Jason Carr

Woah, I missed a whole page, sigh lol.

Lols. Awesome video @dovella. Put that in the new Videos section if you can.

Hi @elborra, there is what's considered the "correct" platform name for each platform and we use alternate platform names in order to match them up as best we can. We also have the "Scrape As" option so I agree that it would make the most sense to change this to support those implementations. I'll see if I can tweak this soon.

@kev25b I don't really know of a good way to fix this, as Big Box just behaves the way standard Windows apps should behave when dealing with focus issues. If another app is stealing the focus, I'm not sure if there is a good way to fix it.

Thank you @snarfo67, I really appreciate your kind words there. Made for really good prep for the live stream here. @Mute64, hmm, that's interesting. I very faintly remember something about that from a long time ago. Certainly isn't by design, so I guess we'll call it a bug. I'll have to look into it.

What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. Romans 8:31-34 (NLT) Lord, be my direction, my guide, my will, my hope, and my focus today. Your love is endless and amazing, and I will worry about nothing since you are guiding my path. Your mercy knows no bounds, and your grace is more than enough for me. I want nothing more than to follow you today.

Specifically though, I hadn't seen what could really be done with 1080p video snaps and shaders, and man oh man, I love the way @kmoney's video looks with the scanlines. By the way, what shaders are you using @kmoney? @Riffman81, just caught your edit. That is very, very exciting. The thought of 1080p snaps for all the games makes me giddy.

Killer! Sounds great @Riffman81. I know @circo was doing some awesome work on the 3D platform videos; I'd love to see some more of those as well.

Very nice Cid. Hopefully I can get that wheel in this coming week.

Sorry guys, I botched the update process. Sometimes I just move too quickly in putting out the beta updates. It should be fixed now.

Makes sense. I like @lordmonkus's idea as well. I'm thinking something similar to Cid's recorded Hyperspin themes stuff would work pretty well.

Hi @Lurkon, wow I didn't even know it was possible to display background images as videos. I suspect the distinction is because of the caching/resizing being done by WPF in order to keep things performant, but I am surpised to see that artifacting. I'll take a look to see if there's anything I can do to improve the quality. It's odd that I haven't noticed that with any other images.

Thank you @Blugost. Let me know if you or anyone else gets back to this and needs any additional theming features in order to make this happen. I'll be coming out with better documentation here soon as well as more tutorials, but the easiest way to add more features for theming is by request.

@DOS76 Do you have any light to shed on this? What is the current state of Lightspeed? Is it broken?

Great to hear. Thanks @Zsolan.

Hi @subatomic09, I never did implement this but I do have more advanced search features on my list. There's a Bitbucket ticket for it if you want to go vote it up.

Hahahaha. @Rincewind wins. Welcome to the community, @elborra. That is a good point and I do plan to come up with some decent documentation on the various types of views and all the properties available to use for them; I do agree that that would help tremendously when working with these views.

Very nice @kmoney, this actually looks really awesome and helps to solve some of the problems with low-res videos in fullscreen really well. We should get @circo in on this to see what he thinks and see if he might be able to start some work on those types of videos as well.

Thanks @Codeman. Unfortunately it's not exactly easy to automatically scrape websites to populate the database. We also don't want to steal other people's data without permission, so this isn't a route we typically take. That said, I do have a lot of good data waiting for me to batch import; I just need to get it prioritized.

Thanks guys. I have the translations all updated now for the next beta. I also have the EmuMovies dialog fixed, @Opaklopper. The next beta should be out soon but might not be until tomorrow.

Great to hear that you guys are able to do all that customization. I know VisibleCount is funky because the count is always more than the number. Let me know if there's any other properties I could add that could help you guys out. I do have a horizontal wheel on my list to tackle.

Ah, chrome. I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, I honestly don't intend to ever put pinball on it, so the side buttons probably aren't very important. I may opt to just skip those since I'm eager to get my hands on the unit.

Thank you @ThePolish. Just put out another new beta. I've focused on the VLC issues again this afternoon to try and fix the remainder of the issues; I have it so at least those errors aren't popping up (for me at least), but I am still seeing videos just not showing up or playing every once in a while. I created another ticket for higankanshi on Github: https://github.com/higankanshi/Meta.Vlc/issues/151 I offered to pay him too so hopefully he'll be responsive in helping us out. If we can fix all the issues with the VLC engine, we can make it the default and then we'll finally be in good shape with the videos going forward. Any further testing you guys can do with the VLC engine would be very much appreciated. At this point I just want to make sure that the errors and crashes are eliminated, and we can deal with the non-playing issue until higankanshi gets back to us. Thanks again guys.