dmjohn0x Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 Sorry second post and another question. On my modular build, I was wondering how possible it would be to launch a movie? I wanted to custom theme my rig with a few of my favorite flicks on it as well such as gladiator, count of monte cristo, and shawshank redemption. And perhaps some disney/ghibli flicks for the girls.
DOS76 Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 Easy to launch anything from LB but if you want to add any metadata that is all manual work for anything other than games. 1
Lordmonkus Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 Yup, just add an emulator but point it to your movie player of choice and assign a platform. Import your movie file, assign it to the platform you have you movie player "emulator" set to. Like DOS76 said though, you will need to get the metadata and art yourself since there is no scraper for it. Maybe Jason some day can add imbd and thetvdb scraping. 1
dmjohn0x Posted August 24, 2016 Author Posted August 24, 2016 So, ive manages to make an "emulator" point to VLC portable, I added the platform "Studio Ghibli", but I cant seem to get Launchbox to display the system to manually add "games"?
Lordmonkus Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 Just drag the video file in and in the wizard when it asks for a platform just type it in manually, it may even auto populate the platform (not 100% sure on that though). 1
dmjohn0x Posted August 24, 2016 Author Posted August 24, 2016 thanks, I didnt realize platforms were invisible until a game was added to it.
Lordmonkus Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 You are welcome and sorry I missed your hello in chat was busy typing stuff up 1
dmjohn0x Posted August 24, 2016 Author Posted August 24, 2016 (edited) No problem. Thanks for being so n00b friendly and helpful! Ive noted that the in-game automation feature doesnt seem to want to close vlc player, so im going to look into ahk scripting. But the issue im having now is how to make vlc auto launch in fullscreen so i don have to manually add -f commandline ro every filedit:e. edit: figured it out. default command line under emulators. Edited August 24, 2016 by dmjohn0x
Lordmonkus Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 There is a setting in the preferences for full screen. You can also set a command line default for the emulator if you edit the emulator and go to the associated platforms tab.
dmjohn0x Posted August 24, 2016 Author Posted August 24, 2016 I got the default command line set to -f in the emu. Woks great. The AHK script to close active window in keypress was simple too: To close Active window on on "q" press: q::WinClose, A ; q
DOS76 Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 I use BigBox to launch Plex so then I have access to all of my media with the meta and covers that Plex provides but still accessible from with in BigBox
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