Video Preview in EmulationStation

fieldofcows

@Nismo I've added the option to play a sound when scrolling through the system list. As usual, I've had no time to test this so am relying on you to find issues... Hopefully there will be none :)

https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

Add this to your system view:

    <sound name="systemSound">
       <path>./art/listscroll.wav</path>
    </sound>

I wonder if I can use the existing VLC integration in ES to play audio files on the system view and on individual system lists. It's worth experimenting with. I don't see a problem playing audio and stopping it whenever a non-default video preview is playing.

Nismo

@fieldofcows Very happy to hear that!! I'll try it just now. Good work.

At the moment i finished snes and sega cd themes and i just finished dreamcast background (I love this one, take time but it's so cool), only need to move video, image, scanlines, etc... lol

Nismo

@fieldofcows it's working perfect!!! thank you.

Can you make it work when quickchange systems?

Anyway now is a lot of better feeling when swapping systems in system view. Very nice and quick commit.

fieldofcows

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Can you make it work when quickchange systems?

Maybe. I only had 1/2 hour spare yesterday hence the quick fix and quick commit. I'll take a look maybe tonight.

Nismo

@fieldofcows said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

By mapping my P: drive to the root folder of ES I can get the double backslash when launching games though. That should be easy to fix.

Can you take a look at this when you have some freetime please?

Nismo

@fieldofcows New theme update. Delete old theme before install the new one.

Changelog:

Snes theme finished.
Sega CD theme finished.
Added new sound when swapping between systems (thanks fieldofcows).
Fixed a lot of system logos difficult to see in video view because the dark background.
Fixed consoles wheel art scaling was stretching.
Added new dreamcast theme.
uhmm don't remember...

WARNING:

Now this theme has more than 10 system so it can cause white screen of death, i can't test because i don't have Rpi so be careful.

@fieldofcows maybe you can test this because you are the only one at this moment that has a Rpi build of beta 6.

White screen of death info here: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes#white-screen-of-death

If you have a white screen you solve by doing some of these:

Switch your theme to any Carbon, Pixel, Eudora, Turtle-Pi, or Canela variant.
Remove some systems.
Increase your GPU/CPU split

Download

oldroom theme 1080p: http://www.mediafire.com/file/q93fi79x7h89nx9/oldroom_1.6_1080p.zip

oldroom theme 720p (Recommended for Rpi): http://www.mediafire.com/file/jzkfqe796w00qij/oldroom_1.6_720p.zip

Both of them includes fix for 800x600.

Video preview:

Enjoy!!.

Rion

@fieldofcows I wonder if the white screen of death can be solved? This has been an issue since forever.

Nismo

@fieldofcows I have some questions...

Are you planning to include music for eachsystem in system view? if yes, maybe whould be a good idea to add option for disable background music in sound settings.
In my theme i have to respect some image box sizes to be a little more realistic, but some images are a bit small, for example zxspectrum cassette or dreamcast cd. ( I don't want to do a casstette bigger than a zx spectrum or half a tv).
I'ts possible to add a preview image mode by pressing (or pressing and hold) Y button (for example) inside video view to preview zoomed image in screen?

Something like this:

<view name="video">

        <imagepreview>
		<origin>0 0</origin>
		<pos>0.5 0.5</pos>
		<maxSize>0.5 0.5</maxSize>
	</imagepreview>
		
</view>

And the result when you press Y button:

image preview

What do you think? i think this request whould be hard to do, but dreaming it's free.

Regards.

fieldofcows

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@fieldofcows maybe you can test this because you are the only one at this moment that has a Rpi build of beta 6.

I can confirm that your latest theme does not exhibit the white screen of death problem on my Rpi 3 with default configuration :) The theme looks beautiful and works perfectly.

@Rion I'm sure the WSOD problem can be solved. I've already got some ideas. If @Nismo's theme had WSOD'd I would be fixing it now...

Nismo

@fieldofcows Nice to read that. I suppose you talking about 720p version.
In that version i keep in mind that no one background or system art has more than 225kb, so seems that it's working for now.

fieldofcows

@Nismo Yes, I've only tried the 720p version on the pi so far. I'll try the 1080p version and get back to you.

Nismo

@fieldofcows I'm sure 1080p version will have the white screen bug, so don't try if you don't want it.

720p version it's good enough for an Rpi.

Nismo

@fieldofcows I've found a little issue, if i manually scrape a game inside ES, it deletes my video and marquees tags in gamelist.xml.

fieldofcows

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

if i manually scrape a game inside ES, it deletes my video and marquees tags in gamelist.xml

I've added this as an issue in GitHub. https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/issues/13

Nismo

@fieldofcows new system coming...

Game boy:

Do you like it?

fieldofcows

@Nismo Haha! Yes! Do you ever stop?

Nismo

@fieldofcows said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Do you ever stop?

Not for now... he he. Keep the ball rolling...

fieldofcows

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Not for now... he he. Keep the ball rolling...

My thoughts exactly. I'm enjoying working on ES and am quite keen to implement some of the big features that people are after along with some of my own. This thread is not the time or place and supporting your theme is my priority at the moment but it would be nice if some of the changes we are working on gain momentum and get pulled into general use.

Nismo

@fieldofcows yes, i'm with you, you did a few fixes apart from theming. When are you planning to lauch the Rpi build?

fieldofcows

@Nismo I built it last night and was just in the process of setting up a fresh image on and SD card to test it and write up some instructions when I noticed how late it was so I went to bed :) It's not far away...

I'm not sure the best or proper way to distribute this ES version. Should I just publish a binary as a release in GitHub that is compatible with a retropie image like I have done for Windows or should I provide build instructions? Anyone?