Different sized screenshots with PinballX?

[DBrown67]

I just changed my 3rd DMD monitor from a 4:1 slim type to a 16:9 full screen type. I like all my normal DMDs to appear in 4:1 aspect ratio centred down the middle of the screen. All is well and good with that.

But now I want to use the full 3rd screen for pup packs and of course these take up the full screen. But I can only set the DMD in the settings to one size. I can use the 3rd monitor without issues in VPX but if I take a screenshot it only captures the 4:1 letterbox central part.

And if I change the window in settings to full screen resolution it then stretches all the normal DMD screenshots I already had.

So is there a way round this? Or am I destined to not have screenshots for one DMD type in the frontend? 

[scutters]

I think your best option is to change PinballX settings to the full screen option, and then resize or recreate your dmd screenhots. Apps like irfanview or faststone photo resizer have bulk/batch modes that can probably resize the canvas of your existing images centred (I've not checked!). That way it'll work for dmds with different ratios\size when you capture them (as you can display in correct aspect ratio using freezy now you're not tied to a 4:1 display area).

I changed my virtual dmd setup a while back in a similar way but i went a different route, i use a single 'no dmd.png' image in PinballX for 90% of my tables which is just a frame that the dmd sits on top of when running, and in PinballX i run the stats plugin (sorry, shameless plug ) to display in a 4:1 window on top of the same frame.   Then i just have slightly different dmd images in pinballx for the different  dmd ratios, or the same frame with a company logo in the middle for EM tables. any pup packs just get displayed in fullscreen on top. You can just about see what i mean in the video in this post https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/25368-scutters-pincab/?do=findComment&comment=198665. Might be worth a thought?

[DBrown67]

Thanks for that. Yes I was thinking the same thing myself shortly after I made the post. I was just dreading having to alter all those DMD images. But I suppose if there's something that can do it in a batch then it should be fine.

I see you're from Leeds. Me too.  Just 10 mins walk from Elland Road.

[scutters]

2 minutes ago, DBrown67 said:

I see you're from Leeds. Me too.  Just 10 mins walk from Elland Road.

Alaw?! . I'm in Bramley these days.

5 minutes ago, DBrown67 said:

Thanks for that. Yes I was thinking the same thing myself shortly after I made the post. I was just dreading having to alter all those DMD images. But I suppose if there's something that can do it in a batch then it should be fine.

From memory the batch option in Irfanview isn't the most intuitive. Maybe one of Tom's convert-it solutions has a good bulk image canvas resizer, don't know.

[DBrown67]

One other thing... even if I manage to edit all my DMD images.... the default PinballX logo will be stretched to fit that size. Is there a way to turn that animation off for EM tables?

[Mike_da_Spike]

4 hours ago, DBrown67 said:

One other thing... even if I manage to edit all my DMD images.... the default PinballX logo will be stretched to fit that size. Is there a way to turn that animation off for EM tables?

Maybe create a blank video/image and assign it to all your EM tables

I thought (not sure) that if you overwrite the default image, it will be replaced when PBX is updated

I'm creating per table a mp4 that shows the wheel image, year of table and vendor. 7 seconds in total.

 

[scutters]

8 hours ago, DBrown67 said:

One other thing... even if I manage to edit all my DMD images.... the default PinballX logo will be stretched to fit that size. Is there a way to turn that animation off for EM tables?

That's the pinballx\media\videos\no dmd.mp4 file. Maybe an online tool or ffmpeg can resize that expanding the canvas to have a blank area around it to prevent the stretching, never tried.

If you delete that file PinballX will use the pinballx\media\images\no dmd.png instead (that's the file i replaced on my setup)...  but if you update PinballX the missing No DMD.mp4 will be added back, so you just need to remember to delete it again after (my custom No DMD.png file isn't overwritten in PinballX updates).

Edit - resizing the 'no dmd.mp4' file to add a border is possible with ffmpeg, see 2nd answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48485799/ffmpeg-extend-not-resize-video-size-by-adding-box-or-border.  So, two main options for you - either resize / pad the No DMD.mp4 file, or delete it and edit / change  the No DMD.png file as you wish for your setup.