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Offline Dslmech

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Converting xLights to LOR
« on: November 27, 2016, 10:30:41 AM »
I'm going to start off by saying...I already know I need to just use xLights instead of LOR...

I'm using xLights to build my effects and the convert them to LOR sequence.  From there, I copy and paste them into my exsisting LOR file.  I've already completed several but I get to a couple of songs that I want to update and I receive an error message when trying to open the file in LOR.

The message states "An exception occurred!  Type:UTFDataFormatException, Message:invalid bytes 0, of 4-byte sequence.

Can anyone help me out?
Thanks

Offline Phrog30

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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2016, 10:57:06 AM »


...I already know I need to just use xLights instead of LOR...

So then just do it already.  ;D

Sorry, couldn't resist. I don't have any useful info for you. Hope you get it working.

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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2016, 05:54:28 AM »
Im going to have to go this route this year as well, i am just adding rgb arches to my existing lor sequences. Hope to have more time next year to completely convert to xLights


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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2016, 12:56:12 PM »



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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2016, 12:57:01 PM »
Im getting this error trying to load a converted xLights file to Lor


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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2016, 03:32:17 PM »
Sorry I don't know.  I've seen some files fail and some not from the same setup.  Hard to know what LOR doesn't like about the file.  They don't give us any help when we try to reverse engineer their file formats.

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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2016, 06:22:23 PM »
I'll keep digging then!


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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2016, 07:32:44 PM »
If post the xlights_rgbeffects.xml and sequence xml file I can try it out.

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Re: Converting xLights to LOR
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2016, 07:33:24 PM »
Helps to mention which version of LOR sequence editor you are using.