Hi premierdjx,

Sorry to hear your having problems with Video-SL. Lets get them sorted.

Firstly, I need you to detail your full computer specs including the graphics card that is installed. This will help us to troubleshoot your problems more acruately.

I would also reccomend updating your Mac OS to Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

We reccomend that all Video-SL users on a MAC OS download and install Perian. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. Download Perian here; perian.org

Also, have a look at this article; sera.to

If your video files have been encoded to a Video-SL compatible format then they should appear in your crate or 'All Video' crate if you have not yet imported them into Scratch Live crates.

Let me know your full computer specs and if installing Perian has helped performance at all and we'll take it from there.

Anthony

I have installed Perian and read the article . I havent upgraded to snow leopard but looking to doing that. Only a few videos appear but not all of them. They are all in Mp4 format. and I downloaded them from a dj website. I dont understand why they dont appear. Not sure if i need to import them a certain way. My specs are listed below and I am looking into upgraded specs at apple. please let me know if this is necessary. Is having an SL1 part of the problem .


Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP51.007E.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.33f8

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0863
Revision ID: 0x00b1
ROM Revision: 3437
gMux Version: 1.7.3
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Depth: 32-Bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Built-In: Yes
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected

Videos only show up when i import them to itunes. Is that the only way that videos will show up in sl.

Hi premierdjx,

If they only show up in iTunes then they must have Digital Rights Management from Apple and will therefore not be visible in other applications.

Do you have 'Read iTunes library' checked in Scratch Live>Setup>Library ?

The other option could be to re-encode these files using Handbrake and the Video-SL Preset for Handbrake.

Details here; sera.to

Let me know if this helps and w'll take it from there.