Best way to have 2 screen setup (no pinDMD)

[monza]

I've got PinballX with two screens mainly working but seems like a few different ways to do get all the bells and whistles going when you don't have a pinDMD.

 

Should I have a backglass video that has an animated DMD or just use the DirectB2S as the backglass and then have a separate DMD video playing in the space where the blank DMD is?

 

My playfield is 1920x1080 and my backglass is 1024x768

 

 

[Carny_Priest]

Try it both ways on a favorite table and see which option you prefer. For me, I go with videos.

[monza]

Thanks, I think backglass videos will be best way forward. Only played around with two tables so far and already notice the blank DMD space on each B2S doesn't quite line up with each other so will be impossible to get the DMD video in the right place.

This has lead me to another issue though, I can't get both the table video and backglass video to play at the same time. One will work fine but the other will be a black screen. If I reboot sometimes it swaps around. If I remove the video file then it show the static image file file and the other video will always work.

Using 2.14 on Windows 7.

 

 

[monza]

Fixed the issue with both table and backglass videos not playing at the same time by installing the LAV codecs.

[Draco1962]

Glad you got it all sorted! 

[monza]

Now another issue, when loading VPX tables the backglass layer goes on top of the DMD. I can get it showing by alt-tabbing to the DMD window then back to the playfield but have to do this each time.

Hopefully I'm just missing a check box somewhere?

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[Draco1962]

Please provide copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files. Click on the PinballX: How to ask for help link in my signature for instructions on where to find these files and provide them for our review in reply to this thread. Thanks!

[monza]

On 4/24/2016 at 2:09 AM, Draco1962 said:

Please provide copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files. Click on the PinballX: How to ask for help link in my signature for instructions on where to find these files and provide them for our review in reply to this thread. Thanks!

Thanks, so far I've fixed it by putting the VP exe into compatibility mode. Not sure why this works but so far so good.