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Firstly I want to thank you Jason for your awesome new tutorial! It helped me to clear some questions I had about the bindings but I have a request for expanding the Custom Logic feature. The new custom logic is great but for my needs a little bit too inflexible. As you already know I want to create a view which uses recorded HyperSpin themes. As they will only look good on the one specific view for them I would want to keep the EmuMovies snaps for the other views as well. I could probably use the method that you have shown for this but hardcoding the paths for over 2000 videos is way to hardcore for my taste. What I would need is something like a variable I could use for paths in my view. For example something like this: Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Videos/HSThemes/MAME/%ROMNAME%.mp4" In this case the %ROMNAME% would be automatically replaced with the name of the ROM file of the current selected game. Other values I could use as variables would be useful as well. I also have a question for XAML in general. Would it be possible to use something like if-then conditions within XAML? Because I don’t have a HS theme for every game I would want to check if a theme videos exists and if not the view should use the standard Video for it instead.

Yes, when you want to add new games from your library to your LB setup you have to manually use the Steam import wizard every time. But the update process is very quick because it only adds your new games of course. And yes your right with your assumption that LB will re-import all your deleted Steam games. The best way to avoid this is to not delete the games you don’t want and hide them instead. Right click on a game and choose edit. Here you have to check the “Hide” checkbox and the game won’t show up anymore in your Windows games list.

You have to download them all, including the update packs. Because there are too many flyers they had to split the whole set into smaller parts. If you put them into the „Box - Front“ folder will LaunchBox show them to you without any problems.

The majority of all arcade games don’t have any Box Art because they didn’t come as cartridges and were directly built-in the respective cabinets instead. So these flyers were basically advertisement flyers for arcade cabinets but are working really well as Box Art alternative. You could put them either in the folder “Box - Front” or “Advertisement Flyer - Front”. Both would be appropriated.

You could also download a complete flyer pack from Progetto Snaps here: http://www.progettosnaps.net/flyers/ It should cover most of the flyers which are available on the internet. They also have all kinds of other media for MAME.

There’s actually a newer WHD Load database xml which was released today Commodore Amiga.xml @Styphelus his E-Mail is jason@unbrokensoftware.com

Sounds great! I can’t thank you enough for all the extra work you put in for my special requests

You probably mean nested filters. You can vote for this feature on Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/311/nested-filters

Unfortunately not. You can read this thread for further information’s about this issue: http://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/28693-prefer-to-pay-with-paypal-read-this/

It’s not a new feature, I’ve discovered it weeks ago But yeah, it's a very cool little feature.

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"

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  

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?

Sure, no problem. Great that it worked for you

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

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

Sure, no problem. I'm glad I could help

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

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.

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.

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.

Thanks Jason. I can already feel that my posts convey more authority now

Please also make sure to read the guidelines first https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wB80CH3zecXccfQ4Et8NxYa-G1bQuo7eo1YHvkYQ728/edit