[Theme] CRT

[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?

[joenck]

@alphatoanant It worked! It was in VIDEO instead of AUTOMATIC. Thanks!

[Jaxel]

I'm having issues where the videos are very laggy. I thought the solution was to turn OXM on, but in doing so, the videos no longer obey zIndex order and cover the box art and marquees...

[alphatoanant]

@jaxel yes OMX player doesn't support z-index settings and CRT depends on that for the layout I was going for. Sadly there is no way around that at this time if you need to use OMX player.

If you are on a pi3 - re-encoding the videos has worked for many of us not using OMX player. I use handbrake targeting a resolution of 320x240 30fps and 30 as a quality setting and have had good luck with that and omx player turned off.

I also created a new theme recently called Art Book that works well with OMX player. If you are interested in checking it out you can see it here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11728/theme-art-book

[Seymour Butz]

Finally sat down this weekend and set up the Pi properly after it had spent a few months in a drawer when my interest faded after trying to source a load of snaps myself - wish I'd known about this theme and Selph's Scraper at the time! Everything's looking great.

One thing I've noticed, I don't know if there's a reason it can't be done or something (skimmed the thread and nobody else mentioned it), is that if you're scrolling through ROMs quickly and the videos don't have time to load, the Sega-grid background shows through behind the CRT outline - would there be any way to 'black out' the inside of the screen when a videos arne't loaded? Might make things look a bit cleaner while you're scrolling through.

Great work, thanks.

[alphatoanant]

@seymour-butz thank you for your kind words. Yes I can fix that to add a black background.
I had it once before but in debugging something it looks like I forgot to add it back in =). Will fix as soon as possible. Thank you for catching it and give a heads up.

[alphatoanant]

... and that was an easy fix =). I had the code for it commented out so it was quick to update. Just get the latest from es-themes and that should do the trick. Thanks again for you help @Seymour-Butz and glad you are liking the theme.

[Seymour Butz]

@alphatoanant Great stuff, thanks for all your work!