output flicker

skinnyguy

Here we are, 2 years later... So I updated serato to 2.4.6 (newest is 2.5.x) just to test things out.....and I think itʻs gone... =D Then I updated ME to the newest version....and itʻs still gone! Either that or Iʻm not noticing it. Yaaaaay.

Nick

That's good to hear. Fingers crossed that's the end of it.

skinnyguy

Okay, so I noticed it on my 13" but not my 15". And the weirder thing is when I load a video to the other deck, I notice a slight pause on the video output on the 15" but not the 13". I always thought my 15 was the better machine....odd.

skinnyguy

Hey @Nick if my 15" has the graphics power to run video transitions smoothly, where would I look to adjust if I want to get rid of that pause for the loading of the next deck? Iʻm pretty sure the 13" doesnʻt have the graphics card chops like the 15" discrete, which is my guess why thereʻs the flicker for the 13". But loading songs on the 13" doesnʻt seem to cause any pauses in video output like the 15" does. Would it be a serato buffer or the ME buffer? I think I tried adjusting the memory buffer on ME on the 13" and got the warning to that the laptop was too weak. They both have 16 gb ram and usb 3. Using same external for each. But the fans on the 15" tend to kick on earlier than the 13". I feel the 13" is in better "shape" for what it is yet the 15" has better cpu and graphics. Trying to save up my pennies for the next MBP with M1/M2/MX chip to come out.

Nick

The source of this pause may be many things (reading or writing to the drive, memory, graphics, etc), so it could be difficult to track down. What do you have your video cache size set to in the Advanced panel of MixEmergency's Preferences? You could try setting this to the minimum value to minimise memory usage by MixEmergency.

RobbRoyale

Thanks for answering, Nick. Right now, I have it set around 700 mb, since the dedicated VRAM is 4096 Gigs. Should it be lower than that?

Nick

This is always a difficult question to answer. On most modern computers it's fine to set this quite low. The only time it really needs to be high is if you're looping a certain part of the video and noticing unacceptably long pauses.

skinnyguy

So, ideally, you want to use as little buffer as possible for ME? I thought using more memory would make things run smoother, since videos would be running virtually in ram...?

Nick

Like I said, it's difficult to answer. It really depends on your hardware (GPU, and whether or not the videos are being decoded on the GPU) and videos. I prefer to keep this low, but when videos have issues buffering (perhaps they've been poorly encoded, or they have high dimensions, etc) it can be useful to push the buffer size higher.

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