Big box - Sound from video still playing after starting game and quitting a game

[shadyfurball]

Hi there. Sorry if this has been posted before but I have an issue with big box still playing the sound from a video clip of the game even when I've started the game (ie model 2/sega rally). When I quit the emulator and move away from the selected game the sound for that games video clip is still playing. 

 

Even when quitting big box the sound is still playing. It stops after a few seconds. 

 

Anyone help with this? 

 

Thanks. 

Edited May 5, 2020 by shadyfurball

[davdes44]

Seeing the same issue as well, doesn't stop until a few seconds after i close bigbox completely 

[shadyfurball]

On 5/7/2020 at 7:26 AM, davdes44 said:

Seeing the same issue as well, doesn't stop until a few seconds after i close bigbox completely 

Hey I think I managed to sort this out. In options I changed the video player from vlc to Windows media player. Hope this helps anyone else with the issue. 

[jstreifel]

I am having the same issue. I tried changing from vlc to windows Media player but that didn't fix the issue. I can hear the game video in big box after loading the game in mame. Does anyone else have an idea of what I can do to fix this?

[Sbaby]

I have the same problem, sometimes yes sometimes no.
with mame i have it often so i set this third party application that mutes volume bigbox when mame starts and turns bigbox volume back on when mame close

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sound_volume_view.html

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Script to be launched first in the launchbox mame emulator settings :

run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /Mute LaunchBox
run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /Mute BigBox

Process, WaitClose, mame.exe

run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /UnMute LaunchBox
run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /UnMute BigBox

Edited November 3, 2022 by Sbaby

[hawkfanz]

On 11/3/2022 at 3:35 PM, Sbaby said:

I have the same problem, sometimes yes sometimes no.
with mame i have it often so i set this third party application that mutes volume bigbox when mame starts and turns bigbox volume back on when mame close

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sound_volume_view.html

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Script to be launched first in the launchbox mame emulator settings :

run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /Mute LaunchBox
run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /Mute BigBox

Process, WaitClose, mame.exe

run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /UnMute LaunchBox
run, "d:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /UnMute BigBox

Thanks. I’ve had a hard time trying to figure out how to fix this issue and your solution worked great. It only happened maybe 1 in 8 times but definitely enough to be annoying. 

[Sbaby]

40 minutes ago, hawkfanz said:

Thanks. I’ve had a hard time trying to figure out how to fix this issue and your solution worked great. It only happened maybe 1 in 8 times but definitely enough to be annoying. 

Very good, thank you. I'm glad it was helpful.

I can tell you that over time I have also added other things to mame startup besides sound_volume_view.

In particular this :
it reinforces the issue of annoying sound and forces launchbox and bigbox to always stay minimized when mame is active, to do this i suggest you this script made by me and ai , the descriptions are in italian but i think you understand

Make sure the CLASS of the mame window is 'MAME', it may be different depending on the version of MAME you own, if it is different, open the script with a text editor and edit it

MAME-Script_min_max.ahk

 

and this :
https://www.dcmembers.com/skrommel/download/singleinstance/
Inserting mame.exe avoids multiple instances of mame. You can also use it with other emulators, put it in the Launchbox start-up applications 

 

 

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ps. Launchbox already performs these operations natively, you have to go in the general options and put the flag on MINIMIZE LAUNCHBOX WHEN LAUNCHING GAMES, but I chose my script because it ensures that it always remains minimized and not only at startup, moreover for other emulators the behaviour is different and unfortunately Launchbox has the option only global for all

 

☺️

Edited January 19 by Sbaby

[xX-Delirium-Xx]

On 11/3/2022 at 4:35 PM, Sbaby said:

I have the same problem, sometimes yes sometimes no.
with mame i have it often so i set this third party application that mutes volume bigbox when mame starts and turns bigbox volume back on when mame close

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sound_volume_view.html

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thank you this works. i can't believe they still have not fixed this still :-(

Edited June 2 by xX-Delirium-Xx

[Sbaby]

On 6/2/2024 at 4:39 AM, xX-Delirium-Xx said:

thank you this works. i can't believe they still have not fixed this still :-(

Focus issues are among the most annoying and difficult to resolve. They added a general option to minimize the frontend when launching a game, which works well with many games but not all. It would be useful to activate this option specifically for each emulator at our discretion.

[Fast_Eddie]

You can fix this issue by changing the settings.

Go to $EXODOS_FOLDER/data, and open Settings.xml. Look for

<AutoPlayMusic>true</AutoPlayMusic>

and change it to

<AutoPlayMusic>false</AutoPlayMusic>.

I didn't try it with BigBox, the settings fiile is called BigBoxSettings.xml and has two tags that sound similar, <AutoPlayMusicGameDetails> and <AutoPlayMusicGamesList>, which are set to true.

Edited October 16 by Fast_Eddie

[JimV]

I've also experienced this issue recently after using Big Box for well over a year.  I tried using the SoundVolumeView tool and unfortunately that mutes MAME too.  I'm not sure if that is due to how MAME is now launched withing BB.  Anyone out there found a solid solution for this yet?

[Fast_Eddie]

20 hours ago, JimV said:

I've also experienced this issue recently after using Big Box for well over a year.  I tried using the SoundVolumeView tool and unfortunately that mutes MAME too.  I'm not sure if that is due to how MAME is now launched withing BB.  Anyone out there found a solid solution for this yet?

Have you tried the tags in the Big Box configuration I mentioned above? Would be interesting to see whether this works. Simply use a text editor to set the content between the tags from true to false, i.e. from <tag>true</tag> to <tag>false</tag>.

[Sbaby]

22 hours ago, JimV said:

I've also experienced this issue recently after using Big Box for well over a year.  I tried using the SoundVolumeView tool and unfortunately that mutes MAME too.  I'm not sure if that is due to how MAME is now launched withing BB.  Anyone out there found a solid solution for this yet?

I understand that this solution is not particularly elegant, but for us it has been stable and reliable for years. We have had no more audio problems with MAME. In my opinion, there may be an error in your configuration of the SoundVolumeView command line, which is designed precisely to mute only the specified programs without affecting MAME. I suggest you check the command line given in my post just above this topic. Alternatively, you can also use the NirCmd software, which offers similar functionality.

 

Edit : 

also try adding run “...LaunchBox Big Box,” and with a little final delay (remember to replace the path to the SoundVolumeView folder with the path to yours, if different from mine)

that is, like this :

run, "D:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /Mute LaunchBox
run, "D:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /Mute BigBox
run, "D:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /Mute LaunchBox Big Box

WinMinimize, ahk_exe LaunchBox.exe, 
WinMinimize, ahk_exe BigBox.exe,

Process, WaitClose, mame.exe

run, "D:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /UnMute LaunchBox
run, "D:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /UnMute BigBox
run, "D:\Launchbox\ThirdParty\SoundVolumeView\SoundVolumeView.exe" /UnMute LaunchBox Big Box

Sleep 3500

 

2 hours ago, Fast_Eddie said:

Have you tried the tags in the Big Box configuration I mentioned above? Would be interesting to see whether this works. Simply use a text editor to set the content between the tags from true to false, i.e. from <tag>true</tag> to <tag>false</tag>.

We'll try that as well, thank you

Edited November 1 by Sbaby

[JimV]

Thanks for the additional advice. I'll give these a try tonight and see if either one work for me.  Thank you!