Thanks for the info, I guess I was right in my first diagnosis about the origin being locked to the center after all SMH.

This sounds like one of those issues that's a "bug" if you're an end-user and a "design limitation" if you're a developer. At the least, I think it should be noted in the emulationstation themes documentation on github.

I'll start by setting my videos to just have an origin on 0.5,0.5 so that the OMXPlayer and the VLC Player are at least consistent. Then I'll try to figure out if there's a more elegant solution later on.

Best of luck with the theme, though - it's looking really great!

Thanks, but like I said, I'm just tinkering with the layout of the defunct Cygnus theme, so I really can't take credit for 95% of it (you can see that I haven't touched the credits in the header comments in the common.xml file).