Kaleo

@Tom Speirs: You're right, it's ok for me. If the recording is working well, I can deal with the rotation in post treatement. Anyway, as I said, Recording with Windows 10 (Win+G) work really well also. You're right here too. Even if a powerfull program is able to do both. -> Note that I don't ask for this. Once again, it's ok now for me, thanks. Regards.

You're right. The reason is that most FS tables (VP9,PhysMod,VPX) have a rotation of 270° according to the normal landscape orientation. 180° at start (before Pinballx start, "reverse landscape") put my display in the "standard" orientation for Visual Pinball (as my screen/TV is turned at 180° in my pincab, sorry I missed this point when I builded it, I can't change until I build a new one (in project)). Setting.exe rotates PinballX at 270°... like all my FullScreen Visual Pinball tables and everybody is in the good orientation for me. If I stop using the Pincab and go back to the PC, the orientation of the display was 180°(reverse landscape), so I change it to 270°(reverse portrait) and all is ok. The other way would be: turn the screen at 270° at the begining (PC mode for me), turn Pinballx à 90°(easy to do), change the parameters (XY Rotation, X scale, Y scale, offsets...) of all my tables (maybe not VPX? But shure for VP9 and PhysMod, and this is not easy to do). I think here, you have the all story

Your head turns to much? In fact, It is not "Rotate", it is the orientation. So, on windows startup, I rotate the screen for pinball (180°=reverse landscape) and on exit, I rotate to 270°(reverse portrait) to have my screen right to work as PC.

In fact, this is what I do with display.exe. [StartupProgram] Enabled=True WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Disp Executable=display.exe Paramaters= HideWindow=true WaitForExit=True Parameters=/device:2 /rotate:180

It's because my screen is 180° from standard pincab. So I turn PinballX 180° at the beginning. I can deal with this. In the time, I found a better way to record good quality video -> embedded windows 10/Xbox recording app -> Win+G. It produce big but good files. I can compress them in a second time. Regards, Kaléo.

Hi, Yes! It's working with GPU off, even if I see in log a line with h264_nvenc. Maybe it is not called. You're right, in my case the rotation is not good. As I said, for our many pincab configurations it would be good to be able to change manully the settings (an advanced++ mode?). Isn't it the purpose of PinballX to fit all Pincab? It would also enable users to change encoder for futur improvements without hardcore changes in pinballx. For now, my video are not fluid. This is not related to pinballx but to my computer. I will try to find the best balance bitween fps and quality. Many thanks for this work. (think about this :-) ? -> log.txt Kaléo.

Hi, the strange thing is that even without GPU option, it try h264_nvenc for the playfield... and not for the backglass. Thanks for your efforts. Kaléo. log.txt PinballX.ini

Unfortunately, it solve the problem... sometime, and somtime not. 15:19:36.11 19/04/2020: PinballX - Version 4.24 x64 15:19:36.34 19/04/2020: Windows 10 Famille 64 bits (8GB) 15:19:36.35 19/04/2020: Loading Settings 15:19:36.37 19/04/2020: Launching Startup Program: display.exe 15:19:36.38 19/04/2020: C:\Program Files (x86)\Disp\display.exe /device:2 /rotate:180 15:19:36.76 19/04/2020: Initialize Component 15:19:36.95 19/04/2020: Initialize Display 15:19:37.48 19/04/2020: Testing Flash engine. 15:19:39.25 19/04/2020: Loading PlugIns 15:19:39.53 19/04/2020: Loaded Plugin:"DirectOutput PinballX Plugin" Version 1 By Swisslizard 15:19:44.30 19/04/2020: PlugIn: "DirectOutput PinballX Plugin" Initialized OK 15:19:44.31 19/04/2020: Using Plugin System Version: 1 15:19:44.60 19/04/2020: Created DirectX BackGlass Window 15:19:44.61 19/04/2020: Looking for startup images 15:19:44.87 19/04/2020: Hiding Cursor 15:19:44.90 19/04/2020: Hiding Taskbar 15:19:44.93 19/04/2020: Getting GPU and CPU Information 15:19:44.97 19/04/2020: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz 15:19:44.98 19/04/2020: 4 cores, 4 threads 15:19:44.98 19/04/2020: GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 200 Series 15:19:44.99 19/04/2020: Displays: 2 15:19:45.00 19/04/2020: Load Game List 15:19:45.10 19/04/2020: Loading Database: Pinball FX3 15:19:45.16 19/04/2020: Loading Database: Visual Pinball 15:19:45.17 19/04/2020: Loading Database: Visual Pinball Phys Mod 15:19:45.19 19/04/2020: Loading Database: Visual Pinball X 15:19:45.21 19/04/2020: Initial load gamelist took: 109ms 15:19:45.31 19/04/2020: Finding and matching artwork and videos 15:19:45.82 19/04/2020: Took: 500ms 15:19:45.83 19/04/2020: Loading Game Statistics and Scores 15:19:45.87 19/04/2020: Real DMD Initialized 15:19:45.90 19/04/2020: Main display running full screen windowed. 15:19:45.97 19/04/2020: Loading Surfaces 15:19:46.10 19/04/2020: Finished Loading Surfaces 15:19:46.11 19/04/2020: Initialize Audio 15:19:46.20 19/04/2020: Set Keyboard Controls 15:19:46.22 19/04/2020: Initialize Joystick 15:19:46.38 19/04/2020: 3 Joysticks Attached 15:19:46.39 19/04/2020: Started 15:19:46.68 19/04/2020: Launch System 15:19:46.70 19/04/2020: Hide DMD 15:19:46.71 19/04/2020: Hide Backglass 15:19:46.72 19/04/2020: Waiting for threads 15:19:47.06 19/04/2020: Disposing display 15:19:47.80 19/04/2020: C:\Visual Pinball\VPinball99_PhysMod5.exe /play -"C:\Visual Pinball\TablesPhysMod\Star Wars Shoopity PhysMod.vpt" 15:19:47.92 19/04/2020: C:\PinballX\vpauto.exe 15:20:08.60 19/04/2020: Visual Pinball Player window foreground 15:20:10.20 19/04/2020: Recording videos 15:21:06.07 19/04/2020: Playfield video driver capture failure 15:21:06.11 19/04/2020: FFMPEG.exe -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -offset_x 0 -offset_y 0 -video_size 1920x1080 -t 00:00:45 -i desktop -c:v h264_nvenc -an -rc vbr_hq -qmin 0 -cq 20 -b:v 8000k -maxrate:v 24000k -pix_fmt yuv420p -movflags +faststart "C:\PinballX\MEDIA\Visual Pinball Phys Mod\Table Videos\Star Wars Shoopity PhysMod.mp4" 15:21:07.96 19/04/2020: Playfield video capture failure 15:21:07.98 19/04/2020: Backglass video already exists. Not recording. 15:21:08.04 19/04/2020: Exit System Control Pressed 15:21:17.40 19/04/2020: Exiting 15:21:17.49 19/04/2020: Showing Taskbar 15:21:17.50 19/04/2020: Unhiding Mouse Cursor 15:21:17.53 19/04/2020: Launching Exit Program: display.exe 15:21:17.54 19/04/2020: C:\Program Files (x86)\Disp\display.exe /device:2 /rotate:270 15:21:17.57 19/04/2020: Disposing Plugins 15:21:17.59 19/04/2020: Saving Settings 15:21:17.63 19/04/2020: Waiting for Online Thread 15:21:22.49 19/04/2020: Bye Moreover, when it's ok: - the recording now consider the good size of my rotated screen... but for my pincab it is recorded at 180° :-( - recording playfield launch a dialogbox in my table asking for adding or removing a ball (????) According to the diversity of our computers, it would be definitly interesting to be able to tweak the parameters, Pinballx could offer some standard settings that we could change, in the setting app or in an ini file for exemple. Kaléo

No, it's not working like that, or there was an error while I installed pinballx. I never had an NVidia card. log.txt says: 22:54:22.75 18/04/2020: GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 200 Series 22:54:22.76 18/04/2020: Displays: 2 ... 22:54:25.81 18/04/2020: C:\PinballX\vpauto.exe 22:54:58.58 18/04/2020: Recording videos 22:55:01.26 18/04/2020: FFMPEG.exe -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -offset_x 0 -offset_y 0 -video_size 1920x1080 -t 00:00:45 -i desktop -c:v h264_nvenc -an -qp 21 -pix_fmt yuv420p -movflags +faststart "C:\PinballX\MEDIA\Visual Pinball X\Table Videos\RollerGames (Williams 1990) VPX 1.01a.mp4" 22:55:02.73 18/04/2020: Playfield video capture failure 22:55:02.76 18/04/2020: Backglass video already exists. Not recording. ... So I tried this command lines and of course it said: Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (bmp (native) -> h264 (h264_nvenc)) Press [q] to stop, [?] for help [h264_nvenc @ 000002086aadf780] Cannot load nvcuda.dll Error initializing output stream 0:0 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height Conversion failed! If I change h264_nvenc in the command line, it's ok. is it serious Doctor? More over, it would be good to be able to set all parameters as for rotated screens, video_size is wrong. Kaléo.

Hi all, For the embedded "Create videos" feature, I would like to know how to change the default ffmpeg codec "h264_nvenc" to, for exemple, "libx264" because I don't have an Nvidia gpu so h264_nvenc can't work for me. Regards, Kaléo

Please, add separated "Exit Program" possibilities for PinballX Exit and another one for Windows Shutdown Post -> Thanks a lot. Kaléo.

@scutters: You're right, this is working... on windows 10 versions over than the familly one that I have :-( @Draco1962: Using Pinscape, I can send an IR command to shutdown my TV screens. It does not physically cut the power but they are shutdown. Otherwise, they still on, with a "no signal" message for some minutes, unless I cut the general power supply. This is what I would improve. I'm affraid that your last suggestion will not work. Thanks anyway for your feedback. Regards, Kaléo.

@Mike_da_Spike: no because this exit command line don't make the difference between "exit pinballx" and "shutdown windows". My scripts are differents in each cases. If you know how to send this information (exit or shutdown) to a script/batch/program by the command line, I'm interessed in. @Draco1962: of course there is many hardware solutions. My purpose was to enhance pinballx and do it for free. Thanks for your interest. Kaléo.

Hi Draco1962, of course they had this ability. I don't ask this for any windows shutdown but only for them launch by PinballX. So Pinballx could launch a program/script, wait X ms, and launch the windows shutdown as it do it actually. Draco, can you move this subject to the Feature Request forum or do you prefer me to do another one? Regards, Kaléo.

Hi all, I'm really happy with PinballX but I miss a feature: To be able to launch separate sricpts/programs on PinballX exit and Windows Shutdown. "Why do you want to do this, you don't need it" -> Yes I do! When I exit from PinballX to Windows, I have a script to rotate my display (it works fine today) When I directly shutdown windows, I would like to be able to send IR command to shutdown my screens before. (I can't do it with PinballX today, nor Windows 10 familly) Do you think this could be an interesting new feature? Regards, Kaléo.