Basic midi playback problems

I am playing with the demo for logic express 7 and having a bit of a problem with playing back midi.
I am inputting from a korg sp 300 through an edirol ua-20 and it records ok but only seems to play back from logic through the korgs speakers. I want to be able to play it back through the main mix to my amp and speakers. audio tracks like vox and guitars are fine.
It must be pretty simple but i just cant find the answer?

The midi tracks are only telling the Korg what to play, so you're going to hear the sound from wherever the Korg's sounds come out. If you want to hear the sounds from the speakers, you'll need to route the audio outputs from the Korg to your amp. There may be a way to do that with your interface; otherwise you may need a mixer. That's the old-school midi way (pre software instruments).

Similar Messages

Midi playback problem

Hi,
I am new to logic, maybe it's a very simple problem.
what I want to do is to play back a midi file which I recorded in Ableton Live before.
I recorded it in NO quantization mode in Live, there are some overlapped notes.
the problem in Logic is it sounds totally different !
the note length is wrong, and a lot of my notes are ignored, I searched here and guess maybe it's because the overlapped notes or Logic has some auto snap/quantize function ?
in short, I hope it sounds like what I recorded before, how to turn off all these auto fix things?
thank you for any help !

now the problem is :
I play external midi device, use logic to record them --- ok
after recording, playback the midi directly in logic --- ok
export the midi, import the exported midi, playback --- wrong ! some notes ignored !
the most weird thing is , these two midi looks same , sounds different !
why...

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook MIDI playback problem

Hi guys, I have a following problem. I recently obtained PCMCIA SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook. I'm running it on an older DELL Inspiron 5160, Win XP (latest possible service pack and drivers), P4 3.0GHz, 2 Gigs of RAM (max). Onboard audio SigmaTel is disabled.
I had no problem installing driver from Creative CD, playback and recording works fine. I can even play midi files in Windows Media Player. I knew I had to install drivers from CD in order to be able to use soundfonts, latest drivers do not support that.
There is the only problem - when I try to use the software keyboard in the Bank Manager, where I loaded up my sf2 banks, it does not make a sound. For writing midi songs, I used to use old MidiSession program. I can't hear anything there either. Strange thing is, when I play any midi file in the Widows Media Player - at the exact same time, both things mentioned above work, keyboard or MidiSession. I have no idea why that is. I tried to uninstall and reinstall Creative drivers and software, nothing. Since I can't update to a newer driver, I'm at loss here.
I used to have the same setup on my desktop (except the PCMCIA version) and all worked just fine.
Does anyone has any idea what could be causing this? Thanks.

? A soundfont cannot contain alle drumkits, and it is not nessecary at all. I dont know a soundfont bank wich contains a complete set of drumkits, too. There are only some soundfonts like the crysis soundfont (to big for its "bad" quality) wich have some dummy-drumkits/ entrys or slightly modified sounds for each than usual. If all drumnkits would be stored in high-quality, the soundfont would be huge... Every synth i know uses the standard drumkit, if the chosen one is not existent. This is not optimal, but it will guarantee, that the the MIDI file or Program/ game will work. The KXDrivers wont do this. SO they are not useable for General MIDI. Only for MIDIs and soundfonts fitting together. But thats not the point of General MIDI. CMSS isnt working with these drivers, too. Dolby decoding/ encoding isnt possible with them, either. These drivers are not bad, but if you want a completely working card, KXdrivers are worthless.

Basic Midi Playback Question

I have a synth 'wind' track that consists of a single note being held down for a duration of several minutes. If I start playback from the initial note trigger, it plays back fine. If I start playback in the middle somewhere, no audio. I haven't worked a whole lot with midi - is this the nature of the beast or something I can control?

Unfortunately, it is a bug in Logic. Normally the MIDI Note Chase function should handle this, but it doesn't, or does but unreliably*. The simple solution is to either bounce the track in place or Freeze it.
http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=9%26sec tion=21%26tasks=true
http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=9%26sec tion=16%26tasks=true
* http://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=82337

IOS Music Player MP3 Gapless Playback Problem

Hi,
I've been having this gapless playback issue on iOS now for the past few years, since at least iOS 6 if I can remember correctly. The number one reason I use an iPhone and iOS devices is for gapless playback in the iOS music player. For the last few years I've been experiencing a bug with the stock iOS music player on my iPhone 4S using iOS 6 and on my iPhone 5 using iOS 6 & 7, and currently on my new iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.2. This only happens on my iPhones and using iOS, this bug is not found when I use my iPod classic or when playing the same albums through iTunes.
I thought it might have been spotted by other iOS users and fixed in iOS 7.1 or at least the current version of iOS 8, but instead it's gotten worse, albums that used to play smoothly between transitions now suddenly pause and jump for a split second when changing from track to track.
What's happening is, I listen to a lot of albums that are continuously DJ mixed and play straight through without any pauses between tracks, and I've been experiencing problems a lot now with random split second pauses between tracks and choppy transitions. These albums in question have been ripped from cd using the latest versions of iTunes.
For example,
I'd be listening to an album and it would play gapless and smooth for most of the album, but maybe one or two transitions on the album would have a split second pause between them, and the rest of the album would play perfectly with no pauses, skips or jumps at all.
This only happens on my iPhone, as I have a 160gb iPod classic and I've listened to all the same albums on it and never has a problem playing the album without any pauses, every album plays 100% smooth and gapless on it.
I mailed Apple about it through their feedback page on their site... https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Hoping that they would take note of this and try and look into it and fix the issue. That was probably about a year ago now, never got fixed or got any confirmation back from them about this problem. Then last August, I'd had enough and contacted Apple support to notify them about this issue. They told me the usual story, "have you tried restoring the phone?", which I obliged and did. The problem was there on a freshly restored iPhone 5.
So they told me that they would put me in touch with someone higher in Apple to take the case further, "great" I thought.
I spoke with a senior care advisor and explained the problem and agreed to send detailed explanations of the issue and test files too so that they could hopefully hear what I was talking about. But after a few weeks of going back and forward, I finally got them to hear the issue with the random pauses, the first week they denied there was a problem and said the files played ok on their test iOS devices, so I myself tried the files on another iOS device and the same problem was there.
The last correspondence I had with the Apple care advisor was back in the end of August / start of September, and she told me that they spotted the issue and was told by the tech's that it would be fixed in a future update, I never got a when this would happen, I was just told to make sure my iOS device was up to date with the latest version of iOS. I couldn't speak to an actual technician, got no follow up support, just a vague "We'll look into it." Case Closed.
I got so sick of this problem that I sold my iPhone and iPad just after this last phone call with the Apple people, and switched over to Android. I'd being reading up on gapless playback music players and found out that there's a good few available for Android devices. I got myself a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, twice as powerful as the iPhone 6 and half the price. I was using that for the last few months, and playing my music through Neutron Music Player app which is a great music player which plays gapless 100%
But I couldn't really take to Android OS, seeing as I've been using Apple products for around 10 years now and iOS since the iPhone 3G. So I decided to contact Apple again and see if they'd fixed the music player issue in iOS yet.
I wrote a long email explaining the problem, how it wasn't really looked at properly, and how I was a long time Apple customer and had to resort to switching over to Android because the basic music player functions on iOS devices have bugs. I took a chance in mailing this to Tim Cook's offices, I knew he wouldn't reply personally, just thought that it might get read by someone in his offices with a bit more say in the matter.
Just before Xmas, I got a call from someone from executive relations from my local Apple offices about this. He seemed nice and was aware of the problem from reading back through my emails and previous case notes from August when I opened this case originally.
We had a talk and he said he would get one of the tech's to call me too about this so that I could explain the bugs to someone more knowledgeable about iOS.
A few days later I received a call from one of the tech's at Apple and was chatting to him, explaining the problem. His response was that he thinks Apple doesn't support gapless playback on current iOS devices. From looking at the gapless playback information page on the Apple support site below, it looks like it hasn't been updated to show any iPhone models after the iPhone 3GS... http://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT201644
I was trying to explain to him how ridiculous this sounded, why would Apple stop supporting basic functions on their music player on iOS devices? It makes no sense at all? You can see that the amount of hardware devices and software that supports gapless playback today... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback#Player_support
He couldn't explain either, he just said that because it's not listed there on the Apple support page.
Then the next day I got the follow up call from the Apple executive relations guy, he was stating that he was speaking to the tech guy that called me and it looks like Apple doesn't support gapless playback anymore, from looking at the documentation on site.
I told him how stupid this was, and how lots of music players have gapless playback as standard today. And if they don't support it now, then why does it play through some parts of the albums on iOS ok and then just randomly pause, or have jumpy / choppy transitions on the rest of the album. If it was the case, no albums would play gaplessly at all, it would be like when the first ever iPod's were released back in the day with no gapless playback and would pause for a split second between every transition.
He couldn't give me an answer and said that maybe down the line they would start supporting it again, and that I should request the feature to be added to future iOS versions via the iPhone feedback page... https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
He just kept on emphasising that it was "NOT A BUG OR ISSUE", trying to cover up the problem because the info on the site wasn't updated to show the current iOS devices. Which in itself is wrong, looking at the page it says "Supported iPod and iPhone models (make sure you have the latest iPod or iPhone software)"
iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS only go up to iOS 6, so that contradicts itself when the latest version is iOS 8.
The info is out of date and needs to be updated. So in August I was told, "we found the issue and will look into it" and a few months later, "it's not an issue", what's a cop out.
I was annoyed and taken back by this response, and really found it hard to believe that this was the case, Apple stopping supporting their music player on iOS devices. Seeing as iTunes plays everything smoothly and no gapless issues. I just went out and bought an iPhone 6 for €900 / $1060, and for that money you'd expect it's basic music player to work. It's total BS to think that a top computer software / hardware company would just decide to abandon basic functions in their devices, especially when we are talking about how much Apple takes pride in their products and how much more they charge for them over their competitors.
So this is my next step to try and get this problem seen and out in the open more. The more people who know about it and are aware of the issue, the better.
Hopefully more people can get the word around and get this noticed by Apple and finally fixed.
I've uploaded some test files below to show the problem. The files are mp3's and aac, and have been ripped from cd using the latest version of iTunes. The mp3's are the ones with the issue, but the aac play with no problem. If you listen to the transition at the end of track 2 (2-02 Colours (JH Re-Edit)) going into the start of track 3 (2-03 Your Body), you will notice the split second pause / jump. But listen to the aac version and compare it to the mp3 version and you will hear that it plays back fine, just as it's supposed to. Try them in iTunes too and both versions playback fine, no jumps or pauses.
You can download them here, all links have the same files, I just uploaded them to different hosts for other people's choosing...
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=86512332626247919914
https://www.mediafire.com/?w5wvi50er96b14s
http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/37047710/file.html
https://www.sendspace.com/file/lubcmc
More files can be provided if needed to show the problem happening on various other albums.
I really hope that people can spot this issue too and help get this fixed, I know this gapless playback feature might not be important to some people, but like I said at the start, it's an essential function for me in a music player and I use it on a daily basis when I listen to music.
Thanks for reading this long rant of mine, appreciate it.
Ger

I believe this issue occurs only between songs that iTunes has converted to a lower bitrate for you during transfer to your iOS device and songs that it has not done this for. Take this Between the Buried and Me album, for instance. I have marked all of the transitions that should have been gapless but probably aren't in red. I know for sure that most of these marked transitions are indeed broken and that the most of the transitions not marked in red work flawlessly... I honestly can't remember whether or not some of these transitions were gapless or not, but the many transitions I do remember working or not working match up exactly with whether or not the songs on either side of the transition were also on other sides of the 256kbps threshold, the threshold at which I enabled iTunes to convert tracks to 256kbps AAC.
I'm going to try re-sync'ing my library with that "feature" disabled and see if it fixes my gapless playback problem. Will post the results once I test it out.

Playback Problem with Tascam Interface

Hello,
I am new to Logic, and I seem to be having a playback problem. After a quick search, I realize this question is asked a lot, but I have yet to find a solution that has worked. I am using a Tascam US-144 USB 2.0 Audio/MIDI interface with Logic Pro 8. Logic is recognizing the interface, allows me to record, and even displays the wave forms that my microphone picks up. However, I cannot monitor while I am recording or play the recording back after saving it. I've attempted to do this with the built-in iMac speakers and headphones. I've tried various output combinations, read the manual front to back, but have yet to find a valid solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

In the About Logic window it says it's version 8.0.0. I checked Preferences->Audio->Devices->Core Audio. The"Enabled" box is selected, and the US-144 is selected as the device. There doesn't seem to be a tab in that window to select an output. On the bottom left of the screen under "I/O" I have Input 1 selected as the input and Out 1-2 selected as the output. Do I need to select a different output in that tab, or do I need to change it elsewhere?

MIDI playback quality in Windows and "as inteded

Hi,?since the days of Windows 95 and OPL3 playback on SB6, AWE32, ect. I'm confronted with the problem that MIDI files, from games for example, sound differend in Windows (MediaPlayer, ect.) than they sound in the game itself or in pure DOS 6 environment with a Soundblaster playback program. Is there a way to playback the old MIDI files with hardware OPL3 and Windows as they where inteded to?Thanks!

WKjun wrote:
Hi,since the days of Windows 95 and OPL3 playback on SB6, AWE32, ect. I'm confronted with the problem that MIDI files, from games for example, sound differend in Windows (MediaPlayer, ect.) than they sound in the game itself or in pure DOS 6 environment with a Soundblaster playback program. Is there a way to playback the old MIDI files with hardware OPL3 and Windows as they where inteded to?Thanks!
Have you tried all different MIDI playback devices (HW/SW Synths) you have listed there to select from (Windows Audio settings)?
jutapa

I need to upgrade my 10.5.1 os on my G4/1.25 (I'm having some audio-midi setup problems), but it's a machine that is not connected to the internet. Do I have any options? Thanks!

Friends,
I'm having some audio-midi setup problems on my G4/1.25/10.5.1 machine. I'm thinking that a routine OS upgrade might help. However, this machine is not connected to the internet. Are there any alternate methods for upgrading system software? Thanks in advance!

OK, what you should do is download the updates on another machine and burn them to a disc. Start at this link http://support.apple.com/downloads/#leopard for downloads and find, among other things, the 10.5.8 combo updater that works on PPC machines, plus security, QuickTime and other updates. Going from 10.5.1 to 10.5.8, there will probably be a bunch of things that you should install. Being off the internet with the machine, you can't have Software Update sort it out, so something might get missed, unfortunately.
My suggestion is this: if it looks like you might need a download, get it onto that disc.

Playback problem - video playback stops; any suggestions?

I have distributed about 20 copies of a DVD I made using iMovie and iDVD v4.x - and about 5 of the discs are reported to freeze during playback. Because not all of the 20 discs have been viewed, it's possible the percentage of discs with playback problems may be even higher. No two discs are freezing at the same spot, or even in the same movie (there are 3 short movies on the disc).
I got no errors during burning, but I did not 'verify' each disc after burning, either. I did play back my 'master' disc on my home DVD player to make sure it was OK before using it to create a disk image - which I used to burn all the other discs.
Some of the discs I burned from the disk image using Toast Titanium 6.1.1, until I discovered Apple's Disk Utility was actually a little faster. No way to tell now if the 'bad' discs are all from the same burn software. Though both Toast and DU gave me an option to burn faster than the rated speed, I used the rated burn speed of 8x, and I did not do anything else on the Mac while burning the discs.
My first thought was bad media. I used both Memorex and Sony DVD-R media (Taiwan) - there is no easy way to for me to find out if all the 'bad' disks are one brand or the other - but hopefully these brands do not have a 20% rate of defective discs.
My second thought was format-player incompatibilities (-R vs +R), but replacement discs, using the same media on my end, solved the problem for most people (one person's replacement disc froze, but at a different spot than the first one).
My final guess - I wonder if the playback problems might have something to do with the stick on labels I used? These are a Memorex brand product called "CD&DVD" labels, but the fine print on the back says: "Warning: Using a Standard or Full-Face label on DVDs may result in the disc becoming unreadable."
Any solutions?
Quicksilver G4, 867 Mhz Mac OS X (10.4) Pioneer DVR-108 (not OEM), firmware 1.20, PatchBurn profile

I just wanted to add my 2 cents. I haven't been on this forum for months. I've been happily making DVDs in batches of 10 -50 to distribute. I've been making them in my emac. Occassionally I'd get ones that wouldn't play in a client's player. The solution was to send a replacement. Usually that worked. Often I'd send a replacement that wouldn't play in one client's player but found that the disk would play in another client's player. The worst case was when the ist three DVDs I sent to one person wouldn't play, but the fourth did. But most of the time, the second one I'd send worked fine (All of these were made in the same batch from the same media (usually Fuji or Verbatim).
Recently I started getting lots more than usual complaints about problem DVDs. I checked out a bunch of them by actually playing them on both my computer, and a stand alone Cyberhome player. They were all made from a particular batch of Fuji media. Now I've previously burned hundreds of playable DVDs made from Fuji media, so I imagine it is just a fluke. (I hope) Some of them would play perfectly all the way to the last 5 minutes of an hour long presentation, and then start stuttering. Some begin stuttering in the middle. Several wouldn't even start up in my cyberhome player. Most of them would end up freezing at some point during the stuttering. The stuttering was never at the same exact place on any of the DVDs.
As an aside, I discovered something that I didn't know was possible. When a DVD froze in my cyberhome player at the menu stage, I'd push the eject button, remove the DVD, and the menu frame was still visible unchanged on the TV until I turned off the player or put another DVD in! I guess there must be some sort of cache in the player that stores the image. Very interesting. I've never seen that with a normally functioning DVD.
I also played each defective DVD in my computer to compare. One or two managed to play all of the way through on the computer, but most exhibited similar misbehavior on my emac. I'd say that, in general though, they all played a bit better on my computer.
Then it occured to me that there was another possible explanation. I was burning these from a disk image file that I had stored on an external HD. Whenever I needed a new batch of DVDs I would copy the disk image file back onto my emac from the external drive, and use disk utility to burn the disks. What if the disk image was corrupted? That might explain the problems.
Another thought that occured to me was the perhaps the process of burning a dozen or more DVDs in a row might cause a heat buildup in the burner and affect the burning in some way.
So I retrieved a good DVD made in an earlier batch of Fuji, made a new disk image of it, and left the image on the computer and didn't transfer it back to the external drive (on TDK media, because that's all I had sitting around), played the copy back on both my computer and Cyberhome player to make sure it worked perfectly. I then generated another dozen copies.
You may wonder how I had enough time to do all this. I'd just put a DVD in the player or my emac and listen to it while doing my ordinary office work. If I heard stuttering(it was my voice on the DVD) I'd instantly notice. I did this all day for a couple of days.
So anyway, I played 5 finished TDK disks all the way through today and they played perfectly. I guess the next test is to use the disk image of the same DVD from my external drive to see if i also get a good burn from it on the same TDK media and burner.
I did have time to do one other test though. I took a couple of DVDs that played well and put paper lables on them using the stomper system. They still played perfectly on both my computer and Cyberhome player. I'd speculate that paper lables are probably okay if they are applied perfectly, perfect centering, no air bubbles, good contact, and the disk stored in clean dry area. I've seen other peoples' CDs or DVDs with paper lables that had become wrinkled from exposure to high humidity and/or heat. I can imagine that they would tend to malfunction.
One client with a certain brand player actually took the "offending" DVD down to a AV store, and bought a replacement player that WOULD play it. I do think that it is interesting and useful to know that one brand player will play a particular particular DVD and another won't.
Since I make batches, I'm considering buying a couple more different brand DVD players, and then doing a bit of quality control - Trying out sample DVDs on all players before I mail out a batch to clients.
I hope that my observations might be useful for others.
emac 1ghz superdrive Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Encoding and playback problem HD files

Hi all,
Currently, I'm using a new HD camcorder and have no problem with importing and playing these files is premiere cs4 pro. However, when I'm using six video track at the same time I experience some playback problems. After rendering, the video's play, but not smooth, they skip frames and playing a few frames back. In other words, it seems that the video playback stutters. The problem still excists when I encode the project to any file (mpeg2-blu ray, avi, etc). When using two video tracks (with two HD video) this problem is not present, even when these video's are in slowmotion. Installing the new update (4.2) did not solve the problem.
Specs of my system:
Quad core Q6600 @3.0GHz (overclocked)
8gb RAM
>200gb free disk space
windows 7, 64-bit
Does anyone have some suggestions to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jeffrey

Harm,
Sorry for not responing for a few days, but I runned the benchmark you'll send me. The main results (dee details attached file):
53,6, secs Total Benchmark Time
6,4, secs AVI Encoding Time
14,2, secs MPEG Elapsed Time
33, secs Rendering Time
Since the potential problem is my hard disk, inaddition, I runned HDtune (hopefully it will help pinpionting the problem):
disk1: avarage transfer rate: 94MB/s, acces time 13.8ms, burst rate 185MB/s
disk2: avarage transfer rate: 85MB/s, acces time 14ms, burst rate 157MB/s
disk3: avarage transfer rate: 73MB/s, acces time 13.9ms, burst rate 183MB/s
Analyzing these results, could the current hard disk configuration cause the problem I have, or is my system to slow anyway to edit AVCHD material?
If the hard disk configuration is the problem, could it be solved by applying your suggestion by removing all partitions? Since, I'm not looking forward of removing all partions(re-installing windows (dual boot win7 and vista), shifting a huge amount of data, etc), but if it would help I will do it.
Thanks inadvance,
Jeffrey

Mplayer playback problems

Hello, Mplayer video output is rather jerky and not smooth. I believe its sound related because adding '-nosound' makes the playback smooth again. I've been trying to seacrh for the solution to this for hours; any suggestions? I use OSS by the way...
Heres xorg.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder62) Thu Apr 30 16:22:42 PDT 2009
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder62) Thu Apr 30 16:21:56 PDT 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "HSD HW191D"
HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 49.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8800 GT"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
and mplayer-config
[default]
ao=oss
vo=x11
zoom=true
fs=no
framedrop=yes
ffactor = 1
cache=9000
Last edited by pharcyde (2009-05-16 04:40:13)

apaige wrote:Why the hell are you using vo=x11? That's insanely slow. Use vo=xv.
Oh - lol, I had that in there temporarily as I was troubleshooting. I'm aware.
skottish wrote:
apaige wrote:Why the hell are you using vo=x11? That's insanely slow. Use vo=xv.
Or, if the nVidia card is new enough (some 8400 and pretty much everything newer), use VDPAU. Otherwise, nVidia chips work better with the xvmc driver than even the xv driver.
pharcyde,
From your xorg.conf file, it looks like you have an 8800GT. VDPAU works great with that card. It will solve most of your video playback problems.
Will do.
Update: Using vdpau with '-vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau' I can play 720p HD with only ~7% cpu usage!
Last edited by pharcyde (2009-05-17 11:00:28)

This content requires HDCP for playback problem! Apple TV2

Owned Apple TV for two weeks. Two weeks ago, everything was fine for films already in my iTunes library.
This week, when selecting play on a movie, I get the message 'This content requires HDCP for playback problem' inconsistently. Some vids work, some don't. Then they do then they don't! I have tried on a Samsung TV and a Sony Bravia? Same for both!
How do I resolve this. I have tried different HDMI ports, turned Apple TV 2 off and on. Tried different cables (Although my HDMI cable is the one I purchased from Apple).
Any suggestions? Is it something Apple need to fix? This is kinda embarrassing when I tell friends how good Apple TV is, get them round to watch a movie and inconsistently get this.
Many Thanks for any help
Dave.

I too sadly have this handshaking issue. I'm in Phoenix, AZ. Day one buyer for ATV2. Worked all of about two days in terms of streaming HD content from either my MAC or netflix. About the third time i tried to stream HD content from Netflix or Blu Ray digital copies from my Mac, I get the HDCP compliance message stating my display is not authorized.
I have tried every concievable combination of unplugging and rebooting of TV (Samsung 2005 DLP), ATV2, and HDMI switcher (Monoprice) and nothing will work. My DirecTV HD-DVR works like a charm. If I rent an HD pay per view from DirecTV, no problem. If I rent an HD movie on iTunes, won't display it due to the HDCP issue. I've NOT ONCE had an issue with my DirecTV HDDVR having an HDCP compliance issue and of course its connected to my TV via HDMI thru my monoprice HDMI four port switch.
I guess the only other thing I could try is exchanging the unit itself. But everything else works as advertised. It feels like this is just a software issue that needs to be patched, and fast.

MPEG-1 playback problems

Hi all,
I've imported an MPEG-1 file of 70 minutes with the
DirectMedia Xtra (on PC) and Quicktime (for MAC), but I have a few
playback problems:
On PC it works quite well, only the slider won't go beyond a
certain point in time (about 50 minutes), fom there it always snaps
back from where you dragged it.
The sprite script for PC :
on exitframe me
if sprite(me.spritenum).movietime >=
member(sprite(me.spritenum).member).duration -1 then
go to frame 5
end if
end
On the Mac the MPEG plays very jerky, turning of the "sync to
audio" helps but then there's no audio off course. The script is
the same, except the first lines to control the Quicktime playback
on enterframe me
sprite(me.spritenum).movierate=1
end
on exitframe me
if sprite(me.spritenum).movietime >=
member(sprite(me.spritenum).member).duration -1 then
go to frame 5
end if
end
I've read that the "member.duration" script can cause a few
problems, does anyone has an alternative I can try ?
Thanks in advance,
Gerrit

Hi Gerrit,
First, any reason you're not using the MPEG Advanced Xtra
insttead of DirectMeda
Xtra? This Xtra is the followup to DirectMedia and is better
in many ways, one
being that it is cross platform so you can use the same setup
for mac and PC.
I have had jerky playback on the Mac and the issue was was
bad formatting of teh
MPEG file itself. You can read more on this at:
http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/support/technotes/mpeg_advance/ma009.htm
Best solution was to use TMPGEnc to reformat the MPEG files.
This program can be
downladed for free at:
http://www.tmpgenc.net/
It may fix the timing issue as well.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director/
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au

Can't init midi playback

I have troubles with midi initialisation. I use SB Live and ALSA drivers. mp3/wav/ogg playing so good, but I can't load midibank into SB with awesfx-0.5.d (and awesfx-0.4.4 too) from http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awedrv.html
May be exist another way for midi bank load?
[vlad@vixen ~]$ lspci | grep Creative
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
01:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07
[vlad@vixen ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep -v '^#'
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
root@vixen vlad]# sfxload /mnt/storage/Soft/multimedia/midi_banks/8RealGS20.SF2
/dev/sequencer: No such device
!!! Why? But devices are presents:
[root@vixen vlad]# ls -l /dev/sequencer*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-10-22 13:57 /dev/sequencer -> sound/sequencer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-10-22 13:57 /dev/sequencer2 -> sound/sequencer2
[root@vixen vlad]# ls -l /dev/sound/sequencer*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 2006-10-22 13:57 /dev/sound/sequencer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 2006-10-22 13:57 /dev/sound/sequencer2
[vlad@vixen ~]$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_oss 31744 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6784 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48240 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 39424 0
snd_mixer_oss 14720 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_emu10k1 114592 4
snd_rawmidi 19968 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 92580 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus 2560 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 68868 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 7308 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 19204 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8200 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4096 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 7556 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 45444 17 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 7776 1 snd
Please help me configure properly midi.
Thanks!

My soundcard does not support MIDI being an onboard card. But I've used timidity to along with alsa's MIDI routing capabilities to play MIDI files. Timidity acts like a MIDI playback engine by providing patch banks. First, load the snd_virmidi ALSA module. Then, execute timidity in daemon mode as so
timidity -iA
Then, use aconnect to determine the MIDI virtual connection port.
aconnect -o
client 20: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-0' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-0 '
client 21: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-1' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-1 '
client 22: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-2' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-2 '
client 23: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-3' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-3 '
[emmanuel@~/]$ aconnect -o
client 20: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-0' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-0 '
client 21: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-1' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-1 '
client 22: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-2' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-2 '
client 23: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-3' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-3 '
client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user]
0 'TiMidity port 0 '
1 'TiMidity port 1 '
2 'TiMidity port 2 '
3 'TiMidity port 3 '
In my case, the output port will be 128:0
Now, you need to connect a virtual MIDI IN port to this out port. So use aconnect to view IN ports like so.
aconnect -i
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
client 20: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-0' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-0 '
client 21: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-1' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-1 '
client 22: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-2' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-2 '
client 23: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 1-3' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 1-3 '
I'm going to use port 20:0. So to make the connection, run...
aconnect 20:0 128:0
You will notice timidity will recognize the connection. Now, you can use a MIDI capable client to play MIDI files using timidity as the sound engine. One such application is seq24.
If you just want to play a MIDI file, all you need is
timidity myfile.mid

IPad 5.0.1 update video playback problems

HI is anyone else having playback problems with videos on IPad 1 after 5.0.1 update???
As in the playback not atcually working at all???

See if any of the following Videos 'fixes' work.
Try searching for the name of one of your videos on the iPad's spotlight search screen - swipe your first homescreen to the right, type in it's name, and if it finds it tap on it to see if it plays.
If that doesn't work then try closing the Videos app completely : from the home screen (i.e.not with the Videos app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Videos app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
A third option if the two above don't work is a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

Basic midi playback problems

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for