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  1. CriticalCid
    Sure, just add -t and the length in seconds before your output path. For example, if you want your videos to be maximally one minute long the command line would look like this: for %%a in ("STEAMVIDEOPATH\*.*") do ffmpeg -ss 00:00:05.000 -i "%%a" -c:v copy -c:a copy -t 60 "OUTPUTPATH\%%~na.webm"
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    It seems that many people find it annoying that many trailers which get downloaded by LaunchBox from Steam begin with an ESRB or PEGI logo before the actual trailer starts. With this ffmpeg script you can batch remove the first seconds of all your trailers and cut these logos out of the videos without the need to re-encode them. NOTE: Besides this script you’ll need the free program ffmpeg. You can get it here: https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ You won’t have to install it. Just download the static version and extract it somewhere on your PC. How to use it: 1. Put my script in the “bin” folder of your ffmpeg installation. 2. Open the .cmd file with any text editor and edit the paths for your Steam/WIndows video folder and the output folder (where it should save the edited videos). Only change the placeholder names in capital letters and leave the rest as it is. 3. The number after the –ss command is the length you want to cut out at the beginning. I set it to 5 seconds but you can change it as you like. 4. Save the file and start it with a double-click. Wait until it’s finished. 5. Overwrite your old video files with the new ones from your output folder.
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    Script for removing ESRB logos from Steam trailers View File It seems that many people find it annoying that many trailers which get downloaded by LaunchBox from Steam begin with an ESRB or PEGI logo before the actual trailer starts. With this ffmpeg script you can batch remove the first seconds of all your trailers and cut these logos out of the videos without the need to re-encode them. NOTE: Besides this script you’ll need the free program ffmpeg. You can get it here: https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ You won’t have to install it. Just download the static version and extract it somewhere on your PC. How to use it: 1. Put my script in the “bin” folder of your ffmpeg installation. 2. Open the .cmd file with any text editor and edit the paths for your Steam/WIndows video folder and the output folder (where it should save the edited videos). Only change the placeholder names in capital letters and leave the rest as it is. 3. The number after the –ss command is the length you want to cut out at the beginning. I set it to 5 seconds but you can change it as you like. 4. Save the file and start it with a double-click. Wait until it’s finished. 5. Overwrite your old video files with the new ones from your output folder. Submitter CriticalCid Submitted 08/14/16 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins  
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    Sure, why not. I hadn't thought that there's so much interest for a script like that but if the people find it useful it would probably be better if it isn't get buried in this thread. Should I upload it to the third-party apps and plugins section or do you plan to add a separate section for it?
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    Sure, no problem. Great that it worked for you
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    Here you have a pretty basic script for cutting out the first seconds of a various amount of videos without re-encoding/converting them. Just put it in the same folder as the “ffmpeg.exe” and start it. But first you will have to open the .cmd file with any text editor and edit the paths for your video folder and the output folder (where it should save the edited videos). Only change the placeholder names in capital letters and leave the rest as it is. The number after the –ss command is the length you want to cut out at the beginning. I set it to 5 seconds but you can change it as you like. I could also add a fade-in at the beginning to make the transition more smoothly but that would require to re-encode the videos and depending on the amount of videos you have would this take quite a while . steam_cut.cmd
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    I had to learn how to use ffmpeg for my HyperSpin theme recording project and it’s actually pretty easy once you have figured out all the basics. It would be very easy to batch cut the first 5 seconds of every video with it but the problem is that the trailers are non-consistent about this and the time varies pretty often when the actual trailer starts. I also saw a lot of videos which started directly without any logos at the beginning. So personally I wouldn't use it because of that but if you want I can write a short command line script for that. I could even do more fancy stuff like trimming the length to a unified length, etc
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    Sure, no problem. I'm glad I could help
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    It depends on your setup. LaunchBox was designed to be completely portable so you shouldn’t have any problems by moving it as long as you have your ROM files, emulators, etc either in your LaunchBox folder or already on another drive. Otherwise you may have to change the paths for these. But you could also just change your video paths under: Tools –> Manage Platforms -> Edit the Platform you want -> Folders
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    Artwork which looks like the original art but was completely redrawn from scratch. In other words: If it looks similiar like the original but not exactly the same it goes into reconstructed. If it's completely custom it goes in to fanart.
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    Yes, something like this already exists. The guys from emu-wiki have done a superb job on this subject and keeping it always up-to-date. You can find it here: http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page Just go to any platform you want and you get emulator comparisons including recommendations. For the most emulators you even get some useful configurations tips.
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    So after many many hours has the video download process finally finished. I may be an exception because I have way too many games on Steam but I ended up with 1044 videos at 35,7 GB in total. So keep that in mind guys when you also have a huge Steam collection. On my quick test I haven’t find any issues except the green line in VLC, but as I mainly use WMP with K-Lite I’m not really affected of it.
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    Thanks Jason. I can already feel that my posts convey more authority now
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    More information about ""
    Unfortunately would be the only way to force the correct BG if you remove the other BG’s out of the folder.
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    Please also make sure to read the guidelines first https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wB80CH3zecXccfQ4Et8NxYa-G1bQuo7eo1YHvkYQ728/edit
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    Hi OrochiMishima, yes it’s definitely possible to do that. BigBox can automatically start when you boot up your PC and you can shut down your PC through Bigbox with a controller as well.
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    Thanks Jason! The new properties are working great.
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    Thanks Jason! This is an awesome new feature. I have the K-Lite Codec pack installed on my PC and have absolutely no problems with the Videos from Steam when I use the WMP engine. Everything works as expected. But on the other hand I have a small issue when I use the VLC engine. On some videos I get a small green line at the bottom of the video. The line always appears at the same videos and as I said is everything fine when I play the affected videos with the WMP engine. I also have no issues when I play these videos with the normal VLC player program.
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    W00t!? Steam trailer downloads? Awesome! Did you also have considered what I wrote under that ticket about metadata and screenshot downloads from Steam? There are currently over 10.000 games listed in Steam and alone in 2015 there were 3.500 games released on that platform. It would be a complete full-time job to add all these games to the LaunchBox database. So as Steam features a lot of screenshots and metadata for the games anyway (and you can probably assume that the official info’s there are correct) it would be great if the importer could download them as well. Because as of now I have huge gaps for my Steam games in LaunchBox. Especially for a lot of smaller indie titles.
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    LaunchBox was designed to be completely portable and it always standardly stores all data like the images in its own folder. So it should just work when you move your complete folder to another drive.
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    Hi Dreamwarrior, you can change the paths of the media folders under: Tools –> Manage Platforms -> Edit the Platform you want -> Folders Of course you can use any hard drive you want for this.
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    The merging is definitely going to happen when you take a look into the guidelines. @Jason Carrplease put this issue a little higher in your short list. It’s too much hassle right now and like Clive said it would be bad if we would discourage anyone because of that.
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    To all the people who are doing this. Please stop! The platforms will get merged in the future BUT everything else like proper region info’s has to be implemented first. So before this isn’t done and we get the official okay from Jason please leave the games under Super Famicom in their own category to avoid the unnecessary hassle in the moderation process.
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    Welcome Austin! It’s great to see you around here
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    I really like the new dark theme. Thanks Jason I've also noticed that the administrators rank is red colored and the moderators rank isn't. Maybe you can change it to green or blue so that new users can see it more directly when a mod is responding to them. (Of course it would also push my ego to have a fancy colored rank )
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