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Ingame they read the backglasses files from inside the games steam folder so you probably copied them there already. you also need to copy them to the backglass images folders of the media folder of pinball fx3 in order to let them show up inside pinballx

how did you try the ftp you are a supporting member and should be able to download files. You need to use a program like filezilla and enter the ftp details in it along with your username not use the readonly http browse link. I'm not at home so can not give you screenshot on how to set it up but can do it tonight. Can you give an example table name (description) that did not work or did not download anything. Are you saying initially it worked ? Yesterday there was a problem with logging in there's another topic about but should be fixed but one never knows if it's not completely fixed. I'm not at home right now so can't test anything

You did name your table description in a normal way ? Like perhaps select the auto fill in tablename. If your game description was "exotic" it probably won't find anything and shows an empty list What was your table description you tried it with ?. But there could be other causes. Are you able to connect to the ftp with your user and password?

btw the command line being used for ffmpeg currently for video's also works on pictures. if you have a playfield screenshot it can also create loading video from the picture with the loading animation inside them... as i don't have playfield video's of bingo gameroom but only playfield pictures (png) i tried it out and it seems to work also although i can not seem to prolong video length it's based on framerate and input images of loading overlay BallyAcapulco.mp4

No problem only noticed it as it was the first file it did but if it's not used with scutters plugin i leave it in otherwise it would recreate the file each time and btw scripting is a form of programming, you did a good job

@Mike_da_Spike downloaded latest version, is it normal that the app processes "- system -.mp4" files from system menu ? 09/13/2019 11:21:48 AM INFO Randomized overlay images found. Using section [Overlay1] 09/13/2019 11:21:48 AM INFO Start creating video : [- system -.MP4] with imagemask [TAF%%%.png] from [Overlay1] 09/13/2019 11:21:48 AM INFO Found [C:\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Videos\- system -.mp4] 09/13/2019 11:21:48 AM INFO Shell.Run(["C:\PinballX\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "C:\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Videos\- system -.mp4" -r 12 -thread_queue_size 512 -i "C:\PinballX\Media\Overlay\TAF%03d.png" -filter_complex "[0:v]scale=1920:1080[scaled];[scaled][1:v]overlay=(main_w-overlay_w)/2:(main_h-overlay_h)/2,fps=fps=30,vflip,hflip" -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:05 -an -vcodec:a libx264 -preset veryslow -b:v 2M -f MP4 "C:\PinballX\Media\\Loading Videos\- system -.MP4]) 09/13/2019 11:22:08 AM INFO Run [C:\PinballX\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "C:\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Videos\- system -.mp4" -r 12 -thread_queue_size 512 -i "C:\PinballX\Media\Overlay\TAF%03d.png" -filter_complex "[0:v]scale=1920:1080[scaled];[scaled][1:v]overlay=(main_w-overlay_w)/2:(main_h-overlay_h)/2,fps=fps=30,vflip,hflip" -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:05 -an -vcodec:a libx264 -preset veryslow -b:v 2M -f MP4 "C:\PinballX\Media\\Loading Videos\- system -.MP4] returned 0 09/13/2019 11:22:08 AM INFO Succesfully created video : [- system -.MP4] Am currently letting it redo everything on my cabinet, my cab is much slower than my main pc so will be a while but it's only once as the app detects video's already done which is great so in future it will only have to do newly added tables

My cabinet uses a keyboard encoder (pincontrol clone) not a joystick so not really sure. I have heared of a program called joy2key which other people use but i don't know if it's only joystick buttons or also joystick axises it can map to keyboard keys https://joytokey.net/en/ It seems it should also be possible to create your own autohotkey scripts to map joysticks to keyboard https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/RemapJoystick.htm

@Randy823 forgot to mention you the keyboard shortcuts but you can look them up inside the bingo gameroom program itselve. just like with your future pinball you have to enter coins first 1 or 5 keyboard key (above A and T key) and i think starting game was N (red button) or G (green button) key then to launch a ball it's return / enter key (have to keep it pressed it to pull plunger further). In certain games you can move the scoreboard nr's with buttons A to F and nudging is done using arrow keys but you can change those keys or look them up if you can not remember also by right clicking on the playfied / backglass choosing preferences and selecting keyboard shortcuts tab. When the game is running a table press S key to create screenshots of backglass and playfield to show inside pinballx (only works if running from within pinballx) But at least it's now launching from inside your pinballx

@Randy823 no not receiving any mails, can you continue in the private messages as you don't have my emails. Responding to emails received from forum probably does not really work?

Did you change it to this line MainDir := "D:\BallyBingo" ? And did you dowload and install latest version of autohotkey, not some old version

in launchbingogameroom.ahk set MainDir := "D:\BallyBingo" instead of MainDir := "D:\BallyBingo\BingoGameroom" and recompile the script so it creates a new launchbingogameroom.exe overwrite your existing one as explained in my previous post (copy to d:\ballybingo\script) . Also fix pinballx settings as in my screenshot in my previous post and it should work as you have pinballx settings also wrong

@Mike_da_Spike it's running fine now on my system creating video's as a test. I'm amazed at what you achieved using vbs scripts etc i probably would have spend way too much time on it if i did it in delphi Btw you might need to exclude thumbs.db and desktop.ini file. Somehow it detected those files and tried to create movies out of it. Those files are windows specific and contain the thumbnail database for the video's in that folder. (desktop.ini i only mentioned extra it was not detected with me but could exists also but thumbs.db was detected) 9/12/2019 8:20:59 PM INFO Proccessing Thumbs.db 9/12/2019 8:20:59 PM INFO Randomized overlay images found. Using section [Overlay1] 9/12/2019 8:20:59 PM INFO Start creating video : [Thumbs.MP4] with imagemask [TAF%%%.png] from [Overlay1] 9/12/2019 8:20:59 PM INFO Found [M:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Videos\Thumbs.db] 9/12/2019 8:20:59 PM INFO Shell.Run(["M:\Pinball\PinballX\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "M:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Videos\Thumbs.db" -r 12 -thread_queue_size 512 -i "M:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Overlay\TAF%03d.png" -filter_complex "[0:v]scale=1920:1080[scaled];[scaled][1:v]overlay=(main_w-overlay_w)/2:(main_h-overlay_h)/2,fps=fps=30,vflip,hflip" -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:05 -an -vcodec:a libx264 -preset veryslow -b:v 1M -f MP4 "M:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\\Loading Videos\Thumbs.MP4]) 9/12/2019 8:21:00 PM INFO Run [M:\Pinball\PinballX\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "M:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Videos\Thumbs.db" -r 12 -thread_queue_size 512 -i "M:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Overlay\TAF%03d.png" -filter_complex "[0:v]scale=1920:1080[scaled];[scaled][1:v]overlay=(main_w-overlay_w)/2:(main_h-overlay_h)/2,fps=fps=30,vflip,hflip" -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:05 -an -vcodec:a libx264 -preset veryslow -b:v 1M -f MP4 "M:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\\Loading Videos\Thumbs.MP4] returned 1 9/12/2019 8:21:00 PM ERROR Error during creating video : [Thumbs.MP4]

ah it's probably because of the vbs script compiled to exe's that the antivirus programs are flipping on it. Probably are false positives will give it a go now

Is source code available (maybe on github ?) / what did your program it in ? My bitdefender is being noisy about the executable. I'm guessing it's a false positive but i have been unable to download the executeable for now. My bitdefender keeps blocking each download Am trying to unblock it and running a check afterwards with virustotal or something. My bitdefender has been messing with pinballx installation as well so i'm really guessing it's a false positive but want to be sure Managed to temporary disable antivirus and upload to virustotal, there are a few others detecting the same thing but i'm mainly guessing it could be false positives, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/99d2b4a577c8a3c377a7b68759e5a43d9be6e8781bbd9b577fc28c169385ea96/detection not accusing or anything, as usually these are false positives but you never know if the the pc you compiled the exe might have been infected or you used some cracked development program but i doubt all that. edit: it are false positives probably because of vbs to exe compilation

Show screenshot or folderlisting of D:\BallyBingo\BingoGameroom and D:\BallyBingo\ also setup in pinballx settings is wrong executable must be launchbingogameroom.Exe and parameter must be [TABLEFILE] Please check my screenshot and make same modifcations (except for the locations (workingpath which is where launchbingogameroom.exe exists)) D:\BallyBingo\BingoGameroom must contain the subfolders with all the tables installed as you had that setup in the ahk script if D:\BallyBingo\BingoGameroom is not containing the subfolders with tables check if D:\BallyBingo\ does contain the subfolders edit LaunchBingoGameRoom.ahk accordingly to reflect the path with the subfolders containing the tables. the look like this these folders and the folder containing those folders is what you have to enter in the launchbingogameroom.ahk. They are installed in program files (86)\MybingoPrograms which is the default install location but with you they might be in D:\BallyBingo\BingoGameroom or D:\BallyBingo\ at least if you have downloaded and installed the tables using bingogameroom main / normal executable after doing that right click launchbingogameroom.ahk en choose compile (autohotkey must be installed) and copy to uour d:\ballybingo\script location overwritting initial launchbingogameroom.exe once launching tables is working right click once the a table playfield or backglass and choose preferences in the menu. Then in the screen tab enable fullscreen option and use two screens options also modify the zoom settings in that location so the table is fully visible. Once done press save screensettings as global default then save and close so the game runs fullscreen on backglass and playfield monitor

@Stoner penguin if you update your pinballx version in settings app you can now have 15 other systems and when modifying ini directly it should support 20 other systems now so you can have more than 10 now

lav filters is a codec pack to play the video's. Some persons mentioned going from some older version of pbx to a newer one that video's started producing black screen but that was a very old version (that's why i asked if you knew which your previous version) Disabling the lower rows of output formats fixed it then. You can find lav video settings in your start menu search for lav and it should show up (if you got them installed). I encountered the same problem in the past but i'm not sure you have the same problem. but it's worth trying out first install the lav filters / codes and see if it fixes it if not open the settings and set it up like in this screenshot below. Disabling the lower 2 rows except RGB24 (as that one could interfere with loading video's if disabled). It might fix your problems at least if you are sure the media is found just for reference the topic discussing those black screens was this one and the solution given there was to disable the 2 lower rows of output formats

what i do is use alternateexe method in xml if i find a certain (previous) version of the beta fixes a problem or even use 10.5 for certain tables. my current vpx exe is always latest and just use alternateexe method if i find one that does not work but works in previous version

just for what it's worth, just updated to 3.74 on my main pc and cabinet and in both situations my video's still play. Could you verify lav codes + lav video settings output formats, if nothing disabled see if disabling the last 2 rows of output formats fixes it except for the 24 rgba one in lower row (as that one is needed for loading video's). I had todo that in the past or would get black screens. What was your previous pinball x version ?

include requested files, pinballx.ini log files etc as attachment (so not the contents). Also i think this post is in the wrong section, should probably be moved to general if a mod sees it I will try to update this evening on my cab and see if i have the same problem. but you could check if your lav codecs are installed and perhaps if you have certain output formats disabled if reenabling them fixes it

i had to add -thread_queue_size 512 after the -r 15 command because i was getting a warning (Thread message queue blocking; consider raising the thread_queue_size option (current value: 8)) about it. Adding that in fixed the warning in ffmpeg. Also i tried the images but if i use -t of 4 seconds the final part of the animation is not good with it but if i used -t of 5 seconds it played nicely as in mike_da_spike's video. Am currently redoing the video's first with black gradient. Will do afterwards without black gradient and compare filesize of my +/- 400 videos. The gradient reduced movie filesizes with last animation as i did as well Edit: 427 video's without gradient 557 mb, with gradient 372 mb. Do note i did not use the slow preset nor the bitrate value but have not tried on my cabinet yet will be for another day Edit2: BTW i also had stuttering loading video's but i found out it only happens if i leave teamviewer running while running visual pinballx if i close the connection everything goes fine without increasing video bitrate or the slow preset

you probably mean when you select play that the screen gets zoomed out before the loading video displays and like the loading video to get zoomed in (opposite effect of when selecting play ?)

Was refering to the version with the gradient added, did want to start this tedious work although have not decided if i would use with or without gradient... Will have to test both

@Mike_da_Spike i like it, it seems i will have to redo my loading video's once more and perhaps switch to your version

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