Looking for testers for ES Video Preview on Raspberry Pi

GtBFilms

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!

Awesome work, thanks!

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

with a copper heatsink on the cpu:

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.

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

Nismo

@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.

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 :

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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.

fieldofcows

@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.

Nismo

@fieldofcows If it's not difficult to implement, would be a great idea for theming possibilities.

Nismo

@fieldofcows

Ultra fast update:

Fixed gbc system_art image was not in 720p for 720p version..
Fixed gbc system_art image was not in optimized for 1080p version.

Download 720p (recommended for Rpi): http://www.mediafire.com/file/j91ai4widytm076/oldroom_1.7b_720p.zip

Download 1080p: http://www.mediafire.com/file/er1q5xuyhqecqjp/oldroom_1.7b_1080p.zip

Enjoy.

Nismo

@fieldofcows when i have time i'll open a new thread for the theme so i don't need to post the themes in your thread.

Can you link the oldroom theme thread in the first post when it's done ?

fieldofcows

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

Can you link the oldroom theme thread in the first post when it's done ?

Yes, no problem.

fieldofcows

Seeing as we've had a couple of testers now and I've performed a good amount of testing myself (including a 8 hour soak test of playing videos non-stop) I've submitted a PR to RetroPie ES for this change.

If this get's pulled into the mainline ES for RetroPie then hopefully we'll see even more themes with video support :)

Nismo

@fieldofcows Nice, I hope you have no problem and your commits can be merged, but if not don't worry, i'll port any theme people want to video support if creator give me permission.

It's not difficult and it's relatively fast to do.

BuZz

@fieldofcows Many thanks for implementing this :)

all: Video preview has been merged, and Emulation Station binaries have been updated. You will need to update the retropie-setup script before updating Emulation Station to pull in the new dependencies (or use update all packages which does this automatically).

fieldofcows

@BuZz Excellent. Thank-you Buzz. And also a big thank you to everyone that took the time to comment and test this. And a special thanks to @Nismo whose oldroom theme development kept me going and finding and fixing those bugs :)

Enjoy!

Rion

@fieldofcows So what is you next step? Going to take a well deserved Holliday Christmas vacation? Maybe having a crack at solving the white screen of death? Or maybe having a look at implement what @Zigurana started with kids mode?

Sorry to lay all these suggestions on you but from my point of view and others I'm sure of. It looks like you know what your doing and doing it damn well i might say!

Nismo

@fieldofcows Congratulations, you did a great work. I'm still working on the theme.. stay tuned. XD.

fieldofcows

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

So what is you next step? Going to take a well deserved Holliday Christmas vacation

Haha! I do this for fun so you can expect to see more output over the Christmas period!

I have a couple of tested features already lined up:

Random video from the gamelist as a screensaver
Play sound when switching systems

After that I'm looking for work. I might give the white screen of death a go. I haven't seen it myself but I think I can see where the problem lies and a potential fix.

I know @Nismo would love me to make some metadata file path improvements :)

Nismo

@fieldofcows Don't worry don't get hurry for me, because since i'm working in themes, it's faster for me to disable "save metadata on exit", that way emulationstation open and close faster.

I think you must fix video transparency bug in Rpi before anything else... but it's just my humble opinion.

About white screen of death: There is a fundamental bug with EmulationStation where unique background images are not loaded dynamically so if you have more than ~10 systems (on most themes that have a unique wallpaper per system) you will start to get a white screen of death and nothing will show up.

Source: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes

Merry chrismas to all. XD.

fieldofcows

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

I think you must fix video transparency bug in Rpi before anything else

The one where the video was tinted blue? That's already fixed and was included in the PR.

Nismo

@fieldofcows Nice! you're fast like a thunderbolt.

Nismo

@fieldofcows what about to press a button to see zoomed image inside gamelist? XD

I have a little request, i notice that some images was stretched when i ported pixel theme, so doesn't look good (for example if you use 3d box instead of screenshots). So it's possible for "if no video show image" tag, the image can keep aspect ratio?

I mean if the width of the image it's bigger than heigh then fit to width of video box, if heigh it's bigger than width then fit to heigh of video box, but not stretching the image.