning it is the exact same signal coming out of the left and right speakers. Both signals going to the left and right channels are perfectly in phase with each other. Next you have backup vocals, guitars, keyboards, horns etc. To make a stereo mix, you need to pan these intruments slightly louder in one channel then the other. There are also other ways to make them sound stereo such as putting the signal in one channel out of phase in varying amounts from the other channel. Now this is where Dolby Pro Logic comes in. If the signal is in mono, it will put the sound in the center channel. The more the signal is out of phase with the other channel is how Pro Logic determines how much of that signal is to be put in the rear surround speakers. And any signal that is below 120Hz is put into the subwoofer channel. So hopefuly I have given you a little insight as to how pseudo surround emulator works. If people are claiming that PTE is producing surround sound, then the original audio file they used is what is creating the surround sound effect in conjunction with a Pro Logic or other such surround emulation circuitry. It has nothing to do with PTE. "Are the people who said that their PTE did produce surround sound using these new mp3 files?" Doubtful. This format has just been released in the last few weeks. I doubt 99% of the users here know of it (no disrespect to anyone). WMA audio files have the ability to use 5.1 surround in a true discreet channel mix with Windows XP. If anyone is creating slideshows with a true surround format, they are probably using the WMA format

In the Project Options screen, Are you selecting the radio button for Create Screen Saver(.SCR) ?

The problem is not with PTE, and changing the sound editor won't make any difference. The problem is that wave files and MP3's are two channel stereo formats. You can't get true surround from a two channel audio source. Now they have just introduced a surround MP3 format. You might be able to use one of those for surround slideshow. On the sites I mentioned in my last post, they have demo's of surround MP3's. You might try downloading on of those and put it in a slideshow and see if it works.

And now that we have that all sorted out, they just came out with MP3's that are surround capable. Have a look here, it looks interesting - http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/l...r3/index.html#3 Hey Conflow, have a look at some of the newer Turtle Beach cards. These things are awesome for home and light pro use and do both the Dolby digital and DTS decoding now. http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/s...cards/catalina/

Having it come out of just the front two speakers is exactly what it should be doing with an mp3 or wave file. You will only get 5.1 audio if you are listening to something with Dolby Ditgital, DTS or DVD audio content. If you want it to emulate a surround mix with a stereo program, you will need something like Dolby Pro Logic circuitry. This may be built into the sound card. Have a look at the Soundmax program and see if that option is available.

I have to agree with Alrobin. It sounds like you have the rear channels in the front and vice versa. Double check your speaker connections. If it is playing in all channels in Windows Media Player, you probably have the SRS surround effect turn on. I would do all testing in Audacity for now since it will give you the correct speaker placement without adding surround effects or any of the the other EQ and enhancements that WMP can offer.

My favorite Icon editor is Axialis IconWorkshop. Make great icons and can work with transparent channels. it's not free (shareware) but if you can handle the nag screen at staartup, it's fully functional with no expiration limits.

You don't need any other file to get it working. You do need to download the LAME MP3 codec if you want to save your audio in an MP3 format.

I think you misunderstood. You need Flash to make the tutorial work, you don't need flash for Audacity to work.

You could do a print screen and save them that way but perhaps it would be best if you just had him send you a CD with all the original pictures.

No, it's set to print in color. And if I print to that printer in any graphics program it prints in color.

I made a presentation which is in color. Using the print button I had it print to a Xerox Phaser 7300 networked printer. The odd thing is that it printed in black and white. Every other application I have used (Photshop, Irfanview, ACDSee) will print just fine in color to that printer. I've tried this on two different computers. One is running Windows 2000 and the other is running XP. I'm using version 4.20 of PTE. Any ideas? I just tried printing to a Tektronics 780 color printer and it came out fine. Now I'm wondering if it's a driver issue although I still find it odd that other programs print in color to the Xerox.

I doubt you could. Computers have a built in clock. I assume that is where PTE slideshows check the date from. Stand Alone DVD players have no clock so there is no way the slideshow is going to know what the date is. Also ther would have to be some code in the executable that checks the date. AVI's or any video file for that matter do not contain any sort of code like that.

Hey, that's what we're here for! But seriously, don't feel bad. It's good to see what the competition is up to. It keeps the programmers on their toes and makes us feel good when we see software the does half of what PTE does at twice the price.

C'mon, you guys are being too harsh on that program. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted a program that lets me do an animated rotaion of celery!

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I was trying to make an AVI with music. Using an MP3, the creation process would crash about half way through with an error message of - Access violation at address 004F017D in module 'APR.EXE'. Read of address 805EC358. The MP3 file I'm using was encoded at 112kbps, 44.1khz, 16 bit stereo with a duration of about 2 1/2 minutes. I used Cool Edit Pro to convert the MP3 t o a wave and all was well after that. This isn't a big issue as using a wave file works fine but more of a curiosity. Is anyone else having this problem or is it something in my computer? One more little hiccup I found interesting. When creating the AVI, I must go to "Custom Syncronization", click on the more button, and select "Add arranged points". Otherwise I get an error message that reads - Not enough transition points. Please add transition points for all slides. I don't get this error when I create an executable of the project, just an AVI. What is the difference?

One of my favorite Icon programs is one from a company called Axialis. It's a great icon editor/creator. It's shareware but even the nag-screen version is fully functional. http://www.axialis.com/iconworkshop/index.html

DbPoweramp will convert and it's free http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

I don't know of one that would ask for the number of inputs but I do use a macro program that is pretty good. It's called MacroMaker and can be found at http://www.pcnet-online.com/picks/macromaker.htm

Actually it would make economic sense to purchase Cool Edit Pro right now. CEP is going for $249 and Audition is going to be $299. You get a free upgrade to Audition if you have CEP 2.X so you would have a savings of $50.

I know it is not kosher to mention other products here but I think it would be ok in this instance since they are totaly different programs and not in competition with each other. Have a look at a program called Autoplay Media Studio. It original started out as a autoload menu program for CD's but it has grown into an incredible piece of software cabable of doing just about anything these days. It has a bit of a learning curve but it would be perfect for project you are working on. http://www.indigorose.com/site/index.php

Connie, I received your message. Do exactly what Sandee said, in fact copy the text into the autorun file then save and try it again. [autorun] open=dabiero.exe