Video Preview in EmulationStation
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@fieldofcows I downloaded the windows build but couldn't for the life of me get it to find any roms, ES kept displaying the message telling me to check es_systems.cfg and rom paths :(
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@robertybob What directory were you putting your config in? This version looks in %HOMEPATH%\.emulationstation
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@fieldofcows Aha thanks !
The 1942 video isn't playing (just a black screen). The plugins folder is a subfolder where emulationstation.exe is. Not sure what's going on?
I've tried to make my own gamelist.xml for GameBoy but having checked the ES log it's unable to parse the XML.
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@robertybob Be sure all your configs and path are ok, also to see video you need to use video theme inside SampleConfig folder, copy the video theme and paste on your themes folder, then select the video theme on emulationstation options.
Also the video theme actually only works for mame, i have a video theme with allmost all systems working but I need to do some changes and adjusts.
This build worked fine for me since first boot, only need to set it correctly.
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@Nismo I've built a new version with the fixes for shoulder buttons and video continuing to play when the view is closed. You can get it from here:
https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.2
Interestingly, the page-up/down issue seems to be present in the retropie branch as well as a couple of others I've looked at.
Keep me posted with any other bugs/improvements you (or anyone else for that matter) want. I don't get much time but I'm enjoying this so I'll try my best!
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@fieldofcows Thank you very much, i'll test ASAP and tell you how it goes.
I've read in one Herdinger's post on github the first commit he did was implement --no splashscreen because was fast and easy, can you take a look at his code and implement it?
Regards.
Edit: Seems working perfectly now when you join a game, also it stops when you go to systems tab or quickchange system. Congratulations.
Shoulders buttons working good too. Congratulations again XD.
Only I notice if you have two systems with videos (x and y), and you're watching one video on "x" system and accidentally quickchange to "y" system and back to "x" too fast, you can hear both videos at same time, but it's not really a big issue because you have to do it too fast.
I'll test more tomorrow. Thanks again. Good work.
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@Nismo Seeing as you're being so kind as to test the video feature for me I've ported the no-splash option for you :) I haven't built it into a release yet but it won't be long.
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@fieldofcows Thank you very much, i didn't have too much time to test this weekend. i'll take a look these days and tell you if I found something strange.
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@fieldofcows I found another little issue, I don't know if could be easy to solve.
If you go down on gamelist and press a game, no time for video to start playing so the game is launched at the same time than the video and you can hear the video when game start. I think this can be solved by two ways:
- Don't let the video start if game was launched.
- Don't let the player launch the game until video start (of course only if the game has video).
Another option:
- Try to launch the video faster ( I don't know if this is possible).
What are your next steps now? Are you working on something else in the code?
Regards.
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@Nismo I introduced a delay timer before the video is started to allow the user to scroll through the game list without the system having to start and stop every video along the way. The bug you found is due to the video being started after the delay regardless of whether it should have been stopped or not. It's a very simple fix.
I haven't done much more since the last build except:
- Port across the --no-splash option
- If a game does not have a video then it will display the <video></video> static image instead.
When I get a chance I'll fix your latest issue and give you another build to try.
I'm using my github issue tracker to manage what I am working on in this fork so you can see where I am up to. Feel free to log your issues and requests there if you want to.
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@fieldofcows Thanks, i'll take a look there.
I'm very happy for your dedication adding new features to emulationstation.
I'll upload the basic video theme soon, I need to fix the basic view.
Also i have megadrive video snaps finished for who interested, only need to check if i missed some game (from my collection). There are about 750 games 480p quality in 1GB.
What about a "intro" video when starting emulationstation? XD.
Edit: whould be good if you take a look at the relative path issue when you enable option "save metadata on exit" in "other settings" menu. I can't edit metadata inside emulationstation because I need to keep relative paths untouched.
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whould be good if you take a look at the relative path issue when you enable option "save metadata on exit" in "other settings" menu. I can't edit metadata inside emulationstation because I need to keep relative paths untouched.
No problem. I'll add it to the list.
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@fieldofcows Thanks again, you are the best!.
Edit: No way to send private messages??? I want to send to you my work in progress theme...
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@Nismo I can't wait to see what you have done with the theme. Is there anywhere you can upload it and paste a link?
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@fieldofcows i'ts a very simple theme, I don't know if you will like it, but allmost it has a lot of systems and not only mame.
Here you have: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ki3jeykuf3akpg9/simple+video.rar
I'm thinking in doing something like your theme, and with old tv's for consoles, but for now this one is good enough for me to test more than one system and my videos for each one.
I'ts good for base to start something a lot of better.
I't has system backgrounds from zoid theme, thanks to litzozoid for give me permission to use it.
Enjoy.
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@fieldofcows Prepare for something good!. I've found this beautiful theme for attrac mode and i'm starting to port to emulationstation as good as could be possible:
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That theme looks amazing!
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@enderandrew I'll upload a little video in about one hour, so you can see the result.
Only problem I have is the video is on top of all images so I cant use png transparency for round corners on TV and scanlines effect on top of video.
@fieldofcows Can you do something to overlay images on top of video?.
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@enderandrew Here you have the video preview:
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That is great work!
Looks like in the Attract Mode version, you also see a copy of the box art in the theme as a case/box next to the TV. Would it be possible to try and do that as well?
I may be holding off until the Spring to see if there is an updated Pi (like there have been the past two Februrarys) before I build my RetroPi, but I'll definitely be using this theme.
I'm hoping to see some optimized/compressed video collections as well
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