stanward Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Hello,I am having a problem each night. On the first sequence every night, not all of the channels supposed to turn on as they should. After 20 seconds or so, then the channels turn on(the ones that supposed to).Also, one of my sequences have a glitch in the lighting. I have the lights chasing from right to left. I notice that there is a brief pause for 0.1 or 0.15 seconds long. This problem does not show up in the sequence editor.I am running an mdm-mp3.Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightzilla Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 stanward wrote: Hello,I am having a problem each night. On the first sequence every night, not all of the channels supposed to turn on as they should. After 20 seconds or so, then the channels turn on(the ones that supposed to).Also, one of my sequences have a glitch in the lighting. I have the lights chasing from right to left. I notice that there is a brief pause for 0.1 or 0.15 seconds long. This problem does not show up in the sequence editor.I am running an mdm-mp3.StanDid you happen to upgrade the firmware in the mini-director unit?I did and then the problems began, but when I put it back to 1.0 firmware the problems went away and my show has been running good since.However maybe the new firmware does not like the 2.6.2 or what ever it was before Christmas 2009. I am running the same SD cards as last year and 1 new one for this year and it has been working good with firmware 1.0If you did upgrade then try switching back and see what happens. If the problem is still there then you know that it goes beyond the firmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Cherry Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I do not think the mini director has a update, the DC & show director does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanward Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 I guess I gotta contact LOR support.It worked okay last year. Not sure what is different this year.Weird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmoore60 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Are your musical files MP3 and constant bit rate of 128?Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanward Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 One of them is 160kbps.Yes, files are all CBR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Cherry Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Last year had the same problem with startup using the mini-director. LOR came back and stated that the higher your Kbps is the more time is used ot process the music and is taken away from sending your channel commands.They recommend using 128Kbps for all MP3's using the director cards.Changed that this year and no lag on startup and some of my sequences send out thousands of commands per second during the songs.Use Audacity and make new 128Kbps audio files and rebuild you show. Tell us if that fixes your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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