Sean Meighan

Software => Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker => Topic started by: Scabal on November 11, 2019, 12:47:53 AM

Title: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: Scabal on November 11, 2019, 12:47:53 AM
Hi, I am having problem with the video effect on latest version of xlights.  When I choose a video file for my video effect, it does not show up on my matrix.  Am I the only one having this problem with the latest version?  If so, what am I doing wrong?  Thanks for your help.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: keithsw1111 on November 11, 2019, 03:43:19 AM
Try turning off hardware video decoding.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: Scabal on November 11, 2019, 12:01:11 PM
Try turning off hardware video decoding.
[I did it but it's all black or blank.]
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: keithsw1111 on November 11, 2019, 12:15:41 PM
You may need to purge render cache and render all as well.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: Scabal on November 12, 2019, 01:49:35 PM
I did all that, but all I get is garbage graphics.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: keithsw1111 on November 13, 2019, 01:13:11 PM
Maybe package your sequence and we can see if anything else is screwed up.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: Scabal on November 14, 2019, 02:57:40 PM
Hi.  I'm sorry, but can you tell me how to go about packaging the sequence!  I'm not familiar with how to do it.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: keithsw1111 on November 14, 2019, 04:08:57 PM

Tools menu
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: Scabal on November 15, 2019, 12:33:35 AM
ok Keith, here is my package sequence.  Thanks for all of your help.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: pm3klb on November 15, 2019, 03:29:00 PM
I wanted to take a look at this to see if I could see the issue.  I think the problem is with your video file.  1 it is either to large for the size of your matrix or 2 it is corrupted.  I grabbed one of my mp4 file save at 240p and I was able to get it to render and play on your setup.  I don't normally use AVI files I almost always use mp4's.  I hope that helps. 
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: Scabal on November 16, 2019, 12:53:51 AM
Thanks for the tip.  I've used avi files last year with last year version of xlights and it work just fine.  And I am able to play sequences that contains avi files that were done with older version of xlights.  I will try to convert the file to mp4 to see if it will work.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: allknowing2012 on November 16, 2019, 06:13:58 AM
Sometimes it is "simply" the codec that the video is encoded with. So either a different save format or re-encoded.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: Scabal on November 16, 2019, 12:22:28 PM
Thanks everyone for the tip.  I converted my file to mp4 240p, so now it works.
Title: Re: Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights
Post by: keithsw1111 on November 17, 2019, 02:04:52 AM
Yeah that video i strange but I have fixed our video reader to handle it.