LaunchBox 13.21 - Beta Thread

[REI AYANAMI]

But are they going to remove VLC player forever? I had a lot of videos perfectly edited for Colorful and VLC.
At the moment, VLC keeps freezing for me. But I'm writing more because I recently had problems with the k-lite pack and I'd like to share it here:
A few months ago, after updating PotPlayer (I used it for desktop), my computer would restart by itself when I opened a video. It didn't happen all the time, but it did happen when I started opening the video. I uninstalled PotPlayer and the k-lite codecs, and I no longer had that Windows restart problem. But a week ago, I started playing Silent Hill Arcade by teknoparrot, and it would crash at startup. Then I remembered that that game required the k-lite codecs to work (damn it).
Anyway, I downloaded the updated ones from their website and installed them. To my surprise, the next day my PC restarted while I was using the BigBox. Well, I uninstalled K-Lite again, and it stopped happening. It's very strange, and I can't find much information out there in case the same thing happens to someone else.

Edited Friday at 11:41 PM by REI AYANAMI

[C-Beats]

11 hours ago, REI AYANAMI said:

But are they going to remove VLC player forever? I had a lot of videos perfectly edited for Colorful and VLC.
At the moment, VLC keeps freezing for me. But I'm writing more because I recently had problems with the k-lite pack and I'd like to share it here:
A few months ago, after updating PotPlayer (I used it for desktop), my computer would restart by itself when I opened a video. It didn't happen all the time, but it did happen when I started opening the video. I uninstalled PotPlayer and the k-lite codecs, and I no longer had that Windows restart problem. But a week ago, I started playing Silent Hill Arcade by teknoparrot, and it would crash at startup. Then I remembered that that game required the k-lite codecs to work (damn it).
Anyway, I downloaded the updated ones from their website and installed them. To my surprise, the next day my PC restarted while I was using the BigBox. Well, I uninstalled K-Lite again, and it stopped happening. It's very strange, and I can't find much information out there in case the same thing happens to someone else.

If you haven't already make sure you're on the latest update for your operating system and your video card drivers are up to date. I've heard of bad GPU interactions causing things like that to happen in the past.

[REI AYANAMI]

6 hours ago, C-Beats said:

If you haven't already make sure you're on the latest update for your operating system and your video card drivers are up to date. I've heard of bad GPU interactions causing things like that to happen in the past.

I don't know if you're talking about VLC or the K-lite codecs.
I've got everything updated. Nvidia GPU and Windows 10.
Otherwise, yesterday I tried it on my main computer (Windows 11) and BigBox also crashes with VLC.
I recorded a sample from the secondary computer (Windows 10, i7-6700k, 32GB RAM, 2060 Super) 
showing how it crashes as soon as I switch to VLC. This never happens with WMP. 
At least I managed to change the COLORFUL theme so the colors display correctly, regardless of the player I'm using.
I don't want to bother you too much since I know people talk about issues with beta versions here. 
I was going to download it, but when I saw that it didn't have VLC, 
I skipped it, since that's all I was interested in until now. Cheers.

Note: At 1:50 you can see what happens when you switch to VLC.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by REI AYANAMI

[elwooha6]

So, not sure about anyone else but I consider it a major downgrade to have to install a third-party codec pack that contains who-knows-what in it just to keep using BigBox with videos. Is that actually going to be necessary? Also I'm sure this is nothing new to the team but what about this: https://github.com/videolan/libvlcsharp. It does say it supports wpf forms but I know all of nothing of programming and I'm sure it's more complicated than a simple google search, so feel free to ignore me.

EDIT: I just went back to 13.20 and confirmed that for me VLC is working perfectly fine with no performance issues, so the perceived disturbance of a perfectly working system is pretty annoying IMO.

Edited 9 hours ago by elwooha6