Pinup Popper Loading Screen Volume LOUD

[Angrysaladman1]

Hey all! New to the VP world. Converted a non-working 1970 Williams Rock N Roll into a 3 screen virtual cab. My issue is, everything in pinup popper is working fine, but the loading videos are so loud that I have to constantly adjust volume. I've gone so far as to delete the loading screen media so it just plays the generic loading screen audio, but even that is just as loud! Anyway to disable all loading media? For what its worth, I adjusted volume for the different menus in the pup pack editor, but nothing I change seems to affect the loading screens. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[shylock]

In media manager, right click on video and hit covert to 50 less volume

[shylock]

U can also convert to mute video as well

[Angrysaladman1]

Thank you sir! I didn't even notice that option at the bottom! I will try this tonight!

[zack06007]

when i right click, pinup say: No script in Recorder ? Where enter the script?

[Gude]

Hi, I had the same issue but the problem was not Pinup Popper it was the program pinvol!

If you use SSF you will also use pinvol to adjust the tables individually.

 

It is a bit complicated so I hope I can explain it.

First of all you should check your pinvol settings and check the box that is on the bottom.

If you check this box, pinvol will show the volume settings directly without hitting a button on every new screen.

Now you will see the different volume settings pinvol use during the loading process.

 

Also you have to set your "system table volume" near to maximum.

The ist the volume setting below the global volume settings

 

I set the system table volume to 50, because I thought it its a good idea to have enough space for louder volume for the tables.

And because my system volume was so low, I had to put the volume up on each table.

And that was the problem!

 

What happens during the loading is this:

Pinvol is switching between system table volume settings and the table volume settings of the table, that is loading!

Because the table volume is higher than the system table volume, the loading screen gets LOUD for some seconds.

At my system pinvol is switching back 1-2 seconds before the table starts and volume gets lower again.

Example: System table volume is 50; Table volume is 90 and perfekt for the table.

Loading starts with system volume 50 and on a good level, but during the loading pinvol switch to the upcoming table volume and up to 90!

So the loading screen gets far to loud! 

 

First I thought it is the volume I set for Pinup Popper, but it is not!

Pinvol is handling Pinup Popper as a regular table and you can adjust it like a table.

I guess because the videos are handled through the VLC player, pinvol use the system settings.

 

The solution is to set up the system table volume near to the maximum.

I found out that I now have to reduce  some tables in volume a lot until it is ok.

When I did this, there is sometimes still a noticeable switch on volume during loading but no more on a high different level.

 

It was not easy to find this solution and I hope it helps!

 

 

[barryodog]

MUTE LOADING SCREENS, Problem solved

[EisTee]

On 3/30/2024 at 3:11 PM, Gude said:

Hi, I had the same issue but the problem was not Pinup Popper it was the program pinvol!

If you use SSF you will also use pinvol to adjust the tables individually.

 

It is a bit complicated so I hope I can explain it.

First of all you should check your pinvol settings and check the box that is on the bottom.

If you check this box, pinvol will show the volume settings directly without hitting a button on every new screen.

Now you will see the different volume settings pinvol use during the loading process.

 

Also you have to set your "system table volume" near to maximum.

The ist the volume setting below the global volume settings

 

I set the system table volume to 50, because I thought it its a good idea to have enough space for louder volume for the tables.

And because my system volume was so low, I had to put the volume up on each table.

And that was the problem!

 

What happens during the loading is this:

Pinvol is switching between system table volume settings and the table volume settings of the table, that is loading!

Because the table volume is higher than the system table volume, the loading screen gets LOUD for some seconds.

At my system pinvol is switching back 1-2 seconds before the table starts and volume gets lower again.

Example: System table volume is 50; Table volume is 90 and perfekt for the table.

Loading starts with system volume 50 and on a good level, but during the loading pinvol switch to the upcoming table volume and up to 90!

So the loading screen gets far to loud! 

 

First I thought it is the volume I set for Pinup Popper, but it is not!

Pinvol is handling Pinup Popper as a regular table and you can adjust it like a table.

I guess because the videos are handled through the VLC player, pinvol use the system settings.

 

The solution is to set up the system table volume near to the maximum.

I found out that I now have to reduce  some tables in volume a lot until it is ok.

When I did this, there is sometimes still a noticeable switch on volume during loading but no more on a high different level.

 

It was not easy to find this solution and I hope it helps!

 

 

After i got the workaround i testet a little and it seems that with the DirectX Version this not happening becaue my display dosnt blink and pinvol catches focus imidiatly not so with the GL V4ersion of VPX.

I still had volume change on exiting tabels. Loading could be normalied. It just takes a second for pinvol to notice the focuschange.
You can see this when enable display on every change that it goes from on app to another to system and so on.
After digging around further i lost have my patience cause this seems to be the only "problem" with the sound.

So exiting the table is when hitting escape, i just mute my whole cabinet for X seconds pressing Escape now.

This gives enough time vor PinVol notice the switched fous and adjust the volume and i have to wait anyway til my display it back on.

Put this in autostart and enjoy the silence.
 

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\MuteOnEscape.ps1"

 

# PowerShell script to mute the computer when the Escape key is pressed,
# and then unmute it after a specified duration.

# Define the duration for which the computer should stay muted (in seconds)
$muteDuration = 10  # You can change this value as needed

# Add a .NET class to detect key presses using the Windows API
Add-Type -TypeDefinition @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public class KeyboardListener {
    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    public static extern short GetAsyncKeyState(int vKey);
}
"@

# Function to mute the computer
function Mute-Computer {
    $WshShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
    $WshShell.SendKeys([char]173)  # Sends the "Mute" hotkey
}

# Function to unmute the computer
function Unmute-Computer {
    $WshShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
    $WshShell.SendKeys([char]173)  # Sends the "Mute" hotkey again to unmute
}

# Infinite loop that waits for the Escape key press
while ($true) {
    # Check if the Escape key (ASCII code 0x1B) has been pressed
    $escPressed = [KeyboardListener]::GetAsyncKeyState(0x1B) -lt 0
    if ($escPressed) {
        Mute-Computer
        Start-Sleep -Seconds $muteDuration  # Wait for the specified duration
        Unmute-Computer
    }
    Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100  # Small delay to prevent high CPU usage
}

if you dont want to have this running all the time you can alternate the exit script and use niercmd to mute/unmute. 

 

START "" "C:\Temp\nircmd.exe" mutesysvolume 1
"[STARTDIR]LAUNCH\PUPCLOSER.EXE" WINTIT "Visual Pinball" 10 1 
curl -X POST --data-urlencode "table=[GAMEFULLNAME]" http://localhost:8089/service/gameExit

REM 5-second pause before muting the system again
timeout /t 5 /nobreak >nul

START "" "C:\Temp\nircmd.exe" mutesysvolume 0

 

Edited August 17, 2024 by Aetron