Video Effect not Working in my latest version of Xlights

[Scabal]

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.

[keithsw1111]

Try turning off hardware video decoding.

[Scabal]

Try turning off hardware video decoding.
[I did it but it's all black or blank.]

[keithsw1111]

You may need to purge render cache and render all as well.

[Scabal]

I did all that, but all I get is garbage graphics.

[keithsw1111]

Maybe package your sequence and we can see if anything else is screwed up.

[Scabal]

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.

[keithsw1111]

Tools menu

[Scabal]

ok Keith, here is my package sequence.  Thanks for all of your help.

[pm3klb]

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. 

[Scabal]

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.

[allknowing2012]

Sometimes it is "simply" the codec that the video is encoded with. So either a different save format or re-encoded.

[Scabal]

Thanks everyone for the tip.  I converted my file to mp4 240p, so now it works.

[keithsw1111]

Yeah that video i strange but I have fixed our video reader to handle it.