Jason Carr
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Makes sense, though it's very difficult to support any and all controllers without some form of other input to begin with, so I would imagine we'd have to do a bunch of trickery to get it working. We could resolve that specific use case yes, but I'm doubtful that it's a very common scenario in itself. Still, it would be a good ticket for the long term.
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It's mainly for theme developers to be able to use it for custom background videos (or when more than one video is played at the same time). It is not recommended to use it in place of the existing game videos, so it's really intended only for themes that use background videos like FutureState or CriticalZone.
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This is for a different issue unfortunately.
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LaunchBox never does anything with MAME controller settings, so yeah, that wouldn't be related to LaunchBox at all.
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The recent changes aren't going to perform miracles or anything, but the video playback should be less demanding. Regardless, I'll need more details on your hardware and such and details on what in particular is slow in order to improve anything.
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Ah, interesting. Not sure the best solution for this but can you put in a ticket?
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Oh, how could I forget! @CriticalCid updated the included CriticalZone theme to use the new VideoControl which should also result in better performance for the included CriticalZone theme.
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Thanks all, I will review the rest of the thread in detail later, but I just released 7.1-beta-3 with the following fixes: - Fixed: Imports were sometimes failing at various spots when importing multiple discs - Fixed: VLC-related HostVisual errors - Fixed: Genre changes in batch edit were sometimes not getting saved Doing a bit of back and forth because of the holidays, but I'll be back to the thread shortly.
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Launchbox import crashes when importing some games
Jason Carr replied to locvez's topic in Troubleshooting
Thank you all; I believe I have this stuff all fixed for the next beta. It's uploading now. -
1080p SNES Recorded Hyperspin Game Theme Videos *RELEASED*
Jason Carr replied to Riffman81's topic in Game Media
Woohoo! As long as we get them on EmuMovies proper like the current videos for Arcade, then they'll automatically be available in LaunchBox! -
Curious what happens if you cancel it and start it over.
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No, it's not a load issue; just checked the server. The new server is way overpowered and no resources are even getting close to exhausted. Where are you @Pacman56?
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Yup. There doesn't seem to be much we can do about it. It seems to happen no matter what if the server is hosted in the US. We've tried two different hosts now in different spots in the US. All I can figure is it's the pipeline.
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How are download speeds for everybody else? Where are you located @neil9000? I just tested and of course it's fast for me but it seems it always is.
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Ah, sorry @spycat. I probably still have it waiting for me there.
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Thank you @Hexxxer. Yeah, we've run into the green bar with the Steam trailer videos. It seems to be a rare issue that happens only with certain odd encodings, but it is indeed an issue.
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Haven't looked/searched, so I'm not sure if there's a ticket yet. Haven't yet done any research on algorithms, either, so I'm not sure as to best approaches at this point.
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Happy birthday too @neil9000. @billyc999 I'm 32 and balding already, so you got me beat.
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Yup, planning to stream tomorrow fixing more bugs. Next week is up in the air though.
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Alright, another new beta is out with hopeful fixes for a couple of issues. @kmoney I'm hoping this fixes the stack trace you posted on the previous page. @ckp I still couldn't replicate it, but I added code to pause the video *before* starting the 7-zip process, so if we're lucky, that will fix it. Let me know guys (though I know @kmoney's stack trace was probably rare to begin with).
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Thanks for this detailed report, @ckp. Unfortunately I can't seem to replicate it to save my life. Can you list out all the emulators that seem to be causing it? Is it every emulator that unzips files? Also, does it happen every single time or is it random? Has anyone else seen this happen?
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I think he more meant waiting for the script to finish before launching the emulator, rather than waiting for the emulator to load.
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Believe it or not, I still can't replicate this @spycat. There must be something elusive that we haven't figured out that's causing it. Would you be willing to zip up your Data folder and send it to me?
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Guidance on creating a BigBox Theme
Jason Carr replied to billyc999's topic in Big Box Custom Themes
Ah, I see. So I assume that's the CoverFlow control? You should be able to adjust the Spacing property on the control which should help solve the issue. Unfortunately due to the nature of the CoverFlow control, it won't dynamically space things out, so you'll have to manually set the spacing. I don't really have a good solution for making that dynamic based on the aspect ratio of the images, unfortunately. Once we eventually allow different themes per platform, we can probably solve it on a platform-by-platform basis, but sadly right now I don't really have a good solution. -
Alright guys, as I stated above, the first 7.1 beta is out. Here's the changelog so far: - Improvement: Resolved some performance issues with scrolling notes in Big Box - Improvement: Added a new VideoControl for Big Box custom themes (for more flexible use of custom video backgrounds and such) - Improvement: Changed the Documentation.pdf file to reflect the Big Box custom themes changes and additions for 7.0 and 7.1 Per the scrolling notes, we discovered that they were causing some major delays when long notes were displayed in Big Box. It was the dynamic width calculations that were automatically being done by the XAML that were causing the delays. The solution isn't perfect because we're basically using a percentage width of the screen now instead of a proper dynamic calculation, so let me know if anyone is seeing incorrect widths for scrolling notes. The new VideoControl element was built for themes that currently use a MediaElement (such as @CriticalCid's CriticalZone theme to display the background video). The new control will properly switch between VLC and WMP per the user's settings which should result in some performance improvements since only one engine is used instead of two (at least when using VLC). Performance is better even on my souped up machine, so that's a win. However, theme creators will need to update their themes to use this new element; it won't happen automatically. The new element will also not be available in any previous versions, so it will require the beta. However, we hope to put out the official 7.1 version very soon. Documentation on the new VideoControl is available in the updated Documentation.pdf file.
