shinra358 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 yeah, that was it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePolish Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 You're the man @Jason Carr. Excited for 6.9! 6.7+ has been the biggest flurry of development I've ever witnessed a d your hard work and dedication to this community is wonderful! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 10, 2016 Author Share Posted September 10, 2016 Thank you @ThePolish. I'm still amazed I get to do this for a living really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 @Jason Carr I found a solution for the extreme slugginess for the coverflow with details view. I had my settings for coverflow on the hightest quality setting and I just turned it down one notch lower to the High setting and it was like a night and day difference in the scrolling through the alphanumeric menu and honestly I can see no difference in the quality of the coverflow art images. Maybe it makes a difference if someone is viewing it on a very large hdtv as I am not sure. But anyhow that problem is solved,maybe you should make the higher setting the new max setting. I also wanted to point out that I have been testing out the newest beta with the vlc engine chosen and am still seeing the videos not playing randomly when landing on a game or platform and also some audio mixing with other audio when exiting out of menus fast and I have also had BigBox crash on me 3 times with no errors given and I think it could be related to vlc issues as I have not had that before until I switched over to the vlc engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layby2K Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I'm also finding that the Videos randomly don't play/display when going through the wheel with the VLC engine, if it's not there I can move up one game then go back it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 Thank you guys. @kmoney and @Layby2K, yes, I've spent the weekend attempting to address those same VLC-related issues. I'm able to replicate the crashes, the audio playing in the background, and the videos not showing up. I'm hoping I've fixed that stuff now but time will tell. I'll have another new beta out shortly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 And the new beta with the hopeful VLC fixes is out. I've been refusing to use Windows Media Player for the last week just so I can get annoyed enough to fix all the issues lol. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePolish Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 18 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: And the new beta with the hopeful VLC fixes is out. I've been refusing to use Windows Media Player for the last week just so I can get annoyed enough to fix all the issues lol. Out of curiosity, what has been causing the background audio thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 Just a threading issue where the video is loaded after the rest of the interface has moved on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layby2K Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Thanks Jason, good job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeronNL Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 (edited) Sorry if this is a Dumb question guys, but are there any benefits of using VLC over WMP? Edited September 11, 2016 by AeronNL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 I don't know about the benefits but the VLC engine I believe is integrated into LaunchBox but WMP has to installed on the users machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIE Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 4 minutes ago, Rincewind said: I don't know about the benefits but the VLC engine I believe is integrated into LaunchBox but WMP has to installed on the users machines. But WMP is on all windows 10 & below PC. I have never installed it and the works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepulchre Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 (edited) 7 hours ago, AeronNL said: Sorry if this is a Dumb question guys, but are there any benefits of using VLC over WMP? I find the VLC engine superior (minus the bugs of course), because coverflow performance is much smoother than WMP on my system. Even though WMP is stable, the coverflow animation is too choppy and comes off as an eyesore. Windows 10 x64 i5-2500 12GB RAM HD 5770 ATI (AMD) Radeon 7200 RPM HDD Edited September 11, 2016 by Sepulchre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinra358 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 I prefer the gif and music file combo myself. That way, zero issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 @ALIE Believe it or not, it's not installed for everybody. Some corporate and foreign installs don't include WMP. New beta is out guys with a bunch of stuff. Added more responses for voice recognition in the live stream. Made the voice recognition responses be sequential so it feels more real. Optimized saving in Big Box so that it doesn't slow down the interface, and does a better job of not overwriting changes when syncing via Dropbox. Fixed the updater to stop telling you to close LaunchBox. More VLC audio playing in the background fixes. Also I'm hoping that the platform folders being overwritten with the defaults thing is fixed. Let me know if anyone sees any more of that going on. Thanks guys! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinra358 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 What about Windows.png? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 @Jason Carr I am already seeing very strange issues with the newest beta with the VLC engine. It only seems to affect the ones sized for 16:9 ratio like steam or wii videos, but very often when I land on one of those videos I can hear the music but cannot see any video. No matter what I do no video will not display until I switch back to WMP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 @shinra358, it's still on my list here to fix before 6.9. @kmoney, that's an odd one that I'm not seeing. I just fixed the issue where every once in a while a video wouldn't show up, but if you're hearing audio but not seeing any video, then that is a different issue. We should test when I get this new beta out later today. What theme are you using and what view are you seeing it on? Are you using background videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 @shinra358 I just tried putting a custom clear logo in a new theme and it loaded it up just fine after refreshing platform wheel images. Can you give it another shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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