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  1. megashub
    @Jason Carr Should I open a bug report for this?
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    Here's an odd one... I'm using the OBS integration to record gameplay videos for use in BigBox. For the most part it works great. It detects when I've recorded one and asks if I want to associate it with the game when I return to BB, etc. My only problem is, whenever BB plays the video when browsing the catalog, the volume is very low compared to videos I download for, say, MAME games, from LaunchboxDB or EmuMovies. The video I'm recording sounds nice and loud when I play it from within Launchbox's Edit menu or via Windows Media Player from File Explorer. It's only playing quiet in BB itself. Any idea how to fix that since it's not all volume, just those OBS-recorded videos? Here's a comparison from within BigBox, recorded using the same OBS hotkey as I use when recording in-game video: https://streamable.com/pnmp7z And here's the game video itself that is playing quiet only within BigBox: https://streamable.com/wt7v5p
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    Quick note that I'm seeing something similar in 11.11 too:
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    I mapped buttons for page up and page down for use in Big Box. Normal stuff. Page Up works fine, but Page Down doesn't respond at all unless I open the Options menu and hit Back to return to the normal view. After I do this, Page Down works fine. No clue why.
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    This appears to function as intended. I did not encounter any odd behavior.
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    Wow. That was blazingly fast! Thank you!! Yes, I will absolutely test this later this afternoon and report back.
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    This is great! Thank you so much for building and offering this plugin. It will be very useful for many of us. If I may, a feature request: Please allow Additional Commandline Parameters (or whatever that field's actually called) to be part of what the plugin considers a unique app (perhaps as a checkbox option which is unchecked by default). So if I have the same RunBefore.exe on 1000 apps, and I only want to delete the 45 that have a certain string in the additional commandline parameters, this extra filtering would support that. In my case, I use batch files a lot, and I feed it game-specific parameters via commandline arguments. So that one script would show up once in this current logic, but if I had this extra level of pattern matching enabled, I could single out a subset for removal. I have a real use case for this now, where I initially used Bulk Add to add a generic "starting point" additional app with the intention that I would later go through and edit the app to add a single keyword as an argument only on the games I ended up caring about / favoriting. I later changed my process and now would like to go through and remove only those with the missing keyword (which would all appear as the same string in the plugin). Example: My Run-Before App, D:\MyApps\RunBefore.exe, cfg\.ugc My Run-Before App, D:\MyApps\RunBefore.exe, cfg\frogger.ugc My Run-Before App, D:\MyApps\RunBefore.exe, cfg\mrdo.ugc ... My Run-Before App, D:\MyApps\RunBefore.exe, cfg\zaxxon.ugc This extra granularity would let me remove just the app that matched "cfg\.ugc"
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    Unfortunately not. But what I did was backed up my Arcade.xml file in case I borked it, and then opened it with Notepad++, with the ToolBucket plugin installed. From there you can perform a multiline find and replace. In your case you'll probably be finding the whole set of lines for the app you want to remove and replacing it with null.
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    Ooo. In that case, would you be willing to share the script/solution you settle on? Would love to not need to reinvent the wheel.
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    Sounds right! question (selfishly): Which lightguns are you working with? My Sindens will hopefully arrive in a few more months.
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    That's more of a LaunchBox question than something for this plugin to solve. If your lightgun software has a commandline argument to close all running instances of the software, you could use this plugin to bulk add two Additional Apps. One that Runs Before Main Application to run the software for use while playing, and another that Runs After Main Application which kills them both. Or, if the lightgun software can't do that, you could do the same thing by writing a small script to find and kill them based on their process ID #s. Or you could write a script that is Run Before Main Application which first launches the Lightgun software, but then stays running in the background watching for the game to close, and then kills the lightgun software before exiting the script.
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    oh wow. I had no idea these entries were in readable file formats. I would have gone this direction long ago had I realized that. Thank you so much for letting me know. I have no further need for a plugin in order to make such corrections.
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    This is a great plugin. Thank you for making it. Are you accepting payment for additional features, by any chance? Desired enhancements: Exact Pattern match search of existing Additional Apps Bulk Find/Replace (exact pattern match only). Example: Application Command-Line Parameters of an Additional App contains a typo: -hiddne -exit -play Perform a Find/Replace using pattern: dne Plugin finds all Additional Apps that contain that exact pattern and presents a multi-select list for the user to select which games to modify. User provides the new string to replace: den Plugin makes the replacement on all selected games By restricting this new feature down only to exact matching, I'm hoping the complexity is much lower (no fuzzy searching, no wildcards, etc etc). Thoughts?
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    I don't know if this issue is specifically what was addressed, but there was this note in the 11.11 changelog, so it may be worth evaluating it
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    Calling all 360 stick users! Please go vote on this enhancement request, originally opened in 2017 and still pending in the backlog. Requests with the most momentum behind them will generally get higher priority, especially if the level of effort required to do the work is low, which I believe this one will be. Basically, it's @James35 's %romname% variable concept above + the use of this plugin to bulk update your rom collection within LB.
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    Looking pretty likely that this is a Theme issue. I'm 1 hour in using the Default theme, with the exact same elements in use, and no problems at all. I was seeing issues as early as 30 minutes when using AllNightLong. Update: confirmed. 2 hours in now, and absolutely no performance problems.
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    It was one of the 21 offered for download in the BB Themes Manager, so I grabbed it that way. It's AllNightLong. I'll go find the view after this test is over, but it's a vertical wheel of clear logos with game details and gameplay video. I was using it with an auto-populated Favorites playlist, if that matters.
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    This test has been running for nearly 90 minutes. No problems at all. I'm going to try to find a view that uses both Clear Logos and videos in the default theme next. Edit: Found one. Starting a new test. If this one comes back clean there's no difference functionally between this view and the one that causes the machine to CTD, other than the Theme in use. If it does turn out to be Theme-specific, what's a way Theme makers can find the offending code?
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    Okay. Moved to new test: Switched to a vertical wheel (text titles only), but with game details (static art and gameplay video). Stay tuned.
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    45 minutes in now and not a single blip during the spin on this test. That's a pretty stark contrast from the previous tests. Only thing I changed was the theme, which shifted the view to this covers-only wheel. The test is still running and I'll keep monitoring, but I think the next test should be a view using the Default theme that includes the videos, if one exists. Yes?
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    The only background apps I have running to my knowledge are Steam and Epic. I have no AV/Security software installed. It's just Stock Win10 x64. Drivers: done. All drivers are current version (it's a very new installation). Updates: Same. Current stable release. I have the default theme on a test run now. The default view (or at least the view it gave me after I switched back to it), is just a horizontal wheel of static cover art that it spins (no video or text beyond the title in the top right corner). That's been running for 15 minutes now, with no visible blips or lags developing yet. For comparison, the other theme kicks off the gameplay video for each title when the spin stops. Perhaps that's an important factor? Will keep monitoring it.
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    Ahh got it! That's good to know, and now I totally understand why this is such an odd-man-out issue. Happy to help give you as much useful testing data as I can.
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    Good thought. Yes. I have tuned all power settings in Windows.
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    Here's a detailed breakdown. These are high performance machines geared specifically toward AAA-capable gaming and are configured as such OOTB (at least in my case running an 8th gen Hades Canyon NUC): https://blog.itcreations.com/intel-hades-canyon-nuc-8-review/ I think this is why it's a software-side problem. Is Attract Mode fully unloading the media for a given game and letting go of those resources before loading up the next one? Because if it's holding on to cache or isn't fully killing processes every time, it's possible it's just grinding to a halt over time. But I can't speculate well because I don't understand how Attract Mode works under the hood.
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    Ram: 32GB DDR4, default theme, sure. I'll run a fresh test with default theme and report back.
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