video screen saver ideas.
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I see the latest ES has video screen saver, and i noticed it's only for video snaps that are scraped to games. I don't use video snaps and would like to just use a folder of random videos.
And maybe another possibility is do like a random slide show of just the box art. -
The same here. I would just like to be able to select whatever video i want but it seems it's going to get the videos from the gamelist.xml.
Like you said, creating a video folder where we could select a video for the screensaver. -
@lostless i am also trying to figure this out. I no it pulls the videos from home/pi/retropie/roms and pulls from roms sub directorys. But like if i could figure out how to edit that. To lets say home/pi/retropie/roms/screensavers. Weed both be golden.
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I gave up on this as its not implemented correctly in my opinion. It should work like the picture screensaver where you choose a folder and it selects a random video from there.
It once worked for me in an older version of ES, where i had no scraped video snaps. I just added the screensaver videos to some games (by editing the gamelist.xml)
But now all my games have video snaps and i cant use my video screensaver collection from malixx.
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@analoghero https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive
You can download ES2.6.2 from my "binary archive"
This supports the feature you ment ;) -
@cyperghost Didnt know that. Thanks alot. :)
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@analoghero It supports the old feature with adding some files just to a gamelist ;)
It's a backup from RetroPie 4.2 as the custom collections were collected! -
@cyperghost Ahh i see. I test this in this very moment and couldnt find the feature im missing yet. :) As i see now this is an older version of ES. Thought it might be a modded binary.
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@analoghero It's an old binary but you can add videotags to gamelist for exp. in RetroPie gamelist menu and it will display any video without being linked to a ROM
So this method works as it should
But you are totally right ... a dedicated folder just for videos would be great!
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