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HereSphere VR Video Player (Meta Quest)

VR video player with immersion-enhancing algorithms, streaming, and media library features · By HereSphere

Issue with keon and playlists

A topic by mrMightyM created May 09, 2023 Views: 753 Replies: 6
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When I connect my Keon to Heresphere, and select a video from the file browser, everything works great, but if I create a playlist the first 2 work fine, they load the script and play them, but any past the third video the script does not play. It says that the script is loaded, and if I seek ahead or back with the joystick or in the GUI it starts to play the script, but then the same thing will happen again and it will stop playing the scripts. Anything I can try?

Developer

That's pretty weird. Are you playing the entire video, letting the playlist advance to the next video by itself? Or are you clicking on the playlist entry to load the next video? Have you tried creating a different playlist, switching up the video order, using different videos, etc? The more info you can provide, the easier it'll be for me track down the bug. Thanks.

Yes, it is letting the entire video play through, then letting the playlist advance on it's own is when it seems to happen.  I have created a second playlist with a different video order, with the same results. I have also looked at the funscript files, and I thought some had some extra information in them, so I loaded and resaved them but still the same problem. One thing I did notice when it happens, at the beginning of the video the Keon jumps, like it goes up or down quickly then just stops. I have to go out for a couple of hours, I will do some more testing when I get back. 

Developer

Does this happen consistently every time on the third video, or is sometimes random? Are you using a time offset, and does the length of the video have any impact on whether it occurs?

Okay, I tried a bunch of things, it is not limited to just a playlist, I can go into the directory, and hit play, and when it loads the next file it will do the same thing. It does seem to be completely random. I tried a smaller playlist, and it was the 3rd one again, so I deleted the first 2, and then it happened after the first. I then restarted Heresphere, and the first was fine, but now the second. No pattern that I could find.

I tried different length of files, 5 minute to 30 minute, all with the same outcome, and it didn't matter where in the playlist, it would always seem to change. No time offset, everything is default. I changed the refresh from 90hz to 120hz, and it changed which file it would freeze on, but going back to 90 or any others it didn't change again.

The only consistent thing is when it happens, the Keon jump from the low position to the high position, and it seems to be while it it loading the next video. 

Let me know how I can help.

Developer (1 edit)

When you seek, does the issue fix itself for the entire duration of the video, and then the problem happens again when the playlist advances to a new video? Or once the issue occurs, seeking only fixes the issue for a short duration of the video? Also, are you playing videos locally, with SMB, with XBVR, or streaming from the web?

Edit: Alright, I think I found the issue. There was a race condition where the script tried to play before the video was fully opened. It'll be fixed in the next update. Thanks for reporting the issue.

That's great, looking forward to the next release thank you! And just for reference it fixes it for the duration of the video, and happens again when it advances, the videos are being played locally with the funscripts in the same directory as the videos.