Quick question about BB Theme with Background Video

[PiperCalls]

Just a quicky, I'm trying to modify a very simple BB theme...it just has a horizontal wheel and behind it is a fullscreen faded background video of the selected item. My problem is that with the bg video I am getting issues in BB controls. Namely, if I navigate "back" to the BB menu, BB locks up and I have to task manager kill it. The only thing I can figure is that the bg video is causing the issue because I have a version of the theme that the only change is the bg is an image for the selected item instead of a video and it doesn't have the problem. Anyone heard of this? Are there some "parameters" around a bg video that can/cannot be used like resolution, size, fps, encoding, etc that I should be aware of? 

Thanks for any help.

[faeran]

On 9/25/2024 at 10:56 AM, PiperCalls said:

Just a quicky, I'm trying to modify a very simple BB theme...it just has a horizontal wheel and behind it is a fullscreen faded background video of the selected item. My problem is that with the bg video I am getting issues in BB controls. Namely, if I navigate "back" to the BB menu, BB locks up and I have to task manager kill it. The only thing I can figure is that the bg video is causing the issue because I have a version of the theme that the only change is the bg is an image for the selected item instead of a video and it doesn't have the problem. Anyone heard of this? Are there some "parameters" around a bg video that can/cannot be used like resolution, size, fps, encoding, etc that I should be aware of? 

Thanks for any help.

It could be dependent on a lot of variables. What does your code look like?

[PiperCalls]

Thanks for trying to help. It's a very simple theme, basically a fullscreen video with a png "hud". I have a horizontal wheel. There are 2 animations, one that just rotates 2 images in a folder & the other that swaps an image on left/right navigation. That's about it, no other artwork, etc.i did want a fade over the bg video & the only way I could see how was to put a frame over it with a transparency, dunno if that could cause issues. I can post the code if it helps?

[TurtTide55]

Yes do that please

[faeran]

15 hours ago, PiperCalls said:

Thanks for trying to help. It's a very simple theme, basically a fullscreen video with a png "hud". I have a horizontal wheel. There are 2 animations, one that just rotates 2 images in a folder & the other that swaps an image on left/right navigation. That's about it, no other artwork, etc.i did want a fade over the bg video & the only way I could see how was to put a frame over it with a transparency, dunno if that could cause issues. I can post the code if it helps?

Yeah the code could help, or you can paste the view file, and I can take a look at it for you when I have some time.

[PiperCalls]

much appreciated. the theme only has 1 view and i've attached it here. to recap, when i navigate back to the bb menu then bb locks up if the vids are present. if they are not present and the stock images show then navigation is fine.

thxHorizontalWheel1GamesView.xaml

[faeran]

On 10/1/2024 at 12:09 AM, PiperCalls said:

much appreciated. the theme only has 1 view and i've attached it here. to recap, when i navigate back to the bb menu then bb locks up if the vids are present. if they are not present and the stock images show then navigation is fine.

thxHorizontalWheel1GamesView.xaml

So I checked this file out, loaded it into Big Box, navigated around in and out of the view, used both video playback engines while doing so, but I never got the crash you are seeing. It doesn't look like it's this file that is causing the issue that you are seeing unfortunately.

I checked the contents of the file and I'm not seeing anything that stands out, at least with the video element.

[PiperCalls]

Ok, thx much for that. So i'm guessing it's a problem with 1 or more of the videos then. Do you know is there any kind of "bounds" on the videos that can be used such as resolution, fps, encoding, etc? The strange thing is another LB user who was helping me test it out got the same issues but we used many of the same videos too.

[faeran]

19 hours ago, PiperCalls said:

Ok, thx much for that. So i'm guessing it's a problem with 1 or more of the videos then. Do you know is there any kind of "bounds" on the videos that can be used such as resolution, fps, encoding, etc? The strange thing is another LB user who was helping me test it out got the same issues but we used many of the same videos too.

There's no properties to manipulate videos in that way, and it's more than likely that wouldn't help. It's possible it's a video issue, but it's also possible it's something that's not as apparent.

Simple tests:

• Change video playback engine and see if it's still happening
• Remove the video file you think may be causing the issue and see if it's still happening