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Hmm, thanks for looking into it. I'll take a look at that in the morning. I'll need to make an official update.

K-lite is usually a good option.

For sure. the forum is now updated to the newest version 2.01, which contained optimizations in the code.

Forgot to ask whether you downloaded the theme from the forums, or whether you downloaded it from the themes manager in BigBox. The themes manager version is the most recent, and it just uses the default video control, which means it just functions the way the default theme functions. You also have the option of changing any of the picture backgrounds in the Retrotastic\Images\Theme\Background folder, to match the names of your platforms. The code just searches that folder for an image with the name of your playlists/platforms. If you have a complete MAME set, I would definitely recommend using the MAME full set importer. If you can view the videos for the games in launchbox, then BigBox should have no issue viewing them as well. The theme itself would have no influence over whether a games video would play or not.

That is a very strange issue. Hopefully changing the engine helps. Haha, yeah. Created the animated avatar it back in my agamesroom days. I still enjoy looking at it.

The only strictly XAML way that I found was to wrap textblocks up in a viewbox. Not great for every situation, but it works for most.

Hi @adu. Glad you're excited. There were some changes made with the theme to try to help with caching management. I also managed to create a second platform view that you proposed. Last I heard it was undergoing testing, but it may require some changes to how BigBox handles disposing of images.

Hi @Vlaryn. Your first issue with the video sounds more like a codec issue of some kind. Go into BigBox's Options > Video and change the playback engine to something different, and see if that makes the video appear. VLC has the more compatibility with the most types of files. The easiest way to universally remove the scanlines throughout the theme is to just delete the scalelines png. In the Retrotastic themes folder, go to the Images\Theme folder and delete or rename the scanlines.png file.

Hi @Cookz718. Already is one. It's the same as the game details view in the video.

Nothing stopping from making a view that does that. It can make it in the next version.

Coming soon to the BigBox themes manager is my theme called Radiance. It's my take on iGarikoitz wonderful Aura theme (that he created for RetroFE). This topic will also be used as the eventual support page.

Hi @TheyCallMeCoco. For any of the game views, you'll need to delete the following line: <videos:VideoControl Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" VideoPath="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/CoinOP/Videos/bg.mp4" StretchVideo="true" CenterVideo="false" />

Video always uploads successfully each time. Just checked and the video file is within range (about 650MB). I just tried to upload the theme without the video and getting the same error unfortunately. Before submission, everything looks good, it only errors after I press the submit button, loading the error page. Could it be caused by weird symbols in the description? I added my own bullet points...

Just spit balling here... is there a max file size or file length for a video upload?

like this?

Unfortunately, still seeing the same error. The good news is I've gotten really good at the submission process

fyi: still getting the generic error when trying to submit a theme. It's unclear what the issue could be.

Definitely plausible. I will be looking at getting this theme to officially support the changes made during the 9.4 update. I may look into a slight design change when I do.

Hi @llsique.Unfortunately, no. This type of theme would have to be completely re-imagined for it to work on 4:3 screens. Hi @TheNewClassics. Might take a while, as I'm currently working on other themes. But, I will always come back to CoverBox and add systems to it, so definitely expect future additions.

Oh I see. That's actually a video control, which only reverts to a screenshot if you don't have a video for a game. Find the location in the TextGamesView.xaml where it says: <!-- Video Starts Here --> And play around with the ColumnDefinition and RowDefinition numbers until it fits into the space that you want. The video resides in the ColumnDefinition that says 20*, and RowDefinition that says 31*.

That one is a little bit of a mystery to me. If you are referring to that steam background picture, it looks like it's bugged out a little, as there is no code allowing a picture to be in that location. Instead, the background picture should be stretch to fit the entire background. Can you try this. Open the TextGamesView.xaml file and delete the following code: <transitions:TransitionPresenter TransitionSelector="{Binding BackgroundTransitionSelector}" Content="{Binding BackgroundView}" Height="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualHeight}" Width="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualWidth}" Grid.RowSpan="3" IsContentVideo="true" /> <!--GCFE Background Image--> <Grid Grid.RowSpan="3"> <Image Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/Coverbox/Images/Theme/GCFE-View.png" /> </Grid> <!--GCFE Background Image Ends--> Replace with this code, in the same spot: <!--GCFE Background Image--> <Grid Grid.RowSpan="3"> <transitions:TransitionPresenter TransitionSelector="{Binding BackgroundTransitionSelector}" Content="{Binding BackgroundView}" IsContentVideo="true" /> <Image Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/Coverbox/Images/Theme/GCFE-View.png" /> </Grid> <!--GCFE Background Image Ends-->

I have uploaded CoverBox to version 2.0.3 with some code fixes for the default text games view.

Also, I have found an error in the code of Coverbox, and have uploaded a new version just now. Before you make these changes, I would redownload Coverbox and replace the version you currently have.