Jason Carr Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 19 hours ago, Maddoc1007 said: @Jason Carr No issues for me either would it be possible to put in an override command in bigbox that when background music is being used that the video sound is muted instead of having to go to options and turn video volume down to 0%, as when testing i noticed a small speed increase when you turn down the video volume to 0% while listening to music? I'm not fully following here. You're saying you already see a performance increase when turning the videos download to 0% volume? Why would we need to actually mute them then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 @Jason Carr Just being lazy having to go into options every-time changing settings for the music sound and the video sound when using or not using background music and thought that if video muted when using background music we could leave the video sound set at our personal preferred level but no biggie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) @Jason Carr Was thinking some more on this how about setting a keyboard or controller key to toggle between video sound and background music would that be possible? that would allow the user to choose what they preferred listening to without going into the settings. Edited January 18, 2017 by Maddoc1007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I'm on beta 6 and I just finished a lengthy testing of the audit feature. So far it works just fine with no crashes or errors. The only issue is that when it's first used after opening LaunchBox there's a bit of a wait before it goes into action. Subsequent audits run immediately. Mind you, I've seen this with other LaunchBox functions when I first use them. For example whenever I go to Edit Game I also get a delay, but after that the Edit Game opens promptly. By any chance was there an initialise-when-needed delay added to LaunchBox back when the big speed improvement in initial launching was brought in? Just curious. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinra358 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Video > Themed Video > Gameplay Folders from inside of the video folder. Seems like pretty much extending a path that's already there with a copy pasta and a change of the 2nd folder Said vids you mentioned can be grouped that way by what folder they are in, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 @Maddoc1007 I get you, makes sense. I just figured there was something I was missing. Agreed that it would be useful, but I won't be able to get it into 7.5. @spycat You got it, that's exactly what it's doing. It delays loading some of the extra metadata databases until they're needed in order to help with the startup time. @shinra358 Yes, of course that's how we'll implement the folder structure. That's not the problem and doesn't make it any easier to implement. We'll need a bit of restructuring in the code, and also a migration process of sorts since the videos will be expected to be in a different location. It's nothing I can't do in a couple days, but currently there are higher priorities on the list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 @Jason Carr No hurry if its one or two versions away yet as i know you are extremely busy bug fixing KUDOS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Alright guys, beta 7 is out. For starters, I fixed the errors from @DOS76 and @Norfair regarding the audits. However, I haven't been able to identify @Manuel Leiria's null reference issue, so please let me know if anyone else is able to replicate it. My understanding is that it is related to prioritizing music over video audio, but I have a hunch that it might be unrelated. @Manuel Leiria, can you confirm either way? Secondly, @dmjohn0x inspired me late last night to implement startup videos, and they are now included in this beta. He had a video built that's pretty awesome, and it's available in his thread here: I'm using VLC (just using the app directly) to play the startup video full screen, and then I'm killing VLC once it's loaded. It's not a perfect solution (especially since VLC does take some time to load sometimes), but it does seem to be working pretty well. To use it, just put a video in LaunchBox\Videos and name it Startup.mp4. I haven't allowed customizing the video path because it would slow down startup (the video is played before any of the settings are loaded). Also related to the startup videos, there's a "Minimum Startup Video Duration" setting in the Big Box General options that will force showing more of the video if Big Box loads too quickly. Finally, some bug fixes: - Fixed: When switching games views in Big Box, sometimes CoverFlow images were re-generating and taking a while to show up (due to conflicts with the previous view) - Fixed: VLC has been changed to always use the LaunchBox\VLC\vlc.cfg file for configuration instead of no configuration or the system's default configuration Note that the VLC configuration file change should at least now allow you to specify DXVA if you want further performance increases and your system supports it (see earlier on up the thread). It's not exactly easy to change though; you'll need to modify the vlc.cfg file in a text editor and change the "avcodec-hw" line to "avcodec-hw=dxva2". Make sure you remove the # that is in there by default. In the future we may provide a proper setting for this, but this is at least a step in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Oh, one last thing. There's this as well: - Improvement: Big Box now hides the taskbar while running in order to prevent it from showing while switching between the startup video and Big Box, and while running games That will come in really handy I think, but it also scares me, because if Big Box crashes, you'll have no task bar. I'm currently not sure what to do about this. I know Rocket Launcher annoys me sometimes because if it crashes you're often left with a completely broken desktop, which I'd like to avoid, but I don't have any quick solutions. I might try and put another EXE next to it to detect if that happens and recover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Leiria Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 @Jason Carr, the reason I had said it might be related is because this issue occurs in LaunchBox as well, and only when Auto-Play Soundtrack is active. I've tried this a lot, and it always boils down to the same, switching from one game to another then another while playing music. It doesn't seem to happen otherwise. But I've decided to go another route, and I'll revisit this sometime in the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Just now, Manuel Leiria said: @Jason Carr, the reason I had said it might be related is because this issue occurs in LaunchBox as well, and only when Auto-Play Soundtrack is active. I've tried this a lot, and it always boils down to the same, switching from one game to another then another while playing music. It doesn't seem to happen otherwise. But I've decided to go another route, and I'll revisit this sometime in the next few days. I see. I'm trying to put out an official release on Friday though, so if you could test the previous scenario, I'd really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 7 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: Oh, one last thing. There's this as well: - Improvement: Big Box now hides the taskbar while running in order to prevent it from showing while switching between the startup video and Big Box, and while running games That will come in really handy I think, but it also scares me, because if Big Box crashes, you'll have no task bar. I'm currently not sure what to do about this. I know Rocket Launcher annoys me sometimes because if it crashes you're often left with a completely broken desktop, which I'd like to avoid, but I don't have any quick solutions. I might try and put another EXE next to it to detect if that happens and recover. @Jason Carr how about a bat file with this for relaunching explorer? taskkill /im explorer.exe /f timeout /t 3 start explorer.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Leiria Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 This is what I get: Version 7.5-beta-7 System.NullReferenceException: A referência de objecto não foi definida como uma instância de um objecto. I don't really get anything else If you have three games or more and switch between them fast enough, it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Thank you @Manuel Leiria. Did you get that in LaunchBox or Big Box? Have you seen that error specifically in both or just one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 4 minutes ago, Maddoc1007 said: @Jason Carr how about a bat file with this for relaunching explorer? taskkill /im explorer.exe /f timeout /t 3 start explorer.exe Thanks Martin; I'm not killing explorer, though, only hiding the taskbar. I have an idea as to what to do though using a separate EXE, so I'm on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Leiria Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 3 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: Thank you @Manuel Leiria. Did you get that in LaunchBox or Big Box? Have you seen that error specifically in both or just one? In Launchbox. When it happens in Big Box it just crashes and shows no message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 its what i use when the taskbar sometimes sticks when set to autohide in windows 7 as was the only way to reboot and get the taskbar working properly and takes just 3 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 2 minutes ago, Manuel Leiria said: In Launchbox. When it happens in Big Box it just crashes and shows no message. My hunch is that this is only happening in LaunchBox now; sorry for the never ending questions, but have you seen it crash Big Box since yesterday's beta? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Leiria Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 4 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: My hunch is that this is only happening in LaunchBox now; sorry for the never ending questions, but have you seen it crash Big Box since yesterday's beta? You know what, no I haven't I just spent the last two minutes shuffling back and forth, and so far, not a thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 @Jason Carr Just tested the latest beta no problems love the intro video works well had background music on scrolled through games fast no crashes in BigBox working extremely well KUDOS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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