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Future pinball is not supported since the recorder settings are different For visual pinball, the enabled tag is missing so run Pinballx Settings and disable the visual pinball system. Close it and the re-run Settings and enable VP system and that should fix it the problem

sigma415, do you know if there is a way to launch vpinmame via command line? instead of starting it via the Test button

Just installed PIN2DMD recently. Thanks for all the DMD videos

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Slydog - hmm. You can run it as ahk or exe. Behavior is should be the same. Try running the exe as admin and see if that helps, otherwise send me a B2S.exe that won't close so I can try on my machine. ============================= New Version: Version 1.2 adds basic support for automatic Wheel image download via FTP if you have Pinballx FTP access. To enable FTP support, open the FTPLoginInfo.txt file and put in your user info. If you do not have FTP access, the log file will always report a list of any missing wheel images. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2XD_HKVvzV1S19UOWJPb2k2WWc PBX Recorder will walk through all the VP tables found in Pinballx, launch each table and record/capture all your videos and/or images automatically. By default, PBX Recorder is setup to find and record missing media. There are options to re-record all media if desired. What to record and length of videos are all configurable. Edit: fixed download link

Here is the script change with the FPLaunch way of killing the b2s.exe. Change this section from: Run, taskkill /IM %Executable% /F,,UseErrorLevel Run, taskkill /F /IM B2SBackglassServerEXE.exe,,UserErrorLevelRun, taskkill /F /IM %XTable%.exe,,UserErrorLevel to Run, taskkill /IM %Executable% /F,,UseErrorLevelRun, taskkill /F /IM B2SBackglassServerEXE.exe,,UserErrorLevelRun, taskkill /F /IM %XTable%.exe,,UserErrorLevelIfInString, XTable, B2S.exe, WinKill, Form1

Tthe PBX recorder script should have these 3 lines to kill the 1) VP executable used, 2) the DirectB2S Server executable and 3)Any process that matches the table name with .exe at the end, i,e TableName.exe (this should kill the table B2S.exe - worked during my testing) Run, taskkill /IM %Executable% /F,,UseErrorLevel Run, taskkill /F /IM B2SBackglassServerEXE.exe,,UserErrorLevel Run, taskkill /F /IM %XTable%.exe,,UserErrorLevel let me know if you can find the culprit and then we can investigate I guess I should figure out an additional way to find and taskkill anything with *B2S.exe at ending....

Yeah, the Pinballx Game Manager pulls the table names from the ipdb list and it doesn't filter/remove any of the special characters. I ran into some of theses issues when I was creating PBXrecorder, I took the easy way out and just modified my xml descriptions to not use them Anyways If you select Harley Davidson ® (Stern 2002), the Game Managers stores it in the xml tag as Harley Davidson ® (Stern 2002); but PinballX does display the trademark char Harley Davidson ®, when browsing The Media file needs to be named Harley Davidson ®.f4v. When I tried to fix this yesterday I was actually geting Harley-Davidson ® (Stern 2002).f4v, and Pinballx did not like it. Anyways did something using WinMerge to remove the  and now it creates Harley Davidson ®.f4v correctly for me. Nicco84, can you test this final beta version when you have time? PBXrecorder_1.2beta06final.zip

Thanks for testing and fixing. I needed to to do this special handling at some point so now it is done For the "end" pop up. I forgot to delete that. Just search for "msgbox end" and delete that

Here is a beta 05 that drops all invalid chars like : / \ * ? " < > |, so AC/DC and Star Trek: and Terminator 2: should work now For the "Elvis#174; (Stern 2004)", it will create "Elvis#174; (Stern 2004).f4v". Or do you want it to create "Elvis (Stern 2004).f4v"? PBXrecorder_1.2beta05.zip

Slydog, Not sure why wrong exe is used, since each PBX system has an assoc exe. Are you using the <alternateExe> xml tag? PBXRecorder does have to guess about the file extension as it is not provided in the XML file, so if a vpt file and a vpx file exist in the same folder with the SAME name, it will default to the vpt file. Send me your log file if you want me to investigate, but maybe no need if you try below and that does what you want. Anyways if you want to only process one xml, just create a new dir called PinballXTemp and create a Config folder and Database folder. In the Config folder, copy the PinballX.ini and in there disable all systems but the one system you want to run. In the Database folder, create the desired system folder and put your one xml file there. Point PBXrecorder to that and it should run and create all the Media paths and files. Nicco, I will take a look at your post later this week, but to be honest, if you want use PBXRecorder, one option is to just remove those special characters from the Description tag and table filenames, this problem will go away . I will make some tweaks but without an Italian system to try this on, it is just trial and error for me

Another 1.2 Beta release - ADDED in this BETA (01/10/16) ; Add support for Italian ® and ' characters. I can't test this, so Nicco, let me know if this helps ; Add PinXCheck <exe> xml tag support ; Add support for resetting or blanking PIN2DMD RGB LED module. Download and unzip the attached PIN2DMD.zip to the PBXRecorder folder. (If you want to see the PIN2DMD OPENSOURCE logo instead of a Blank screen, delete the blank.ppm file in the PIN2DMD folder) ; Release 1.2 (01/09/16) ; Skip table if table is disabled in Game Manager/XML (Jan 9, 2016) ; Add Pinballx <alternateExe> xml tag support ; Add support for & and ® in Table and Description names ; Check if vpt or vpx file exists, skip table recording if not found To use this BETA, you need to have the previous release installed. Either x64 bit or x32 bit version here: http://goo.gl/eIhc88 Then download the beta and run it from the PBXRecorder folder. I have not looked into the video recording with audio support yet. PBXrecorder_1.2beta04.zip Pin2dmd.zip

Here is a beta version with fixes/additions below. ; Release 1.2: ; Skip table if table is disabled in Game Manager/XML (Jan 9, 2016) ; Add AlternateExe xml tag support ; Add support for & and ® in Table and Description names ; Check if vpt or vpx file exists, skip table recording if not found PBXrecorder_1.2beta02.zip Nicco, I had no problems with James Cameron's Avatar.

nicco - Pls post the xml game info for those 3 tables. Is it the description or game name or both? Carny_Priest - thanks. I will take a look at your earlier scripts

adamstorm, I did not add any support for the alternate+exe xml approach since I did not use it How do you guys create your xml files with the alternateExe tags, manually or with some other tool? Send me your xml file so I should be able to add support. I have a release I am preparing that will support the Game Manager disable table flag and a little more error checking. I will add the AlternateExe and then release an update

Scotty, I think your screenres.txt is still wrong. Try this 1920 1080 1360 768 2 0 0 960 300 1385 (I subtracted the playfield width from the orig value 3305-1920=1385) 335 0

Hi there, Scotty, can you attach your the pbxrecorder log file and screenres.txt file. PBX recorder does like what it sees in the screenres.txt for some reason. when replying to this post you can click on "More Reply Options" and you should then be able to attached text files, screenshots, etc. If still having trouble, post the top portion of the log file with the screen dimensions

I am do just the bg and pf now with Pin2DMD. PM or share your PinballX.ini and the Visual Pinball.xml file so I can try to troubleshoot

Did you try running the pbxrecorder as adminstrator?

What does the pbxrecorder.log file contain?

Scooby1. If you delete the unwanted videos it will re-record them.

If I recall I check if the vpt file can be found. If not the script assumes the is a vpx file. For your Bad Girls table are you sure the xml table name matches the file name. Is there maybe an extra space somewhere or a special character?

Maybe try to run this as administrator to see if that helps. It should close VP and B2S.exe between each table. You could also Try just the screenshot capture - no videos- with it just to see if it runs correctly What PC hardware and OS do you have?

I just tried this with Pinballx, having a vpt and a vpx with the same name but different extensions in the same table folder. Pinballx gets confused also just like the PBXrecorder, it will always try to launch the vpt version with both the vp9 exe and vp10 exe configured correctly in settings. Are you able to launch both version of Avatar on your system

I guess you have 2 options - Putting them in separate folders would work or - Naming them so they have unique filenames would work also, even Avatar.vpt and Avatar1.vpx would work. I wonder how Pinballx knows which table to launch Avatar.vpx vs Avatar.vpt, since this is not really identified in the setup/xml file either I guess I could check if the letter x exists in the Executable, like vpinballx.exe and that would look for .vpx files first. if no x, then look for .vpt file