Setting the Video Audio and Playback Options

[Johnny Cakes]

OK, considering that a big yellow screen comes up about this, it must be important. But I could not find anything giving me any advice on what to do.

Without using multi-syllable words (I'm a newbie) could someone explain how I should make the decision whether I want to choose "Deinterlace On and/or "Use Video Card YUB Acceleration. I have no idea what either of these mean.

Also do I want to use "Default WAVE" or "Use DirectSound drivers" SB Audigy Audio" On this one, I'm guessing that the DirectSound drivers are the better choice.

Thanks.

[DanR]

Actually the options are usually not important at all, but mearly cosmetic. Here's my own guidelines:

1) Always keep de-interlace on.

2) If you have a single monitor on your system, turn YUV on. If the program works keep it that way. YUV uses less CPU resources during playback and generally has a nicer picture. YUV doesn't work on secondary monitors so disable it otherwise. Also if you want to do screen captures, you will need to disable YUV.

3) Directsound has 2 advantages and one disadvantage. The advantages are: (a) the volume control in VideoReDo only controls the volume for VideoReDo. In WAVE it controls all programs. (b) You can select which audio device you want to output to. The disadvantage is that some directsound drivers are very slow (high latency) and the audio lags behind the video. In those cases, you should use the WAVE drivers.

Hope that helps. The reason for the yellow warning screen is that people with slow systems (<1GHz) generally need the YUV acceleration to get VideoReDo to function properly. I didn't want those users to abandon their trial because the program didn't work the first time they tried to open a file.

[Johnny Cakes]

Excellent explaination -- thanks.

You might want to throw it in the help file for the next release!

Again, not only a very clear explanation, but very quick (less than an hour -- wow!).

-- JC