Video Preview in EmulationStation

Nismo

@fieldofcows New 1.8 version with more systems: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vs3tr3sstrxud42/oldroom_1.8_720p.zip

Amiga added
Gameboy redesigned
Gameboy color added and redesigned
Gba added
Added fba system, (this was fast and easy because the same than mame XD).
More things I don't remember...XD.

Now we have 21 systems:

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Nismo

@andrea_ita said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@andrea_ita It depends on the path inside your gamelist.xml.

thanks a lot for your reply.
i m studing retropie but have too much to read.... ;)

where is located in emulationstation config the gamelist.xml that i have to modify for have a new gamelist?

I don't use retropie, but must be in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelist/

Regards.

andrea_ita

@Nismo

correct... emulationstation.. sorry..

where is located the file gamelist.xml to modify?
or i have to input manually into file with the information?
is there a gamelist.xml file to modify? or i must change manually all the file? i hope to write well... sorry for my poor english.

Nismo

@andrea_ita I'm confused, are you using retropie for Rpi or Emulationstation for windows?

If you are using emulationstation for windows gamelist are inside .emulationstation/gamelist/(systemname)/.

The games are added to the gamelist automatically, but not the video and marquees tags, you need to add video and marquees tags manually for each game or use some scrapper or use the method I posted a few posts ago.

andrea_ita

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@andrea_ita I'm confused, are you using retropie for Rpi or Emulationstation for windows?

i use retropie 4.1 and emulationstation with raspberry pi3
i download and installed your theme v.1.7
i would like to know if there is a master file where i have to add your items above for auto scraping by emulationstation the gamelists into the "system rom path"..

Nismo

@andrea_ita I was editing my last post, read it again.

And take a look at this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6589/easy-way-to-add-video-and-marquees-tags-in-your-gamelist-for-video-support

Nismo

@andrea_ita Ok i'll try to explain it better.

I suppose you have all your games already scraped, if not, do it.
Once scraped go to home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelist/nameofthesystemfolder/gamelist.xml.
Follow the method here to add the tags to your gamelist.xml: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6589/easy-way-to-add-video-and-marquees-tags-in-your-gamelist-for-video-support or use some scraper with video and marquees tags support.
Don't forget to make a backup of your original gamelist.xml before replace it.

If you can't understand this I don't know how to explain better.

andrea_ita

thanks a lot for your patient and your support...
i try to create a file .txt like the link adobe describe.. than I rename it with ".ps1" extension, but from terminal command shell in linux, from raspberry, I don't know how excute a .ps1 file... (sorry :( )

Nismo

@andrea_ita Read the tutorial carefully, you need to do that on windows, you need to copy the gamelist.xml to windows, do the things there, and then copy back to rpi.

That code only works for windows 7, 8 or 10.

HurricaneFan

@fieldofcows @Nismo Question about the video previews. I've installed the 4.1 image of RetroPie on my raspberry pi 3. I've then upgraded all of the packages before copying over all of my NES roms. I have theme Old Room 720 1.8 installed. The videos and all the graphics display (box art, marquees) but I get a thermometer icon after the video preview plays for about 15 seconds or so. Is this an issue with video playback?

herb_fargus

@HurricaneFan no. It's an issue with you not having sufficient cooling on your pi.

HurricaneFan

@herb_fargus Its just a normal case, I've never had the heat issue before. Not even while playing games. Would re-encoding the videos differently help? or will video playback always affect it?

Nismo

@HurricaneFan I can't answer you because I don't have a Rpi, but maybe your videos are so high quality? Have your case enough cooling?

Anyway I'll upload some optimized art and videos soon, keep an eye to my posts.

herb_fargus

@HurricaneFan if you encode them at a lower resolution that may help

tronkyfran

I'm in the process of recompile videos too @Nismo, Can I ask you how are you doing that, and what is your size limit on disk?

Nismo

Video constant quality 32:

fast-pskip=0:vbv-bufsize=1200:vbv-maxrate=1200:rc-lookahead=60:ref=6:bframes=6:b-adapt=2:direct=auto:b-pyramid=strict:me=tesa:subme=11:merange=48:analyse=all:trellis=2:psy-rd=1.0,0.10:deblock=1,1

I have no size limit. For sound I use HE-AAC stereo 48kbps.

If you use size limit, the overall quality will vary a lot depending on the duration of the video.

This quality is good enough for me for video previews with nice file size, but it's a bit poor for full screen video (screensaver).

tronkyfran

Thx a lot, I was struggling with this.

Nismo

@tronkyfran No problem, you are wellcome.

I edited my last post, please read it.

Regards.

Furluge

@Nismo Would you happen to know what the best way to get Universal XML Scraper 2 to play nice with this theme would be, or if there is another scraper that will pull down all the images to work with this theme?

Nismo

@Furluge I said before, I'll open a thread under "projects and themes" section and I will upload there the theme and art used in it.

But I need some time to do it.