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Interested in one please. If this works for my application I'd be interesting in purchasing 4 more.
Interesting. I'm using an Elgato HD60 Pro card for my capture so I'm not sure if there's a way (or how) to disable blanking. Any ideas? I'm also not sure what the best way would be the best way to invert the signal before it reaches the Splitfire - it would need to be inverted again on the way out of the splitfire so that it looked correct on the original arcade monitor. I'll have to think about that as an option. I will say that I've inverted the signal via the Framemeister so that it feeds a normal non-inverted signal to the capture card. The results were the same.My guess is that, by giving inverted video to your capture hardware, the white (inverted black) signal is present even in the front porch of a video line, which causes the capture hardware to clamp to this value, washing out the rest of the line. If you can disable blanking on your hardware, then that would do it. Otherwise, I'd invert the the signal before giving it t othe splitfire.
Does this behavior happen if you feed the inverted video to your capture hardware directly?
Ah, I gotcha.The framemeister itself is a capture device (even used as a scaler), so I expect it also has its own clamping behavior. I am surprised that you are using the splitfire as a passthrough device here, as the Nintendo cabinets are not JAMMA.
If that's what was powering the ST and Third Strike streams then I agree!I used two of these in a tournament this last weekend and they worked flawlessly. Thanks again; I couldn't recommend more.
Someone link me to the stream? Also what is there a white list of tested capture cards?If that's what was powering the ST and Third Strike streams then I agree!I used two of these in a tournament this last weekend and they worked flawlessly. Thanks again; I couldn't recommend more.
Free Play looked awesome. Saw some of my friends' pinballs in the collection too (Total Nuclear Annihilation and America's Most Haunted).
https://www.twitch.tv/freeplayarcade/videos?filter=archives&sort=timeSomeone link me to the stream?
Inverting the signal before bringing it into the Splitfire seems to have done the trick. I still have some settings I need to tweak on the OSSC, but progress was made nonetheless. Thanks for the help, Mike!My guess is that, by giving inverted video to your capture hardware, the white (inverted black) signal is present even in the front porch of a video line, which causes the capture hardware to clamp to this value, washing out the rest of the line. If you can disable blanking on your hardware, then that would do it. Otherwise, I'd invert the the signal before giving it t othe splitfire.
Does this behavior happen if you feed the inverted video to your capture hardware directly?
Thanks; the event was a blast and I thought everything turned out pretty well. Not that we're using these cards, obviously, but in 3 weeks we'll be streaming a pinball tournament so hopefully that'll work out as well.If that's what was powering the ST and Third Strike streams then I agree!I used two of these in a tournament this last weekend and they worked flawlessly. Thanks again; I couldn't recommend more.
Free Play looked awesome. Saw some of my friends' pinballs in the collection too (Total Nuclear Annihilation and America's Most Haunted).
I haven't seen one yet but I can confirm they work nicely with our OSSCs. I don't think that it makes much of a difference at that point, but I use a Magewell internal capture card after that and have had zero issues capturing the video out from the Splitfire after being upscaled via the OSSC.Also what is there a white list of tested capture cards?
This is exactly the reason I was attracted to these devices. Passively splitting any arcade video signal results in a voltage drop that ultimately will result in a dim picture on the arcade monitor. On more finicky games, such as non-jamma classics, I've seen instances where the monitor is not only dim, but the colors are off and the picture is unstable. I've been able to get around these issues by adding an in-line amplifier to the signal going back to the monitor, but it's a mess of wiring.These boards not only didn't darken the image on the cabinet itself (meaning I don't have to actually do a bunch of manual adjustments to the monitor for the sake of the players in the tournament) but the video gain knob allowed me to balance out the video quickly and easily.
I'm intrigued to see what you come up with for the rev 2! I'll be curious to see what the differences/improvements are. Keep me posted - I'll probably want one lol!Super Hang On!!! I’ve been going really hard on my SHO cab, and am going to be setting up capture soon. It’s the main motivation to make rev 2 of the splitfire.