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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Playing video with sequence

« on: April 02, 2019, 01:41:22 PM »

Thanks, I must be a little slow, I kept trying to resize the playing window. You have to resize the window when you position it. Kinda like learning you need to press 'T' for the timing mark.

:-)

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Playing video with sequence

« on: April 02, 2019, 03:04:00 AM »

So this is in xlights schedule on windows.

http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=3780.msg23749#msg23749

This thread says that if you right click on the video it will go full screen. It also says that there is a move mode in the play list to make if full screen. Can't find the settings for this.

Enclosed is a screen shot of xlights. The video is 720x576 pixels.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Playing video with sequence

« on: April 01, 2019, 09:57:50 PM »

I wanted to play a full screen video with a sequence. In the play list I can add the video with the sequence, but it only allows me to play it in a window positioned on the screen.

Thanks

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Video output mode

« on: October 03, 2018, 08:46:57 PM »

So I really don't consider myself a vendor. I am only involved with one item for sale on the Renard-Shop, and it is basically to help build the 4 output controller. The rest is all done by the store, with no profit for me and a couple dollars for the store. I have done quite a few things over the last couple of year

1 - First with a 32 output pixel controller, and probably the first guy to figure out it was a dumb idea. Please use smaller controllers.
2 - First with pixels extenders as part of the controller
3 - Only guy doing power over Ethernet to drive pixels
4 - Completed my first led matrix controller supporting E131, while everyone was fiddling with the beagle bone.
5 - First guy to support 16to1 (or P5) LED matrix's.
6 - First guy to design pixel board for the PI, two other vendors are selling variations, one is the exact board.
7 - First guy with a PI led matrix board.
8 - Had gamma correction in my controllers before it showed up in xlights. A must for LED panels and nice fades, hint 2.22.
9 - First guy to do daisy chain-able Ethernet for controllers.
10 - My controllers will support 100 hertz update rates, will yours?

Not sure all of my claims are correct, but I have am clearly pushing designs by all that I have supported. I do this as a hobby. My goal is to push the forum towards the future.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Video output mode

« on: October 01, 2018, 09:49:01 PM »

Yeah, it's the same Ron as ronsholidaylights. I developed HDMI to Ethernet converter a couple years ago, but it didn't go anywhere. Now Falcon is having problems with his P5 panel with both a beagle bone and one of my panel controllers. It seemed like it was time to bring this up again, since the P5 panels will make channel counts pretty large. This is basically a product I want, so I am ok with it all being open source. The idea is to move you guys toward how the large video displays are done.

I really like the idea of a single high performance output converter, kinda like the color light stuff. But with the ability to drive both the pixel controllers as well as the panels. I am pretty much offering free engineering to design a open source standard/platform for the community. Selling stuff does really interest me too much, that's why my stuff is sold by the renard-shop.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Video output mode

« on: September 30, 2018, 09:04:33 PM »

Good discussion. These can be built for around $40, and I already have built two. It would be a HDMI input port with 1-6 Ethernet 100Mbit output ports. The card would show up as an additional monitor to your computer. You would just play a video and the hardware would strip the data from the computer display data and output as Ethernet multicast pixels. The one I did supported 640x480 at 60 hertz, but the chip supports up to 1080i.

The format can be whatever the forum decides, for example from each pixel on the display:

0x00 00 00 - null
0xFE FA 20 - frame sync
0xAA AA AA - Ethernet multicast address
0x01 01 01 - RGB pixel data #1
0x02 02 02 - RGB pixel data #2
. . .
0x03 03 03 - RGB pixel data #170 (repeat)

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Video output mode

« on: September 30, 2018, 07:12:27 PM »

It is not really about driving lots of pixels, it is more about accepting mediocre. I want stale bread, a grisly steak, flat beer. What we have works, but it is just OK. So if I went and bought a monitor I would accept a 20/40 hertz refresh rate? If you put a scope on the Ethernet port of a PI or computer you will see jitter on the Ethernet data. Why would we not move to a better output device that would have exceptionally low jitter, accurate timing and support higher refresh rates like our monitors. Say I have 120 pixels on my roof line, a curtain effect at 20 hertz over one second would turn on 6 lights at a time, and 40 hertz would be 3 at a time. If I cut the time in half for a fast beat, it just gets worse. Why wouldn't I want an output to support 60/80/100 hertz refresh rates?

If you look at the professional software "Madrix", it supports video output, why would we not move toward the same thing professionals use? 

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Enhancement Requests / Video output mode

« on: September 29, 2018, 09:58:31 PM »

While I am dreaming, eventually you will have to support HDMI/DVI/Display port to Ethernet to really handle pixel output properly. This is how the large matrix displays are driven, and don't tell me to use multiple pi's.

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Enhancement Requests / Sub-pixel rendering

« on: September 29, 2018, 09:55:37 PM »

Not sure if you guys are doing this. But the text when scrolled is a little jerky. If you did sub-pixel rendering and apply the text across more than one pixel it would smooth out the movement.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Crashes multiple times - cut/paste

« on: October 09, 2017, 02:21:07 PM »

Seems to have settle down and now I can edit for more than a minute or two.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Crashes multiple times - cut/paste

« on: October 08, 2017, 09:11:39 PM »

Just editing the file, group delete, cut/paste mostly.

Seems to be crashing on some but not others of my files from last year, tried multiple versions of xlights with same results. Currently using 2017.30, 64bit.

Also, have deleted and modified some of the props for this year.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Video & Sound Sync

« on: September 09, 2016, 06:27:59 PM »

Perfect, converted the AVI to MP4 using hand break and the timing is great. Thanks for your help.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Video & Sound Sync

« on: September 09, 2016, 03:44:44 PM »

Gil, yours plays just like mine. Maybe I am being too picky, but at the end of the video when the red bulb breaks you hear the sound before the bulb is actually dropped. The sound is out of sequence. If you play just the video it is timed correctly.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Video & Sound Sync

« on: September 08, 2016, 08:14:26 PM »

So, yes my computer is pathetic, but it has a solid state hard drive.

I also ran my show on my PI 2 (quad core), with the same results. While I was running the PI, I checked the output rate and found that it was running at other than 25mS. I don't understand the reason for the running faster at 20mS, I would expect a slower rate when having issues. My show is only 47,031 channels spread across 152 universes.

See enclosed picture. I am still a fan of an universal hardware output to drive the shows.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Video & Sound Sync

« on: September 07, 2016, 09:49:52 PM »

Out of sync both in simulation and when playing out computer Ethernet port.