C-Beats Posted April 14 Posted April 14 6 minutes ago, Rlad said: 2025-04-14 15-58-30.mp4 5.65 MB · 0 downloads Thanks for this, we'll take a look. 1
hkr Posted April 14 Posted April 14 (edited) 2 hours ago, faeran said: Are you able to try the update again, when you get to the k-lite install screen, click on this invisible button to open the log file location, then try and install k-lite. If it fails again, open the log file and paste it here. I ran the 13.21 beta 2 exe in the updates folder, but it did not prompt me with this screen again, and videos still do not work. EDIT: What WMP is LB attempting to use? I have the windows 11 Media Player app, but I do not have the classic Windows Media Player program. If I remember correctly, older installs of windows 11 comes with the classic program, but modern ones do not. Edited April 14 by hkr thought of a reason my issue may be happening
C-Beats Posted April 14 Posted April 14 1 hour ago, Rlad said: Is the Clear Logo (overide) supposed to be functional yet? Because it's not saving the image. Was able to replicate this thanks to your video and pin point the cause. Unfortunately override logos for Platforms and Playlists and dumping into the wrong folder. If you want to use this functionality between now and when the correction is released you can manually place the images in the appropriate folder: For Playlists: \\LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Overrides\Platform Clear Logos\Playlists For Platforms: \\LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Overrides\Platform Clear Logos\Platforms 1
faeran Posted April 14 Author Posted April 14 1 hour ago, hkr said: I ran the 13.21 beta 2 exe in the updates folder, but it did not prompt me with this screen again, and videos still do not work. EDIT: What WMP is LB attempting to use? I have the windows 11 Media Player app, but I do not have the classic Windows Media Player program. If I remember correctly, older installs of windows 11 comes with the classic program, but modern ones do not. If it doesn't show again, it means that it believes that you were able to install k-lite during the first time. WMP (Legacy) is baked into Windows (even the latest versions of Windows 11), but there are some computers where it comes disabled. The installer simply runs the command to enable it. It's always possible that Windows thinks you have it enabled, but at some point WMP was corrupted in some way. That would explain why videos would show up black when you attempt to play them in LaunchBox. To check this, open your start menu and type in "Windows features" and hit enter. In the window that opens, look for Media Features > Windows Media Player. If it's disabled, check it and hit OK. If it's enabled, disable it, hit OK, then after it does its thing, open the window again and enable it. You may want to restart your computer after you do all of this. That should rule out WMP as being the thing causing your issue.
hkr Posted April 14 Posted April 14 6 minutes ago, faeran said: If it doesn't show again, it means that it believes that you were able to install k-lite during the first time. WMP (Legacy) is baked into Windows (even the latest versions of Windows 11), but there are some computers where it comes disabled. The installer simply runs the command to enable it. It's always possible that Windows thinks you have it enabled, but at some point WMP was corrupted in some way. That would explain why videos would show up black when you attempt to play them in LaunchBox. To check this, open your start menu and type in "Windows features" and hit enter. In the window that opens, look for Media Features > Windows Media Player. If it's disabled, check it and hit OK. If it's enabled, disable it, hit OK, then after it does its thing, open the window again and enable it. You may want to restart your computer after you do all of this. That should rule out WMP as being the thing causing your issue. I'm only given the option for Media Features, Windows Media Player doesn't appear in the list. The feature was enabled. I disabled it, hit okay, and restarted my computer. Then I enabled it, hit okay and restarted again. LB still shows a black box when I click on a video's play button. Here is the list of windows features on my computer (Win 11 pro 24H2, build 26100.3775):
faeran Posted April 14 Author Posted April 14 18 minutes ago, hkr said: I'm only given the option for Media Features, Windows Media Player doesn't appear in the list. The feature was enabled. I disabled it, hit okay, and restarted my computer. Then I enabled it, hit okay and restarted again. LB still shows a black box when I click on a video's play button. Here is the list of windows features on my computer (Win 11 pro 24H2, build 26100.3775): Do you have a Windows N version of Windows? Either way, see what happens if you follow this link to install the Media Feature Pack: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/media-feature-pack-for-windows-n-8622b390-4ce6-43c9-9b42-549e5328e407
hkr Posted April 14 Posted April 14 4 minutes ago, faeran said: Do you have a Windows N version of Windows? Either way, see what happens if you follow this link to install the Media Feature Pack: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/media-feature-pack-for-windows-n-8622b390-4ce6-43c9-9b42-549e5328e407 I am running a normal windows 11 pro install. Following the instructions linked, Windows Media Player Legacy (app) was not installed. There was no Media Feature Pack. I installed the Windows Media Player Legacy (App) and videos now work in Launchbox. However, I was not having issues with VLC and I would prefer to keep legacy windows packages (and especially codec packs) from my system in the future. I'm not sure why VLC is being removed from LB support, but so far I'm not a big fan of this experience.
8d6FireDamage Posted April 17 Posted April 17 I am still getting the error about running out of memory when I wake the device from sleeping after several hours. I have it installed on the ROG Ally running Big Box when I see the message.
faeran Posted April 17 Author Posted April 17 Beta 3 is out with the following: Improvement: MAME High Score logic is now more robust, and the following games are now working/working again thanks to the hard work of our community: Batsugun, Bubble Bobble, Dig Dug, Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label - Another Ver, Viper Phase 1 Improvement: Some minor visual improvements for the installer, along with the ability to download and install WMP, along with the ability to enable it if turned off Fixed: Playlists with no games were incorrectly appearing in the root of the Platform Categories view Fixed: Improved long term stability in Big Box if using the Related Games feature over many days We have the following known issues: The installer is incorrectly skipping enabling WMP if K-lite is already installed - Will be fixed for release We are in the process of bringing back VLC as a deprecated video playback engine (use at your own risk type of deal), but it's not fully ready yet, but you will see the option has reappeared - Will be fixed for release Some computers are still getting false out of memory prompts after returning from sleep - May be fixed for release, or by beta 1 of the next release 1
Drybonz Posted April 18 Posted April 18 The changes to Star Rating sorting in this beta were great, and I would like to suggest a very similar change... the "release date year" sorting is less than useful because it uses the day of release for sub-sorting... what would be more useful is alphabetical sub-sorting... so what you could have is grouped by year, but then easy to find a specific game in that year because of the alpha sub-sorting. 1
sTo0z Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Just installed beta-3 to address the out of memory issues when waking from sleep and things are more broken than ever. If I "Sleep" via a method outside of Big Box, then wake, the out of memory crash occurs as before. If I use the Big Box menu to "Sleep", then wake, it doesn't crash, but all the artwork is lost (grey boxes), and the main area of the game info does not refresh. I can still scroll and launch games, but everything about the interface is frozen and most elements are just gone.
e2zippo Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Regarding the video player discussion that's been lately. Would it be possible to use this? https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc 1
Retro808 Posted April 18 Posted April 18 6 hours ago, sTo0z said: Just installed beta-3 to address the out of memory issues when waking from sleep and things are more broken than ever. If I "Sleep" via a method outside of Big Box, then wake, the out of memory crash occurs as before. If I use the Big Box menu to "Sleep", then wake, it doesn't crash, but all the artwork is lost (grey boxes), and the main area of the game info does not refresh. I can still scroll and launch games, but everything about the interface is frozen and most elements are just gone. I do not believe Beta 3 fixed anything on this. Faeren's post mentioned it only as a known issue and it may be fixed for release (next stable) or beta 1 of the next release. 1
erdybirdy53. Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Hi all. I have just installed beta 3 and I am having some issues. The 1st one being, on some platforms i.e Sega Ringedge, where I have scraped as Arcade its not using my Sega RingEdge logo and is using the Arcade logo instead, even though I have set up a override in clear logos and have them in "J:\LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Overrides\Platform Clear Logos\Platforms" (see example). This is happening for several platforms where I have scaped as Arcade. The images appear correctly in Big Box but in Launchbox they are wrong for some reason. I have cleared all image cache in Big Box also. 2nd question where are the platform categories being pulled from now, previously they were "J:\LaunchBox\Images\Platform Categories", as they are now using couple of incorrect icons Thanks for your help as always. Cheers.
faeran Posted April 18 Author Posted April 18 15 minutes ago, erdybirdy53. said: Hi all. I have just installed beta 3 and I am having some issues. The 1st one being, on some platforms i.e Sega Ringedge, where I have scraped as Arcade its not using my Sega RingEdge logo and is using the Arcade logo instead, even though I have set up a override in clear logos and have them in "J:\LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Overrides\Platform Clear Logos\Platforms" (see example). This is happening for several platforms where I have scaped as Arcade. The images appear correctly in Big Box but in Launchbox they are wrong for some reason. I have cleared all image cache in Big Box also. 2nd question where are the platform categories being pulled from now, previously they were "J:\LaunchBox\Images\Platform Categories", as they are now using couple of incorrect icons Thanks for your help as always. Cheers. Looks like by fixing something else with Platform Clear Logo Overrides, this broke down. Should be fixed before release. To answer your question, we are working on a searchable knowledge base. It doesn't have a lot of info on it yet, but are you able to ask it your question and see if it actually gives you the answer you were looking for? https://feedback.launchbox.gg/help 1
erdybirdy53. Posted April 18 Posted April 18 15 minutes ago, faeran said: Looks like by fixing something else with Platform Clear Logo Overrides, this broke down. Should be fixed before release. To answer your question, we are working on a searchable knowledge base. It doesn't have a lot of info on it yet, but are you able to ask it your question and see if it actually gives you the answer you were looking for? https://feedback.launchbox.gg/help Thanks for the reply. I will wait for the next release of Launchbox to hopefully fix the clear logo platform issues. I have checked your link and couldn't find where the platform categories logos are now being pulled from. Thank you. 1
sTo0z Posted April 18 Posted April 18 2 hours ago, Retro808 said: I do not believe Beta 3 fixed anything on this. Faeren's post mentioned it only as a known issue and it may be fixed for release (next stable) or beta 1 of the next release. Apologies! I thought it had been addressed according to this post:
Fursphere Posted April 18 Posted April 18 I'm not sure if this is related to the current beta, or just something that I've never noticed before... But if you look in the screenshot. At the 'platform categories' view, for the 'all arcade' selection - it pulls a random video from that list (cool) and a random background image (fan art background I think), but you can see they're two completely different games. Is it possible to get these to stay in sink? So it would pull 'random video + random background' from the same game?
elwooha6 Posted April 18 Posted April 18 (edited) I finally got some time to test things on beta3. I'm not sure if this is actually beta3 related but I have noticed that on a fresh install with beta3 my PS3 games (installed in RPCS3) are not auto populating. Other than that I've had good success so far. EDIT: Nvm about the PS3 issue, was a user error. beta3 seems to be working fine for me. Edited April 20 by elwooha6 1
cheguewara Posted April 25 Posted April 25 I wanted to upgrade from 13.18 to 13.21 but get error message i cant read because of another launchbox dialogue box is blocking the view. Went back to 13.18 The last few updates were and are a mess...
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