@crystalhorizon said:

Is there an example file

The example file is available on the add-ons page: TROIKATRONIX : ISADORA - Pythoner Example File

Regarding the monitor window, I open it and check it because, Pythoner will print out any errors to the monitor window, so it is very helpful to have it open when you are working with Pythoner.
!! open it before running your code, otherwise you can lose the output.
Also, when writing Python, any print() calls you add will print directly to the Monitor window, which is very helpful in figuring things out.
The other thing I am doing at the same time as opening the Monitor window is opening and closing the Pythoner code editor, this is because that forces the code to initialize and can provide feedback about missing modules or other issues.

@jandraka

Thankyou! that totally works. I had tried adding different actors in that position, but not a Video Mixer. : )

Hi,

If you add a Video Mixer actor to the Picture Player and change the monitor link to the Video Mixer output, the sequence displays correctly.
I think the Picture Player output, since there's no continuous GPU output, loses the link.
Hope this helps.

animation-2025-v4.0.9.izz.zip

i noticed in the video i recorded that on the third loop, it jumps back to a jpg that was further up the list, so, for some reason, some of the jpgs in the bin are not being recognised, and therefore not counted as 'official' items in the media bin. I can't tell when in the process this glitch is happening, but it is different every loop. I tried changing the default frame rate and background processes, but those changes had no effect on the glitch. Even running at a slower Pulse (0.5Hz) produces the same glitch.

@dusx in your video you open the show monitor and say you can not see python, then you do something till its working  and I believe I didn´t see how the monitor should look like when it works, or did I miss this specific view of the screen?

It´s my first attempts with python. I managed to install the needed packages (numpy, requests and pillow) as you describe in the video. Is there an example file of it (grab foto of website)?

Thanks for helping

Version 2 released.

• fixes "DX - PY - Save Video Frame as PNG" (incorrect color order)
• fixes "DX - PY - Save Video Frame as PNG" (sometimes wouldn't reference the correct local path, now always saves beside active Izzy project file)

@dbini

I get exactly the same issue testing on Windows on the big machine in my sig: random black frames. All the individual captured jpegs seem just fine.  I tried in .png to see if it was a decompression issue from JPEGs. Same black frames. Also with BMP and TIFF. 

I see nothing in the patch so suggest why this would be happening. All I can do is confirm. Someone else will have to look under the bonnet.

Cheers

not that Mark

@dusx now Ryan. Massive. Thanks !

to illustrate the issue:

and here's (a slightly earlier version of) the patch. animation-2025-v4.0.9.izz.zip

I've built another animation station that captures stage to JPG, loads them into the media bin, and scrolls through the captures with a Picture Player. I'm running a Pulse Generator at around 2.5Hz to trigger the Add of a Counter to scroll through the last 50 images. BUT - there's always a black frame or 2. The media thumbnails are all showing images, but sometimes one or two of these images will not load, and I get a black frame instead of the image. It's pretty random, with different frames not working each time the loop runs.
Does anyone have any ideas of how to maximise efficiency and make sure every picture loads correctly.

(I tried adding a Picture Preload into the system, but it kept crashing Isadora)