How to enable video?

[Echorion]

When I add video to launchbox it plays the audio of the video file, but won't show the actual video in bigbox.

I have video options enabled in view settings, what else do I need to do?

[Retro808]

Have you tried switching from VLC to media player in the BigBox settings? 

[DOS76]

Make sure you are using a view that uses videos for starters.

[Echorion]

17 hours ago, Retro808 said:

Have you tried switching from VLC to media player in the BigBox settings? 

Yes.

15 hours ago, DOS76 said:

Make sure you are using a view that uses videos for starters.

I am currently.

 

I have tried using this theme as well recently:

 

It looks exactly like it does in his video; except the video won't play on the screen and instead runs in the background behind the background image or something; so all I can hear is the audio from it.

Edited March 24, 2017 by Echorion

[neil9000]

15 minutes ago, Echorion said:

Yes.

I am currently.

 

I have tried using this theme as well recently:

 

It looks exactly like it does in his video; except the video won't play on the screen and instead runs in the background behind the background image or something; so all I can hear is the audio from it.

Hi, it does work you need to use these settings, Windows media player, and turn off the videos.

Like this.

[Retro808]

Edited: Ninja'd by @neil9000

 

Spoiler

Make sure background videos is not checked in the Bigbox settings.

 

Edited March 24, 2017 by Retro808

[neil9000]

2 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

Edited: Ninja'd by @neil9000

 

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Make sure background videos is not checked in the Bigbox settings.

 

To slow.  

[Retro808]

@neil9000  Still learning. I had to get check on my arcade before I posted. Trying my best to be of some kind of help when I can. 

[neil9000]

1 minute ago, Retro808 said:

@neil9000  Still learning. I had to get check on my arcade before I posted. Trying my best to be of some kind of help when I can. 

Yeah I had to go and check as well!! but yeah it works fine with those settings on windows media player.

[Echorion]

4 hours ago, neil9000 said:

Hi, it does work you need to use these settings, Windows media player, and turn off the videos.

Like this.

Thank you very much that did it for me.

Some of the themes tell you what settings are used, and it's really helpful when they do. Unfortunately some do not; and if you are not already 100% familiar with what they all do yet, it's a lot of trial and error to figure it out.

[neil9000]

3 minutes ago, Echorion said:

Thank you very much that did it for me.

Some of the themes tell you what settings are used, and it's really helpful when they do. Unfortunately some do not; and if you are not already 100% familiar with what they all do yet, it's a lot of trial and error to figure it out.

Yeah that theme your using is one of the very first user created themes a lot has changed since then. Theme creators can now actually force correct settings in there themes so they just work, which makes it much easier. Also I'm not 100% sure but VLC may not have been incorporated into launchbox when that theme was created so has to use windows media player.