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      Nismo @Rion
      last edited by Nismo

      @Rion @fieldofcows Under permission of @Rookervik here you have:

      Pixel theme with video support: http://www.mediafire.com/file/39l5qlnz137c2ap/pixel_video.zip

      Also posted in the original thread.

      Enjoy!

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        Nismo
        last edited by

        Pixel theme with video support:

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          capsaicin
          last edited by

          Hello,

          I wrote a small test script. To create gamelist.xml for Video ES. Download 3D box art, marquee and videos from http://screenscraper.fr

          All systems of oldrom theme, are supported and FinalBurn Alpha.

          It still has many bugs. If anyone is interested ...
          Https://github.com/capsaicincapsicum/videoes_scraper

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            GtBFilms @Nismo
            last edited by GtBFilms

            @Nismo Pixel Video theme works pretty well, but for some reason I get a blue tinge on the videos - they are the same videos used in the oldroom theme, where they look okay and don't have the blue tinge.

            Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

            Thanks!

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            vs

            0_1481421515630_IMG_20161211_015706.jpg

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              Nismo @GtBFilms
              last edited by Nismo

              @GtBFilms strange it doesn't happen to me, i'll take a look at this.

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                fieldofcows @GtBFilms
                last edited by

                @GtBFilms said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

                Pixel Video theme works pretty well, but for some reason I get a blue tinge on the videos

                That's interesting. It might be a bug in the video playback. I'll check. What are you running it on? RPi, Windows or Linux?

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                  Rion @capsaicin
                  last edited by

                  @capsaicin said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

                  Hello,

                  I wrote a small test script. To create gamelist.xml for Video ES. Download 3D box art, marquee and videos from http://screenscraper.fr

                  All systems of oldrom theme, are supported and FinalBurn Alpha.

                  It still has many bugs. If anyone is interested ...
                  Https://github.com/capsaicincapsicum/videoes_scraper

                  Nice! Maybe this could be implemented into Universal XML Scraper by @screech

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                    GtBFilms @fieldofcows
                    last edited by

                    @fieldofcows Hi, I'm running on an rpi3. Might be to do with the video encoding, I'll try some others.

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                      fieldofcows @GtBFilms
                      last edited by

                      @GtBFilms It is indeed a bug that only shows on the RPi - a problem with the opacity of the video. Well caught! I've got a fix which I will commit shortly.

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                        GtBFilms @fieldofcows
                        last edited by

                        @fieldofcows Excellent, Thanks!

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                        • screechS
                          screech @Rion
                          last edited by

                          @Rion said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

                          Nice! Maybe this could be implemented into Universal XML Scraper by @screech

                          You can scrape your video with Universal XML Scraper,

                          Just open your XML "profil" in "ProfilsFiles"

                          And add this :

                          <Element Type="Video">
                          <Source_Type>XML_Download</Source_Type>
                          <Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File%</Source_Download_Path>
                          <Source_Download_Tag>-video</Source_Download_Tag>
                          <Source_Download_Ext>mp4</Source_Download_Ext>
                          <Source_Value>Data/jeu/medias/media_video</Source_Value>
                          <Target_Type>XML_Path</Target_Type>
                          <Target_Path_Type>%XML_Path_File%</Target_Path_Type>
                          <Target_Value>game/video</Target_Value>
                          </Element>

                          It will scrape video, putting them in the downloaded image directory, with a "-video" tag, and add in your gamelist.xml the path in "game/video"

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                            Rion @screech
                            last edited by

                            @screech What if i wanted to use both Video and for example RetroPie (MIX) using both Images scraped using Universal XML Scraper and Video's.

                            If there is no video use Scraped image and so forth?

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                              screech
                              last edited by screech

                              It's a themming question ;)

                              As is, if you add the new element in the MIX profil, you still have the MIX + the video...
                              What you do with these is purelly in the theme ;)

                              Try to put Video over the MIX with "same size"
                              So when you have video, the MIX is under the video... When you have no video, you will see the MIX ;)

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                                fieldofcows @screech
                                last edited by

                                @screech, @Rion The video component can be configured to display an image automatically if no video is available using the same dimensions as the video.

                                See the definition of the tag showSnapshotNoVideo in the first post here.

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                                  Nismo @fieldofcows
                                  last edited by Nismo

                                  @fieldofcows @Rion pixel theme with video support is already configured to display image if video not found, so you don't need to worry about editing theme.

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                                    screech
                                    last edited by

                                    @fieldofcows and @Nismo so it's cool ^^ nothing to do except scrape ;)

                                    (It's OK for the "path" in the XML ? It's under "game/video" ?)

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                                      Nismo @screech
                                      last edited by Nismo

                                      @screech You can put the videos where you want. Just to point the correct path on gamelist.xml.

                                      For example i use ./videos and ./marquees in gamelist.xml for paths, that points inside your roms folder.

                                      Example: <video>./videos/Super Mario Land (World) (Rev A).mp4</video>
                                      is the forlder roms/gb/videos

                                      So if you want your videos like me path must be: <Target_Value>./videos</Target_Value

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                                        screech
                                        last edited by screech

                                        It's a small "limitation" to UXS... Download (for now) is only in 1 directory (for both picture and video).

                                        That's Why I add a "tag" (like -image or -video to the rom name)

                                        The "path" I talk about is the "Xpath" in XML ;) Not sure if it's under :
                                        <game>
                                        <video>
                                        </video>
                                        </game>

                                        (and for sur don't change the target_value like ./video target_value is for the Xpath in XML file ;) not the "reel" path ;) )

                                        The value you want to change is
                                        <Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File%</Source_Download_Path>
                                        But if you change it it will not work...
                                        I need to create a
                                        <Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File_Custom%</Source_Download_Path>
                                        And add a <Source_Download_Path_Custom> to specify where to download them ;)

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                                          Nismo @screech
                                          last edited by

                                          @screech No matter that only one directory, it's no difficult to order items by type and just copy and paste in the correct folder.

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                                            ebtalk
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                                            Are there any plans to add this to the experimental packages for Pi users to install from binary and test?

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