LaunchBox 13.28 Beta Thread

[Drybonz]

A question about the caching... when I adjust image height in the configure layout menu, this is only affecting the grid of one platform (the image height isn't affected for all other platforms) but then LB triggers a cache rebuild (progress bar at the top) for every platform.  Is that necessary?  Could that cache rebuild happen for only the affected platform?

Edited 10 hours ago by Drybonz

[salofan]

Will play around more with LB and BB today, but first impression is that beta-3 is running much better and snappier without any of the issues I ran into in beta-2. Much appreciated! 

[JaredN]

Hello,

I'm having a problem with the background music.

With VLC, when “Play video audio with background music” is unchecked, I don't hear any sound from the video or any background music.
If I check it, both start playing as soon as the video begins.

With WMP or FFMPEG, I don’t get any background music at all. If “Play video audio with background music” is unchecked, nothing plays.
If I check it, I only hear the video’s audio...

These issues weren’t present in Beta 2. However, Beta 3 completely fixed the choppy video issues I was having in LaunchBox and the responsiveness issues (such as a VERY unstable frame rate) I was having in BigBox, which made navigating the menus very hit-or-miss.

Finally, just testing FFMPEG for a few minutes for this post was enough to crash BigBox.
VLC, on the other hand, seems stable.
And I haven’t retested WPM enough to give you a reliable opinion.

A big thank you for your work!

[Fursphere]

After Beta 3 - I had to force-refresh all images to get the wheel images to show up again.    After the force refresh, everything seems fine.   

[JaredN]

One more thing: when minimized to the taskbar, LaunchBox resists "Alt-Tab" (it just makes a "DONG" sound). It doesn't do this when you use "Alt-Tab" from within LaunchBox without minimizing it.

Returning to LaunchBox via the taskbar doesn’t work on the first click either. The first click triggers a “dong,” and the second click brings you back to LaunchBox.

I don’t know if this is the intended behavior, but it’s definitely strange...

This “issue” was already present in Beta 2, but I hadn’t found the time to report it.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by JaredN

[Fursphere]

3 hours ago, Fursphere said:

After Beta 3 - I had to force-refresh all images to get the wheel images to show up again.    After the force refresh, everything seems fine.   

After attract mode runs for a few hours, the image cache for wheel images seems to go blank again...

Example:

[MysterNybble]

4 hours ago, JaredN said:

With VLC, when “Play video audio with background music” is unchecked, I don't hear any sound from the video or any background music.
If I check it, both start playing as soon as the video begins.

With WMP or FFMPEG, I don’t get any background music at all. If “Play video audio with background music” is unchecked, nothing plays.
If I check it, I only hear the video’s audio...

Would love to see the debug log files if you can recreate this for me. Enable debug logging in LaunchBox's options, then recreate the issue. This will create 3 files in the Logs folder: the normal log and 2 media-engine logs. The media engine handles background music irrespective of which video player you choose, so seeing these logs will be useful.

4 hours ago, JaredN said:

VLC, on the other hand, seems stable.

Good to hear. We're hoping to lean into this VLC player/media engine as *the* video/audio playback solution across the board once we iron out all the wrinkles.