Jason Carr

@Nyny77 @Cauptain I think I figured out what went wrong with that last translation package. There are a series of files that are no longer used by LaunchBox (they've been retired). I didn't realize that they were still being included in the translation packages; sorry for that. As far as I can tell, the only files that were updated in the very last package you guys sent were these unused files. I've removed them from future translation packages, so we should be good going forward, and as far as I can tell, nothing is missing from the 9.4 release (the last changes weren't used anyways). Sorry for the confusion there.

I'll add this to my list, though it may be a while before I get to it, unfortunately.

Volumes do work in WMP; they may not have at some point in the past, but they should work fine currently. I have heard that the new version of VLC fixed issues for some people it wasn't working for.

Just for future reference, it's best *not* to install as admin, as it won't fix anything and can actually cause various problems later on. It sounds like we really need to figure out what's going on here. Unfortunately I'm still fairly clueless as to why it's happening to a small handful of users, but if we can figure out commonalities between you guys, we might be able to identify the issue. What version of Windows are you guys running? @jjb_22 What happens if you install to an entirely new folder (temporarily)?

Thank you Neil, I never saw this thread. Unfortunately there's no way I could read and respond to every single thread on these forums. Auto-populate playlists are naturally going to be more CPU intensive than otherwise, but I've worked hard in the past few versions to help their performance. A lot will depend on hardware though, of course. @Djungelurban Please let me know your hardware specs. You can also PM me a copy of your LaunchBox\Data folder and let me know what's slow and I'll see if there's anything out of the ordinary that's slowing it down that can be addresssed.

They both have their tradeoffs. VLC can be slightly more resource-intensive, but also tends to result in smoother transitions, assuming the hardware can keep up. WMP may be stripped from future versions of Windows for all we know, and it also requires third-party codecs for many of the videos.

After a quick look, the themes look very close now. Redux has the faster spinning discs, and some slightly different backgrounds (characters have been removed in Redux so that the boxes don't overlap them). There may be other differences but I'm not immediately seeing anything else sticking out.

Thanks for that @NJDave71.

@krofftsuperstar It's definitely an issue with a Windows setting if the keys aren't auto-repeating. Maybe try some of the steps here? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/keyboard-will-not-repeat/6626697f-00a2-43dc-95bb-936c3cf4d2bf

I wish. There are no good solutions; the Google thing doesn't work with multiple items. Eventually I'll probably convert the whole dialog to WPF and then we can do something better. It'll be a while though.

Good to hear. Apparently the 2.x line of VLC just did not work well on your system, for whatever reason. What changed is that we upgraded to VLC 3.0.6, which was a major restructure on VLC's part so it was a challenge to get it all upgraded.

No worries. Strange, but it's good to hear that a reboot magically fixed it at least. Thanks @adu.

I'm pretty lost, especially considering that it was happening for a new install for @adu. I guess we'll see if anyone else runs into it.

Odd. I wonder if maybe VLC is somehow in use and so it's failing to overwrite the files. Were you guys starting up Big Box or LaunchBox?

It sounds like somehow it's unable to extract the new version of VLC. Are you running out of disk space?

Hi @adu, please try installing to a new folder (just a separate install) to see if you still get the issue or not.

Okay; I'm guessing that the issue will still be temporary, and there's probably something out there in the Interwebs that's just sucking or partially down right now. I can't say for sure, but that would be my guess.

Where are you located? Is it a new issue? Yes, VPNs can help, but it depends on a lot of factors.

Hmm, maybe I screwed it up somehow. Sorry for that. I'll try getting it in for the next beta at least.

I'm testing it as we speak and I'm seeing good performance from my end. Unfortunately this means it's likely just something not fast between the server and wherever you are on the Internet. The topic has come up a lot, and the only real solution would be to have many servers/mirrors across the world, which unfortunately is out of our ability for the moment.

@daithidownunder If you would, please zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder, and I'll take a look to see if it's potentially an issue with the data.

@Lahma Thanks for pointing that out. I've added them in for the official release, which should be out today.

Previously, that drop down was taking forever to load and causing the application to appear to be locked up while it loads. I searched high and low for a better control for it, and they all seemed to have performance issues, or were missing features. So this is my temporary solution for now, even though it's not ideal.

No problem guys. I'll get these in before the official release tomorrow.

Yup, that is now by design. You can simply type in the box instead and separate items with a semicolon.