dual videos? halp!

[DRA6N]

How would I go about having the md_video playing in 2 locations at the same time? I've tried every version of the nested code I could think of but only 1 video shows. There has to be a way to fool it into displaying the video twice. right??

<feature supported="video">
	<view name="video">
		<video name="md_video">
			<pos>0.224 0.403</pos>
			<origin>0.0 0.0</origin>
			<size>0.148 0.155</size>
			<delay></delay>
			<default></default>
			<showSnapshotNoVideo>true</showSnapshotNoVideo>
			<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>
		</video>
	</view>
</feature>

this would be the snippet to include the md_video. I thought of trying to make a md_video2, or video2, changing both the view name and feature name...to no avail. any insight would be greatly appreciated! I need this to work for my theme I am creating.

[paffley]

As far as I'm aware, you cannot achieve this.

md_video is embeded within ES code therefore recognising this tag.
md_video2 etc is not built in to ES so it will not pick it up within your theme.
Hope this helps.

For more help, please see https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/THEMES.md#video

[DRA6N]

@paffley that's a HUGE bummer! I mean <image> and a whole slew of other tags can be used multiple times in once screen, just not video..

my theme has a virtualboy and I wanted the video previews of the games to play in both eye screens.. it looks kind of dumb with only 1 working IMHO :(

[DRA6N]

@paffley I suppose I could use a video preview in one "eye" and a screenshot preview in the other? This can be used with <md_marquee> yes?

[paffley]

@dra6n said in dual videos? halp!:

@paffley I suppose I could use a video preview in one "eye" and a screenshot preview in the other? This can be used with <md_marquee> yes?

@DRA6N yeh that's a possibility, tbh….when I created my hyperspin theme I used the one video behind the x2 glasses and it looked fine in my opinion. It's your choice - look at it this way, when you put your eyes towards the visors it blends into one screen.

[DRA6N]

@paffley you have a screenshot you can share?

[DRA6N]

@paffley Here's what I did. One eye is the video preview, the other is a screenshot. Seems to work out fine.

[paffley]

@DRA6N yes looks fine, good work! keep it up!