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    how to put metadata behind image

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    • Impman66I
      Impman66
      last edited by

      Have had a break, from building my theme, as try as I might I can't figure a way of doing what I want to do, have looked through here and not really found an answer. Although, I suspect it may be that I have to do an overlay (no idea on how though).
      Look at various projects, one came up that fits what i need, and that is Old Room. Which shows a TV or Computer screen and has the videosnap running on these screens (of different sizes).
      I have this for the scraped system art with Box, screenshot and marquee (although, I am thinking of repositioning this to have it with the console art).

      boxart.jpg

      The current video is displayed in the same place;

      videosnap.jpg

      But what I want is for the video snap to take up the whole screen, as if it is showing on the screen. Not showing any black at all.
      When resizing the video if I make it to big the image just simple is on top and it looks stupid.
      The main image's window/screen is a transparency that shows what is behind it (in this case the black background.
      Is there a way to make the videosnap appear 'behind' instead of infront all the time, so that I can resize it and it won't matter if it is too big because the other parts of the image are not transparent, meaning only the part of the video snap that is behing the transparency will show.
      I figure it must be possible as it is on the Old Room theme. But I can't really see how it is done.

      As always on this forum thanks in advance for any help.

      Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
      Power Supply used: Generic 5v 2.5A Panasonic
      RetroPie Version Used : 4.5.1
      Built From: Retropie website
      USB Devices connected: 2 x Dragonrise N64 Encoders

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      • WeirdHW
        WeirdH @Impman66
        last edited by

        @Impman66 If you have Omx player enabled for videos, it will always play on top of everything. Without Omx, you might be able to partially hide it.

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        • Impman66I
          Impman66
          last edited by

          Ahh, OK thanks for that. i didn't know that was the case. Not too much I can do then. Well thanks for replying anyway.

          Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
          Power Supply used: Generic 5v 2.5A Panasonic
          RetroPie Version Used : 4.5.1
          Built From: Retropie website
          USB Devices connected: 2 x Dragonrise N64 Encoders

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