[RESOLVED] Videos stop displaying bug?

[Tom Speirs]

I am trying the CCCP codec pack right now to see if that is any better. If that is no good I will try converting the videos to MP4 and see if that is better.

[Tom Speirs]

Apparently the vids are already mp4 but with the extension changed to f4V according to Jeremy. I am currently testing with the videos renamed from .f4v to .mp4. So far so good but its early yet. It you wanted to try renaming the extension you can do this at a command prompt with: ren *.f4v *.mp4

[Tom Speirs]

Been over an hour. So far so good with the F4Vs renamed to MP4. Its just a standard codec install and setup too.

[dboyrecords]

Encouraging, but I've been over the 2 hour mark before... when you say standard codec install does that mean uninstall shark?

[Tom Speirs]

Lets not get into trying different codecs just yet. I just meant with a default install of shark, without messing with any settings but renaming to MP4. Just out the box install. Its obviously two hours now. Fingers crossed.

[Tom Speirs]

Okay, renaming to MP4 was not the issue and it went soon after I last posted. I'm thinking it still might be the LAV splitter and as I said something is broken with Shark and it won't let you use a different splitter. CCCP codecs do let me change the splitter to Haali and am testing with that now. If its not the LAV Splitter at least we have ruled something else out.

I could swear I was able to use another splitter with Shark on another machine (which I don't have access to now) and I had it running for days.

[Tom Speirs]

No luck on that so its not the splitter which leads me back to an issue with threading on my end. I am working on it and once I get it fixed will get a new release out.

[dboyrecords]

Woohoo! And lets see your cab in the other thread (when you come up for air ).

Thanks!!!

[punter1]

Tom,

Any speculation on my experiment described above running the same video files on all 3 monitors, and only the playfield monitor goes black, while monitor 2 and 3 continue to show the video fine?

[Tom Speirs]

Yes, think it may be a threading issue (bug on my end) or an issue with the emumovies vids. I'm testing some potential fixes and with LAV audio disabled and its looking good so far. I got the issue straight away on the new cab so can duplicate it well.

[dboyrecords]

I'm using flvs but not from emumovies so it's not them specifically...

[Tom Speirs]

Please try 1.42. At worst its a big improvements in my tests.

[dboyrecords]

Got an error on install so I uninstalled 1.41 which then replaced my 280-ish xml list of fp down to star trek.

Is there a quick xml generator option...?

Edit: Nevermind, found pretty recent bu... but still good to know.

[Tom Speirs]

Hate to tell you this, but I don't know what I can do other than try to prevent that happening in the future.

[Tom Speirs]

PS: Obviously things like system restore might be available to you.

[dboyrecords]

Off to a good start... thanks to bu. Might let it attract overnight...

[Tom Speirs]

bu?

But yeah any testing folks can do will be helpful so feel free to run it overnight. Ive been running the screensaver since the release (4 hours ago) on 1 minute and 5 seconds. I reset the shark codec settings to defaults so assuming that worked it should just be with an out the box setup.

[dboyrecords]

Bu=backup

Running overnight... left my totally jacked up desperately, randomly clicked shark settings! We'll see!

[Tom Speirs]

Bu=backup

Running overnight... left my totally jacked up desperately, randomly clicked shark settings! We'll see!

Got it. Mine will be left running until it crashes too (or doesn't hopefully). So am on it.

[dboyrecords]

Thanks, man. Pinballx is the "naughty librarian" I was always looking for... beauty and brains. Gonna be great!

I'll post in a.m.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks. A little out the blue to say this but PinballX would not have been possible or at the least where it is now if HyperPin had not come before it. So folks, please remember that. Although I did not review HyperPin running too much and copy the interface, obviously I did review the content in some detail and PinballX is compatible with most of it. So in many ways it is a clone.

Anyway, nuff said.

[Tom Speirs]

I also saw over at vpuniverse a post by Circo clearly stating that HyperPin is not dead and there is a version 2 coming. I will obviously try to better it so end of the day you guys win.

[horseyhorsey]

I also saw over at vpuniverse a post by Circo clearly stating that HyperPin is not dead and there is a version 2 coming. I will obviously try to better it so end of the day you guys win.

Well, apart from having no "officialy" supported high scores in pinballx there isn't much else you're missing to top it. I still have love for HP and you won't see me hate on it but updates are slow and the whole FPlaunch thing is long winded.

[Tom Speirs]

I'm thinking on coming up with an info or statistics page which we may be able to combine with high scores if there is enough real estate. So it may still happen but not promising. I think I have a better product right now (but I would do wouldn't I! Others probably don't agree) but I also have to give credit where it is due and this would be nowhere where it is or complete without HyperPin. If I was not getting my own cab I never would have done it and ripped it off a little but that was my motivation.

[horseyhorsey]

I'm thinking on coming up with an info or statistics page which we may be able to combine with high scores if there is enough real estate. So it may still happen but not promising. I think I have a better product right now (but I would do wouldn't I! Others probably don't agree) but I also have to give credit where it is due and this would be nowhere where it is or complete without HyperPin. If I was not getting my own cab I never would have done it and ripped it off a little but that was my motivation.

Yes , please do Tom. You have done an amazing job so far. I do have my own simple stats / hi scores & gamercard done with ahk but probably won't cut it to what you can do with it.

If you check out http://www.pinemhi.com/ you can download dnadisturbers program which grabs all the info from the pinmame window and can print the scores from that to txt. Also works with FP fpram scores.

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