Post #1 · Posted at 2019-10-30 07:29:02pm 4.4 years ago
Songs with background videos would just show a black background, and songs with preview vids would just switch the banner/album art to the theme's fallback background after a second.
Checked the usual suspects:
-Background brightness set to 0%?
Nope, it's at 70%. Songs with non-video BG animations and effects display properly.
-Missing codecs?
Nope, I installed all the "ugly"/"restricted" codecs, I am able to play those same videos in any standalone video player, they just won't play in Stepmania.
I'm a total Linux n00b, so I don't know if there's something else obvious that I'm missing. Do the codecs need to be configured so they can be used in programs other than a video player? Or do I need to mess with one of Stepmania's *.ini files to make the program able to access the video codecs?
Any help would be much appreciated
EDIT:
Adding "DShow" or "FFMpeg" to the MovieDrivers line in Preferences.ini just makes Stepmania crash when starting a song with a background vid.
EDIT ANOTHER: Got tired of grasping at straws and reinstalled Win7 on my dedicated SM box for now. Keeping this thread open just in case I get the urge to tinker, I'll update if I find a fix on my own.
Also I'm not married to Ubuntu, it's just the first flavor of Linux I happened to try. Anyone who's managed to get SM 5.0.12 or any later build to "just work" in ANY flavor of Linux, feel free to school me on your methods, sempai.
Checked the usual suspects:
-Background brightness set to 0%?
Nope, it's at 70%. Songs with non-video BG animations and effects display properly.
-Missing codecs?
Nope, I installed all the "ugly"/"restricted" codecs, I am able to play those same videos in any standalone video player, they just won't play in Stepmania.
I'm a total Linux n00b, so I don't know if there's something else obvious that I'm missing. Do the codecs need to be configured so they can be used in programs other than a video player? Or do I need to mess with one of Stepmania's *.ini files to make the program able to access the video codecs?
Any help would be much appreciated
EDIT:
Adding "DShow" or "FFMpeg" to the MovieDrivers line in Preferences.ini just makes Stepmania crash when starting a song with a background vid.
EDIT ANOTHER: Got tired of grasping at straws and reinstalled Win7 on my dedicated SM box for now. Keeping this thread open just in case I get the urge to tinker, I'll update if I find a fix on my own.
Also I'm not married to Ubuntu, it's just the first flavor of Linux I happened to try. Anyone who's managed to get SM 5.0.12 or any later build to "just work" in ANY flavor of Linux, feel free to school me on your methods, sempai.
Post #2 · Posted at 2019-10-30 08:33:02pm 4.4 years ago
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Can you paste the content of just one cache file under Cache/Songs folder (any song that has bg video file). Note: Just all the metadata with values, minus the difficulties steps and notes to the end of file.