I made a quick video of the issue I'm having.
Right video deck works perfectly.
Left deck has video dropouts, random black screen flashes.
In the video I'm playing a blend of 50 Cent's Ayo Technology.
Right deck has Flo-Rida's "Low" beat.
Left deck has Rihanna's "SOS" beat.
Video buffer at 2GB
Video quality at 4/5 (medium-high)
Dell Vostro 1700
2ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB Ram
256MB 8600m GT
2 Internal hard drives, videos on dedicated SATA HD.
Very light install of Win XP Pro w/ most services turned off.
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if you look closely in the video, you can see the crossfader go back and forth between the 2 videos and the middle monitor or my external monitor you will see the video dropouts or just a black/blank screen.

sorry for the bad quality video, my studio is really dark.

Twizzle, what happes if you lower the Video buffer? On my Mac I have it @ 400-500, and works fine I have same settings on quality.

D-Twizzle that is what is happenning to me. I'm sorry it's happenning to you but, I'm glad I'm not the only one going crazy. Only differents is my black outs last a little longer, a flash to a couple seconds.

Here are my details: scratchlive.net

i'll try lowering the buffer. i know that between 1-2gb, i didn't really see a difference. i figured the higher the better.

i didn't have this problem with the demo, but i didn't have the full screen option
either.

Twizzle, I asked before on buffersize, see aswer here: www.scratchlive.net

Thanks for the video D-Twizzle, that is a really screwed up bug, epecially as there is *no* difference between the 2 decks in the code. I'll investigate it more when I get to work again :-)

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is there any update on this problem? i'm having the same problem. i'm using a pc with a 8600 video card

wow. that looks like the same probs i have with my dell inspiron 6400.

my specs are:
xp home
2.0 core 2 duo
2 gb ram
intel vid card (can't remember which specific one)
videos via usb powered external

i always figured it would be either because of my vid card (which has NO restrictions) or because of my external. hmm...

All you guys that are having this problem ... Is it always the left side?

mine is on the left deck as well.

hm...i'll have to double check results on my p4 lappy....

left deck for me too. right deck is fine

If its the left side for everyone, there has to be some coding differences between the 2 sides.

I know Nathan says there isn't but, what other explanation could there be?

Pc

Booooooooooooooooo ... hahahahah

I have the same Problem on the right side :-/
Videos that work perfectly on the left side have dropouts on the right side.

Yeah Twizzle I hit u up on youtube too, I get the same problem sometimes so I just turn evrything off and unplug and hookup again I believe its when I hook up the mixer out of turn and it works. It happens as so as I turn on the system and vsl. I just restart, it's a wierd bug.

Ok ... 1 for the right side ... now they must be identical.

i thought the new beta fixed this? i doesn't do it to me anymore... is everyone using the new video beta?

Could it be a 57 problem?

i've tried with the beta, and the boxed version....same shit, different toilet

Ill try the beta, but honestly I don't want to spin with a beta version.

honestly W, at this point.....the pc version is a beta version, period.

Well, in that case it's an expensive one :-(

uh what? there is only one version of vsl i thought. the release version is the same build as the beta, or am i missing something?

sarcasm swift. there's only two versions, the new beta one, and the older demo/boxed version. demo and boxed ones are the same thing.

a-swift, since you haven't posted in the beta forum I guess you've missed it go here => scratchlive.net to download the newest beta most of the changes are for PCs but there's a couple of things that affect the macbook pro.

ok. so i re-tested again. both use media on usb powered external.

alienware
p4 3.6 ghz
2.5 gb ram
nvidia 6800 (i think - never really intended to do video) - some restrictions
results - plays fine on both decks. however, vid output doesn't work on extended display. it just doesn't. works fine on preview monitors, just not on output window. only shows vsl demo logo. oh, and cpu is mostly 100%. but when decks are paused, cpu goes down, sometimes to 80%....or was it 60?

dell
2.0 core 2 duo
2 gb ram
ati mobility radeon x1400 (hm..i THOUGHT it was an intel card) - NO restrictions
results - vid is choppy on BOTH decks. last time i tried it, it was choppy mainly on the left deck. at least the output window shows moving video, but it gets choppy too at times. cpu usage is 100%. even when paused or no vids are loaded.

all you other guys with vid dropout, what brand lappys u using?

Simply, No. 57 is just an audiomixer with built in SSL box, and some buttons/controls that controls Serato. 57 have no dsp for video.

And both decks works just fine on my MacBook Pro. So hopfully the dev team will solv the problem in next update.

tried it again tonight. left deck dropout only.

man i didnt even know there was a beta forum.

I'm seeing this issue too on some vids (not all) I've got a nvidia 8600M GS card.

its always the left deck that drops out when it happens.

I had the same problem but then i went to the control panel for the nvidia 8600gt i change some of the global setting and now no problems
But also now i am running 2 8600GT i have no delay at All now
But check the setting that how i fixed it
i will put screen capture up so all can see

nice one ...cheers...

what global setting changes did you make?

I've been playing around with various nvidia control panel setting but not found what fixes it yet.

I PM'd DJ James about it but not had a reply yet.

Here is my Setting
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thanks james... i'll try them out tonight..

james ...what driver version are you using? I tried your settings but I'm still getting drop-outs on the left deck.

I did notice that my control panel had extra settings that weren't on your screen caputures so guess I'm using a newer driver version.

cheers...

I am using the current drivers from the nvidia web but remember i am using small Lan Box Pc It should be all same even with Laptop

cool I'm using the latest from laptopvideo2go ... i'll try downgrading to the nvidia released version.

cheers...

I know laptops are easyer to carry to a gig but i went with something strong in power

those settings actually upped my CPU percentage on my sometimes less than pegged right deck.

I my Pc both even with setting and no dropout runs perfect

mine ran really well for a while.... that changed expectantly. I have yet to figure out what it takes to return to that happy place.

Once you do get it there in nvidia control panel you can save as profile so you will not lose your setting

the thing is with the vsl bug, you dont have to mess with the settings, and it'll either work or not....regardless if the settins were changed or not.

I'm 2 seconds from a format/reload... LOL
I never even thought about saving those settings.

i thought you already formatted??! do that shit already, if you're lucky, you might be cool like me and be able to get it to 98% instead of 100%!

just last night..

left deck = 100% / right deck = 84%

ya.. I'm that badass. LOL

I Have never had to format will do nothing if you want drivers back to default just go to hardware manager and go to vid card and do roll back drivers

there is other 'stuff' from the manufacturer on their I can do without..

Yeah KaGeN ... Its Freshie time. Get your hands on an OEM or a developers copy of XP w/sp2. Doesnt get more stripped down than that. (no homo)(no misquote)

downloaded new update from vsl now i am getting mad drop outs on left deck thanks serato......update caused problems instead of fixing old ones