JoJoJuJu59

I have VLC selected in Options but since the last few buuilds of LB, It's not uncommon that when I jump from cover to cover in the main LB program (not BigBox), the audio will play for the game but just a black screen displays for the video. I'm on an SSD with a good rig (i9/RTX 3070) so I don't think my hardware is an issue. It seems to have gotten even worse with the newer builds of LB. I tried selecting Media Player Classic in Options but then nothing plays at all. Is this a known issue and if so is there a fix for this? Btw, I'm using the Neptune third-party theme.

I previous builds of LB (not Big Box), whenever I double clicked on a video in the details pane, it would pick up exactly in fullscreen where the video was playing in its video snap window. In the last few builds, it always restarts the video once it goes into fullscreen. Is there a setting to revert to the behavior of picking up where the video was in details pane? I'm using v12.11 because latest versions reduce the video window size (slightly but still noticeable) in my theme (Neptune) and I prefer a large video window.

You are correct, sir. I just tested it with even old LB default themes and it re-starts the video as soon as I double-click on it to make it fullscreen. I'm thinking maybe it was an older version of LB that I was using (I'm currently on 12.11) that caused the video to pick up right where it left off once I double-clicked to fullscreen. I wish I knew if there was a setting that allowed current builds of LB to do this. Sometimes I see a part of a video in my LB that I want to see enlarged or fullscreen, and now the default behavior is to restart the entire video once in fullscreen. I suppose I can ask in the general forums. Thanks for your help. Meanwhile, I'll continue to use your theme because it's my favorite by far, so thanks for that too 😃

This is still my favorite theme and I just updated to v1.4 but one thing I prefer about the default theme(s) is that when I click on the video in the desktop version of Launcbox to have it go fullscreen, it picks up right where it left off in the LB browser but when I do the same with Neptune installed, it restarts the video from the beginning. Is there a setting to make Neptune behave more like the default theme and have videos continue where they were when I double-click to fullscreen them?

No, just my LB would freeze up Then after it finished downloading the video (or not finding one), it would go back to normal and I could use LB normally again. I'm thinking it was something going on with my Windows installation at the time, either some other program or redistributable that Windows was using that caused this quirk. Now it works fine though. I've since upgraded to Windows 10 build 21H2 which might have helped. This plugin of yours works great and it's one of only two LB plugins (the other being the Steam info downloader) I use. I wanted to use the latest version and now I can.

Heh, just tried it now with the same version that was giving me trouble on the same build of LB and it works fine. Must have been the older Windows build I was using or something. Love the new added features, btw, and it runs much smoother than the older version I was using where it would freeze up my LB until the video was downloaded. Great job on this plugin. Thanks.

Thanks for the tip about the author's thread. Alas, that was one of the first things I tried to get rid of "Platform" but it's not even ticked by default in the game details options so it must be hard-coded in the XAML or something.

Thanks. Is there any type of guide that deals with the text editing aspects of LB's XAML files instead of using the theme creator software (though I imagine it may be even more difficult this way)? There are a few other things I want to remove for my personal use that I don't need that take up space in the game details pane. For example, Platform. All my launchbox games are installed under Windows category so I don't need the description of what platform they are for that.

I tried tinkering with a few xaml files with notepad++ but have no aptitude for HTML code-type endeavors. Does anyone know offhand which part I would have to delete to get rid of the "Overview" and "Related Games" functions in the game details panel? I looked for all instance of those words in gamedetails.xaml and deleted them but it did nothing.

I really love this theme and it's become my default one (I don't use BigBox much; mostly the desktop browser version of LB). I particularly like the innovation with the dynamically resizing video in the game details pane; no more loss of real estate with certain videos that have a smaller, less than ideal or odd aspect ratio. Really good work! There are only a few things I would customize for myself but I'm afraid theme creator software is too daunting and involved for me, unless there's a more newbie friendly way to customize LB themes for the desktop, non-BigBox version *looks at you all hopefully* 😶

This didn't work for me (v0.47). I'm on v12.11 of LB. Putting the new builds of Vidsnap Scraper into my Plugins folder completely crashes/hangs Launchbox at the splash-screen so I had to go back to an old version of Vidsnap Scraper that was in an earlier beta form but with missing features. Would love to try the newer builds with added features because it's one of the more useful plugins for me and I appreciate the author's work.

I don't really use these options and they just take up space in my Game Details panel. Is it possible to hide or remove them? Couldn't find anything in Options. I'm using Old Theme on v12.11.

I don't use emumovies because I think their recurring billing system without notifying you is a rip-off but volunteers getting together and creating and sharing video snaps for C64 Dreams is a worthy cause. I have about 500 video snaps of C64 games but a lot of them are just slideshows, but some are actual game play videos. Since I acquired them for my old Hyperspin collection a few years ago and then transferred them to C64 Dreams I can't remember where I got them from. Would certainly be willing to share. Edited to add: removed slightly humorous typo when I originally wrote above "volunteers getting together and creating and sharting videos" lol

One old windows 95 game I'd love to see curated and released as an optimized standalone is Beasts & Bumpkins, a rare but very fondly remembered "city builder" in the vein of the early The Settlers games but considerably bawdier (but not vulgar and raunchy). It's VERY difficult to get the ISO version (or even the truncated ripped version, AFAIK) to work natively on modern Windows because of corrupted color palettes and severe mouse lag but I tinkered with it recently and got the game itself working perfectly using the dgVoodoo v2.78 wrapper (which is a wonderful fix for a great many old games that run poorly or not at all on new Windows versions). It's my understanding that it's also extremely difficult to get the ISO working with full videos, CD music and no CD check entails additional challenges outside of the game's palette & input lag problems under Win10.

No need. It worked perfectly with your fix in the file attachment. Thanks