Looks like I am going to have to go with the UserPatterns.xml route. Question, if I have a sequence in xlights already created, click on an effect and then click export, is it exporting, just that effect or the whole sequence? It runs for 10 minutes then just stops working.
when you create a sequence, you can define it as 10 seconds or 3 minutes. when yu save an xlights sequence, it saves every channel you have defined in the setup tab.
in my case, i have 24 e1.31 universes. so when i save i am saving 12,288 channels times the length of my sequence.
a 3 minute song will produce a 900mbyte UserPatterns.xml file and take 10 minutes to make. if i save the exact same sequence as an xlights, conductor or pi player file it will be < 50mbytes in size and take < 1 minute to create/
the file format for LSP is not optimal for lrge channel count displays. i have had this discussion with david over 1 year ago, there has been no movement to create a smaller, tighter file.
you must use xml files for lsp, maybe next year they will add another file format.\\
thanks
sean