Good morning everyone,

In the scope of a homebrew pinball project, I'm trying to assess the various options available, with regards to infrastructure, although... There does not seem to be a lot.

I found essentially MPF, PyProcGame, and SkeletonGame.

There's a rather comprehensive summary here: https://pinballmakers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Programming

So naturally I looked at MPF, which seems to be the most comprehensive. However documentation is sometimes rather scarce on some topics, such as the media controller which is rather focused on simple displays (such as DMD) in it's present state. I could not for example find an example code on how one would blend a 3D animation on top of a video.

There seems to be a protocol (BCP) upon which anyone can build a media controller, but the only alternative I found is Unity based, and has not been updated for quite some time (and Unity causes some problem in my use case, as I intend to run on an ARM SBC instead of a full PC which I deem is way overkill for that usage).

Soooo.... what are you guys using in general ? I don't see any alternative to MPF if using other HW than P-Roc.

I remember some discussions about alternative branch of MPF or PyProcGame, but I can't find them anymore

Regards

Yes I did find the Google group.

At this stage I'm trying to gather an understanding. I did raise questions which were not related to how to use MPF, but rather source code information (as I intend to run in a specific manner to make deployment easier).

I've read a bit of documentation lately, and the media controller is my main concern.

The default one runs on kivy, which unfortunately does not seem to have good support of HW acceleration for video decoding on ARM based SBC as far as I understand (it relies on gstreamer from what I could gather, but I could not find details on which platform they support for accelerated video decoding). And for our purpose, we do not want to use a PC at all, this is absolutely not possible

Need to dig further on this