[RESOLVED] Promo and Tutorial videos are rotated 90 degrees to the left

[SixOfTwelve]

Hey guys, I haven't visited and updated in a while, life got in the way as it sometimes does. I guess my last version was 5.55.

A few days ago I upgraded to 6.01, and now I noticed that my promo and tutorial videos are rotated 90 degrees to the left and cut off at the top.

Attached are the usual files, plus a screenshot of me running a promo video. Strangely enough, the timer is displayed in the right place.

My monitor dimensions are:

Playfield 1920x1080

Backglass 1600x1200

DMD 1280x720

Everything is set to landscape mode and 100% scaling. Running Windows 10. Table videos are running just fine.

Help is much appreciated...

 

EDIT 1: Temporarily reinstated my backup of V5.55, and the videos are displayed correctly. So I can rule out a Windows Update or graphics driver issues as the culprit. When I went back to 6.01 the videos were messed up again.

 

EDIT 2: I did a bit more testing and found out that ONLY those videos seem to get rotated that are WIDER than they are high. Like a promo or tutorial video downloaded from YouTube at a 4:3 or 16:9 ratio will get rotated, but something that was filmed in portrait mode, like some of the PAPA tutorial videos, and is consequently rendered in 9:16 ratio, will play correctly. I guess that's also why my table videos are all displayed properly, since most of them are recorded at a resolution of 1080x1920. My guess is that this version of PinballX assumes that all videos should be higher than they are wide, and tries to overcorrect.

 

EDIT 3: Also, I haven't been able to find information as to what exactly is new in version 6.01. Could anyone point me towards the info please?

 

PinballX.ini log.txt

[SixOfTwelve]

Before I add another EDIT to the original post...

 

I played around a bit with installing different versions of PinballX, and I think I've narrowed the error down to the transition from 5.83 to 5.84.

The release notes state

"Detecting aspect ratio of playfield videos is now done using the actual aspect ratio rather than video size."

Again, I suspect this may have led to videos that have more width than height being rotated.

For reference, this is what the promo video should look like on my playfield:

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

@Tom Speirs anything you can do ?

[Tom Speirs]

Ive seen this. Ill look. I think this is due to some changes made a while back so pinballx could go beyond hyperpin rotated flipped videos. Im a little busy next few weeks so please be patient. Thanks, Tom.

[Tom Speirs]

I had a look. It looks right to me in the code. Those videos are handled as if they are not rotated,. Where did you get the videos from? Are any of them rotated?

Ill properly test now though.

[Tom Speirs]

I can see something is up when testing. Working on it.

[Tom Speirs]

Its fixed. Uploading 6.02 shortly. 

6.01 was a fix for real DMD's.

Thanks for letting me know about it.

[SixOfTwelve]

On 9/18/2023 at 4:27 AM, Tom Speirs said:

I had a look. It looks right to me in the code. Those videos are handled as if they are not rotated,. Where did you get the videos from? Are any of them rotated?

Ill properly test now though.

Thanks for looking into it.

I downloaded most of the promo and tutorial videos from YouTube with 4K Video Downloader.

[SixOfTwelve]

On 9/18/2023 at 4:52 AM, Tom Speirs said:

Its fixed. Uploading 6.02 shortly. 

6.01 was a fix for real DMD's.

Thanks for letting me know about it.

 

Thank YOU for your work.

I'll have a look at the new version later today after I get home from work.

[Mike_da_Spike]

1 hour ago, SixOfTwelve said:

Thanks for looking into it.

I downloaded most of the promo and tutorial videos from YouTube with 4K Video Downloader.

Maybe you can share your collection as well (on FTP). 

I don't use promo and tutorials, but always handy to have them stored somewhere 

56 minutes ago, SixOfTwelve said:

 

Thank YOU for your work.

I'll have a look at the new version later today after I get home from work.

You won't leave work and going home directly ??  Tom did all this effort for you .

[SixOfTwelve]

@Tom Speirs: It's working beautifully now. Thank you so much!

I tried donating a yearly membership, but it looks like I can only pay by credit card (which I don't have). Any chance of PayPal?

 

@Mike_da_Spike: The FTP is a good idea, maybe it'll be useful to someone. It may take a bit of time though, as my VPin only has a crappy WiFi connection, and the videos are 120 GB all in all...

[Tom Speirs]

Sorry, PayPal decided of there own accord to cancel my account about 11 months a go.

I heard about something some time ago about a cultural German thing with being allergic to credit cards I think!

Not a problem. It all costs more than I make from it but life is short.

Perhaps you can contribute to make up for it.

Thanks

Tom.

[SixOfTwelve]

On 9/21/2023 at 12:13 PM, Tom Speirs said:

Perhaps you can contribute to make up for it.

Well, it took a while, but I uploaded my current complete collection of Promo and Tutorial videos to the FTP server. The files are in -PinballX-\Other Uploads\SixOfTwelve. Have a look and see if there's anything you like.

Share and enjoy!

[Tom Speirs]

Awesome. Thank you.