After Poking Around With NSV Some More....

[Jeeper One]

Hi everyone:

After poking around with NSV some more (and correcting some of the settings I had wrong!), I've managed to get a 40 second MPEG Video to be encoded as a 40 second NSV Video HOWEVER the audio speeds up after the first few seconds, causing Winamp to bounce all over the place just to ATTEMPT to play the video correctly, which, of course it never does. BTW...I have Winamp 2.9. :-)

THAT has me wondering this....

Could it be that we're asking the LAME MP3 codec to do something it wasn't designed to do IN THE FIRST PLACE?? I can't help bu to wonder this.

Anyhow, if anyone would like, I'll upload the NSV Video I have made to one of my websites and get some screenshots of the settings I have in NSVate and post the URLs to those too (I'd rather post the URLs here rather than display the actual screenshot to make it easier on those with dialup connections).

Well....Back to plugging away (I'll get this right sooner or later!) :-)

Cheers for now :-)

Patrick Cook
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[Zonaxx]

I think I had your problem. I was encoding mpg's and avi's, which when I played would play fine for about 3 seconds then go out of whack with the sound speeding up and making everything sounding like chipmunks along with a very annoying buzz.

First, are you using WinXP? If so, are you logged in to any other user names? If you are, make sure none of them are running winamp or the winamp agent. (Alt-Ctrl-Del and sort alphabetically to check, making sure the "Show Processes from All Users" check box is checked.)

If you still have the problem, restart your computer. Still happening? Uninstall winamp 2.9 and reinstall winamp 2.9

The last of the steps is what fixed my problem. I had also thought my problem was with the encoding, but I'm enjoying a pain free stream of nsv's, FINALLY.

Good Luck!

-Zonaxx

[Jeeper One]

Originally posted by Zonaxx
[B]I think I had your problem. I was encoding mpg's and avi's, which when I played would play fine for about 3 seconds then go out of whack with the sound speeding up and making everything sounding like chipmunks along with a very annoying buzz.

This is EXACTLY my problem.

The last of the steps is what fixed my problem. I had also thought my problem was with the encoding, but I'm enjoying a pain free stream of nsv's, FINALLY.

I did one better. I dowloaded and installed Winamp 3 and the videos seem to play just fine. No problems whatsoever. It's with this in mind that I plan to encode all my videos (Well....Okay those that even kids can watch :-)) in the new NSV format and hereby recommend that NSV videos be played ONLY with Winamp 3. :-)

Now if the gurus at Nullsoft could come up with a tool which would allow the playing of NS V videos in playlist fashion, that would be GREAT! :-)

Cheers for now :-)

Patrick Cook
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[Zonaxx]

Guess what? I'm an idiot.

No, but really:

I took the easy way out when reinstalling. I found the source the problem: Nullsoft DSP v0.35 for Winamp 2. When this DSP was selected (viewable from Preferences>DSP/Effect) I would get the exact problems described above. When the DSP was unselected (or set to "none") the problems would magically disappear.

Hope this helps someone who has this problem in the future.

-Zonaxx

[Jeeper One]

Hi everyone:

Of course they disappear because you're not streaming to SHOUTcast anymore. I have SHOUTcast DSP version 1.82b. I wonder if that was part of my problem....

Cheers for now :-)

Patrick