Video Preview in EmulationStation
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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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@enderandrew I'll upload the megadrive-genesis pack soon. Next will be snes or mame.
We can display the case/box next the tv instead of displaying marquees/wheel art. I only need to scale the image so easy.
It can take some time to get finished but i can upload updates of the theme when new system added.
What do you think?, and do you think is better case/box instead of wheel art/marquee? maybe the case will look so small there...
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The Attract Mode version combines both by having the logo in the spinner on the right, and then the box art/case by the TV.
In this case, your approach was probably the best one for ES if you can't do the spinner with the logo.
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@Nismo Oh wow! This is AMAZING!!! What fantastic work! This makes all the work of getting a Windows build worthwhile :D
Regarding overlaying images on top of video - anything is possible. I'll have a look to see what I can do. Let's see if we can keep this ball rolling and get some more features put into ES to make the perfect themes!
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@enderandrew At the moment is not possible, because fieldcows fork of emulationstation doesn't load the video and the image at the same time, if there are video, it doesn't load the image so i have to use the marqueee image only.
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@fieldofcows Thanks, I'm very glad you like the theme. Don't worry if you can't overlay images, the theme still looks good this way, and is a proof what we can do now thanks to your work.
I whould like a new sound when changing/swapping systems.. whatch the video above, but I'm very happy with emulationstation right now.
And of course keep the ball rolling...
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@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:
@enderandrew At the moment is not possible, because fieldcows fork of emulationstation doesn't load the video and the image at the same time, if there are video, it doesn't load the image so i have to use the marqueee image only.
I can make this possible too...
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@fieldofcows Nice!
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Right. There's a new build available. I've done very limited testing on this seeing as it's getting late and I need some sleep :) Please forgive me if it doesn't work as planned...
Download it here: https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.3
This fixes/implements the following issues:
- Issue #7 Relative paths for videos do not work properly (now consistent with Image paths)
- Issue #6 Delayed start videos start playing even if the gamelist selection is changed or if the game is started
- Issue #4 Add the --no-splash option from Herdinger's fork
- Issue #3 If a game does not have a video then the video preview should display a fixed image - the image is also displayed whilst the video is loading. See what you think about this and let me know
- Issue #8 Add support for <image name="md_image"> tag on video view to allow static snapshot image display alongside video
- Issue #9 Render videos behind 'extra' images with transparency to allow framing of videos
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very good work guys. i have 2 ideas but i'm not able to implements :)))
1 video intro when i launch emulationstation;
2 putting music to the menu for the console choice. Maybe even an mp3 for different system (eg. Mario's theme for nes, Sonic's theme for megadrive ...).
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@fieldofcows said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:
Right. There's a new build available. I've done very limited testing on this seeing as it's getting late and I need some sleep :) Please forgive me if it doesn't work as planned...
Omg!! you are on fire today!!!
Ok, let's get started:
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Issue #7 - Relative paths for videos do not work properly - NOT FIXED
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Issue #9 - Render videos behind 'extra' images with transparency to allow framing of videos - WORKING LIKE A CHARM... Now we have round tv borders and scanlines working, I've tested.
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Issue #4 - Add the --no-splash option from Herdinger's fork -WORKING LIKE A CHARM... Use <bool name="SplashScreen" value="false" /> in es_settings.cfg for disable splashscreen.
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Issue #8 - Add support for <image name="md_image"> tag on video view to allow static snapshot image display alongside video - WORKING.
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Issue #6 - Delayed start videos start playing even if the gamelist selection is changed or if the game is started - FIXED BUT... now when I exit emulationstation video still sound for about 5 seconds, didn't happen before. With older builds when you exit emulationstation sound stop inmediately.
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Issue #3 - If a game does not have a video then the video preview should display a fixed image - the image is also displayed whilst the video is loading. See what you think about this and let me know - WORKING but I don't like so much the results.
Good job mate.
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@Nismo Haha - Not bad. 4 out of 6. I would normally do a bit more testing myself before giving it to others but I seem to have a willing tester at the moment... :D
Issue 6 - Are you sure this didn't always happen but you had metadata saving turned off? Getting the video to stop at the right time is turning out to be a real pain due to the lifecycle of the views.
Regarding the preview image - that was working fine on my test platform although I only have a single system. I can imagine what the problem is though and it is easy to fix. Is it always in the upper-right corner? On all your themes? Mine is always in the same place and the same size as the video. Hmmm...
Ok, so next time I get a bit of time I'll revisit the above two and get them stable.
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@fieldofcows Issue 6 - Videos in emulationstation was working very good now, it works like expected, only issue is that when I exit emulationstation still sounds for a few seconds, in beta 2 was working ok.
The preview image... it's works for me on mame ( I started working on mame theme), but i have mixed images so the result it's very bad. Metadata saving is turned on since you fixed in this build.
On megadrive doesn't display the preview on the screen, and now my marquees and gamelist background are gone... not sure if it's a theme issue, need to test more.
I have one request and I don't know if could be possible. I'ts very annoying when I launch a game to see desktop and cmd window and anything else until the game starts.
There is any way to see black screen until the game start? or if not possible can we see the cmd window fullscreen or maximixed?
Thanks again for all.
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@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:
The preview image... it's works for me on mame ( I started working on mame theme), but i have mixed images so the result it's very bad. Metadata saving is turned on since you fixed in this build.
Can you explain what you mean by 'mixed images'? - it might help me find the problem. Thanks.
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@fieldofcows There is no problem, simply the image doesn't fit the screen and looks ugly but it's because the image itself.
This is mixed image:
A lot of people uses Universal XML scraper so has the images like mine.
Anyway the preview issue seems working, need to test but I notice that I loose a lot of changes in the theme, I don't know how. So you get 5 out of 6, nice score!.
OMG!!! I found the error and know I know why I lost the images and marquees on megadrive system. I did another scrape for downloading 3d box art and didn't notice the filename was wrong in all images because the suffix "-image". That's because not showing marquees in megadrive system!! I'm a fool!!!
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