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Cool, would definitely like to see a new element for VLC video and looping integrated.

How to loop video A quick tip for anyone wanting a looping video. (This taken from my own theme, BigBoXMB.) Might be useful for someone. You can load the video from any directory so you might want to have a custom video path in your theme. I just used Images for convenience. <Grid Grid.ColumnSpan="3"> <MediaElement Name="waves" > <MediaElement.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="MediaElement.Loaded"> <EventTrigger.Actions> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <!-- The MediaTimeline has a RepeatBehavior="Forever" which makes the media play over and over indefinitely.--> <MediaTimeline Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/BigBoXMB/Images/waves.mp4" Storyboard.TargetName="waves" RepeatBehavior="Forever" /> </Storyboard> </BeginStoryboard> </EventTrigger.Actions> </EventTrigger> </MediaElement.Triggers> </MediaElement> </Grid> Please note there might be a little stuttering, not sure why maybe Jason could take a look? I'd really like to have some native looping support for video but this works well enough for now.

Thanks Jason. Could you give me the tag for video embedding? I'm not sure if you're using a bespoke method for playback and I don't recall seeing a tutorial on it. Do you have plans for listing all of the supported tags in a wiki or something? I think it would really help theme creators. On controls, I'm just thinking of making a custom coverflow/image list with each image linking to a custom location in BigBox. Basically, I'd like to add complete customizable menus like you see in the horizontal line of the XMB.

Thanks, I made some suggestions on the issue tracker for you Jason. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/1468/bigbox-theme-requests One thing I completely forgot to add was video support. I got a nice gif for the background so the theme does actually have animated waves! But due to the size of it, it creates horrible lag, if I could just loop a video, I think it would be better. Any thoughts on this? It would also be really useful to know if I can just make my own element because I would like to add things like a settings shortcut to the horizontal platforms bar. Another thing is time. I would really like to show the date and time on the theme just like the XMB

So I started making a theme based on the XMB, it's always been my favorite interface. I don't know if I'll continue it because of some problems and general lack of time so here's everything for you guys if you want to take a shot at it. Originally I wanted the platforms to slide horizontally where the XMB is (currently non-functional, just there for looks) using left/right arrow keys and up/down arrows when you're on a platform to look through all the games. Some pretty cool things, the waves and background are separate so if you change the background.jpg file out for your favorite image, the waves will still show over it. You can remove them completely in xaml or you can add a blank png for waves.png. This "theme" is only for the Platform Wheel with Image Details and Thumbs view, I'm sure you could easily replicate across the other views. Anyway, expand on, improve on, put a trollface on it, add a sad face to it if you don't like it. Basically, enjoy! UPDATE Still working on this thing. Now includes: Game View Platform View Sounds Animated Wave Glitches/Bugs: Sometimes there's a little lag in loading another view. Sometimes the video will stop completely if you leave unattended for a long time, alt-tab in and out of BigBox. Put BigBoXMB in your Themes folder and your settings are like mine: If you want the PS3 sounds, just overwrite the sounds I provided with those in your Launchbox. Make a backup of the originals if you want to revert. Here's a video and the updated files are included. BigBoXMB.zip