v2 Public Beta 8-11-2024.01

[zshall]

Television Simulator '99 Public Beta

2017-2024 Zach Hall

Always up to date list of 3rd party credits / contributors:

https://www.notion.so/greenhillplaza/Television-Simulator-99-c28584f069b94f58a71b5c9fe2484dcb?pvs=4#8c122c36557a4710bdc938172aa883d7

Update Notes (8-11-2024)

• Fixed audio bug where channel changes that use same background audio source wouldn't be reloaded.
• Updated audio system with new granular controls: in Generator, Keno, Video, Visualizer, and YouTube Playlist engines you can set a volume parameter to a number between 0 and 1, or set it to false. Here's an example:

  video:
    volume: false # You can mute the video entirely if you want.
    provider: ...
    src: ...

• BackgroundAudioOptions section was added with new optional features for filtering, adjusting volume and adding white noise to the audio:

  backgroundAudio: ...
  backgroundAudioOptions:
    volume: 0.9 # You can adjust the volume of the background audio per-channel
    # corsMitigation: true # If you're hosting the app on a server that doesn't support CORS you can enable this to disable audio processing. The filter effects won't work but the audio should play (if CORS is the issue)
    filterType: highpass # You can apply a filter to the audio; values are lowpass, highpass, bandpass, lowshelf, highshelf, peaking, notch, allpass
    filterFrequency: 1000 # The frequency of the filter in Hz
    # noise: 0.08 # You can add white noise to the audio too

• Made a race condition bug in the video game engine less likely by destroying the component when it finishes loading if channel is changed while it loads.

• Added new Bouncing Logo engine which loads an image that bounces around the screen, changing its color whenever it hits the screen. The image should be transparent and a single color for the effect to look right.

- number: -2
  name: DVD Player
  bouncing-logo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/DVD-Video_Logo.svg # The bouncing-logo engine allows you to display an image that bounces around the screen in the style of a DVD logo screensaver.

Read this first!

Get started quickly:

• Put the files in the root directory of a web server. For now we require serving out of the root directory.
• Visit index.html and it should load the example configuration.

Basic keyboard controls:

• M toggles mute
• Up / Down control channels
• Left / Right control volume

In the browser you need to un-mute when the page loads because of autoplay restrictions.

Edit the example configuration file (config.tvs.yml) and make it your own.

Read the documentation: https://greenhillplaza.notion.site/Television-Simulator-99-c28584f069b94f58a71b5c9fe2484dcb

Join our community on Slack to ask for help or report issues: https://join.slack.com/t/greenhillplaza/shared_invite/zt-2dq8mx6sm-3YnobHETTmxUNE02TOSPRg

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