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This is just a theme, so it doesn't control video playback. If you are talking about a playlist video for your favorites playlist. The file should be the exact name of your playlist and be put in the following location: Launchbox\Videos\Playlists

Pretty sure if I'm reading this correctly, you can find an example of this in both of the platform views in Retrotastic.

You are correct. It fills the space of the grid that it's in, adjusting the size of the text to fill inside of it. It will also stay in the same spot, and be the same size, as long as the aspect ratio stays the same. So 720p, 1080p, 4k, the text will remain the same size, and in the same spot, on all of those. Give it a test. As soon as the aspect ratio changes, all your grids will re-adjust to different sizes, and therefore affect the size, and placement of the text. Unfortunately, viewboxes won't work with vertical scrolling text, or any text that has more than 1 line.

What happens if you do this with the code? Text will size to the Column width. All you have to do is adjust the ColumnDefinitions to your liking. <UserControl d:DesignHeight="1080" d:DesignWidth="1920" /> <Canvas Name="Canvas"> <Grid Height="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualHeight}" Width="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualWidth}"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="2*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ViewBox Grid.Column="1"> <TextBlock Text="BIG TEXT" FontSize="100" /> </ViewBox> <ViewBox Grid.Column="2"> <TextBlock Text="small text" FontSize="100" /> </ViewBox> </Grid> </Canvas>

Does this help? <Canvas> <Grid> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition width="5*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Viewbox Grid.Column="1"> <Textblock Text="texty text" FontSize="500" /> </Viewbox> </Grid> </Grid> </Canvas>

I've updated Retrotastic to version 2.02 with coding changes that should make the issue @Vlaryn was having void. I also made other coding tweaks which should help with performance. I also took the time to upgrade to the newest themer plugin. New version is available on the forum and has been submitted for approval on the BigBox theme manager.

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.