Looking for testers for ES Video Preview on Raspberry Pi

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.

fieldofcows

@Nismo Ok, noted. I'll add them to my list.

Nismo

@fieldofcows I'll open a thread soon for oldroom theme in projects and themes section, but i don't know if I need to remove the new systems sounds support code from the theme.

Stef11

Hello,

I have a probleme step 4 - Install dependencies: :
message : 404 not found for a packet....

After, i try to finish the install but just after step 6 I reboot but i cannt have access to retropi panel or ES ...

Any Ideas ?

Stef11

In fact , the install is compromise during the process.

Please help me!

Rion

@Stef11 it's already implemented in the official es. Just update Retropie setup.

Stef11

@Rion Thanks you for your reply.
But, how to do the update retropie setup ?

BuZz

@Stef11 Please read the documentation https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie

mattrixk

@fieldofcows, @Nismo: How/where are you scraping the videos and marquees from? Are you doing it manually from a website, or do you have a way to automate it?

fieldofcows

@mattrixk I wrote my own little tool scraping tool that looks in specific directories on my disk where I had pre-downloaded all metadata and related files including video and marquees.