Loading Videos - fast way to fill gaps

[brentgl]

Hi

I went through and saw lots of amazing fullscreen loading videos for PinUp.  To quickly cover the gaps in my collection as I used up my daily downloads  i knocked out (with some help from chatgpt) the following script

 

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

rem Specify the path to the list of files
set "file_list=list.txt"

rem Check if list.txt exists
if not exist "%file_list%" (
    echo File %file_list% not found!
    exit /b
)

rem Loop through each line in list.txt
for /f "delims=" %%A in (%file_list%) do (
    set "filename=%%A"
    
    echo Processing !filename!...

    ffmpeg -i "E:\vPinball\PinUPSystem\POPMedia\Visual Pinball X\PlayField\!filename!.mp4" ^
     -i "E:\vPinball\PinUPSystem\POPMedia\Visual Pinball X\Wheel\!filename!.png" ^
     -i "loading.png" ^
     -filter_complex "[1]scale=iw*0.60:-1,rotate=-1.5708:c=none[left_overlay];[0][left_overlay]overlay=x=W*0.1:y=(H-h)/2[tmp];[2]scale=iw*1.5:-1,rotate=-1.5708:c=none:ow='max(iw,ih)':oh='max(iw,ih)'[center_overlay];[tmp][center_overlay]overlay=x=(W-w)/2:y=(H-h)/2+20*sin(2*PI*t/5)" ^
     -c:v libx264 -t 10 "!filename!.mp4"

    echo Finished processing !filename!
)

endlocal

I created a list of all my wheel names (no extension) and saved them as list.txt.  The batch file then goes and grabs the table video, the wheel art and puts a moving loading across the middle of the video.

Nothing too flash but it allowed me to quickly fill my gaps until I can download more of those well designed ones.

I attached the bat file and the basic loading png I used easy to change.

 

 

Hope anyone can get some usage out of this and it can help someone

 

Brent

 

 

loading.bat

[brentgl]

 

 and an example of how it looks - at least as its using your own table video it stays aligned when it has loaded

 

If anyone knows how I can make this into a script I can run from the operator menu that would be great.

 

Thanks