[Theme] CRT

[C hicaned]

@alphatoanant That is spot on :-) Many thanks for the quick update! That issue had been irking me for some time. Should have mentioned it sooner ;-)

Thanks again!

[joenck]

Hi!

I have my theme working fine, 4x3 format in a real crt TV, but I have some games where the videos have a different size, like Strider (Arcade), and the video goes outside the bezel. I think that if the video has a wide screen format it goes outside the bezel.

Is there anything I can do to make these videos show right?

Thanks.

[pjft]

You can probably edit the theme to force a reasonable max horizontal size as well.

[alphatoanant]

@joenck I'll try to take a look tonight. Might be a bug in my sizing definitions.

[joenck]

@alphatoanant Some pictures to show you the problem. Thanks!

[alphatoanant]

@joenck Thank you! And to double confirm - you are using the 4x3 version right? I think I know what's up based on the images.

[joenck]

@alphatoanant Yes, 4x3.xml

[joenck]

@alphatoanant Not all the videos looks like the pictures, just ones. Almost all are ok.

[alphatoanant]

@joenck I tried a few different things last night and wasn't able to recreate. Wondering would you be able to send a link to the strider video file so I can test with that? Its odd that its happening for only a few and not all so if I can isolate an example it should be easier to figure out whats up.

Also can you send over what version of retropie and es you are running?

[joenck]

@alphatoanant Hi, thank you for try. Tomorrow I'll try to send you the file. Could be by e-mail? I'll check the versions tomorrow, I'm not at home. For the videos I used the Sselph's scraper. I've updated both recently, I think Retropie is .18, ES I dont know. I'm using the composite output to a CRT TV. The theme is the 4x3 XML. I'll send you all the information tomorrow. I got your theme through the retropie menu. Thanks.

[alphatoanant]

I should be able to grab the same video from sshelph's scraper. Will try that tonight no need to send for now.

Knowing that you updated the theme recently through ES-Themes menu should mean its the latest version as well. After downloading you manually changed the root theme.xml to point to 4x3.xml so that should be all thats needed.

Wondering if its something odd with the source video - will check that. More to come.

[joenck]

Hi! SOLVED!

I've changed a line in the 4x3.xml.

Before it was:

<feature supported="video">
<view name="video">
<image name="crt-bezel" extra="true">
<origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
<pos>0.2697916666666667 0.3666666666666667</pos>
<maxSize>0.35625 0.3638888888888889</maxSize>
<path>./../images/crt-bezel.svg</path>
</image>
<image name="md_image">
<origin>1 1</origin>
<pos>0.453125 0.55</pos>
<maxSize>0.1354166666666667 0.1805555555555556</maxSize>
</image>
<image name="md_marquee">
<origin>0 1</origin>
<pos>0.0864583333333333 0.55</pos>
<maxSize>0.1354166666666667 0.1805555555555556</maxSize>
</image>
<video name="md_video">
<origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
<pos>0.2697916666666667 0.3666666666666667</pos>
<maxSize>0.3333333333333333 0.3333333333333333</maxSize>
<delay>0.5</delay>
<default>./../videos/static.mp4</default>
<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>
</video>
</view>
</feature>

Than I changed the MAXSIZE line to:

<maxSize>0.3033333333333333 0.3333333333333333</maxSize>

Now the video width is limited.

I think it is solved for now.

Now it looks like this:

;)

[joenck]

Now I want to know how to put an image instead the static video in the Retropie menu. An put the description right below the bezel.

Waiting for help. ;)

Thanks!

[joenck]

@joenck The description I founded how to put at the right place. But remove the static and put the image inside the bezel not...

[TomAce]

@alphatoanant I can't for the life of me figure out why I'm still having z-index issues. I've updated everything (that I know of) multiple times and I'm still getting the video preview in front of the boxart. I read through another thread where you were talking to @jdrassa and have looked through the code and everything looks like it should be working. Any advice? Love the look and build! Great work!

[jdrassa]

@tomace are you using OMX player? Due to how it works, it always renders the video on top of everything else regardless of z-index.

[TomAce]

@jdrassa yuuuup that was it! It was my understanding that having OMX on allowed for smoother video previews so I turned it on but it seems to be working fine without. Thanks for the help!! Been bugging me

[jdrassa]

@tomace You are correct. OMX player generally performs better, but that performance comes at the cost of not working well with z-index. That is why it is an option.

[joenck]

@joenck Someone can help me? How can I remove the bezel an static video only in the retropie menu an put the icons bigger? Thanks!

[alphatoanant]

@joenck are you asking for change to the layout of the retropie configuration menu to remove the video player? If so that should already be the way its setup (as the retropie menu items shouldn't have any videos associated with them in the gamelist).

Under UI settings can you check to see if video view is set as default instead of automatic?