I'm using 6.61 and I cannot search for any partial text that was added as a bookmark to a sound request nor if I filter by sound scripts. Entering text in the box, hitting Enter does nothing. Entering text in the box, hitting the Find Next Arrow does nothing. Note the only search text that works is if I put in the request # i.e. 582. Even searching for 0x55 for example doesn't take me to the sound. What am I doing wrong?

oga83
A) When I enter something that ends up auto-completing, I let it stay selected automatically. I then hit enter or the next arrow, nothing happens
B) Yes, I can even see the bookmark first in the list. I click it, nothing.
C) How do you download all the text in the results window? The only way I've found is to open the .dat file in a text editor and copy from there. However, the file doesn't include the Request # and doesn't include anything that hasn't been custom bookmarked
D) Nothing happens whatsoever when entering a request #. My system is not corrupted. How do I check if Pinball Browser/.NET Framework is the problem?

The burning question though, when there isn't something corrupted: Why can't I just search for a string and have it jump to line by line containing that string? Is that supposed to work?

Thanks oga83 I'm now able to cripple my way through search using the 0x55 method. It seems to be mostly reliable. The problem with that is that one would have to be able to export those script numbers for an easier copy/paste into the search bar. Why doesn't the search just look for a partial string? It seems one has to start the string with the first char of the bookmark they "think" they used, then type it out fully and correctly until the app recognizes it and autofills. For making customizations along with others, I need to be able to export those entire strings and track changes elsewhere (i.e. what I'm doing in a shared excel sheet). Into a CSV would be ideal with the original and imported filenames. The fact that the .dat file, while I can open it and parse it with regex to get what I need, doesn't show all requests makes tracking and collaboration difficult.

Was the new version released to fix the inability to load the Sounds tab in JP2 0.97 and above? I just tried loading the latest 1.0 firmware in PBrowser 6.65 and it just spins upon clicking the Sounds tab. Didn't see a new link here but I could be blind!

Hey oga83 thanks SO much for the update! Everything Sound wise seems to work. I just wasn't expecting this warning upon opening a fresh JP LE 1.00 firmware SPK. Should I ignore it? Sorry if you already answered this earlier. I saw your note about:
"Spk files
Spk upgrade files are still supported but, as SD-card images are now available, this feature will be deprecated soon. These files have limited functionalities because they only include what has been modified for a new firmware version."

I just don't know what to worry or not worry about moving forward. Thanks!

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When doing a macro import of WAV/script files I am getting the error, 'No data found in this WAV!'
I haven't been able to find this reported already in the thread. Any ideas? What doesn't make sense is that the EXACT same file from the EXACT same location imports without issue when uploaded via the singular Import option. It's only and issue when using the macro import for that same file.
Appreciate any help! I am using the latest PBrowser version.

UPDATE: So the files I was using were manipulated by a sound normalizer program. Something with that program seemed to have "corrupted" those files. I was able to salvage the normalization work by taking all the new files into audacity and re-sampling + exporting them. Those all imported successfully via the macro afterwards. However, it still doesn't make sense to me that, before "correcting" them in that manner, that the files failed with the macro but succeeded with single import. Perhaps PBrowser does some WAV "correction" in the latter/singular method?

I just emailed them after realizing all of this by way of opening JP 1.01 today and finding your post. There's nothing in the release notes that leads me to believe this update has much of a benefit to the gameplay itself. It just looks like some bug fixes, slight tweaks to mode scoring, and wording changes in menus. I have spent hundreds of hours over multiple months crafting customized callouts and music and was literally about to finally share a demo video of the work--work that I was so close to finishing. The fact that I can't move forward and am probably just going to have to call it quits is somewhat devastating. Hopefully others have emailed Stern as well.

I'm having an odd issue when importing sounds scripts via macros. When I import a sound (WAV mono in this case) that is slightly shorter in length than the original. PBrowser is throwing a "dB spike" which is making the sound clip at the end. When I do a manual, single importof the same file to that same script location (no adjusting, starting a '0') there is no issue. Only when using a macro does this happen.

I understand when the imported sound is shorter than the script location length, a "a blank space" gets added at the end. I'm fine with that. I have faded out the end in order to prevent when the longer script location is played, but this issue is negating that.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Please don't tell me I have to always adjust my wav to fit each script length. The reason I'm doing shorter is because for any given sound that is played there is anywhere from 2-7 script lines for that sound. That's why I'm using a macro. I take the shortest version of that script line as a baseline, and make my replacement sound fit that length. I then use the macro to replace all 2-7 locations with that single file.

Example of the macro line format I'm using: SoundScript,0x897,"C:\[file path]\[filename].wav",

This screenshot shows the same sound.
Top = The tail of the sound I am importing (notice nicely faded out to 0).
Bottom = The resulting problem sound file exported out of PBrowser (notice the "dB spike" added after the fade to 0).

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JPLE 1.00.00

I think I may have figured out what's going on + a workaround. When I check the macro generated after a single import, I see it appends some position, duration and other params at the end like:

SoundScript,0x897,"C:\[file path]\[filename].wav",0,1831,100,0,10000

If I then run the problem macro format (without the appended, to reproduce the issue):
SoundScript,0x897,"C:\[file path]\[filename].wav",

Then turn right around and run the appended one after, the issue is corrected in that script location.

So in summary I guess my workaround is to add that appended information to every macro line. I take it all can remain the same except for the 2nd param which I now see is the ms duration of the imported file. I did just find a program that will read a folder of my WAVs and spit out their ms duration. So I guess I'll leverage that,some Notepad++ and regex wizardry to generate my macros in that format moving forward.

It does suck to have found this out now. I have already imported hundreds of new sound files. But things could be worse .

oga83 Would you consider what I've found a bug or expected behavior? What do you think of my workaround?

Thanks much oga83 I will use the 7 param syntax moving forward. However, you do understand this adds yet another few extra steps right? Is there any way you could make parity with the individual sound import? Meaning if none of the additional params are provided you simply automatically generate them, as if you were manually importing a sound? I still don't quite understand why the spike/glitch is added in the first place. Seems like a bug that it does that regardless.

Thanks so much for this @oga83. Unfortunately, I've found that this 7 param method is also prone to hitting the same issue, albeit slightly less often. There must still be a bug here. Hopefully you can make parity b/t individual upload and the no param syntax macro method in a later release? I've decided to go back to individual import for now. DM me if there are any specifics I can help with when you're able to investigate what's going on behind the scenes.

FWIW I'm not sure what TWD uses for sample and bit depth, but I can tell you that stock sounds from Stern's JP LE firmware (both STEREO music and MONO callouts) are 44.1kHz, 16 bits. You can use a program like MediaInfo to see what the specs are of either your custom audio files or the game's stock sounds (by way of exporting them from PBrowser). So make sure you are using the same specs for your custom WAV as the stock sound's WAV.

Below is a screenshot from MediaInfo for one of the main STEREO JP music files I exported from JPLE 1.00.00.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure regardless of what you set your project sample rate in Audacity, unless you use the Tracks > Resample option (OR possibly if you select the WAV 24 bit or 32 bit file type options), when you export the exported file is going to be the same bit depth as the file you imported. Someone can fact check me on this last piece, I'm not an Audacity wizard.

Also, popping and cracking and other "why doesn't this sound the same in game as it does when I listen to it in my DAW" can be due to other reasons. For example if it's only when you export your imported sound back out of PBrowser that you notice these anomalies, it is likely the game code itself is manipulating the file. I have noticed this for example with overall volume. Certain script locations just simply play the audio with a different equalization or volume. I also found a bug with PBrowser where sometimes the end of the WAV will get a spike/pop will get added at the end: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images/page/74#post-5591534

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I feel like my answer is in this thread somewhere but I can't find it. When opening a stock version .spk, PB generates a .dat file. Is there an easy way to have that .dat file it auto creates add all default sound scripts to it (which of course are blank bookmarks). I just want the .dat file to have all the "blank" script location IDs within it so I can then take that into a text editor. You're probably laughing at me right now given the JP2 work I've done I just don't recall how I started with a fully populated, yet blank .dat file. I think I used a macro maybe to just add '*' to every script bookmark but I don't see a macro generated when I define a bookmark alone.

This worked like a charm, oga83 ! And no I won't go syncing anything. So my motivation here is looking at what will need to be done to port custom code made from a JP2 LE/Prem firmware over to the Pro version. At least at first look it appears both .dat files have the exact same number of Sound Script Locations. So that's promising. I wonder if all that's needed from here is to macro import the sound files to the same locations in the Pro code and hopefully not run into that issue you helped me with a while back? (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images/page/75#post-5592725) I think I still owe you some additional troubleshooting on that. It would make my life incredibly easier if I don't have to add the additional parameters, specific to each file length when doing the macro import. LMK

This is my conundrum. JP 1.00 vs. 1.01 script locations have been jumbled like crazy. I have yet to figure out a pattern.
For example, both of these script locations are the same script (same sound). However their respective hex location Ids have changed drastically (1.00 vs 1.01):

In 1.00 Script: 0x233 (0min 06s 056ms)
In 1.01 Script: 0x1FE (0min 06s 056ms)

SEE PIC BELOW

Note the 0x hex script location value differences. They are VASTLY far apart. So as you can see it's not just a few above/below like one would expect b/t 2 versions (i.e maybe 0x233 became 0x238 or something).

Believe me, I've looked at many other examples of this and done the math. I don't see any pattern. Not to mention both 1.00 and 1.01 have the exact same amount of sound scripts (well, 1.01 has literally 1 more, but that's it).

The only way I see to easily solve this is for PB to expose the timestamp within the .dat file as it does in the PB UI. If it did then I could sort by Script Duration ASC. Then use some excel + Notepad++ wizardry to line all bookmarks back up.

I say this b/c if you sort by Script Duration ASC in PB, using my 1.00 .dat for each, and look at both firmwares side by side, they all line up row by row -- aka 1.00 row D's actual sound is also 1.01 row D's sound aka the sounds are the same script just the location Id is vastly different. Since currently the .dat PB generates does not have that (0m00sec00ms) value in it + there's no way to export script locations via PB, there's no way for me to leverage sorting in the .dat by timestamp. Not to mention having that time value within any given .dat would be key for macro importing params.

oga83 Not trying to take away from the amazing work you did to open up these firmwares. I am incredibly thankful and will be re-donating again shortly. I just wanted to present this as a possible enhancement or see if you had any ideas for what I'm dealing with. I cannot fathom going through manually bookmarking all 3852 script locations again. Please share any advice, I can't be the only one running into this. Thanks so much for everything you do.

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oga83 You are MAGIC! This feature is going to be invaluable, I can't thank you enough! Fresh donation sent.

Thanks oga83 ! I just tried this but I'm not seeing any change after running the macro list. These are the steps I took (using the RAW firmware versions).

1. Open 1.01 in PB
2. Click Spike > Compare Firmware
3. Open 1.00 (as this then prompts to open 1.00 in PB)
4. Wait for Analyzing sounds... to finish
5. 1.01 opens itself again in PB
6. Analyzing sounds... wait for that to finish
7. Text editor window appears with all the shift Id proposed changes

Here's a snippet of what that looks like:

-- JRP12F -> JRP101
-- Sounds :
-- New sound : 0x440
ShiftId,1,0x9,0xA
ShiftId,1,0xA,0x16
ShiftId,1,0xB,0x8
ShiftId,1,0xC,0x17
ShiftId,1,0xD,0x19
ShiftId,1,0xE,0x3
ShiftId,1,0xF,0x0
ShiftId,1,0x11,0x9
ShiftId,1,0x12,0x6
ShiftId,1,0x13,0x10
ShiftId,1,0x15,0x7
ShiftId,1,0x16,0xF
ShiftId,1,0x17,0x12
ShiftId,1,0x18,0xC
ShiftId,1,0x19,0xB
ShiftId,1,0x1A,0x1F0
ShiftId,1,0x1B,0x145

8. Select All > Copy from that text window
9. Return to PB with 1.01 loaded
10. Go to Macros > Paste
11. Click Run Macros
12. Go to Sounds > Sound Scripts and check/play a number of scripts

Result: The locations are still wrong/unchanged.

Am I doing something wrong?

I will say after spot checking the shiftId proposals from that txt file, comparing the 1.01 and 1.00 locations, they look to be pinpointing the right location changes (AMAZING!). So maybe I'm just being an idiot when it comes to running the macro? I did also try just running only like 20 of the changes/macro lines instead of the full 3,818 lines in that txt file. Still no changes are actually occurring AFAIK.

Roger that! I knew I was misunderstanding something. This works for me. What an amazing feature, thank you again!

I've actually had multiple issues with Etcher and have only started using it in the past month but have flashed a number of different SDs within that time. Mostly success but sometimes not. These are the issues I've faced and what I've done to overcome them. All of these descriptions are based on flashing a .raw Stern code (customized or not). I am using an external SD card USB reader BTW which could be compounding my problems. Or much of this could be faulty SDs but all of the ones I'm using are brand new. I do think overall there is a reliability issue with the Etcher software:
Reader I'm using: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ARAH6O0/
SD cards I'm using: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0143RTB1E/

In any case, I hope this helps anyone facing similar issues:

1. Open etcher, select .raw file, then going to choose the drive/SD to flash to.
Issue: Drive/SD isn't an option (even though it is mounted and readable by my PC)
Solution: Remove SD and/or reader and plug back in or sometimes a full PC restart resolves.

2. Open etcher, select .raw file, choose the drive/SD to flash to, click Start.
Issue: Immediate "unknown error"
Solution: Restart PC and try again (no clue why this resolves the issue, possibly some cached memory problem that Etcher introduced during the previous flash)

3. Open etcher, select .raw file, choose the drive/SD to flash to, click Start, click yes for the resulting Allow prompt
Issue: Ether flashing progress starts as expected but nearing the end it displays an unknown error.
Solution: Re-format the SD and try again.

4. Etcher reports its successfully flashed with verification success. Load the flashed SD into my pin (Stern JP2) and boot up
Issue: JP2 just hangs, black screen on the DMD. All red lights on the board behind the backglass lit, nothing "blinking"
Solution: Re-format the SD and try again.

Windows 10. Most of the time no issues but I am using it a lot, and with different but the same type of SD cards and would say there's some kind of 1/5 failure rate at least. I'm thinking of using a different utility/app moving forward.

Similar to what delt31 said, I ran into a few issues immediately upon implementing a single video change in JP 1.02 (using PB 7.56). The file I was importing was an H.264 .mp4 converted from a .mov file. All I did was add some overlay text/graphics to the existing video that I had exported from PB to edit, then bounced that version of the video to a new .mp4.

Issue 1: Video did not seem to import when testing on my JP pin. The stock video was still playing.

Cause: In the Videos tab I located the video I wanted to replace. There were two nearly identical locations JawsIntroToIsland_Title and JawsIntroToIsland_Title_NoText. The issue is that PB wasn't actually honoring the video location I was at. I would type in and let PB autofill the location name and hit enter. While it appeared I was at that video location (which are 0x60 and 0x61), it kept showing that I was at location 0x0. So when I was importing manually I was unknowingly importing my video to the 0x0 location over and over again.

Solution: Start over with a fresh code version. Then I kept having to quit and restart PB to make sure that when I hit enter, I was actually looking at and importing to the right location. I can consistently reproduce this. Here's a screenshot. Note that it shows 0x0 when it should be showing 0x60. Trying to select another location from the dropdown list also results in me staying at 0x0 BTW.

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Issue 2: Videos tab > Import Video option appears to be broken. Any time I use that option to import a video file I get a nasty null reference exception (sorry I don't have a screenshot of that as reproing it corrupts the firmware file = Issue 3).

Solution: Only use the Import file (no conversion) option instead. However, this also resulted in an error if I tried to import the same .mp4 file to the other location JawsIntroToIsland_Title_NoText after I had just imported it without error to JawsIntroToIsland_Title.

Issue 3: Upon any given, seemingly successful flash of the new firmware the pin wouldn't load up. Instead it would show the JP logo, then say "game restarting..." over and over in a loop.

Cause: Not entirely sure. I feel like each time this happened was after I got some kind of Issue 2 error in PB which was corrupting the firmware.

Solution: Start over and try again. If you don't get any errors upon importing video files the resulting firmware should load up correctly.

Perhaps, overall the safer bet is to use macros instead of manual UI importing for videos? Not trying to knock this feature whatsoever, it's amazing. Just wanted to provide some input for possible bug fixes and to help others running into the same.

oga83 How can this feature be used for .RAW files? It only allows selecting a .IMG file.

Thanks daveyvandy But when I paste in the full file path then hit Write to SD I get this. Is this b/c I have already opened that same file in PB? I just tried the same but without opening the .RAW file first. It's writing now. Unfortunately the only reason I'm doing the PB write to SD method vs Balena vs Win32DiskImager is b/c no matter what, the resulting SD in the machine does that restarting game loop/never loads up, it gives me the "restarting game" loop over and over. All I've done is taken a working .RAW, add a single .mp4 video, no errors in the import process. I'm used to seeing a video file upload error during a given PB video import to let me know that the code is borked.

NOPE No dice with this PB write to SD method. Still getting that damn "restarting game" loop. I don't know what could possibly be going wrong here. I've tried everything. oga83 Can you please help?

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oga83 This video import issue is driving me insane. Can you please help?

Steps I take:

1. Open fresh version of a working, previously edited firmware .RAW
2. Upon no bookmarks available, check online prompts and I choose NO
3. Go to Scenes > Select "Search and bookmark videos"
4. Go to Videos > locate and confirm the Video location of the video I want to replace
5. Import a new version of that same video .mp4, same length (and even same filename as a test but either way new or old filename fails)
6. Select "Import video..."
RESULT: This error:
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Try again starting over with a new copy of a working .RAW and go through steps 1-5
6. Try Import file (no conversion...) instead
RESULT: This error:
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NOTE: I have also re-downloaded all the ffmpeg .exe's and put them into the main PB 7.56 folder. I still cannot play videos within PB from the Videos tab either. I click the Play button and nothing happens. Also when PB prompts you to download ffmpeg it takes you to a link that downloads some kind of .tar file, not an archive of the actual .exe's PB expects...

What could be going on here? Appreciate anyone's help.

Thanks oga83 . I just tried your exact steps, fresh ffmpeg, PB 7.56, and JP 1.02 downloads and have the same results. No ability to play videos, same errors / exceptions upon import. Is there any action I need to take against those ffmpeg exe's besides simply copying them into the PB root folder? Does this point to an issue with my PC in general? I don't have another PC I can try this on. I've never had any issues like this with audio.

Both paths lead to an immediate error. And no I have never been able to play videos from any version of PB. :/

What os are you using? Windows 10?
YES, Windows 10.

where is the pb 7.56 folder located in downloads? or have you moved it somewhere else?

It's in C:\Users\[My Name]\Documents\JP Sound Replacement (MOVED 4-18x03-19-20)\PinballBrowser756\ - I have wondered if the location or my weird folder name is the issue. I tried moving \PinballBrowser756 and a sample video file .mp4 to my Desktop root folder but that didn't change anything.

where is the jp 1.02 folder located, local disk?

C:\Users\[My Name]\Documents\JP Sound Replacement (MOVED 4-18x03-19-20)\jurassic_park_le-1_02_0.Release.8G.sdcard.raw\

What folder should PB be located in general? Willing to try just about anything at this point. Thank you both again!

Just tried with a fresh download of the latest TMNT 1.21 RAW. Still cannot play videos. Same errors trying to import any given video to a randomly chosen location in this firmware.

Also as I mentioned I tried a fresh download of JP 1.02 RAW, so it's not a corrupted firmware issue. Yes the user logged in is my only, full admin rights user.

Is there something I can do to "fix" ffmpeg or at least determine if that's the issue? Again I did try putting the exact .exe's you mentioned (freshly downloaded from the instructions you sent) into my PB root folder.

Follow up question: Does the having ffmpeg exes have any effect on importing a video or is that just for playback in PB (when it comes to videos)?

Also just as a reminder, macro upload using either the 0 or the 1 flag that you mentioned in a similar post fails with the same errors, respectively.

No they are in the root PB directory. Should they be in a sub-folder called ffmpeg?

Tried without luck. Cannot play videos, cannot import.

Tried this as well and there is no issue playing any given video in this manner.

I'm still so stumped. I even dug into Windows Event logs to see if any warnings or errors were occurring when trying to play videos from PB. I've come up with nothing.

Thanks for your troubleshooting help! I'll get to the bottom of this eventually.

That's what I figured and that's where they are. Do you think my import errors are directly related to the inability to play videos in PB? Are there any logging tools or specific things I haven't mentioned/tried yet to troubleshoot and determine the root cause of all these issues?

I honestly don't think playing or importing videos ever worked for me on this PC with any code or PB version. I have gone through past firmwares, past PB versions too and same results. Unfortunately my only other PC is my work PC and IT will flag it if I download code or PB onto it.

There must be something wrong with how my PC is handling FFmpeg in general. How can I troubleshoot this? Can video cards, drivers, or display settings be part of the issue? If anti-virus could be in play I have no 3rd party virus program going on, just standard windows defender. Something must be getting "blocked" somewhere. Can I see this in Windows Event Viewer? If so, where would I look? Is there any other logging/debugging app that could tell me what's going on?

I got sysmon fired up but I'm not seeing any errors or warnings. During testing of playback only, I see CONHOST.EXE "informational" events around Process Create and Process Terminate for when PB is accessing ffprobe.exe and temp .mp4 files are being generated in /AppData/Local/Temp.

oga83 Is it bad that, for ffprobe.exe a ProcessCreate event occurs, then and a ProcessTerminate follows just milliseconds after? This is simply me selecting a video and clicking Play.

i.e. ProcessCreate

EventData

RuleName -
UtcTime 2020-09-07 18:06:34.366
ProcessGuid {9094b94b-76aa-5f56-3b05-000000001c00}
ProcessId 3832
Image C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe
FileVersion 10.0.19041.153 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Description Console Window Host
Product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company Microsoft Corporation
OriginalFileName CONHOST.EXE
CommandLine \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1
CurrentDirectory C:\WINDOWS
User DESKTOP-60KTN20\My Name
LogonGuid {9094b94b-54e4-5f56-1ccf-480000000000}
LogonId 0x48cf1c
TerminalSessionId 2
IntegrityLevel High
Hashes SHA1=578C53A7A785A7238272E28C53684FB51995E663
ParentProcessGuid {9094b94b-76aa-5f56-3a05-000000001c00}
ParentProcessId 9048
ParentImage C:\PB_short_path_test\PinballBrowser756\ffprobe.exe
ParentCommandLine "C:\PB_short_path_test\PinballBrowser756\ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_format -show_streams -print_format xml C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Local\Temp\pbi2.mp4

Then the next event is immediately...

ProcessTerminate

EventData

RuleName -
UtcTime 2020-09-07 18:06:34.425
ProcessGuid {9094b94b-76aa-5f56-3a05-000000001c00}
ProcessId 9048
Image C:\PB_short_path_test\PinballBrowser756\ffprobe.exe

Hey oga83 . Unfortunately as I mentioned I don't have any other PC to use, I've got to get this one working. I decided to reach out in the FFmpeg forum itself and a couple of helpful people have had me do some command line tests. In all tests they are saying that FFmpeg (ffprobe.exe specifically) seems to be working as expected. Here's our latest correspondence and their thoughts.

[FFmpeg Forum User] The first log entry appears to show how the app called FFprobe. You
could try to run that same command yourself from the Command Prompt:

C:\> "C:\PB_short_path_test\PinballBrowser756\ffprobe.exe" -v error
-show_format -show_streams -print_format xml "C:\Users\My
Name\AppData\Local\Temp\pbi2.mp4"

When you run that, what do you get?

Also, the final quoted entry in that command is the location of the file
being probed. Maybe try this again, but with you filling in the location
of the file you want to use.

Try posting the complete uncut command and output of those two experiments."

[Tim] Here is the command line output of both tests one after the other:

TEST 1:
-------
C:\Users\My Name>"C:\PB_short_path_test\PinballBrowser756\ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_format -show_streams -print_format xml "C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Local\Temp\pbi2.mp4"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ffprobe>
<streams>
<stream index="0" codec_name="h264" codec_long_name="H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10" profile="Constrained Baseline" codec_type="video" codec_time_base="1/60" codec_tag_string="avc1" codec_tag="0x31637661" width="1360" height="768" coded_width="1360" coded_height="768" closed_captions="0" has_b_frames="0" pix_fmt="yuv420p" level="30" chroma_location="left" refs="1" is_avc="true" nal_length_size="4" r_frame_rate="30/1" avg_frame_rate="30/1" time_base="1/15360" start_pts="0" start_time="0.000000" duration_ts="236032" duration="15.366667" bit_rate="986381" bits_per_raw_sample="8" nb_frames="461">
<disposition default="1" dub="0" original="0" comment="0" lyrics="0" karaoke="0" forced="0" hearing_impaired="0" visual_impaired="0" clean_effects="0" attached_pic="0" timed_thumbnails="0"/>
<tag key="language" value="eng"/>
<tag key="handler_name" value="VideoHandler"/>
<tag key="encoder" value="Lavc57.15.100 libx264"/>
</stream>
</streams>

<format filename="C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Local\Temp\pbi2.mp4" nb_streams="1" nb_programs="0" format_name="mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2" format_long_name="QuickTime / MOV" start_time="0.000000" duration="15.367000" size="1897367" bit_rate="987761" probe_score="100">
<tag key="major_brand" value="qt "/>
<tag key="minor_version" value="512"/>
<tag key="compatible_brands" value="qt "/>
<tag key="date" value="2018-11-08T21:49:34.493414"/>
<tag key="encoder" value="Lavf57.16.100"/>
</format>
</ffprobe>

TEST 2
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C:\Users\My Name>"C:\PB_short_path_test\PinballBrowser756\ffprobe.exe" -v error -show_format -show_streams -print_format xml "C:\PB_short_path_test\123.mp4"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ffprobe>
<streams>
<stream index="0" codec_name="h264" codec_long_name="H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10" profile="High" codec_type="video" codec_time_base="1001/120000" codec_tag_string="avc1" codec_tag="0x31637661" width="1920" height="1080" coded_width="1920" coded_height="1088" closed_captions="0" has_b_frames="0" sample_aspect_ratio="1: 1" display_aspect_ratio="16:9" pix_fmt="yuv420p" level="42" color_range="tv" color_space="bt709" color_transfer="bt709" color_primaries="bt709" chroma_location="left" field_order="progressive" refs="1" is_avc="true" nal_length_size="4" r_frame_rate="60000/1001" avg_frame_rate="60000/1001" time_base="1/60000" start_pts="0" start_time="0.000000" duration_ts="1577576" duration="26.292933" bit_rate="20046181" bits_per_raw_sample="8" nb_frames="1576">
<disposition default="1" dub="0" original="0" comment="0" lyrics="0" karaoke="0" forced="0" hearing_impaired="0" visual_impaired="0" clean_effects="0" attached_pic="0" timed_thumbnails="0"/>
<tag key="creation_time" value="2020-09-07T19:57:49.000000Z"/>
<tag key="language" value="und"/>
<tag key="handler_name" value="Core Media Video"/>
</stream>
</streams>

<format filename="C:\PB_short_path_test\123.mp4" nb_streams="1" nb_programs="0" format_name="mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2" format_long_name="QuickTime / MOV" start_time="0.000000" duration="26.292933" size="66199052" bit_rate="20142006" probe_score="100">
<tag key="major_brand" value="mp42"/>
<tag key="minor_version" value="1"/>
<tag key="compatible_brands" value="mp41mp42isom"/>
<tag key="creation_time" value="2020-09-07T19:57:49.000000Z"/>
</format>
</ffprobe>

[FFmpeg Forum User] What this seems to show is that FFprobe is installed, and runs correctly, giving reasonable output. That makes it more likely that the log entries you posted are noting a successful run of FFprobe, instead of a failed run. I think that puts the ball back in the PinballBrowser court. Is it getting the same result when it calls FFprobe? And that is a question for them, not for this list.

oga83 Does any of this help?

I had 0 success uninstalling/reinstalling .NET framework, sfc /scannow etc. So I took it a whole step further and reinstalled Windows 10. Same results.

I don't have any AV running beyond Windows Defender. I had already tried temporarily disabling that before.

No I haven't tried a Virtual Env yet, I guess that would be my next step but I have Windows 10 Home Edition--looking online that seems like a sketchy, huge PITA involving more 3rd party Hyper-V installs... The above alone took hours to do and was sketchy in itself.

Also to clarify, I am not the only person having these issues. In this and my forum thread you can see many people having issues when video playback and/or import is involved. Not to mention the resulting firmware not working properly on their pin. I have looked through it all and tried everything.

This makes no sense. Without buying a whole new PC, I feel very stuck at this point.

I am the only user, a "Local Account Administrator". I have checked rights on everything even to the point of putting Full Control across everything. 64-bit. For the reinstall I used the method outlined here (in order to save all my apps and files): https://www.techspot.com/guides/1764-windows-repair-keep-all-your-files-intact/
After all of this .NET Framework shows as installed already under "Turn Windows Features on or off". Both of these are turned ON. I tried the turn off, restart, turn back on, restart process as well as the NetFXRepairTool.
.NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)
.NET Framework 4.8 Advanced Services

I'm not sure if people have had the no playback issue but definitely all of those import errors/exceptions have been reported before. I don't think I'm using an ARM processor, at least I don't see such a thing in My PC > Properties. I see Processor: Intel(R) Core(TIM) i7 3770K CPU 3.5GHz 3.90GHz
for Windows Edition it just says Windows 10 Home.

It wasn't a repair (I don't think?) but the token id was/is fine. I used this process: https://www.techspot.com/guides/1764-windows-repair-keep-all-your-files-intact/

But Windows 10 comes pre-installed with .NET Framework 4.8... I don't see how to get rid of it and revert to 4.0. Do you know how to do this?

Ok well I've had 4.8 all along and yeah as I've read online "The .NET Framework 4.8 is backwards compatible with .NET Framework 4.0 applications."

So I'm still at square one.

Yes I've tried with and without doing that multiple times.

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
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I just did the worst thing ever and downloaded PB, the latest JP 1.02 LE firmware, and ffmpeg exe's onto my work PC. I can now play videos from PB on this work PC. I have not tried uploading a video file. I need to delete this soon or I'll get flagged by my IT dept.

Either way I wanted to mention that going to "Turn Windows Features on/off" reveals that my work PC has < 4.0 (aka 3.0, 2.0 etc) disabled by default and the 4.0 shows as 4.7. Does this help? Screenshot attached.

I guess my next question is does anyone's PBrowser on a PC with 4.8 allow them to playback videos from the Videos tab? I hope I'm not going to have to buy a new PC and just to continue working on custom code.
2020-09-11_20-41-59 (resized).png

Thank you ALL oga83 cabal Coyote BENETNATH ! I broke down and just bought a new laptop ... I couldn't take the troubleshooting any longer since it seemed there'd be no resolution. The new laptop has Windows 10 Professional, i7 Core Intel, and .NET Framework 4.7 Advanced installed. It works with both playback and import of videos in PB, yet my other PC doesn't. It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma....

It's just so odd b/c on the problem PC my .NET Framework 4.8, processor, everything fits the bill as per what you all have said. It's not a file path length issue, corrupt FFmpeg, nor corrupt firmware either. I've ruled all of that out (as noted in previous posts). I have had no other issues like this with any other app/program on that PC either. It's a high performance gaming tower for all things video and audio. Perhaps wiping it's Windows 10 Home OS and HDD altogether would fix all of this but that's not a procedure I want to go through and I still feel like there is some other conflict that wouldn't resolve. You would think somewhere in some logging utility I'd see what the heck is going on but it all looks good from what I've tried.

Coyote How do I test RAM stability? I'm willing to try that as one last hope.

Anyway if you guys come to an epiphany within the next 30 days, I could return this laptop and you'd save me $1.2k!! For now I need to get back to being creative instead of spending hours into insanity trying to fix this stupid PC.

Yup. Well said. Moral of the unknown story...

Make audio asset changes? Use any flashing app.
Make video/image/scene changes? Use Win32 or PB's built in flash feature.

With all that noted, I really wish someone could get to the bottom of this. Even with success in any method used when it comes to image/video, one is likely to run the risk of a random game restart.

oga83 FYI, JP v.1.03 won't open. It just sits on "Processing....". Any luck on surpassing the same/similar blockers with other game codes? Feel free to PM me if I can help overcome this new hurdle.

I assume you're working on this though, oga83 ? Please PM me if I can help.

oga83 First of all you are an amazing mad scientist! THANK YOU!

I have a question about the JP Video locations. 6 Videos have been added to 1.03 (they added 6 x videos for their new JukeBox Feature - i.e. JUKEBOX_LOOP1, JUKEBOX_LOOP2, ... all the way to LOOP6). This has shifted the 1.02 Video locations by 6 places in either direction (+6 or -6). Since there isn't a TranslateId feature for Videos can you please share the math needed to take a 1.02 location Macro to and convert it to 1.03?

EXAMPLE:

1.02 Location and Macro for ATTRACT_LOOP1:
1.02 = 0x4

Video,4,"[filepath]\ATTRACT_LOOP1-34TS-Video-0x0004.mp4",0,502,0

1.03 Location and Macro for ATTRACT_LOOP1:
1.03 = 0x141

Video,321,"[filepath]\ATTRACT_LOOP1-34TS-Video-0x0004.mp4",0,502,0

I think I figured this out. I had to subtract 6 from each 1.02 location then my macros put all videos in the right spots. For those already < 6 i.e Video,4,xxxx I manually imported them where they should be. I will say that a Translate video locations feature is in order though given we/I got lucky here.

cleland is absolutely right about how stock callouts are bricked to no end. For me when taking literally boom mic recorded, uncompressed, 1993 audio for JP, I had to go even more intense than this with many of the clips. If like usual the clip has a low b/g floor noise I use a noise reduction plug-in lightly. If I hear artifacts I undo this. I then normalize the wav once at -1db. I then use another vocal leveler plug-in 1-4 times depending on the needs of the clip. This essentially bricks the waveform to a manner that the game expects. Then if the callout in game still seems low I bump it via PB 105-120% all depending. This is also not an exact science and you can unexpectedly distort the sound. You also may benefit from EQing the callout before you go hammering it. As they say in audio production land, you can't polish a turd aka if your source audio sucks, you're likely going to run in circles and just end up creating a louder turd . You need to understand the frequency spectrum and noise floor of the file at first, but for quick and dirty the above is my general method. It sucks to have to "ruin" the dynamics of the file but to cleland's point, all stock callouts are just smashed to hell, already some are distorted, and they are recording voice actors in a vocal booth which are likely far more isolated than the clip you're using to replace. Compare the stock callout to the clip you plan on replacing it with. If things seem the same-ish frequency and level wise, your new wav should be good to go. Also make sure you're working at the correct sample rate. Movie audio is generally 48k. Not all Stern audio is, could be 44.1k so adjust your session accordingly. Otherwise you'll get more artifacts and odd faster/slower sounding exported wavs.

I've noticed this too with earlier 7.61. I always close PB entirely before opening another image to avoid this issue and possible errors that may brick the code. Videos are very sensitive for some reason. Also ffmpeg seems to only run well with one version open. While yes this is probably a minor bug, It's good practice to close and reopen PB, working on one file at a time.

Coolpinballdino This can be confusing for sure. PB does direct you to the correct site to download the ffmpeg exe's you need but navigating that site is a little odd. The ffmpeg site seems to change constantly and it's somewhat difficult to figure out which 'package' you need to download.

Here's what I can say as of going to the site today (others may have easier instructions). Once PB directs you to the ffmpeg site:

1. Click the Windows icon (not the other green download buttons)
2. Click "Windows builds from gyan.dev"
3. Scroll down to click and download "https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-full.7z" (*Or just Click Here to directly download it from that link
4. Use Z-zip to extract the downloaded folder (Google/download and install Z-zip if your PC can't extract it with another existing utility)
5. Once extracted navigate through the extracted ffmpeg folder to the bin folder. (i.e. Downloads\ffmpeg-2021-02-02-git-2367affc2c-full_build\bin). There you will find all the .exe files you need.
6. Select and Copy all 3 ff[xxxx].exe files (*you only need ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe but it doesn't hurt to grab all three)
7. Navigate to your PB directory i.e. Documents\PinballBrowser771
8. Paste all ff[xxxx].exe files into that directory
9. Restart PB, open a firmware, and go to the videos tab

All should be well.

PB ffmpeg location (resized).png

I kinda can't believe I'm the one asking this question but... I recently was looking to change some more music for JP.

Correct. + attenuation = "make this quieter", - attenuation = "make this louder" (in comparison to the other music/voice). I would err on the side of increasing the attenuation ever so slightly for what seems too loud in order to quiet it, as opposed to decreasing attenuation it to make it louder than the other. Then you just boost the overall game volume. I'm not sure what say +/- 1 amounts to in decibels. Seems crazy to me that you can set values like all the way to +/- 10-20 here. Would be nice to know the specifics in terms of volume / dB. Just be careful with those values I suppose.

From my experience, you need to try to match not only the level of the sound file you import, but also the frequency spectrum against the stock file you're swapping out. You can do this by exporting the stock sound/music you're replacing and comparing the sound by ear and looking at the waveforms, applying EQ and compression as needed. You also need to try to match the bit and sample rates and I don't recommend using .mp3s (which I know is difficult b/c unless you're exporting from a CD to get good sounding .WAV's, you're probably purchasing a digital copy which most vendors only provide .mp3s of). Music is difficult and sometimes your file just won't ever sound right since the game does appear to limit based on frequency, especially low end. If your music is boomy with low end, it's likely going to be quieter in game, so you need to filter some of that out in your DAW/audio editor. The sounds and music in general in these games appear to be maxed out and smashed to a level so high it's almost distorting. Hope this helps.

Yup basically what Cleland said. From my experience the replaced callouts need to be mono 44.1khz 32 bit (or 16 bit) .WAV. However, music is normally stereo 48khz 32 bit. Don't use mp3s and don't try to import a stereo file to a mono location or vice versa. Mp3s may sometimes work but you should use .WAVs with the same sample rate and bit depth as the exported stock sound. I'm not saying this is your issue for sure but as far as that working mp3 vs the other one that isn't, are they different when you look at their properties? Try cleland's idea of converting with audacity. Set your session type to 44.1khz and export as a 32 bit float .WAV in the export window (although know that when you're doing this you are "upsampling" a compressed file which can cause other artifacts and odd timing issues -- you should start with uncompressed WAV audio instead).

Open the stock code in PB, export the stock WAV file from the sound location in question, open your custom code in PB and import the file to that location.

You should feel lucky in comparison to JP's 3852... I'm of course speaking to actual sound scripts not triggers. This post may help you in your efforts and understanding of what's going on in the background: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-jurassic-park-2-custom-code-project/page/23#post-5941835

There really isn't a perfect set of guidelines. It varies game to game and sound to sound. I have posted a lot about this topic in this thread if you want to search for posts by me. To answer your immediate question, no don't convert a file you want to replace to mono if the stock sound is stereo. In general you want to match the attributes of the sound file you want to replace with those of the stock sound you exported. These two recent posts I made and the ones from other pinsiders that I quoted within may help.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images/page/91#post-6269829
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images/page/91#post-6279932

As far as Audacity itself there's a lot of help online if you google. Many videos out there show you how to leverage the Compressor and other plug ins as well as export options to match the fidelity of one sound to another.

What link are you referring to exactly?

My only advice is to download and inspect the stock audio file you want to replace. Then make sure your custom audio file matches its same bit depth and sample rate. 24000Hz (aka 24kHz) seems like a red flag to your issue. That's an odd sample rate value in general for audio. Stern audio files are either 44.1khz or 48khz from my experience.

I understand your pain. But what you need to understand is that song/voice/FX etc. aka sound location HEXs are not named and there are likely thousands. So to replace anything the right way, you have to go through listening, cataloging, and bookmarking every single sound file in the game. Unless someone has done that work for you already via PBs share bookmarks function. Otherwise you and your friend are just cherry picking away at files you think should be replaced, hoping for the best result.