Video Preview in EmulationStation

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.

screech

I can do lot's of things in UXS... (and you can too ;) it's widely open ;) and configuration are barely easy to understand, even if it's undocumented ;) ).
Just ask precisely what you want. And I'll try to make it real ;) (when I have time ^^)

Furluge

@screech I know, but I can't ask because I am not quite sure what the theme wants currently. :)

HurricaneFan

@Furluge old room theme uses 3 pieces: marquee logo (also known as wheel image), video file, boxart.

Example gamelist entry:

	<game>
		<path>./10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes</path>
		<name>10-Yard Fight</name>
		<desc>The game is viewed in a top-down perspective and is vertical scrolling. The player does not select plays for either offense or defense. On offense, the player simply receives the ball upon the snap and either attempt to run with the quarterback, toss the ball to one of two running backs, or throw the ball to the one long distance receiver - basically the option offense. On defense, the player chooses one of two players to control, and the computer manipulates the others. The ball can also be punted or a field goal can be attempted.</desc>
		<image>./boxart/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</image>
		<video>./videos/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).mp4</video>
		<marquee>./marquees/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</marquee>
		<releasedate>19851018T000000</releasedate>
		<developer>Nintendo</developer>
		<publisher>Nintendo</publisher>
		<genre>Sports</genre>
		<players>2</players>
	</game>

HurricaneFan

I'm noticing my NES videos are having issues with sound, it starts the videos fine but then has a small noticeable amount of time where no sound plays. Happens over and over no matter which game I'm on. When I exit emulation station I see the following error repeatedly:

ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underpin occurred

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

hansolo77

@HurricaneFan said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

I'm noticing my NES videos are having issues with sound, it starts the videos fine but then has a small noticeable amount of time where no sound plays. Happens over and over no matter which game I'm on. When I exit emulation station I see the following error repeatedly:

ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underpin occurred

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Not sure if it'll help in your case, but I did a quick Google on that red quote and I found this. Might be helpful:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=185736

Furluge

@HurricaneFan Thank you. For the arcade sections is it the wheel logo under marquee and the the actual arcade machine marquee as the image?

Nismo

@Furluge For arcade (mame and fba at the moment) use marquee images instead of wheel art, then that image will be displayed in the marquee of arcade machine of the theme.

naxxi

hello all i'v followed all message here but i didn't find an steep by steep instruction to install and made working OdRoom, someone can give me a link or a copy - past in answer about full instruction?
Thanks in advance to all
and kiss from france

daeks

@fieldofcows Great project, I have 2 ideas/requests:

Add an option for the default media shown on detail grid - image or video - then it would be very easy to swap the media without modifying the metadata gamelist each time
is there a way to add a functionallity that shows the video only on request? I am thinking on something like press X or Y to toggle video/picture instead of the other media. Advantage would be to quickly scroll through the gamelist and only watch the video if the game is more interesting

fieldofcows

@daeks There is an option in the theme to introduce a delay before the video starts. You can also configure it to display the static image during the delay period using another theme flag. Maybe this goes some way to meeting your requirements.

Have a look at the 'showSnapshotDelay' and 'delay' options in the first post here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi

HurricaneFan

@Nismo Any chance you can add a theme for Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket and Neo Geo Pocket Color? Also, random question: How would I build a retropie menu theme. I know you said you use EmulationStation on windows. On the Pi we have a retropie section that has 13 pi options that is unthemed with old room theme.

Thanks again for all the work you've put into this. I love the look.

Nismo

@HurricaneFan Yes i'll add that systems, last system added was sega game gear but i didn't upload that build yet.

I really don't understand very well what you mean 13 options not themed, maybe for my poor english, can you upload some screenshots?

For retropie menu... ???? retropie uses ES (Emulationstation) as gui for emulators, for making a theme for ES there is a good very nice guide on the wiki, and for adding video support you need to read the latest commits, or this thread.

I don't know what you mean with retropie menu.. maybe retroarch menu?, because retropie uses ES(emulationstation) for emulator gui and retroarch for emulators...

HurricaneFan

@Nismo This is a screenshot of what the menu looks like in another theme:
https://delightlylinux.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/retropie-setup.png

Nismo

@HurricaneFan That's the detailed view, it's working since version 1.6 if I remember well... Can you upload a screenshot what's the problem with my theme? and... please... what version of oldroom theme do you have?? it's 1.8?

Thanks for the tips.

Edit: Wait a bit, seems you have a retropie menu that it's like another system... I didn't know that.

Can you tell me if in a theme, where that menu is working themed, do you have a retropie folder inside that theme folder?

Thanks.

@administrators I love this forum and the people sharing all their skills to make it going better, but... we need a way to send private messages... please, make it possible. Regards.

HurricaneFan

@Nismo The retropie menu section does look like another system as in its in it's own folder and when Emulationstation is loaded you browse and select from it just like your selecting a game.

Example of what is in the Emulationstation Simple Retropie folder:
https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple/tree/master/retropie

HurricaneFan

@naxxi This thread is getting long but I'll try to help explain how this theme works.

Make sure your roms are all scraped as in you have a gamelist.xml file populated with all of your rom names and paths.
Download the Old Room theme: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vs3tr3sstrxud42/oldroom_1.8_720p.zip
Place the OldRoom theme in /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes folder
(not sure where you would place this if it was not on a raspberry pi)
Update your gamelist.xml file with references to your additional media (marquee, boxart, video) files. You can download these files on sites like emumovies.com or hyperspin-fe.com .

Example:

	<game>
		<path>./10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes</path>
		<name>10-Yard Fight</name>
		<desc>The game is viewed in a top-down perspective and is vertical scrolling. The player does not select plays for either offense or defense. On offense, the player simply receives the ball upon the snap and either attempt to run with the quarterback, toss the ball to one of two running backs, or throw the ball to the one long distance receiver - basically the option offense. On defense, the player chooses one of two players to control, and the computer manipulates the others. The ball can also be punted or a field goal can be attempted.</desc>
		<image>./boxart/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</image>
		<video>./videos/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).mp4</video>
		<marquee>./marquees/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</marquee>
		<releasedate>19851018T000000</releasedate>
		<developer>Nintendo</developer>
		<publisher>Nintendo</publisher>
		<genre>Sports</genre>
		<players>2</players>
	</game>

Copy over all of your files (updated gamelist.xml, media files, etc) to the Raspberry Pi.
Use the SELECT menu on the raspberry pi to select your Old Room theme you copied to it.

herb_fargus

@Nismo we will not provide a platform for sharing ROMs. If you want more real time development there is always IRC.