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+ | ====== Loading Videos ====== | ||
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+ | Many default themes in Popper (Baller Installer) use transparent loading vidoes. This allows a loading video to play on-top of your playfield where all true-black pixels from loading videos are transparent (see-through) and show the playfield video below. | ||
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+ | here is example of what a proper configured Popper system will look like: | ||
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+ | First thing you need to do if you want to use transparent loading videos is to configue your Nvidia GPU settings like this: | ||
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+ | It ‘should’ work on AMD for some, but unaware of which settings work best with AMD GPUs. | ||
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+ | Sometimes, your TV / monitor also needs to be " | ||
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+ | //If you’ve done everything and still cannot get transparent loading videos to work then you can simply set your primary loading video to the entire playfield and use full-screen loading videos for all tables (see bottom of this page for settings).// | ||
+ | ===== Multiple Loading Videos (optional) ===== | ||
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+ | If you now have full-transparent videos working you can also try the next ‘neat’ feature in Popper and that is having multiple or optional Full-Screen Playfield loading Videos. | ||
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+ | Popper config allows you to have ONE ‘primary’ loading video area, but also, your choice to have another/all pup-displays to also play loading videos alongside primary. | ||
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+ | Watch this video to watch how to use other loading videos like full-screen loading videos. Note: The trick to remember that if you want to disable primary-loading video (like the lower t-arc) you need to first add a ‘blank.mp4’ to that area and then assign a video to your other display(s) like playfield or backglass. | ||
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+ | ==== Additional Advanced items: See custom options that you can tweak your loading options: ==== | ||
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+ | items like **FadeoutLoading : ** [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Full Screen Loading Videos Only ===== | ||
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+ | To use full-screen playfield loading videos always (no transparent t-arc type options) | ||
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+ | go to Pinup Popper setup/ “Screens/ | ||
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+ | See above: you need to remove the transparent checkbox and set custompos to “3, | ||
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+ | ===== Troubleshoot: | ||
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+ | When downloading loading videos in media manager, ensure you are loading the proper size videos for your display. If you download a full-screen loading video into your t-arc primary loading screen then it will play ' | ||
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+ | Some common issues are people stating that their " | ||
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+ | ==== I get white/grey boxes in loading video during vpx startup. ==== | ||
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+ | VPX 10.8 has a new command line option to use a bit less CPU/GPU during its loading process. You can modify the launch script for VPX and add this parameter to the VPX launch line: **-LessCPUthreads** | ||
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+ | Another item is to checkout PauseOnLoad custom option [[: | ||
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+ | ==== NVIDIA Settings for Loading Videos ==== | ||
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+ | Are your loading videos showing black area that should be transparent? | ||
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+ | See: [[: | ||
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