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      Nismo @fieldofcows
      last edited by Nismo

      @fieldofcows I can't test it but maybe the systemsound tag can break the theme for a build that doesn't support it.

      Anyway if it cause some problems it's so easy to fix it.

      Open folder theme named "oldroom" and edit oldroom.xml file and delete this text between lines 16 to 18:

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

      Regards.

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      • fieldofcowsF
        fieldofcows @Nismo
        last edited by

        @Nismo said in Looking for testers for ES Video Preview on Raspberry Pi:

        maybe the systemsound tag can break the theme

        Good point. It worked ok on my Pi yesterday but maybe I was using an older theme without that tag.

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        • herb_fargusH
          herb_fargus administrators @fieldofcows
          last edited by

          @fieldofcows I still need to find some time to test this out but when I was testing the gridview fork, there were some issues with theming options not being backward compatible eg if we used a gridview theme on the non gridview ES things crashed. Is that likely to happen here with nismos theme and if so is there something that can be done to mitigate that?

          If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

          Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            Nismo @herb_fargus
            last edited by Nismo

            @herb_fargus almost on windows the theme never crashed ES. Sometimes i was needed to "downgrading" ES version to test some commits from fieldofcows, and never crashed, simply the theme doesn't load if the version doesn't support some features, you know, on system view only black text and white background, and on simple or detailed view looks without theming, white background and black text, but no issues with ES.

            Regards.

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              fieldofcows @herb_fargus
              last edited by

              @herb_fargus If you try to open nismo's theme on the current Retropie version of ES then you get a warning in the console saying "unknown tag 'video'" but the theme loads OK and drops back to the detailed view. Any <video> or <marquee> tags in the gamelists will be lost if the metadata is saved on exit though.

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                Nismo @fieldofcows
                last edited by Nismo

                @fieldofcows That remembers to me that i need to work in the detailed view of the theme, but actually i'm focused in video view and add more systems.

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                • GtBFilmsG
                  GtBFilms
                  last edited by

                  said in Looking for testers for ES Video Preview on Raspberry Pi:

                  Make executable and replace the original ES

                  chmod +x emulationstation
                  cp emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/EmulationStation/

                  Hi,

                  I got to this step (6) and on my install it fails, turns out this was because the directory doesn't have capital letters, also I didn't have sufficient permission?

                  So I used:

                  sudo cp emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/

                  and it worked.

                  However got stumped on step 7, as I'm not sure what I'm editing?

                  I tried putting the oldroom theme (entire oldroom directory) into \etc\emulationstation\themes using WinSCP but don't have permission.

                  Sorry.

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                    fieldofcows @GtBFilms
                    last edited by

                    @GtBFilms said in Looking for testers for ES Video Preview on Raspberry Pi:

                    However got stumped on step 7, as I'm not sure what I'm editing?
                    I tried putting the oldroom theme (entire oldroom directory) into \etc\emulationstation\themes using WinSCP but don't have permission.

                    Thanks for pointing out the error in the capitalisation. I'll fix that.

                    You're on the right track - using oldroom is what I would recommend is it looks fantastic and shows what the video preview can do.

                    Try downloading the oldroom theme to the home directory and then using the following command:

                    sudo cp -r ~/oldroom /etc/emulationstation/themes
                    
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                    • GtBFilmsG
                      GtBFilms @fieldofcows
                      last edited by GtBFilms

                      @fieldofcows Thanks for that, I managed to get a copy of the oldroom theme onto my pi now.

                      It appears as a selectable theme now:

                      0_1481163421693_IMG_20161208_021433.jpg

                      But unfortunately when selected, it's a bit sparse!

                      0_1481163442947_IMG_20161208_021448.jpg

                      I thought this might be a permissions issue so I went and chmod +rw everything I could find in /etc/emulationstation/themes but that didn't fix it.

                      The oldroom/mame/art directory contains:
                      bg.jpg
                      borders.png
                      scanlines.png
                      static.mp4
                      system_art.jpg
                      system.svg

                      ...and the images look fine.

                      Ah, when I shut down, I'm getting a load of error messages flashing up briefly saying "Unknown element of type 'video'!"

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                        Nismo @GtBFilms
                        last edited by Nismo

                        @GtBFilms No problems with the theme. That is the detailed view, that is not finished.

                        To get the theme working properly, you need to have almost one video for one game in each system, and of course the correct path in the gamelist.xml.

                        If ES detects one game with video then automatically changes to video view, and load the theme.

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                        • GtBFilmsG
                          GtBFilms @Nismo
                          last edited by GtBFilms

                          @Nismo Ah, that makes sense, sorry for being dumb!

                          I'll stick some videos in!

                          Thanks!

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                            Nismo @GtBFilms
                            last edited by Nismo

                            @GtBFilms Anyway i notice you select "arcade", there is no arcade system on my theme, in my theme there is mame system or neo geo system so change your settings for arcade system in es_systems.cfg or rename the folder mame to arcade inside oldroom folder.

                            If not you still no theming on arcade system.

                            Or simply copy mame folder and paste inside oldroom theme and rename to arcade, that way you still have mame folder and arcade folder.

                            The theme still work in progress and i'm concentrated on video view, that's because detailed view looks ugly.

                            Don't forget the paths in game list like this example for each game:

                            <video>~/.emulationstation/roms/mame/videos/1944.mp4</video>
                            <marquee>~/.emulationstation/roms/mame/marquees/1944.png</marquee>
                            
                            

                            Marquee is not neccessary for theme to work.

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                              Nismo @GtBFilms
                              last edited by

                              @GtBFilms Also be sure you have the latest version of theme: http://www.mediafire.com/file/jzkfqe796w00qij/oldroom_1.6_720p.zip

                              You can see if it's the latest version opening with text editor themes>oldroom>oldroom.xml on top you can see version and must be 1.6.

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                                Bluescreen
                                last edited by

                                it works fine
                                i can´t find any bugs.
                                The only thing ist my pi goes overheating
                                The temperature at the video preview is 76.9'C

                                sorry for my bad english ;)

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                                • fieldofcowsF
                                  fieldofcows @Bluescreen
                                  last edited by

                                  @Bluescreen Thanks for testing.

                                  The only thing ist my pi goes overheating
                                  The temperature at the video preview is 76.9'C

                                  Wow! What RPi are you testing on? Has it been overclocked? What codec do your videos use and what size are they?

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                                  • GtBFilmsG
                                    GtBFilms @Nismo
                                    last edited by GtBFilms

                                    @Nismo

                                    Thanks for your help, I now have this working on my Rpi3!

                                    My problems were twofold:

                                    i) I was being a dumbass last night and using the wrong SD card - which didn't have the updated version of Emulationstation on it - doh! (it was too late at night and I had had a few drinks, sorry)

                                    ii) Using the arcade folder was still causing me problems, despite making a copy of the mame folder in oldroom called 'arcade', I got the oldroom theme to display, but it still wasn't finding the video clips for some reason. I gave up on the arcade folder, and just moved my ROMS to the mame-libretro folder as you have on yours, edited the appropriate gamelist.xml in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-libretro/gamelist.xml to add in the <video> and <marquee> tags pointing to the appropriate mp4 and jpg files (which I placed in a video and marquee directories in my roms folder) and it all worked!

                                    0_1481242484130_romsfolder.jpg

                                    0_1481242314030_IMG_20161209_000238.jpg

                                    0_1481242366554_IMG_20161209_000228.jpg

                                    0_1481242372090_IMG_20161209_000222.jpg

                                    Awesome work, thanks!

                                    For the record, my rPi is in a case like this:

                                    0_1481243112399_pi_case.jpg

                                    with a copper heatsink on the cpu:

                                    0_1481243139292_heatsink.jpg

                                    It's not overclocked.

                                    ...with the case lid closed, it's running at 65 - 70 degrees centigrade when running the video preview system (ambient room temp is about 20C)

                                    My video clips are all 240 x 320 clips from Emumovies.com

                                    The whole menu is running pretty smooth, no noticeable pauses.

                                    I'll try it with a bunch more roms and video clips over the weekend, my test setup has a smallish set of roms (about 150) that benefit from a 4-way controller.

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                                      Bluescreen
                                      last edited by Bluescreen

                                      i use the x264 codec with 640x480 for all videos. I have the same case and no overclocking.
                                      now with heatsink 65-70´C

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                                        Nismo @GtBFilms
                                        last edited by

                                        @GtBFilms Nice, i'm happy you finally you got it working, when I have time I want to make a little tutorial to automate the process for the gamelist and I want to upload optimized art that fix in the theme.

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                                          Nismo
                                          last edited by Nismo

                                          New little update for oldroom theme:

                                          • added Game boy system.
                                          • added Game boy Color system. (I need better gbc image for this theme).
                                          • Fixed detailed view.

                                          Somebody have a Game boy Color and can make a photo holding it in his hand?

                                          Now detailed view looks this way :

                                          alt text

                                          Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ur2k9sbp2ua6yn9/oldroom_1.7_720p.zip (Recommended for Rpi)

                                          1080p version: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vvylrsgh8waqkkk/oldroom_1.7_1080p.zip

                                          Sorry @fieldofcows this time i didn't have time to provide an 800x600 fix but i'll do soon.

                                          I can't make work marquee on top of "rating" on detailed view, i'm not sure if can't be possible on detailed view or it's my fault.

                                          Enjoy.

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                                          • fieldofcowsF
                                            fieldofcows @Nismo
                                            last edited by

                                            @Nismo said in Looking for testers for ES Video Preview on Raspberry Pi:

                                            I can't make work marquee on top of "rating" on detailed view.

                                            Marquee was something I added for the video view. Maybe it makes sense to support this in the detailed view as well.

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