sundogak

Thanks, appreciate all the work on your plug-ins including this one. The bulk add and software list plugins are great as well. I agree on the VR aspect. The hybrid tables are somewhat new animal so likely they will improve on speed over time. The VPW group that does them does good job on physics and graphics which is why downloaded initially (plus comes up in Discord feed so new..means better right?!) The normalizing is a cool deal and hope they incorporate into the main ffmpeg code at some point. Right now you have to do in two stages if doing anything else requiring encoding. Here is are some snips of the simpler code parts for the fade in/out and the logo only fade in/out without the trim/rescaling in the other I posted. With your coding skills and the LB APIs the input for the names would be much simpler since known input versus a match setup. I also attached the master batch file I have which is where married all the above into one big blob....designed for my logic...and not a coders! Each individual function was fairly straight forward but once start getting into chaining filter graphs it was major pain, particularly if the video input was variable length vs fixed (client scope creep and I was the client!). Master Script.zip

The slow tables tend to be some of the dual VR/non-VR tables. Although don't use VR myself and script has VR turned off, it still seems they churn extra code. Most times as you said 20 seconds is plenty for majority of tables (and can always adjust via XML for oddballs). Messed with plugin a bit today, seems to get the backglass on my second screen without problem (minus the DMD). I only have dual screen setup in desktop orientation most times (to lazy to rotate screen) and BG and DMD on second screen. For the DMD recording, is the assumption that the DMD be on screen #3? I don't get a separate DMD recording either for PinMAME DMDs (Ver 3.4) or Virtual DMD (freezy DMDEXT 1.9) on any table I have tried. Only time I see a DMD in a plugin video is if in desktop orientation for playfield and the DMD was coded into the script of the table (but still no separate DMD video). Any DMD placed on top of the BG or playfield screen (if desktop orientation) does not show in table video or BG video. Suspect that is function of gdigrab getting either the B2S or VPX window only so wouldn't capture the DMD window on the playfield/BG video. Not huge issue since not sure what I would do with the DMD videos anyway on my setup (maybe for PinballX but rarely run that). On normalizing, a quick test of the table "24" (attached, with fade/logo). It seems a bit louder normalized (to YouTube/Spotify baseline) than one out of plugin but would be hard pressed to tell unless did side by side (i.e., NOT that bad) plus if everything is out of the plugin they will be consistent. Originally I started the DOS batch script (I am not a coder) to clean up some packs of table videos I had for Future Pinball which were different lengths...vastly different loudness levels, etc. Also, the normalizing routine is unfortunately not part of the ffmpeg build and needs to call a python script....so not plug and play. Yeah, the logos are clear logos, although in theory could use a JPG since ffmpeg doesn't care. Script looks for png the same name as the video and uses ffmpeg to overlay at end of video. Once start getting into complex filters it got to be headache figuring out since makes for a gory command line (particularly since had trim functions). I did all my FX3 and TPA videos with end logos but not sure if will bother on VPX. LB merrily renamed much of my standardized naming for clear logos relative to the tables. I wish the poll item "name media same as ROM" would get some love. So will have to wait until I am procrastinating on something I need to do for work! 😎 24.mp4

Thanks for adding the sound option and the cool features in 2.0. That makes it (for me) the go to plugin to tackle the video snaps for VP. I had mostly finished Future Pinball, FX3, and TPA the manual way but it took forever and had been avoiding dealing with VP. The backglass and DMD options are great too, need to test those out. I have a ffmpeg script that does a short fade in/out, normalizes audio, adds a png logo and trims the video (not needed with this plugin) but needed to have the source videos dumped to a folder first to do its thing... so this plugin will help on that step. Not super critical, but a bit longer option on delay time beyond 30 secs would be helpful (~45 secs maybe). Some tables seem to take forever to get loaded. Bonus points for an "improve player skill" option since never fails I immediately become super lame while recording....immortalized on video for all to see!