Unable to create videos in PBX or Game Manager

[80sBear]

Hi, everyone.  I'm totally stuck attempting to create table and backglass videos, and need some help..

Running PBX 5.5 on Win 10 with an i7.  GTX 1060.  Playfield and BG monitors, aligned normally (PF first, BG second, aligned tops left to right).  PinDMD real DMD.  No matter what I do, or how I configure hot keys..I can't seem to create videos regardless of whether I use the defined hotkey after launching a table from PBX or even via Game Manager's "create videos".  ffmpeg.exe (latest version as of yesterday) is installed in the PinballX folder.

When I use the defined "capture" hotkey after a table is launched...nothing at all happens.  No notifications.  Nothing in the log file saying recording started, etc.

FWIW, trying to capture screenshots via the hotkey defined in settings ALSO doesn't do anything.

When I try to capture videos using Game Manager, I get a very slow rendering of the table that (hard to explain)..repeats.  All table pixels get drawn, from top to bottom, slowly.  Then, they get redrawn with more "vivid" colors - top to bottom, slowly again.  Then a third time, etc.  Backglass is shown static on the BG monitor.  Is this supposed to happen?

I can create playfield only videos (albeit, huge - hundreds of megabytes) via NVidia GEFORCE Experience (typical method..use the recording hotkey defined in the program). 

Am attaching the log and config files.  Would appreciate any and all help as I've literally wasted days of time at this point going in circles on this and am getting absolutely nowhere.

Thanks..

log.txt PinballX.ini ScreenRes.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Could you please post a log when doing it from game manager. I tend not to test with the hotkey. Thanks,.

 

[80sBear]

Sure..is it the same log file, or a different one?

[Tom Speirs]

It might be a different one. That log you posted seems to be truncated. It could mean PinballX crashed or you didnt provide it all.

[80sBear]

Probably because it hung and I had to reboot.  I did post the entire log file..

I'll try it again, but if it hangs, I'll have to reboot and the log file will probably be truncated this next time also..

 

[80sBear]

Update..I finally got it to work by generating the videos from Game Manager.

1) Guess I didn't wait long enough for the videos to generate the first time..thought it was locked when it was just spinning on video creation.

2) Learned that you have to check "Hide Backglass" in Game Manager, or the Backglass video doesn't get generated (weird)

3) Multiple versions of a game with the same name / different version #s in Game Manager may or may not be an issue..didn't spend enough time digging into this, but when I deleted a second instance of Attack from Mars and just ran on the first / remaining instance, it worked.

So..what does "Hide Backglass" mean / do in Game Manager?  When it's checked, the Backglass still launches when the table does.  Confusing..

[80sBear]

PS: I still can't create videos from within PBX (nothing happens when I use the hotkeys), but long as I can do it repeatedly from Game Manager am good to go..

[Tom Speirs]

Hide backglass is the default. It means hide the PinballX backglass. Emulators such as visual pinball often have there own backglass. Thats all.

Ill look into the hotkeys.

[80sBear]

Ahhh..makes sense.  Thanks.