Category: Video Hoster

Question:

Error: The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data. (3163). Would you like to see help?

Answer:

You are trying to add a name that is to long for the Field. Shorten the Filename, Artist name or Title name of the songs. You must find out which field it is that you are trying to use that is to long.

Question:

Error: Too Few Parameters. Expected 1 (3061) Would you like to  see help?

Answer:

You must Rebuild Your Songs Database, to fix this error.

1. Open Hoster.
2. Click the Tools Menu\Build Songs Database.
3. Set your Source folder to the location of your .kma files, if it is not correct.
4. Click the Build Songs Database Button. It will now start to rebuild the database from your .kma files.
5. Once this has finished, you should no longer get this error.

Question:

Error: Error Creating KMA file

Answer:

This error appears when your Save To Folder is set to a CD-Rom or CD-Recorder drive, instead of a Hard Disc Drive that can be written to.

1. Open Hoster.
2. Left click on the Import Tracks tab.
3. Left click the Save To Folder button.
4. Change the Look In directory to something on your Hard drive, such as C:\Hoster Songs.
5. Once you have a folder Opened, click the Select button.

Question:

Disable Windows Autorun for all CD/DVD/ROM Drives

Answer:

The Windows Autorun is always enabled for a drive until you disable it. When you insert an Audio CD or Karaoke CDG disc, Windows will try to “do something” with it for you. When using Microstudio or Hoster, this will cause long delays.

Also, add on Sound Cards install proprietary software that pop up and attempt to play CDs inserted in a drive unless Autorun is disabled.

Autorun causes extra delays for the drive to spin-up, to load unwanted software, and to allow advertisements embedded on some CDG discs to appear. Can you imagine running Hoster and adding a track to play from a Singer’s disc they hand you and an advertisement pops up in the middle of your show? You want to DISABLE Autorun!

Follow these steps to disable Autorun on a CD/DVD drive (this is from the Hoster Manual “Troubleshooting Guide”, “Reducing Audio Drops While Playing” topic):

1. Click the Start button
2. Click the Run command
3. Type in regedit and press the Enter key
4. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click the + at its left to open its contents up
5. Scroll down to System and click the + to its left
6. Locate CurrentControlSet and click the + to its left
7. Locate Services and click the + to its left
8. Locate Cdrom and click it directly to see its contents on the right screen. If you have more than one CD/DVD/ROM drive, I suggest you disable Autorun for each drive.
9. Locate Autorun and move your mouse to it, then click and release your RIGHT mouse button. In the menu that appears, move your mouse to Modify and click your mouse LEFT button to see an edit dialog box. Enter zero (0 must replace the default 1) and click the OK button. This disables Autorun for this drive.
10. Click the X icon at the top right of this RegEdit screen to close it.

Question:

Audio is out of sync with graphics or repeats the same audio.

Answer:

NOTE: Microsoft Removed this ability from Windows Vista.  If you are having Sync issues with Vista, then you Must get the latest drivers for your Audio and Video cards.  This is the only way to fix this under Vista.

This is how to slow down the Hardware acceleration of your sound card.  This can fix problems with the graphics being out of sync or not playing back correctly with the audio.

1) Click the START menu

2) Left click  RUN.

3) Type in DXDIAG, and click OK.

4) At the top, click the tab marKed SOUND (may also be Sound 1 or Sound 2).

5) There’s a slider marked Hardware Acceleration.

6) Click on the pointer and move it to the left until it shows Basic Acceleration.

7) Exit the program.

8) Now try your software again.  The audio and graphics should now be in sync.

You can also try setting the Colors in the Display settings to 16 bit color, there used to be a problem with some video cards that made this occur. You can get to this by going to Control Panel\Display properties. Then click on the settings tab and change the colors to 16 bit.