359 replies to this topic

[gtxjoe]

Make sure you are using the lav filter codec on the main Pinballx website

The autohotkey source is included in the zip. Install the autohotkey utility.

Open the Ahk file in a text editor and modify the fflmpeg lines

[wagnercaragua]

Please tell me if there is a possibility that this system will ever work with Future Pinball?

[Carny_Priest]

I have a port that supports Future Pinball. Read the thread here:

 

https://www.gameex.i...#comment-163944

[bpjacobsen]

Not sure what happened as this has been working flawlessly for a while but now when I go to record a single table, I"m getting an error stating no xml file found check pinball x path. I have the tool set to c:\pinball\pinballx which is where my pinballx is and has always been. The table was added to the xml database file which exists in the db folder of pinballx. The only thing I did was I removed my old visual pinball database file and renamed my vpx tables DB to visual pinball. Either way the DB is there and has the table in it. Did the renaming somehow screw this tool up? Hope there is a simple fix.

[gtxjoe]

Post your pbxrecorder.log file

[bpjacobsen]

Post your pbxrecorder.log file

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•  log.txt   463bytes   4 downloads

[bpjacobsen]

Lemme know if you see anything wrong. Also, does this tool also record videos for future pinball? Or just VPT/VPX tables? If not, do you know of any tool available for FP?

[bpjacobsen]

any updates on this?

[bpjacobsen]

I guess I will try direct message

Edited by bpjacobsen, 25 April 2020 - 01:57 PM.

[Oldschool4]

Lemme know if you see anything wrong. Also, does this tool also record videos for future pinball? Or just VPT/VPX tables? If not, do you know of any tool available for FP?

3rd post from top,ive set this up for future pinball recording,works fine.Read everything and follow the Instructions.

Edited by Oldschool4, 25 April 2020 - 09:01 PM.

[jejepinball]

Hi, there is an update to PBXRecorder in 1.9:
this version kills the PinUpPlayer processes (PinUpPlayer.exe and PinUpDisplay.exe) after each table capture.
 

URL : https://www.gameex.i...-images/page/2/

[sattamatka]

Just awesome.
I just love to play pinball,it's really interesting game, thanks for sharing information... See you tc

[bpjacobsen]

Getting xml file not found error when trying to record tables. It's b/c pbx seems to be pointing to an old path for the xml. Currently the path for my xml is c:\pinball\pinball x\databases\visual pinball. Then I saw that the old path was referenced in the pbxrecorder.ini file so I changed the path but still get the no xml file error. This is what the current log shows after updating the path:

 

September 24,2020 11:03:13

Version 1.6

 

Monitor Count: 1,  Primary Monitor: 1

Monitor 1: 1280x1024 (\\.\DISPLAY1)

Single File Selected:  C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\Tables\Bad Girls.vpx

 

Pinballx.ini

6

C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball

0

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

30

1

15

180

 

Identify all VP XML files...

Skipping disabled/non-VP system: .xml

 

Total number of VP systems found: 0

 

Edited by bpjacobsen, 24 September 2020 - 03:07 PM.

[wiesshund]

Did you try having PBX reconfigure itself?

[bpjacobsen]

how do I do that?

 

Also, how do I record videos in desktop mode? I'm running vpx/pbx in an arcade cab now. When I record, it creates a file but it's blank. nothing displays.

 

September 24,2020 22:52:16

Version 1.6

 

Monitor Count: 1,  Primary Monitor: 1

Monitor 1: 1280x1024 (\\.\DISPLAY1)

 

Pinballx.ini

6

C:\Pinball\PinballX

2

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

15

1

15

90

 

Identify all VP XML files...

VP System #1:

C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball\Visual Pinball.xml

C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball

C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\Tables

VPinballX.exe

 

VP System #2:

C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\\.xml

 

 

 

 

VP System #3:

C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\\.xml

 

 

 

 

VP System #4:

C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\\.xml

 

 

 

 

Skipping disabled/non-VP system: .xml

 

VP System #5:

C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\\.xml

 

 

 

 

Skipping disabled/non-VP system: .xml

 

Total number of VP systems found: 5

 

Working on Visual Pinball.xml (22:52:56)

 

Screenres.txt

1280

1024

1842

1068

2

0

0

972

550

1873

54

0

 

Values used for media capture (height/width forced to even values)

VirtualScreenWidth = 1280

TotalScreenWidth   = 4125  

PF_width           = 1280          

PF_height          = 1024         

BG_width           = 1842          

BG_height          = 1068         

DMD_width          = 972      

DMD_height         = 550        

DMD_X_offset       = 1873            

DMD_Y_offset       = 54             

-----------------------------------------

DMD_tot_offset     = 3153             

DMD_orig_width     = 972         

WARNING: Screenres.txt Playfield(1280) plus Backglass(1842) width exceeds the actual size of windows desktop (1280).  Review screenres.txt settings

 

1-2-3

 

EXAMPLE of all ffmpeg.exe commands used

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -t 1 -f gdigrab -framerate 1 -offset_x 0 -offset_y 0 -video_size 1280x1024 -i desktop -vf "transpose=1" "C:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Images\1-2-3.png"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -t 1 -f gdigrab -framerate 1 -offset_x 1280 -offset_y 0 -video_size 1842x1068 -i desktop "C:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Backglass Images\1-2-3.png"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -t 1 -f gdigrab -framerate 1 -offset_x 3153 -offset_y 54 -video_size 972x550 -i desktop "C:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\DMD Images\1-2-3.png"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -t 20 -rtbufsize 1500M -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -offset_x 0 -offset_y 0 -video_size 1280x1024 -i desktop -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -qp 0 -threads 8 "C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\playfield.mkv"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -t 20 -rtbufsize 1500M -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -offset_x 1280 -offset_y 0 -video_size 1842x1068 -i desktop -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast  -qp 0 -threads 8 "C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\bg.mkv"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -t 20 -rtbufsize 1500M -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -offset_x 3153 -offset_y 54 -video_size 972x550 -i desktop -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast  -qp 0 -threads 8 "C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\dmd.mkv"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -i "C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\playfield.mkv" -ss 5 -to 1000 -vf "transpose=1" -c:v libx264 -crf 26 "C:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Table Videos\1-2-3.f4v"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -i "C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\bg.mkv" -ss 5 -to 1000 -c:v libx264 -crf 26 "C:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Backglass Videos\1-2-3.f4v"

"C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\FFMpeg\bin\ffmpeg" -y -i "C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\dmd.mkv" -ss 5 -to 1000 -c:v libx264 -crf 26 "C:\Pinball\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\DMD Videos\1-2-3.f4v"

 

MISSING: BackGlass Video

Launching table: C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinballX.exe -DisableTrueFullscreen -play C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\Tables\1-2-3.vpx

Video and screenshot capture (22:53:25)

Recording "C:\Pinball\PBX Recorder\bg.mkv"

Convert Videos to f4v if video was captured (22:53:33)

Table done (22:53:36)

 

2 in 1

MISSING: BackGlass Video

Launching table: C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinballX.exe -DisableTrueFullscreen -play C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\Tables\2 in 1.vpx

 

[wiesshund]

Delete pbxrecorder.ini and it will make a new one and ask you where pinballX is etc

[bpjacobsen]

how do I record videos in desktop mode? It creates a file in the table videos folder but nothing displays in pbx

[wiesshund]

how do I record videos in desktop mode? It creates a file in the table videos folder but nothing displays in pbx

move the videos to the desktop tables video folder
PBX does not know what mode you are in and assumes cabinet

[bpjacobsen]

yay, that did it! had to also set rotation to 0 in the recorder options. Thanks!

[bpjacobsen]

trying to record videos but I keep running into the attached error. This is in desktop mode one monitor. Also, I noticed the tables are not closing between recordings so it's causing multiplying of dmds. Any suggestions? I really don't want to have to record one at a time. I have hundreds.

 

pbx log is attached

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•  pbx error.png   43.21KB   0 downloads

Edited by bpjacobsen, 26 October 2020 - 02:49 AM.