Mamba bugs/errors: post here !

[whiteg]

No no no. The scenes on the timeline are black, the preview window is black and the laser output is black.

Compare it with drawing a black frame, drag it to the timeline and than press Play. Result: you see a black scene, no playback and no output.

At the first time I had black scenes on the timeline, too, after I updates MB.
I rebooted my computer. Next I switched my dongle and my laser on. After that I started Mamba.My MB has worked properly since that.

Send PM.

Gabor

[whiteg]

No no no. The scenes on the timeline are black, the preview window is black and the laser output is black.

Hi,

Could you resolve the problem? Does you MB work proberly?
If it work, would you post it what was the solution.

Gabor

[Miss A.]

Hi Gabor,

I installed the whole software again (+v1.95) and now it's working.
Well, I now have normal scenes with the right colors. I will check the output to my laser tomorrow.

But I found another thing that is not right.
Can you check this out on your computer as well?

Load a show. The name of the music file is displayed in the green bar.
Now load another show with the new function Append in the File menu.
This 2nd show should be paste to the first one at the end, right?

What I see is that the audio file of the first show is gone!
Also the time markers from 6 minutes to the end are missing.

Please let me know that you found.

XX Audrey

[whiteg]

Hi Audrey,

If I append a show to an other, the music will pass away. Probably it can't handle two music file at same time, so maybe that the cause why it clear music file from show. I think you have to merge yourself the two music file and load it into the show.
It was the cause why I asked a showplayer on the wish list.

You can set the timeline length. For example you have a 4 minutes long show and the timeline length was set to 6 minutes. If you append a 3 minutes show to the previous, it will longer than you have on timeline (you only have 2 minutes). So MB has to cut off the end of the second show. If you increase the length of timeline before appending, the second show will appear correctly.

Gabor

[Miss A.]

Mmmzzz, I think this music thing is bug.
If it is working like you describe, this Append thing is useless!
Why would it delete the first music file!?
And yes, a Showlayer would be better in this case.

And about this timeline:
I think this is also a bug.
Or Mamba should stop at 6 min, or it should play the shows with a nice timeline. What you see as well is a blue background of the scenes after 6 minutes. This also wrong I think.
If I have 3 shows that I want to paste on the timeline, I fist have to calculate what the total timeline will be and change the length of the timeline? It would be better if Mamba automatically extent this new total length.

I PM'ed Andre to post something here.

Miss A

[Miss A.]

Another strange thing:

-Set the timeline length to 6 minutes and close Mamba.
-Open Mamba but don't load any show.
-Go with the mouse to the '5 minutes marker' of the timeline.
-Click on this 5 minutes marker. A white line is displayed and the LED clock will say "05:00.00".
-Now go with the mouse to the gray bar (track overview) just above this white line.
-Click on this gray line an this point. The clock will than say 03:21.00 or something.

Isn't this strange?

Audrey

[Gebbi]

Hi all,

I also realized the problem with unsynchron music and show speed.
Could you please try out to convert the soundfile to wav.?
This way solved my problems currently.

Cheers, Gebbi

[OldGrumpy]

Hi there,

let me confess that it is all my fault and nobody who tested the append mechanism noticed the things you pointed out, sorry! I was working on a lot of nightmare code during the last weeks and some goofs slipped through Will look into the timeline and append show problems and also the black output problem. The strangest thing is that you'll see the scanners moving, just no color output

Somewhere in this thread somebody asked why there was no response frome me. That's because I didn't know about this thread until I just saw a PM that pointed me to it. It is now added to my watchlist so I'll respond faster when you post in here.

About synchronization: Mamba 1.x has a very basic way of synchronizing things, depending on whether there is music or not. This was already in before I took over development, and changing it would require quite some effort that I think is better invested into a solid basis, i.e. Mamba 2.0. The sync glitches with MP3 seem to vary depending on which actual codec is installed for MP3. I'll try to find a way to get better and more consistent sync methods.

[Miss A.]

Hi Andre,

Thanks for your fast responce!

I think I have just one conclusion about this.
MediaLas should 'assign' a few (more) beta testers for MB.
This is the only way to debug this software.

In one of your very first posts, two years ago, you wrote that is is very important to listen to software end-users.
Well, make a list of the top 10 Mamba users here on this forum and you have your beta testers.

Miss A.

[whiteg]

Hi,

I alway send my bugreports and description of bugs to MediaLas over email, when I find one.

My bug list send to mail medialas
(1:editor exception occured, 2:the scenes can overlap them, 3:Append show problem)

Mamba works more accurately . I can use it better.

I wait for patch or update.

Gabor