Video Preview in EmulationStation

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.

Rion

@screech Any insights into this? Is the latest version compatible with video previews using the scraper?

alphatoanant

@Rion I have used the latest version of UXS to scrape videos for testing my theme and can confirm it works well.

There is a way to manually set things up; which I plan to explore to tweak things, however out of the box now the setup wizard has a setting called "Retropie (Video)" that has worked well for me without any manual changes.

Check out: https://screencast.com/t/hpAJJ9uNjWOX

With that base when I scrape a system it downloads both an image and video and stores them in the folder I have configured to store "pictures" (which can found under the "path configuration" setting)

Let me know if it would help to record a video walkthrough - I would be glad to help

Furluge

Yeah that's what I'm using but default it doesn't quite get all the things I think oldroom is looking for. I was testing it with NES and the best I managed to do was replace the cartridge with 2d box art, though it doesn't help if there is no cart image. But I guess I'll wait for what nismo is publishing.

Furluge

@Nismo Thank you. Sorry if you said it before but this thread is a monster to try to read anything. I've been trying to dig through it for the past few days before I decided to post and ask. :)

Nismo

@Furluge No problem mate.