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Output View : Output Page Diagnostic Tools Page 188
Output View
The Output Page is one of the three Tabs below the Toolbar. It can also be accessed by [ Ctrl + F7 ]
This Page is intended to help expert users to fine tune their VCube configuration to suit local circumstances.
There are five Tabs:
Output Page Diagnostic Tools
The Output page has five diagnostic monitoring pages which enable you to read the current status of different
points of system resource consumption, synchronisation and audio levels and can potentially detect a "bottle-
neck" which is hindering smooth and reliable playback of the most demanding HD video files.
1. System
2. Buffer
3. Playback Info
4. Sync Status
5. Audio Meters
So if you encounter a file that just does not play out smoothly, or as you expect, check these diagnostic tools first
in order to determine where the bottleneck or problem is so that you may find a solution such as:
1. Changing the buffering scheme of VCube
2. Moving the Media file to a faster drive
3. Replacing the Media File itself in favor of a new version encoded using a faster, more efficient codec than that
used for the original encode.
4. Correcting the sync sources settings or sync source.
5. Replacing the audio Media File(s) with alternative versions.
System Tab
The first diagnostic tool in the Output page is the System Tab . This shows a real-time graph of the overall CPU
usage and the Memory consumption of VCube itself. The CPU display shows a graphical percentage plot of each