I've been working with a hand-coded CSV file for a group of HD1010s. To answer the obvious question of, "why aren't you doing this in BrightAuthor," well, I've managed to get BrightAuthor to work exactly once. Something about how it thinks and how I think just doesn't mesh, and especially for this project, tinkering around with a couple of cards, it's been quick and easy to be able to load the CSV file in vi, make changes, and reboot.
Anyway, things have been going fairly smoothly, until I suppose it was my fault. The three players have different files of the same length. They sit on a still frame (which was black,) and then when everybody is ready, a controller sends a UDP command for all players to go. If they're within 1-2 frames, it's fine. At the VIDEOEND, they all go back to the still frame. The external computer continues to count until we get to the end of "how long we think it should be," and then sends the "GO" command again.
With the black frame, everything was good. Where it gets to be "my fault" was when I suggested that we did not need to go to black, but could go to some sort of static frame to make sure people realize that the system didn't fail, and be seamless.
Except that on VIDEOEND, it seems to do a StopClear, and then coming out of the still frame, another, yielding "black flashes."
According to this thread, viewtopic.php?f=19&t=41968&p=286889&hilit=stopclear#p286889 , the script linked in the last message should allow for direct manual control.
So I loaded a card with the video file and the BAS file, tinkered with the IP and UDP receiver addresses, and loaded it up.
Blinking red lights. No joy.
The last edit to the BAS file seems to imply it's a little over a year old, and I know there have been some significant updates to the firmware. (My 1010s are pretty new, current as-of September, at least. Don't have the firmware number right with me.) Does that "old" script work anymore? Am I missing something really obvious? Or is there just a misplaced comma or something that's tripping me up?
Anyway, my thought had been to rely on what seemed to be a function of the script: at videoend, to NOT clear the buffer, but hold on that frame until the next play command takes hold. Am I going in the right direction?
Leo Kerr
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RokuLyndon
ok, the autorun.bas file isn't used with the compact models. It's from the old hd600 and hd2000 series. There's a script in memory that's used to play your csv file.
Are you referring to the control script, that's what you were trying to use?
This should work for your csv file. This script is the one you would want to edit to remove the stopclears.
If you were looking for the control script, I have an updated one to post. Here it is. -
LFKerr
um, okay, yes, mental screw-up there. I meant the AUTORUN.BRS, not the autoplay.BAS.
With the AUTORUN.BRS you linked to, if I'm remembering the script-language properly from the other threads, do I literally just go through and replace the
videoPlayer.StopClear()
with
videoPlayer.Stop() ?
Thanks,
Leo Kerr -
LFKerr
okay, some minor issues, I'm not sure where they're coming from, but..
I'm running a 720p output, the still graphic is a 1080 JPG. I'm in the process of converting that to a 720, and am also converting it to a 720p60 video file like the main video file, so there shouldn't need to be any mode-shifting, scaler-shifting, or anything like that. Hopefully.
The change described above, I still got the "black flash" going from the 720 video to the 1080 JPG, but going from the JPG to the video was clean, which is why I'm sort of blaming the source files.
But the odd thing is that, um, the audio stopped playing. (Of the three players, only one has audio for the whole area.)
But on an implied note above, I remember many discussions in the past that indicated that the players often did better starting video files "faster" than image files. Am I going to be more-or-less "okay" interrupting the still video "delay" file (it's 10 seconds long, I need about 4-5 seconds) instead of having the thing sitting on a still image and able to fully preload the next video?
Leo -
LFKerr
okay, in messing around, I converted the still "delay" image to a video file. This seems to do a seamless video-to-video transition, without any special start-up scripts.
I knew this had to be possible.. I guess it's just some weeks you need longer to wrap your mind around a problem than others.
Leo
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