Future Pinball Video Snaps

[bobrpggamer]

Is there a general rule for good playback and no stuttering as far as video encoding? I have H.264 60FPS MP4 and even though the files are about only 120MB. I get stuttering in the video. The videos are fine outside of the frontend BTW.

Maybe stick to 30FPS or would it make a difference?

[Mike_da_Spike]

Not that I'm aware of.

I habe all video in 4k h264 and h265 with 60fps and no stuttering.

You have the lav codecs installed ?

[bobrpggamer]

40 minutes ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Not that I'm aware of.

I habe all video in 4k h264 and h265 with 60fps and no stuttering.

You have the lav codecs installed ?

I'm not sure I've heard of lav codecs.  I forgot to mention SATA III on a USB 3.0 external case. I have FFD show codecs, but they are probably old.

[bobrpggamer]

I just installed the LAV Codec and I still get stuttering flipping between videos. I have a i7 9700K @ 4.6Ghz (steady all cores) and 32GB DDR4 3000 and a GTX 1080 so the PC is no problem. Maybe I will re encode them, I don;t know.

maybe I expect too much, I do flip between videos quickly, so that is probably the reason. I just thought that maybe a certain codec or dropping the frame rate would help, but @ 4K and you not having nay problem well it is just something on my end.

[Mike_da_Spike]

I have an i7 7600 (or something) with 16gb of mem, a rtx2070 and a ssd (m2 sata 500mbs). And I can sctoll through all videos and show them without stuttering.

I created them via Pinballx with the gegorce capture option (4k 60 fps).

Check ftp. I think there are some fx3 playfield video that you can check as example

[bobrpggamer]

I think its your M.2 SSD that makes the difference. I have 2 500GB M.2s also I use 1 for windows and one for Steam and regular PC games on them, but then I got some space so I might transfer my pinball things there.

While i have you here, I got a Future Pinball question I was dreading to make a new thread on. Is there somewhere in the Future Pinball editor that I can temporarily turn a 3 ball table to a 5 ball table and play the table with those settings? The reason for this is, when making the videos, I tend to kind of suck and I want 2 minute videos and It takes a few times on a 3 ball table.

I am using your manager to add tables now and it is much easier thank you for this great tool.

[Mike_da_Spike]

sorry. I don't have FP on my cabinet and never used it.

But a 2 min video is pretty long. All my videos are just 20 seconds (reduced it lately from 45 seconds to 20)

I think there are others here to help you with FP

[scutters]

3 hours ago, bobrpggamer said:

Maybe stick to 30FPS or would it make a difference?

All my media is 30FPS (mainly created using pbx recorder which sets it at that). 30fps is fine for table/backglass videos etc.

I'd guess your bottleneck is the external drive as you suggest as i don't think your other hardware would have an issue @60fps. Maybe dropping to 30 will help in short term, moving to your M2 drive is probably the fix.

(can't help with the FP editor question either, better bet for that question  would be on vpforums)

[bobrpggamer]

I am a member of VPforums, I totally forgot that site.

[bobrpggamer]

2 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

I have an i7 7600 (or something) with 16gb of mem, a rtx2070 and a ssd (m2 sata 500mbs). And I can sctoll through all videos and show them without stuttering.

I created them via Pinballx with the gegorce capture option (4k 60 fps).

Check ftp. I think there are some fx3 playfield video that you can check as example

My other computer (pun here) is an i7 860 with 16GB Ram as well but has a GTX 670 in it so its not good for anything newer than about 2010 or so.

My retro games drive (the one in the USB case has MAME on it as well, so with 500GB CHDs both wont fit but I can use it for pinball, I just like to keep everything in a organized place, probably OCD. Other than that everything including Amiga, MS-DOS and C64 all have portable paths to the letter X:\, so I will have to either reinstall PinballX or changes all the paths manually. Even GameEX and Launchbox uses that path.

Oddly enough the M.2 did not help, but I know what the problem mus be, I am not letting the videos play long enough or something to do with cache in each video, I just flip too fast I think. either way its no big deal I just have to let a vidoo play for a bit and it cleans up. I just thought it had something to do with the FPS or codec or whatever.

[Tom Speirs]

It is worth adding an exception for windows defender for folders by the way. Otherwise think of it reading the same file several times plus analyzing it with your CPU.

As mentioned, LAV codecs too.