[Theme] CRT
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@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!
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@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.
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@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
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@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.
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@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!
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@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?
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@alphatoanant It worked! It was in VIDEO instead of AUTOMATIC. Thanks!
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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...
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@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
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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.
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@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. -
... 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.
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@alphatoanant Great stuff, thanks for all your work!
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I was wondering what could be done to to fix this:
The video is extending outside the box and overlapping the artwork.
I'm running the videos in the OMX (hardware accelerated) player otherwise my Pi3 overheats like crazy.
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@goyney Unfortunately, the trade off when using OMX is that nothing can be layered on top of the video. The only way to correct would be to disable OMX.
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@goyney OMX player doesn't support z-indexing which CRT relies on in order to overlay the boxart on top of the video.
I have had success with re-encoding my videos using handbrake to 320x240 resolution / 30FPS at a constant quality of 30. Those settings have allowed me to turn off OMX player so z-indexing works.
Outside of that an alternative is trying a theme that doesn't rely on z-indexing so you can use OMX player without issue. I have another theme called Art Book that works well for that (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11728/theme-art-book) and I know there are others too.
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If I use the auto scraper it will work right?
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Is there any reason why the video snaps are in front of my game art?
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@dover19 It could be because you are using OMX to run the video? I might be wrong, but it's called something like that in the options.
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That appears to be it. Unfortunately using the regular player is just horrible.
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