If anyone is interested I got Future Pinball running via gamezone this morning. I only found the emu a couple of days ago and its pretty impressive. The main advantages for me over Visual Pinball is that it supports gamepads and you can toggle the playfield views including a view which tracks the ball across the playfield which make it a bit more user friendly on a TV. There is also a wrapper available which worked with one very minor amendment, my setup is as follows:
Run the Future Pinball setup program, unzip the wrapper to the same folder as the Future Pinball executable and remove all of the spaces from the wrapper name i.e. change from "Future Pinball Wrapper.exe" to "FuturePinballWrapper.exe".
Extract any table to the tables folder.
Run Future Pinball to make sure it works outside GBPVR and set your video and gamepad options as required.
Set up Future Pinball as an extra emulator pointing at the wrapper as the executable and not forgetting the %file% argument, set up the rom directory to point at the tables folder.
Play pinball! Definitely easier than Visual Pinball to set up!
Must be dumb, but I highlight the source I want re-ordered and use the arrow buttons to move it to a new position. Easy so far! Only problem is the change doesn't stick.
Is there a magic trick I am missing? (Tried searches and wiki but couldn't find an answer).
Hi,
I'm new to this form and would like to know if anyone has used a VisionTek TV Wonder HD600 capture card with remote. I'm still putting the parts together, but this seemed to be the best card I could find in my area.
I would be interested in hearing about any problems and what can be done to work around them.
Thanks in advance,
Jack
Recently upgraded from 1.0.something to the latest version and found that this was no longer supported, so i'm looking for a replacement that is, and hopefully will be into the future.
If you don't know, it's simply a USB2 box with composite inputs with 'hardware' (important) MPEG2 compression.
It has to be USB, unfortunately, because the two PCI slots in the box are taken up with Hauppauge Nova TD 500's (which have been great).
Anyone had experience with something good?
Keep in mind, I want to get out of it as cheap as possible
No real hurry because i've rolled back the software and it still works fine.
Warning: There is a problem with the "Delete" routine. Do not attempt to delete with the plugin until I get get it fixed.
You must stop the recording service before replacing the dll files.
1.0.2.2 Changelog:
Fixed issue were downloads failed if the movie folder did not exist.
Fixed issue in details popup where the progress image did not render.
Fixed issue where failure to save Documents.xml could thow an error.
Now checks to see if the backup downloads.xml is newer than the main downloads.xml
1.0.2.1 Changelog:
Fixed thread blocking call on list updates.
Fixed issue where small posters were downloaded in place of large posters. Delete the images in the "Posters\Large" folder and the proper ones will be downloaded when needed.
Improved loading of large posters. A large poster is only downloaded and loaded into memory if you view an item in Filmstrip mode or view details.
Fixed issue in the Details popup where a download option would be visible if an episode was not available.
Fixed issue where a "System out of memory exception" was thrown when attempting to load a corrupted poster image.
Fixed issue where "Use External Player" setting was not saved when configuring the plugin.
1.0.1.0 Changelog:
Complete NMT Support (once Syabas enables playback of DRM protected content.)
Top 50 Watch Now List working.
Improved logging.
Improved error handling.
View modes now supported.
Improved memory management.
All download information now saved to a single xml file with automatic backup.
Improved Details popup.
Ability to use an external player (if it supports DRM protected content).
going for a Server rebuild, XP SP3 is installing and I got bored. I just wondered what anyone else does on a rebuild. For me this is precious time. I'm tired, I want to join my wife and dream of sheep (not in a weird way) I'm watching the progress bar and it bores me so I messed around with some cables and just got a bit angry with the way they get tangled.....
I have noticed an issue where, when I pause live TV (4:3) it immediately returns and shows a full frame, rather than the 4:3 source.
The recorded file has the correct source information as it plays fine in any other DirectShow program. Tried Media Player Classic, and Windows Media Player 11. All of these programs use the System Default MPEG-2 decoder MPC - MPEG-2 Video Decoder (Gabest).
I did however notice the same issue without these fixes, and in 1.2.9
Logs attached, and I can provide the mpg file that GBPVR created.
pvrx2-native.log
Code:
Began Live TV
2008-08-06 18:29:04.363 INFO Key pressed: Return
2008-08-06 18:29:04.582 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 71, 0)
Paused Live TV
2008-08-06 18:29:36.785 INFO [1] LiveTVVideoPlayer.initialize()
...
2008-08-06 18:29:38.144 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(C:\Temp\Live\Dumb and Dumberer When Harry Met Lloyd_1_20080806_18002000.mpg)
...
2008-08-06 18:29:40.504 VERBOSE unknown source aspect ratio...showing full frame
I suppose that it may need a retry at some point to see about getting the correct ratio from the file. Or maybe, when the DirectShowPlayerBase:etPlaybackRate(1.00000) is run we should probe for an updated ratio. Just some ideas, I know that it may not be as easy as it is to say.
Changing channels, or returning to live mode restores the proper ratio.
One other thing that I find interesting. @sub, the logging on pvrx2-native does not log when the video is paused...I kindof expected to see a call to setPlaybackRate with 0 or similar as the argument...just me being picky
etPlaybackRate(1.00000) is run we should probe for an updated ratio. Just some ideas, I know that it may not be as easy as it is to say.
