Recorder not recording table, instead the backglass. Recording wrong screen

[wrd1972]

I will set the record time to something lower for troubleshooting purposes. I am currently running the latest ffmpeg, and that eliminated the black screen recordings from a couple days ago. I am also runnin .50 of PBX. I will keep trying things.

[wrd1972]

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[Tom Speirs]

Sorry If you felt I thought you were a nuisance. Not at all. I have my moments but generally enjoy this stuff.

[Tom Speirs]

Here. Try the release build on this page.

https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/

Not that it couldnt be PinballX but i think ffmpeg is not closing. Is it in task manager?

[wrd1972]

Just installed the above recorder. Same exact issue. It recorded 4 tables correctly, but froze at the point it should have moved onto the 5th table.

 

Where can I see in the task manager, ffmpeg active when its recording. I will watch it and verify thats its closing out like it should.

 

Could this be a bug as a result of the recent fix you made when PBX would not exit an active table? This fix was made about a week or two ago, and you can find the discussion on that one in a separate thread. With that issue, some tables would exit, and some would not.

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[Draco1962]

Does it seem to freeze on specific or random tables? If specific, what tables?

[wrd1972]

Finally, Maybe a nugget of usefulness. I deselected a slew of VPM tables in the manager so that a bunch of EM tables would record. And what do you know, no hangs.

 

After 12 successful recordings and as soon as it reached the first VPM table, it hangs. I dont think this is a coincidence because I have performed dozens of tests and I have not had a success rate greater than 4 -5 tables before the hangs - possible on all, or maybe only a select number of VPM tables.

 

I now believe that this issue could possible trace back to the issue with PBX not returning to the browser after exiting certain VPM tables. As a reminder, it was only certain VPM tables that had that issue, not all.

 

I am going to rerun this exact same test again now and see if I get the same result, then perform an even larger amount of EM recordings to firm-up on this theory.

 

EDIT: This test was performed with 6.23 which was the rev that addressed the issue of not returning to the PBX browser when exiting a table.

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[wrd1972]

Well shit!!! I ran the exact same test as above, even with the exact same table recordings. It recorded one VPM table, then hung on the very next NON-VPM tablet. This is the crazy randomness I have been screaming about.  BTW, this is still using 6.23.

 

I am now going to revert back to 6.50 and see if I see similar results.

 

Also, I found where ffmpeg appears in the task manager when its active. What I am seeing I would "consider" normal behavior. I can see it go active, and the turn off each time. I see no evidence of a hanging issue with ffmpeg, but I am now expert in this area.

 

Just think out loud. As I have already mentioned, the issue seems to be with the hand-off from ffmpeg back to PBX, or maybe the handoff of VP10 back to PBX. I ASSume there are timers in these areas. Any chance a timer is causing this? Could a timer bee too short? Again, no expert here.

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[wrd1972]

Just installed 6.50, and only 3 successful recordings on the exact same table set.  This is much less than I was seeing on 6.23.

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[wrd1972]

Same exact test, saw 8 successful recordings. I dont fucking know what to make of any of this with all of the randomness. I am done trying shit on my own, but I will try revs you guys post up here and see what happens. Thanks again for addressing it. Hope the feedback I have provided has helped a little.

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[Tom Speirs]

I understand the frustration. Thanks for trying. When you get back to it maybe try PBXRecorder. I hear good things.

Happy New Year!

 

PS:  I will take a look.

[Tom Speirs]

i realise your burnt out with it but you can specify the hardware encoder in 6.51. Set it to what you have and try the software option.

I attach my ffmpeg.exe which works for me.

ffmpeg.zip

[Tom Speirs]

6.52 should also timeout on the ffmpeg process after 3 times the recording time.

So hopefully everything is covered now.

[wrd1972]

Okay I will in a bit. I have been playing with PBXR and it has yet to hang like I have been seeing. Of course it threw a wrench at me and I have to jump through a few hoops to get it to do what I want. Not sure if this rules out weird shit with my PC or not as being the cause for the hangs.

 

I will try in about a half hour.

[Tom Speirs]

Great. Thanks. If pbxrecorder works im thinking it is the nvidia encode that is giving you issues. If so try the software encode option.

[wrd1972]

Okay I installed 6.52. It recorded 15 tables successfully, but hung before proceeding to number 16. Attached is the encoder setting that was in use:

 

I am 99% confident there is not a hanging issue on PBXR. What now?

[Tom Speirs]

Try setting the encoder to software.

Also please try my ffmpeg above.

[wrd1972]

Okay. Give me about 20 minutes to test.

[wrd1972]

Okay. I set the encoder to SW, and installed the ffmpeg.exe you provided.

 

It successfully recorded 6 tables, and then hung prior to the 7th. Log below.

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[Tom Speirs]

Weird. Please try 6.53 and post the log.

Give it a chance to timeout.

Thanks.

[wrd1972]

I will in the morning. Thanks for the continued efforts.

[wrd1972]

Okay. It looks like its working completely as expected. It recorded a hundred tables or so with no hangs. The videos are correctly oriented with no weirdness. I will now put things back to normal for the final recordings which I will do today. So whatever you did in 54, it seemed to work. But dont let Draco close this out yet  . I will give an update in the next day or two.

 

BTW, what was the problem and should I still use the ffmpeg.exe you provided yesterday? Assuming yes.

 

 

[Tom Speirs]

I am not 100% sure. Could you please post a log, so i can see?

[wrd1972]

Okay there is a glitch. I recorded the following:

 

It looks like ACDC, ALI, and Alien Star might be corrupt. The recordings are solid black. All the others look fine. When I try to view ACDC with WMP, I get this error. Log below. I am now going to try to record onlky those two again now.

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[wrd1972]

Just tried recording those three again. Its a solid black screen when viewed through the PBX browser. These table appear perfectly fine on the TV. Another weird one here I guess. Log for those three recordings below.

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