Real DMD Color Videos

[Tom Speirs]

Hey all,

I am working on some real DMD color videos.

Could someone please try the attachment and let me know how they look.

Thanks. I don't have the hardware yet.

 

color dmd vid samples.zip

[dstott]

Okay, This is a little bit complicated.  Game manager puts the files in "Real DMD Videos."  They will not run from there.  If you move them to "Real DMD Color Videos;" or create one, since the install only makes one in the primary VP folder, they run really well.  They look very nice and will execute one time.  Then the DMD goes back to the Pinball X Logo animation and about ten seconds later an error message pops up.  "Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application.  If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.  Not enough storage is available to process this command."  Hitting "Continue" crashes PinballX to the desktop.

 

 

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for the report.

What hardware and software do you have? Could I have the log please.

Id like some more reports please as I was far from expecting issues like this. I just wondered what they looked like!

Thanks.

Tom,.

 

[Tom Speirs]

To calify I need more info for your report to be helpful. Thanks. I have fixed the game manager issues for the next release.

[solrac21]

I just copied the extracted files into the real dmd dir and they worked like a charm.  Running pin2dmd with firmware 2.05, pinballx running on windows 10.  Let me know if you need more info Tom.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks. Did you copy them to the color dir?

The crashing experienced is probably due to the PC and the encoding (or lack of).

Here they are as MP4 instead of RAW AVI.

 

mp4.zip

[solrac21]

I'll try the new ones but I just copied them to the old real dmd video dir where the black and white vids were.

*I just realized that I am running 2.12...i am updating to the latest and will copy them to the color dir.

[dstott]

18 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

 

What hardware and software do you have? Could I have the log please.

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10:56:13.2  3/25/2016:  PinballX - Version 2.13
10:56:13.3  3/25/2016:  Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 64-bit (7.9GB)
10:56:13.3  3/25/2016:  Loading Settings
10:56:13.3  3/25/2016:  Initialize Component
10:56:13.3  3/25/2016:  Initialize Display
10:56:14.4  3/25/2016:  Loading PlugIns
10:56:14.5  3/25/2016:  Created DirectX BackGlass Window
10:56:14.8  3/25/2016:  Hiding Cursor
10:56:14.8  3/25/2016:  Hiding Taskbar
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  Real DMD Intialized
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  CPU:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660  
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  Displays: 2
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  Load Game List
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball Physmod 5
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball X
10:56:14.9  3/25/2016:  Loading Custom Database: Visual Pinball 2
10:56:15.0  3/25/2016:  Finding and matching artwork and videos
10:56:16.0  3/25/2016:  Loading Game Statistics and Scores
10:56:16.0  3/25/2016:  Main display running full screen windowed.
10:56:16.1  3/25/2016:  Loading Surfaces
10:56:16.2  3/25/2016:  Finished Loading Surfaces
10:56:16.2  3/25/2016:  Initialize Audio
10:56:16.3  3/25/2016:  Set Keyboard Controls
10:56:16.3  3/25/2016:  Initialize Joystick
10:56:16.3  3/25/2016:  1 Joystick Attached
10:56:16.3  3/25/2016:  Started
10:57:32.1  3/25/2016:  Error. Exiting
10:57:32.1  3/25/2016:  Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.

 

This is today's log, created using the new MP5 version of the videos.  Looks like 8 GB of RAM isn't cutting it anymore. Once again, the DMD played through 100% perfectly, then stopped.  The backglass went blank, the Pinball X video began to play on the DMd, and then PinballX crashed to the desktop.  Let me know if you need anything additional or if you want me to try anything else.

Regards,

Dave

 

[solrac21]

Ok, just upgraded to 2.13 and tested the avi files.  I moved them to the color folder (as they aren't detected in old folder) and the worked good.  When you switch off the color in the settings app and use a single color like red, the vids are "crisper"  as they don't seem to have additional artifacting around the words. 

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks. Really not sure about the memory issues and how its only apparent with these videos but I am looking for antialis issues etc. Could you please try something like Elvis which is single color and let me know if you see issues like that. I have uploaded what is complete to the FTP: -  media\visual pinball\Real DMD Color Videos

From what I can see the videos are good but I really cannot tell for sure without a device.

 

[Totaltimo]

Hi Tom, your videos run perfectly in color on my PinDMD3!!! Nevertheless, I would prefer some videos only showing a loop animation of the respective pinball logo (Attack from Mars, Addams Family etc...) instead of some fake scores that I've never really played. You know what I mean? But nevertheless: Great, no complaints :-)

Cheers

Timo

P.S.: Your latest PinballX Update is awesome: No more crashes when scrolling through the tables or whithin attract mode!! I am so happy!