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i want this aswell
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9 hours ago, Tommy1981 said:
I would also like to see this done. Maybe even add a feature right into launch box that will compress all of our images that we already have and delete the old bigger images.
a simple third party program that scrapes our own image folder and uploads-compresses-downloads-replaces the old images would be great. im sure one of the talented coders here could do it
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Just now, eatkinola said:
@GunerX: You also need to keep the two meta VLC dll files in the Plugins folder. They were included with the CZ theme. I don't see those in your screenshot. Did you delete them? Also, I think renaming the theme folder as you did to include "NEW DLL" will cause problems.
??? those files are not included in CriticalZoneV2, the Default CriticalZone, nor any of the other CriticalZone versions. Where can I get this DLL???
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1 hour ago, eatkinola said:
@GunerX: While I don't normally use playlist vids, I was able to show it works on my system with CZ version 2. I'm using a current build of the Ao.Bigbox.Themer plugin. I've been making quite a few changes to the plugin library lately and don't recall when I might have changed code related to playlists and the video engine. Please test your setup with this version of the plugin; just replace Ao.Bigbox.Themer.dll in the CriticalZoneV2 - BlueBox\Plugins with this one:
You will probably need to unblock the dll; right-click on the dll file after you download it and press the unblock button. Below is how I setup the Playlists folders for my test. My playlists are called Ao.Bigbox.Random, etc. For a playlist with multiple vids, create a folder with the playlist name and drop the videos in that folder. For a single video, you don't need a subfolder but can use one if you want. When I select a playlist and then go to a games view that supports dynamic background videos (e.g., Horizontal Wheel 1), the playlist video(s) play as the background.
Please let me know if it works for you.
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11 minutes ago, GreenGriffon said:
Perhaps you should take the time to learn the application first before asking other people to modify their work to bend around your expectations.
It's really not that confusing. Don't enable background videos if you don't want background videos to play in your theme.
perhaps you should take the time to read the entire thread. im not asking him to "modify" his theme. im asking him to make it FUNCTION. its supposed to do what im asking for, but it doesnt. we've been trying to troubleshoot it for days now but nothing works.
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22 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:
I guess I could make it clearer, you’re right with that, I can't just assume that everybody knows how the Fanart background system works. But on the other hand have you “Background Videos” enabled in your options so don’t be surprised if you get exactly that.
WIth that said, it is completely unrelated to your playlist issue but if this solution works better for you than great!
i have only had launchbox for 1 week, and bigbox for 4 days. idk what im doing. idk how it works. im still learning. but if the theme says it does "this and that" then I believe it. so...i thought it would do literally what it said it was going to do.
and i would prefer the playlist video background to work
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21 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:
I think you understood the term FanartOnly a little wrong here. It simply means that it uses the default Fanart background code in all Views like the Default theme. And just like in the Default theme it will use the platform/game video as background instead of the Fanart images If you have background videos enabled in your options.
Of course I could force disable background videos to make it “really” FanartOnly and avoid confusion but I don’t see the point to artificial restrict the options and preferences of the users.
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ok so... I was up all night playing around with various themes, and I even decided to try @CriticalCid alternate themes...uhm..cough...you should probably recheck all of the themes you have uploaded.
V2 (the one that is supposed to do playlist backgrounds) doesn't do playlist backgrounds.
FanArtOnly (the one that is NOT ment to do ANY videos at all) does BACKGROUND video's EXACTLY how you said in your pdf that you DONT want it to do. I have background video's for every single platform in the platform wheel view now.
BackgroundVideosOnly (the one that is supposed to do only background videos) has the same issue V2 has, it wont change playlist video backgrounds.
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how do I add in the xaml to enable Device images for Playlists?
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so I'm trying to save space and compress my roms and then let Launchbox extract them as needed, this works GREAT for PS1 and earlier generation ROMs because they are already relatively small files.
But when I tried this on my PS2 games it works, but takes forever (which is understandable sine the file I tested was a Double Layered Disc that is 8 GB), so my question is, which compression settings are the best for not only saving on File Size, but also Fast Extraction Time?
For the record I am using 7zip and compressing to .ZIPs with these settings: Ultra, LZMA, 8 MB, 128 Word Size.
These settings brought my 8 GB ROM down to 6.8 GB, so its a decent amount of savings. What settings have you guys tried and what do you think would work the best?
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8 minutes ago, keltoigael said:
Please let me know. I updated both themes less than a month ago based on the latest release of EK's plugin.
just went through every single possible view in Blade Runner (both platform views and game views) and it didnt change the playlist background video, HOWEVER something else I found with Blade Runner, it wont play the video for the FOREGROUND of the Playlist either. But videos for platforms works just fine.
in cityhunter the FOREGROUND video's for the playlist works just fine, but again, no background video.
this "plugin" you keep refering to, is it a file i can download? is there a newer version of it? a beta version? or can you give me your version?
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Just now, keltoigael said:
Both Cityhunter 2 and Blade Runner use the same video engine as CZv2. Curious the the same issue is there. No one has said otherwise.
ill download them and see
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where can I download the beta? I want to try it and see if it fixes my issue.I found it inside options
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is it possible to change the sound used for navigation when you go into a Playlist. Example: I have a few playlists, Mega Man, Metroid, etc. And i have navigation sound files for Mega Man and Metroid, but I dont want to use those for EVERYTHING, only while navigating games inside those Playlists.
Is this possible?
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-update- moved it to root directory
still no go.
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4 minutes ago, eatkinola said:
Should've been more clear when I said that. I meant the root of the drive it's currently on, F:\LaunchBox\... Should be a quick move. Fyi gotta get to work but I'll check in later today.
I still cant do that lol. guess its time to finally clean out my drives. cya in a few hours once im done moving / deleting 2TB of junk
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nvm. scratch that idea LOL
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1 minute ago, eatkinola said:
That's a great catch Charco, but I don't think it's the issue. Still, it would be easy to check if @GunerX would temporarily move his LaunchBox folder to the root dir.
i guess i can move it temp. my OS SSD is not big enough to have something like launchbox on it (permanently atleast) will update with my findings.
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hmmm is that the issue? i dont want to install to my root directory tho...
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2 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:
Your folders are correct, they look the same as for me
yup. same as me. mine no work tho
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4 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:
I’ve just created a Metroid playlist and it works completely fine on my end with your videos. I'm sorry to say that at this point I have no idea how to help you any further. I’ve encountered the same problem with playlists before in older revisions of the background video plug-in but I thought that they were all gone as I've never had any issues with it in its current version.
Maybe @eatkinola can think of anything else on how to help you?
I can’t promise an exact date any than “soonish” but eatkinola is currently working on a new version of the video plug-in that may or may not could solve your problems, I don’t know.
If you are willing to wait I can get you the beta version of the new CriticalZone version once it’s finished and if the problem still persist we can further trouble shoot it.
also could you show me EXACTLY where you/how you structured your folders in the theme? i want to make absolutely sure Im doing it right.
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3 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:
I’ve just created a Metroid playlist and it works completely fine on my end with your videos. I'm sorry to say that at this point I have no idea how to help you any further. I’ve encountered the same problem with playlists before in older revisions of the background video plug-in but I thought that they were all gone as I've never had any issues with it in its current version.
Maybe @eatkinola can think of anything else on how to help you?
I can’t promise an exact date any than “soonish” but eatkinola is currently working on a new version of the video plug-in that may or may not could solve your problems, I don’t know.
If you are willing to wait I can get you the beta version of the new CriticalZone version once it’s finished and if the problem still persist we can further trouble shoot it.
sure. ill try a beta version.
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they are videos found here, on this very forum
The Zero Mission vid from here.
and the collection video from here
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just incase there was something wrong with the metroid video, i put another video in there. still doesnt work.
Compress your video's for free
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so I finally got around to dealing with my video files
here's how you can compress your video files with no loss of quality.
http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2013/10/how-to-compress-large-video-files-without-losing-quality-using-handbrake/
the program is free, super easy to use.