xschedule videos

[Ken Collins]

so, using videos through an actual projector, when played through xschedule the video doesn't actually start. it strobes on the xschedule video display screen, and on the projector screen, like its trying to start, but not quite kicking into gear. used videos for several years, and never had this problem before.  mp4 videos, ,1080 resolution,
2019.65 version. know they were having challenges with this version, wondering if this is part of it.

[Ken Collins]

Downloaded v.66 this a.m., and wile it fixed the player window issue (thanks Keith), I still suffer the video strobe. like its trying unsuccessfully to open the player..
Any Idea's?

[Gilrock]

Have you turned off the Video Hardware Decoding?  I know its a setting in xLights that caused issues just not sure if its also used in xScheduler.

[Ken Collins]

well that sounds like some entertaining research... thanks Gil

[Gilrock]

Just look under the Settings menu.  I assume xScheduler has the same menu.

[Ken Collins]

no settings menu in xscheduler, and looks like still a issue with it. I can add an fseq, but not a video file, nor can I access a video file in a previously established playlist, or one I had built before having this issue.
the video flicker/strobe started after updating to v.65, and I droped back to v.64 and still had the strobe.   

[keithsw1111]

There is a settings menu item with a whole page of settings including turning off hardware video decoding.

[Gilrock]

Yep I had to switch to xScheduler last night and noticed what I was trying to point you to is under Edit -> Options.  It always good to spend a few minutes looking at all the menu items.

[Ken Collins]

Thanks Gil, thought I had, but it had been several hours in front of this screen, with several frustrating interruptions.
I'll check it out

[Ken Collins]

Thank you Gil, thank you Keith
I unchecked it and that solved it

[jamesssydney]

I couldn't find Video Hardware Decoding, but did find #Use Hardware Accelerated video. I've turned this off and the video plays on my monitor (1920x1080) no problems, but when I move to my data projector which has a resolution of 3840x2160 the video is very slow and jumpy.

Any idea on how to fix this?

Cheers James

[jamesssydney]

Further to my post below if I leave the video window size at (1920x1080) and play on the data projector it plays fine. As soon as I make the screen it bigger it slows down jumps.