Launchbox CTC video types

[Zanchos]

When you’re making a theme in the community theme creator, you can select to display a selected item video, however, it defaults to the video snap of the selected game. I was wondering if there is an option to have the selected video item be something else(I.e. theme, recording, marquee, etc.). I am trying to have two selected videos in the them, each with a different video type. And responses are appreciated. 

[faeran]

From purely a user's perspective, the video code ties to a user's video prioritization settings, which can be viewed in LaunchBox under Tools > Options > Media > Video Priorities. Once that is set, you should be good to go.

As a theme creator, if you are wanting to bypass a user's settings, the only way is to use a FlowVideo and choose your preferred video type to appear. There's some instructions about this in the Documentation.pdf located in your Themes folder, and an example in the Default theme's marquee view. One thing to note about doing it this way is that you lose the ability to have fallback types, so if you choose to show theme videos, but a game only has a video snap, your theme will never play the video snap. 

[Zanchos]

Where in the xml of a theme would I find this? I cannot find the video type settings in an xml. Do I need two video in the theme running in order to see the option? 

[faeran]

21 hours ago, Zanchos said:

Where in the xml of a theme would I find this? I cannot find the video type settings in an xml. Do I need two video in the theme running in order to see the option? 

You wouldn't find the code for FlowVideo in the xaml unless you added it yourself. You'll probably need to know a bit of coding to understand what to do, but in the end you would place the FlowVideo into the view file and position it the way that you want, and it will show up when you select that view in Big Box.