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      msheehan79
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      Hey @alphatoanant - good call on why I couldn't see an image in the video tag. I did have OMX player enabled and switching to VLC does show an image. Thanks!

      My only concern is VLC player isn't as efficient as OMX is, and I switched because I had run into heat issues while browsing through gamelists (with actual videos mind you). I'm wondering if rendering an image through the video tag is still using VLC player and if so is rendering a still image as CPU intensive as a video or does it handle it differently? I'm not sure how best to test this, other than load a bunch of images and navigate around in ES to see how hot the Pi gets. I'm sure there is a better way, if anyone can suggest it :)

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        pjft @msheehan79
        last edited by pjft

        @msheehan79 Trying to use an image on the video tag is certainly not intended nor supported. The fact that per chance VLC seems to have codecs to load up an image there is just coincidental.

        Edit: as far as performance goes, I wouldn't know. Feel free to test it out. An easy way is to navigate there for 10 or so minutes and after that check the temperature.

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          blubbblubb
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          Just to make sure, is the marquee data used in the theme? All the scraping commands on github include marquee data and i want to make sure it is ok to disable those to save some space

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            alphatoanant @blubbblubb
            last edited by alphatoanant

            @blubbblubb marquee is not displayed in the theme so marquee commands are safe to remove to save space. The main reason I kept those commands in was for users that switch back and forth between themes and want to have the full set of images just in case.

            Here are the adapted commends without marquee download:

            Arcade:
            The first command to download flyers from gamesdb remains the same
            Then for the video download from screenscraper use this
            /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -mame=true -mame_src=ss,gdb,adb -download_videos=true -image_dir=media -image_path=media -video_dir=media -video_path=media

            Console:
            /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -console_src=ss -max_height=540 -max_width=505 -download_videos=true -image_dir=media -image_path=media -video_dir=media -video_path=media -use_nointro_name=false

            My RetroPie Themes:
            Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
            Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
            TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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              Jaxel @alphatoanant
              last edited by

              @alphatoanant What command do you use for FBA?

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              • JesseBlueJ
                JesseBlue
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                I love this theme!! :D But i think the main menu is a little bit to clean.

                Would something like this be possible with ES? The background image is from the "bichromatic pads" collection of retroarch.

                0_1506166970406_artbook_menu.jpg

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                  Chalamannn
                  last edited by

                  How can i change a logo or make mine? i made one with illustrator but it see Smaller and Darker

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                  • HurricaneFanH
                    HurricaneFan @JesseBlue
                    last edited by

                    @jesseblue I like the subtle controller image background. How many other controller images do you have?

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                      greekmanx
                      last edited by

                      those background images plus a wider gamelist and this would be perfect

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                        alphatoanant @JesseBlue
                        last edited by

                        @jesseblue awesome idea for system view. I think it adds really nicely while still keeping it clean. That’s very possible to do in ES theming.

                        These are the images right?
                        https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets/tree/master/wallpapers/bichromatic pads/1440x900
                        I’ll need to check the license to see if they are allowed to be modified and used in other works. If so I can try adding them. And if you are interested in helping source or create images like these for any missing systems i’d be more than happy to collaborate.

                        My RetroPie Themes:
                        Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                        Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                        TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                          alphatoanant @Jaxel
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                          @jaxel I have all of my arcade games under the mame folder currently so I haven’t had a chance to test scrape of FBA. I think the arcade commands I have should work though. I can try a test tonight and see.

                          My RetroPie Themes:
                          Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                          Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                          TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                            HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
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                            @alphatoanant That would be so awesome to see those in the system view!

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                              pjft
                              last edited by

                              I agree that those images could be a nice option for the system view screen. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

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                                alphatoanant @JesseBlue
                                last edited by

                                @JesseBlue, @HurricaneFan, @greekmanx and @pjft I made an initial commit to github for the system view update with a few systems to test with (nes, gb are probably the best to look at)

                                I am converting each controller to an SVG so they scale well and am playing with variables in my main theme.xml to avoid having to update the xml for each system individually.

                                Interested in what you think before I dive deeper on color, placement, size etc...
                                Getting latest from either retropie es-themes menu or direct from github will get you the changes to check out.

                                It's going to take me time to create an svg controller for each system so I don't have a good idea on timeframe for all yet but I am liking the way it looks so its something i'll try my best to do. The good news is some systems use the same artwork (like genesis and segacd). Any help of course will be awesome.

                                Thank you again for the idea @JesseBlue

                                My RetroPie Themes:
                                Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                                Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                                TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                                  HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
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                                  @alphatoanant I'll test this later today. Thanks @alphatoanant !

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                                    blubbblubb
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                                    @jaxel @alphatoanant The arcade command works fine for fbalpha, i scraped some images and videos over the weekend.

                                    I made some changes to the command though, different order for the regions, enable video reencoding to 320x240@30fps (needs HandBrakeCli, i scraped on my Desktop PC instead of the Pi), and i used adb as the primary source as they seem to have more game flyer available, for adb you need the latest version of the scraper as there was an update to their API recently (took me some time to find out why the download was not working correctly)

                                    Flyer
                                    ./scraper -mame=true -mame_src=adb,gdb,ss -mame_img=fly,b,t,s -max_height=540 -max_width=394 -image_dir=media -image_path=media -ss_user=xxx -ss_password=xxx -lang "en" -region "eu,wor,us,jp,xx"

                                    Video/Marquee (after asking about marquees i actually went for a bigger SD Card and just went all in with the game media ;) )
                                    ./scraper -mame=true -mame_src=adb,ss,gdb -download_videos=true -download_marquees=true -image_dir=media -image_path=media -video_dir=media -video_path=media -marquee_dir=media -marquee_path=media -ss_user=xxx -ss_password=xxx -convert_videos -lang "en" -region "eu,wor,us,jp,xx"

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                                    • HurricaneFanH
                                      HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
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                                      @alphatoanant I love the look of the new system backgrounds. They are just subtle enough without making the theme too busy looking. I think they look amazing in your theme! Keep up the good work.

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                                      • JesseBlueJ
                                        JesseBlue @alphatoanant
                                        last edited by

                                        @alphatoanant Awesome! I´ve just tested the update and it looks even better than I could have hoped! :)

                                        This image might be useful to create the missing Famicom SVG: Famicom Controller

                                        And one for Neo Geo AES: SNK Arcade Stick

                                        CDI: Philips CDI Controller

                                        MSX, MSX2, X68000: ASCII Stick X

                                        Unfortunately I pretty much suck at vector graphics.

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                                        • alphatoanantA
                                          alphatoanant
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you for those scrape details @blubbblubb. Wondering if there is a way to install handbrake cli on the pi to save me the re-encode step i go through now on the PC.

                                          My RetroPie Themes:
                                          Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                                          Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                                          TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                                            Chalamannn @alphatoanant
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                                            @alphatoanant How to make a Logo? i tryed with Illustrator but see's darker.
                                            Thanks! :) Amazing theme so minimal ♥

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