leroyvanhee

That works! Thanks. LeRoy

I downloaded PTE 5.6 Beta 9 and created a HD Video of a slideshow for publishing on the web (Motionbox). See: http://www.motionbox.com/videos/ee92dbbd1c13ed64 Motionbox permits users to watch videos in SD or HD, small screen or full screen. Everything went ok except for the jerky motion which apparently results from conversion to Flash Video. This is aggrevated by panning or zooming rapidly, panning is worse. My problem is that the MPEG-4 file that is created won't work with any of my video viewers. For example, Windows Media Player gives me sound with a black screen. Is there a fix that I can do? Do I need to download a new codec or upgrade WMP? Note: the video does play in my video editor, PowerDirector.

I agree that the problem gets worse with large files, but you need large files to zoom/pan without loosing resolution. That is, the smallest part of the photo that will be displayed fullscreen should have enough pixels to view good definition. Also, if the panning and/or zooming is rapid, the required bit-rate is very high. The question is how much data can the CD drive process in an uninterpretable stream? Is this the same for all hardware configurations/speed? Does this maximum change when the slideshow is run from the harddrive? Does it change the second time the exe is played? I think what you're saying is that if it doesn't work, the file must be too big. I'm saying there's no maximum file size except the limitations of your hardware.

I've had similar problems playing the slideshow from the cd drive the first time played. Playing it a second time was not interupted. I also tried playing the exe file from the harddrive on my old laptop. It also had inturruptions the first time through. The second play was ok. On my newer desktop, it plays ok from the harddrive the first time. I think there is a problem loading some buffer that causes inturuptions. When the program is transferred to RAM (during the first run) it doesn't encounter the same buffer. At least that my take on it.

I tried playing HD (1920 x 1020) mpeg videos from an ordinary DVD disc. I found that the DVD drive (16x) was not fast enough. However, if I copied the file to my harddrive it played from there OK.