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  1. CriticalCid
    Thanks ultrez and Temp! I just tried it myself and you’re absolutely right. Platform banners work, wheels don’t. It could be a BigBox bug though, so maybe @Jason Carr could take a look at it?
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    @andyco47 Great to hear that the last video works at least with VLC for you. I will replace the video with this version inn the next update. Thanks for helping! Now to your logo problem. Sorry but I have to ask this first, have you refreshed the image cache of your platform wheels?
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    Alright, try this one. Sorry to bother you with that but you are currently the only person who can help me to fix that. Platforms.mp4 Also just to be clear. You have installed the K-Lite codec pack on your 6.9 machine? What version of Windows are you using?
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    @andyco47 I would be very thankful if you could test if this new background video is looping for you Platforms.mp4
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    Here you go mate. Platform banner: Wheels: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/files/file/11362-main-menu-wheels-bordered-crylen-style-43-genre-wheels/
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    Woot? Then it’s definitely a codec issue. Really weird that the K-Lite codec pack didn’t worked for you though. But I’m really happy to hear that it’s now working for you as well Thank you very much for that info. Now I know where to fix this.
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    Thanks man. Really means a lot to hear that from you!
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    Both. They're are some of the standard views in BigBox but I modified it for my theme (like I did with ALL standard views).
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    I have a little service note for you guys. The new option for the Wheel Minimum Speed in the latest Beta seems to improve the performance furthermore. Especially in the CoverFlow views (which frequently lagged a little). Reduce the value to 200 or 300 Milliseconds and the CoverFlow and Wheel Views should be a lot more responsive! So you will hopefully get a complete flawless experience with my theme if you combine that with my suggested Fade options (point V in the download description / ReadMe).
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    Weird... But nice to hear that it's just working for you
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    Are you sure you have the same issue? andyco47 had problems with the animated background, not the platform videos. You probably have platform background videos activated. Just deactivate that in your options and it should work as expected for you
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    Hello

    CriticalCid commented on Thatman84's blog entry in Thatmans Blog

    Haha, I didn’t’ even know that users can create their own blogs. I always thought this was just Jason’s thing here
  13. CriticalCid
    I’m so sorry mate but I really have absolutely no clue how to help you with that as it works perfectly fine on all of my machines and I have no idea how to troubleshoot your problem furthermore.
  14. CriticalCid
    I have restructured and updated the download description and ReadMe file. They now include most of the questions/problems which came up in this thread so far.
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    Try to restart your 6.9 machine and see if that helps. If that still doesn’t work, can you open the “Platforms.mp4” video file in “..\LaunchBox\Themes\CriticalZone(v1.0)\Videos\BackgroundVideo\” with Windows Media Player and test if it can play it?
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    What video engine are you using in Big Box? If you use WMP than I would suggest to change it to VLC. Also the K-Lite codec pack may no helped you with your looping problem but it will most likely solve the problem on your other machine.
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    Awesome! Good to know that this helps, will add that information to the ReadMe
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    @bundangdon If it isn’t the video engine than it’s most likely the transitions. Maybe try out my transition settings and see if that helps you:
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    Alright, try to install the K-Lite codec pack and see if that helps. The basic version should be sufficient for this. http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
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    The loop is hardcoded in the theme itself, so it doesn’t require any settings on your end. The video background works through the Windows Media Player engine though, so that could may be a codec issue. Have you installed any codec packs on your PC?
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    @bundangdonI can't answer you directly in the review section, so I have to do it here. The off-center issue with 4:3 videos is a bug with the VLC engine that I can’t fix, unfortunately. You have to use platform videos in 16:9 aspect ratio to have the videos centered, sorry for that. @Jason Carr already knows about it, but I don't know when he can come around to fix this. Regarding the lagging issue. What Video engine are you using? VLC works with my theme way faster on the transitions than WMP, so if you are using WMP than try to switch it to VLC. If that doesn’t help try to play around with the transitions. EDIT: Maybe you're interested in some technical info as well. The lagging issues with WMP occur because the background video will always be played through WMP (can't change that fact) and the engine seems to have problems playing 2 videos simultaneously
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    @Maddoc1007 Like I said, you can’t see it with my background video as the video fades to black at the end of the video. Here’s the unedited version of the video without the fading for you to try: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_6XLOBnGwlULXY3SmppNDJwWkU @djwar No they aren’t included. The videos similar to the MAME and N64 ones will hopefully be available soon (can’t tell you when though, as other people are involved in that process as well) NES, Mega Drive and PSP are from @BakerMan. If you are using the latest LB beta than you can get them directly through LaunchBox itself. (Tools -> Download Platform Theme Videos) SNES and PC are from @nyny77. You have to download them manually and replace them with your current platform videos in “..\LaunchBox\Videos\Platforms”. You can find them here:
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    Thank you all for your kind words. I'm really happy that you guys like it that much @shadowblind Platform views and games views are completely separated, so no. But I’ve created an alternative version of the theme for you which has the games wheel view replaced with the simple one form the platforms. It was just a simple copy and paste task to accomplish this, so no biggie. Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6XLOBnGwlUU3NXa2Q5UTkyUnc @Maddoc1007 Sure, go ahead. I wouldn’t even have come that far with this theme without copying and learning stuff from other themes Just be aware that this method has an ugly bug (which is known by Microsoft since years, but they don’t seem to care to fix it…). When the background video starts again from the beginning than you will see some kind of a black border around your other video. I solved that by simply fading out my background video to hide that effect. Just test it yourself and you will see what I mean.
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    Some of you folks may have seen the little sneak peak of the theme in yesterday’s LB development livestream. Now it’s finally here for everyone! Hope you guys like it.
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    CriticalZone / CriticalZone - BlueBox View File Here you can download alternative versions of the CriticalZoneV2 theme that comes bundled with every LaunchBox installation. CriticalZone is a BigBox theme designed for the usage of widescreen platform videos and utilizes videos as backgrounds. This theme was designed for widescreen displays with 16:9 aspect ratios and optimized for a display resolution of 1920x1080. It will also work with other widescreen resolutions and 16:10 aspect ratios but it may not look as polished. Available Versions: - CritcalZoneV2 - BlueBox: A blue color variant of CriticalZoneV2. It features blue texts instead of green and has a different Default background created by @SentaiBrad - BackgroundVideoOnly: All Views, except the TextList Views, will only use video loops as backgrounds. Also available as BlueBox version. - BackgroundFanartOnly: All Views will only use Fanart images as backgrounds. Also available as BlueBox version. -> Use this version if you have performance problems! - 1.8: The original and now old version of CriticalZone. It's officially EOL and won't get supported by me in any way. It's just still here for archiving reasons. There’s also a red 80’s/Cyberpunk themed version of CriticalZone called “CityHunter”. It’s maintained by @keltoigael and can be found here: How to install: Just download the version of choice and extract the archive into: “..\LaunchBox\Themes\” Open the Options menu in BigBox -> go to “Views” and change the Theme to the version you just have installed. IMPORTANT: CriticalZone V2 requires LaunchBox v7.11 or higher! Known issues: - The description texts in all Platform Views and CoverFlowWithDetails Games View won’t fill the whole space of the descriptions box when you use CriticalZone with a higher DPI setting than 100% or a lower display resolution than 1902x1080. It gets progressively worse the higher the DPI settings and/or lower the resolution is. Thanks & Credits: Thanks to @SentaiBrad for creating the new Default background video for the BlueBox variant. Background video of the standard version: In The Deep - FREE Video Background Loop HD 1080p by NIZ.co (http://niz.co/wp/) Submitter CriticalCid Submitted 11/03/2016 Category Big Box Custom Themes
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