Need some help - tester - real DMD

[Tom Speirs]

I don't have a real DMD to test on.

Is there anyone on the team or senior who can help me if I need it?

Thanks in advance.

[Mike_da_Spike]

I can test

I have a real dmd. Its a pindmdv3.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks Mike. If you could test the latest I would appreciate it, both not reinitializing when entering pause if pinmame is running and also that it loads media once a game a launched..

[Mike_da_Spike]

I saw you uploaded new version(s)

Will do some tests tomorrow morning.

[Tom Speirs]

Thank you.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Good morning buddy.
You where busy yesterday !

• I Installed latest version on the cab, 
  • Real DMD is showing.
• Launches a table with pinmame. Pinmame is showing.
  • Pause table,
    • I go to PBX screen and real DMD is showing pinmame (but in pause state)
    • Continue with table and pinmame still showing score
• Exit table
  • PBX is showing my MP4
• Launches a table with pinmame again. Pinmame is showing.
  • Pause table
    • I go to PBX screen and real DMD is showing pinmame (but in pause state)
    • Click exit table from PBX menu
    • VPX is closing and PBX is showing mp4 on real DMD

Enabling pinmame in frontend :

• No PinMame in front end (just black)
  • Nothing in log file about it. Switching to non table in frontend shows video, but table doesn't show anything

13 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

 New feature and setting to automatically detect and show DMD image or video in game if the launched game is not using one. This is on by default. I need this testing on a real dmd.

When launching a non Pinmame table, the realDMD stays black (nothing on it

atatched 2 log files: 
one in attract mode where Pinmame is enable din front end and nothign is show (log_pinmame_enabled in frontend.txt)
other is launcheing a non pinmame table where nothing is shown on the real DMD (log_tablelaunch_no_pinmame.txt)

I hope it make sense to you

log_tablelaunch_no_pinmame.txt log_tablelaunch_no_pinmame.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks Mike. Wow, Im lucky to have you around.

Im getting old, probably need to get a secretary to print things out for me soon! But did you test the new DMD feature? You may need to wait a while for the media to load especially if using vpx full screen exclusive.  Yeah, looks like you didnt wait long enough.

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

We are getting all old Tom.

I shall wait a bit longer for the new DMD feature.

Maybe  I was too impatient 

EDIT:
I see the following in the log file
 

Quote

05:33:05.34  26-4-2021:  C:\Pinball\Visualpinball\VPinballX.exe -play "C:\Pinball\Visualpinball\Tables\VPX\300 (Gottlieb 1975).vpx"
05:33:05.37  26-4-2021:  C:\Pinball\PinballX\vpauto.exe 
05:33:09.24  26-4-2021:  VPX Full screen exclusive mode detected
05:33:09.24  26-4-2021:  VPX Full screen exclusive focus hack set
05:34:04.94  26-4-2021:  Visual Pinball Player window foreground
05:34:05.20  26-4-2021:  PinMame Not detected. Potentially loading DMD image/video

But nothing on my realDMD displayed

EDIT2:
When exiting a table after the above message appears, I don't see anythign in the frontend anymore on my DMD
XDMD tries to initialize, but didn't work. And pindmdlog spits out a lot of errors
I hope the logs helps you

pinDMD_log.txtXDMDlog.txtlog.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Hey buddy.  Thanks again. I did an update yesterday. Could you try and report again please?

[Mike_da_Spike]

9 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

Hey buddy.  Thanks again. I did an update yesterday. Could you try and report again please?

Think you almost there Tom !

• Launching a non vpinmame table, shows indeed after 1 minute the media for that table.
  • Exiting to to PBX, makes it blank again.
  • launching a vpinmame table after that, shows the rom on the real DMD and when exit this table, shows the DMD media it in the front end again
• Enabling 'use pinmame in the front end', doesn't show any rom in the front end and for launching tables same behaviour as above

Hope this make sense to you 

XDMDlog.txtlog.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Okay, good, sounds like it is all set then? As the use pinmame in front end is not related to these new features.

so real dmd working after return from game, or not? Im not sure on that.

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Lol. Must be my Denglish.

When I launch a non vpinmame table, the media is loading during game play, but exiting the table will NOT show anything anymore on the dmd in the frontend. 

 

[Tom Speirs]

Thats actually what I thought you meant buddy! Okay, ill take a look.

[Tom Speirs]

5.09 is out. Please try and see if working when return from game.

[Mike_da_Spike]

I tried 5.10 this morning (you are so quick with updates !), but same result.
The media is playing when table is launched and not detected vpinmame.
Quiting the table, I see the video still plays, the playfield and backglass becomes black (video still playing), but when returning to front and backglass and playfield is show, it clears the DMD and nothing is displayed anymore.

log.txtXDMDlog.txt

(just curious, whats the log entry "Visual Pinball Player window foreground: 60" means ?)

EDIT : Same behavior with version 5.11 
log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Please try attached. Thanks.

PinballX.zip

[Mike_da_Spike]

6 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

Please try attached. Thanks.

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same behavior

[Tom Speirs]

Okay, ill just disable the feature for real dmds until I can test myself. Thanks.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Ok. Sorry. Not sure how your code is working