Video Preview in EmulationStation

Nismo

@herb_fargus Mate, i'm not sharing roms and i didn't say to anybody to share roms...

I'm only sharing art, not roms.... so can you tell me what i'm doing wrong please?

I never share one rom in this forum or another one...

Anyway I respect all admins but I don't understand what happened here, I didn't upload no one rom for any system, and i'll never do.

Regards.

Edit: I'm very confused about this, because the only thing I was sharing in this forum are my themes and art to everyone... and no hidding roms inside the theme... maybe you talking to another user?? and it's an error? i'm very confused...

Please if someone saw to me sharing roms in this forum tell to admins... I need some help here...

@fieldofcows @Zigurana @Rion @HurricaneFan @mattrixk @Rookervik @pjft @robertybob @MWGemini @amadeus @Furluge @alphatoanant @administrators

MWGemini

@Nismo I can't speak for @herb_fargus, but I think that what he meant is that private messages are disabled because users can send ROMs or links to ROM sites in private messages. I don't think he was saying that you had personally shared ROMs. That's how I read it, at least.

@herb_fargus it might be worth adding a link to the IRC channel on the navigation bar, since many users probably aren't aware that it exists.

Nismo

@MWGemini Omg, all of this because private messages? I don't think he's speaking about sharing roms because private messages, It has nothing to do, and it doesn't even go through my head, so if I request private messages you automatically thinking i'll share roms?

And of course a private message it's far away to real time platform... for real time messages there are thousands of platforms instead a private message so i don't think he is speaking about that.

Yes what you said could be a good reason for the forum, but I really was not thinking about roms.

I needed to send private messages a lot of times in this forum and no one for sharing roms.

It was just only a basic request... nothing to do with roms.

But if you read carefully, he's almost saying I was sharing roms here... or maybe it's my poor english... or maybe it's just me that I can't understand things.

Anyway sorry I only don't understand, don't try to offense anybody.

herb_fargus

@Nismo it has nothing to do with you or your art, on the contrary I think your themes are great.

As @MWGemini said, others will use it for sharing ROMs. That and on the old forum I was constantly bombarded with personal help requests- which do nobody any good.

I don't personally care to advertise IRC, it's another one of those niche things, either you know about it you don't... Just my personal opinion

Nismo

@herb_fargus thanks for clarify, because it was a little hard to me to understand, I really not thinking about roms, and maybe because of that i didn't understand what you trying to say, that and my poor english too.

Please would be good if next time you take some more time to explain you a litttle bit more.., but i was admin too (i'm still admin , but no more in forums), and i can understand you don't have too much time to give details when writing.

Thanks mate, I really was feeling bad.

daeks

@fieldofcows Thanks for your hint to these 2 settings. It helps as a starting point. Nevertheless, after a certain time the video starts automatically. I would still prefer a manual (optional) way or might there be also an option to fadeout after some time?

naxxi

@HurricaneFan thanks a lot man for that but, the theme dont need install dependancies and change emulations station from original retropie setup to add video preview feature?

**Scannigan**

@Nismo what's the most recent release of your Old Room theme? 1.8??

Nismo

@__Scannigan__ yes

HurricaneFan

@naxxi I'm running the latest version of EmulationStation. Try running the update all packages script if you have trouble with the video previews.

darknior

Hi

@fieldofcows ... i install your last Emulation Sation release to use it ... and i will try to make a beautifull theme :)
But i have a problem ... like many other peoples over the net ... when i read a video, the Pi is very hot !!
Is it possible to active the VLC harware video decoding in the Shell ?
With it ... like Kodi can do ... we can read MP4 MKV in x264 without any problem :)

**Scannigan**

@Nismo Cheers bud, works a bloody charm, had to downsize a few images to stop WSOD, all I need now is a Game Gear one and I'm set :)

naxxi

Hello all, i'm working with darknior on the same project :) really happy to see him here :)

@HurricaneFan yes i'v finally followed all parts of the tuto with distant terminal (putty) on root access and evrything work

@fieldofcows
we have an little options absent on the meta data game editor can you on futur version add an "hide" option to hide for example in neo geo his bios file, this can be help in mame too for some game like moonwalker who need child + parent rom to work but dont want to see both trough the roms selection menu.

Thanks in advance about any answer

Nismo

@__Scannigan__ said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@Nismo Cheers bud, works a bloody charm, had to downsize a few images to stop WSOD, all I need now is a Game Gear one and I'm set :)

Game gear system it's done, but I want to add some more systems before upload a new version.

Nismo

@naxxi said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Hello all, i'm working with darknior on the same project :) really happy to see him here :)

we have an little options absent on the meta data game editor can you on futur version add an "hide" option to hide for example in neo geo his bios file, this can be help in mame too for some game like moonwalker who need child + parent rom to work but dont want to see both trough the roms selection menu.

Thanks in advance about any answer

There are a lot of post in this forum explaining how to do that.

Take a look here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/622/hiding-bios-file

**Scannigan**

@Nismo nice one bud

darknior

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@naxxi said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Hello all, i'm working with darknior on the same project :) really happy to see him here :)

we have an little options absent on the meta data game editor can you on futur version add an "hide" option to hide for example in neo geo his bios file, this can be help in mame too for some game like moonwalker who need child + parent rom to work but dont want to see both trough the roms selection menu.

Thanks in advance about any answer

There are a lot of post in this forum explaining how to do that.

Take a look here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/622/hiding-bios-file

Thanks i don't see it before.
But it is not very cute :p ... an XML option is really easyer to use ;)
The only good solution on this page was to make a linux cmd script ... we will have the same problem on MAME, DOS, etc ... not really cool ...

For my question i found one page :

http://intensecode.blogspot.fr/2013/10/tutorial-vlc-with-hardware-acceleration.html

Step 4: how to run it with hardware acceleration enabled from command line:

./vlc --vout omxil_vout <other_params_you_might_need>

(Info: you absolutely have to use the
       param --vout omxil_vout for vlc
       to use the custom video output
       for raspberry!)

Maybe it can help ? I think it's an important issue to solve ....
To remove the "Green Glitch" on some videos and stop the pi "burning" without hardware acceleration :p

**Scannigan**

@Nismo I tried this on my Pi3 and got nothing :(

Nismo

@Scannigan What exactly you tried to do?

**Scannigan**

@Nismo adding a sound to system view on ES launch, I'm on a Pi 3, not sure if you're on a PC though, used the lines that Fieldofcows suggested, but nothing happens for me