Video Preview in EmulationStation
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Okay, using the Carbon-with-video theme I discovered that if you call you background image
<image name="background">and remove theextra="true", then the video will appear on-top of the background image. Any reason it was done this way instead of just having the videos on-top of anyextraelement? -
@mattrixk Any extra images will be displayed on top of videos, just because for theming sometimes you need to create a frame around the video. Like in my theme that i used it to make tv round borders around the video, an overlay with green color on Gameboy system, or an overlay with scanlines effect, etc... lot of possibilities.
Also that way you can place some elementes on top of video like marquees.
The problem you have it's because you were using a theme without video support.
I'm using the windows version and it works like a charm, but if you use videos, you need a theme with video support, of course.
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@Nismo Yeah, I'm making a new theme and trying to make it so it supports video too. I understand wanting to put stuff over the video, but it's just annoying that just about everything goes over the video inlcuding any image that isn't called "background". It messes up my naming conventions and forces me to use more code to make a specific background to video view.
It's not a huge gripe, and I love @fieldofcows' work, but I just feel like it's a stop-gap measure until a proper system is put in place.
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@fieldofcows maby you could help me out...do I only need to "update all installed packages" on my 4.1 retropie image for videos to work?
Thanks!
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@MWGemini So if I go in at command line
wget https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/download/v0.3-RPi-4/emulationstation
chmod +x emulationstation
sudo cp emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/should be good to go?
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Never mind worked it out :) currently running 15 systems on a very image heavy theme and no breaks whats so ever
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@__Scannigan__ That's correct. If you later download a newer version to test with, you need to add one more step at the start of that, and that's to delete the old file (before you use wget to download the new one). To do that, it's just
rm emulationstation. You can also list the files in your directory usingls -lsh, which will also show the date and time those files were last modified. -
Any chance to add this as feature to emulationstation (not as a standalone project)? :)
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It's already in emulationstation.
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@Melvin.FoX It's already been implemented. Not that anyone would know unless they looked at the Wiki or forums lol.
Obviously when the next main release of RetroPie comes out it'll be in the release notes :)
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Ooooh haven't known that. Then it's a really great news! :)
So I need to make from source update of ES to make it work? -
So i was trying out the Build from this thread which is build with the video preview. And although it doesn't plays videos on my PC, i still can use it to work on an theme.
But i've reached a point which i can't figure out.
Is there a way to ignore the video/marquee tags in the gamelist.xml? I guess that is how ES decides if Video View should be used or only Detailed View.
What i'm trying to achieve is to have video/marquee set in my gamelist.xml but i don't want them to show up. I just want Detailed View. If i remove all video settings from the theme, it will break because it finds the tags in the gamelist. -
with videos "on" my ES crashes a lot of times of segmentation fault and stack smashing and i'm getting GLerror. Is there a limit to the number of videos? is there a way i can test what could be the problem?
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Got a random question. Some of my videos generate underrun errors I guess when they play. I usually see the errors when I close Emulationstation and see them at the command prompt. Is there a way to see what videos are causing this problem. Like a filename of the video?
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@giventofly said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:
with videos "on" my ES crashes a lot of times of segmentation fault and stack smashing and i'm getting GLerror. Is there a limit to the number of videos? is there a way i can test what could be the problem?
I haven't heard of anyone else having the same problem. There is no limit to the number of videos because only one is loaded at a time. Maybe your videos are in an unusual format or something like that? Some more information would be useful...
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@HurricaneFan said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:
Got a random question. Some of my videos generate underrun errors I guess when they play. I usually see the errors when I close Emulationstation and see them at the command prompt. Is there a way to see what videos are causing this problem. Like a filename of the video?
When I've seen underrun errors they are normally audio underrun and I've never really noticed it in practice so I've just ignored them. I'm currently looking at optimising the video playback somewhat so maybe these will be fixed soon.
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@fieldofcows Just to chime in I see the errors too and in practice it hasn't caused any issue as far as I can tell. I have had the pi freeze up though but I can't verify if they're related. (It's happened even while not overclocking.)
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Has anybody created a list or wiki entry showing what themes are available with the added video preview tags?
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@fieldofcows Thanks for all the hard work you are putting into the video playback stuff. I'm loving the video previews in ES.
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@fieldofcows tell how to get the info and i will give it
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