Media capture errors with PinballY-64bit-20240925

[11islander22]

Media capture worked fine with my previous PBY version PinballY-64bit-20220716.msi
New PBY version PinballY-64bit-20240925.msi has these issues:
Backglass media capture works with single pass capture but not with double pass capture.
Playfield capture does not work with single or double pass capture.

I have a real DMD so PBY window media capture is unavailable to test.
(Please add a media capture feature for real DMDs if possible)

Running windows 10

PBY log files attached
PinballY One Pass Media Capture.log
PinballY Two Pass Media Capture.log

[mjrgh]

I reworked the way the FFMPEG command line is set up in this release, so it might take a couple of iterations to work out the kinks. If you look at the log file, you'll see that the FFMPEG error is that your one-pass playfield capture is missing the audio device. Do you have an audio device selected in your capture settings? (Open the Options dialog, go to Capture > FFMPEG, look at the Audio Capture Device drop list). If you don't, and you've never had to set that, it should be looking for a device with the substring "stereo mix" in the name, so the next question would be if anything has changed in your hardware or Windows setup. You can check for available devices by pressing Windows+R and typing mmsys.cpl into the box, then going to the Recording panel. If there's not anything listed there with "stereo mix" somewhere in its name, PinballY won't be able to find a default device. It's possible that the device is there but got disabled without your knowledge in an automatic Windows update, so you might have to manually re-enable it. If it's listed there and marked as enabled, we might have to dig deeper into your system to figure out why PinballY isn't finding it.

[mjrgh]

I took a look at the code and I see what's going wrong with the two-pass recording. That'll require a fixed version of the .exe, but let's figure out what's wrong with the audio device first, and hopefully get the whole thing working in one shot.

[11islander22]

Mike, Thanks for your quick response. I do not have an audio device set in PBY because I only capture playfield videos without audio. This has worked with PBY up until this latest version. I don't think the ffmpeg switches in my PBY log file should reference any audio device when I specified to capture the playfield silently without audio. My audio system uses the motherboard's quad audio outputs for my four corner playfield exciters and the backbox uses a stereo USB audio stick so it is the only recording device listed in windows: ***@***.*** Thanks Dennis Miller From: mjrgh ***@***.***> Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2024 5:20 PM To: mjrgh/PinballY ***@***.***> Cc: 11islander22 ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [mjrgh/PinballY] Media capture errors with PinballY-64bit-20240925 (Issue #244) I took a look at the code and I see what's going wrong with the two-pass recording. That'll require a fixed version of the .exe, but let's figure out what's wrong with the audio device first, and hopefully get the whole thing working in one shot. - Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#244 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS5IBI34FWKUQ7KOAYTAAILZZW7IHAVCNFSM6AAAAABPKUWH6OVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDGOJSGQZTMOJYGM>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.******@***.***>>

[mjrgh]

Okay, that probably explains it - the new command line generator must be (incorrectly) including the audio source section for the video-without-audio capture. I'll take a look at that.

[mjrgh]

PinballY-x64-capture-tests-20241010.zip

I think I tracked down the audio options problem. Here's a test build that should fix that and the two-pass problem. Give it a try when you have a chance and let me know how it goes.

[M1L0S-R5]

I had same symptoms like others - video capture is broken

However, video capture works again with this test version!

[11islander22]

Both the single pass and double pass silent capture functionality work flawlessly in your test build. Thanks for resolving this issue! From: mjrgh ***@***.***> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2024 1:30 PM To: mjrgh/PinballY ***@***.***> Cc: 11islander22 ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [mjrgh/PinballY] Media capture errors with PinballY-64bit-20240925 (Issue #244) PinballY-x64-capture-tests-20241010.zip<https://github.com/user-attachments/files/17332649/PinballY-x64-capture-tests-20241010.zip> I think I tracked down the audio options problem. Here's a test build that should fix that and the two-pass problem. Give it a try when you have a chance and let me know how it goes. - Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#244 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS5IBI3DKB5WWAJZNAJI273Z23BQXAVCNFSM6AAAAABPKUWH6OVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDIMBVG44DAMRZGI>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.******@***.***>>

[mjrgh]

Great, glad to hear that fixed it! Hopefully there aren't any more broken combinations of options still lurking, but if you run into any other similar errors, let me know. I'll put together a new full release with the fixes soon.