All of a sudden recording not stopping and ffmpeg.exe popping up

[echodun]

All of a sudden, while trying to record playfields using Pinup Popper via the initial menu, when I start the recording it's fine and when I stop the recording it's fine (at least the voice prompts tell me it's fine).  As soon as it says it's optimizing recording, the command window opens up for ffmpeg.exe and it shows everything that's going.   While that is happening, the screen is actually still being recorded even though I already stopped the recording. Any ideas why?

 

For what it's worth, it seems like the recordings are taking extra long and even though I stop the recording, it's still actually recording in the background for awhile.  Relevant log files are attached.  I even tried copying over a backup Recordings directory and the same issue exists.

 

UPDATE:  So I noticed that if I change the -t 60 to -t 15 in the recordstart.bat file it will only record 15 seconds of video (I ran this because all of my videos were 60 seconds regardless of when I told popper to stop recording).  But I'm wondering why it's not triggering off my stop recording button.  Running on v1.5.

 

UPDATE #2:  Eliminating the following from the Startup script for Visual Pinball at least keeps the ffmpeg.exe cmd window from popping up:  if "[RECMODE]"=="1" (SET FSMODE=DisableTrueFullScreen ).  Not sure why I never needed to remove it before or why TrueFullScreen should be disabled when recording.   The only remaining issue is why although my button to stop the recording begins the encoding, it doesn't actually stop it from recording and is overridden by the "-t ##" command in the .bat file.

recordstart.log recordstop.log

Edited July 7, 2024 by echodun