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      MWGemini @BertGoblin
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      @BertGoblin That's somewhat of a known issue. The version of the video preview feature that is in the current official source tree uses VLC player, which uses a lot of CPU. There's a new version being worked on by @fieldofcows that uses OMX player instead. You can read more about it (with some temperature tests I did) here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi/141

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        Furluge @Dominus
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        @Dominus So, you get a chance to upload that xml yet? :p

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          Furluge @alphatoanant
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          @alphatoanant Looks pretty good though I like what I see with dominus a bit better since I use widescreen too.

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            Dominus @Furluge
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            @Furluge Yeah sorry, I wasn't sure if anyone really wanted it...

            http://pastebin.com/QzucYj5n

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              alphatoanant @Dominus
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              @Dominus, cool if I include your XML as a variation in the theme? I am working on adding a 4x3 option now using the approach that @mattrixk described... "you can use <include> this way to point to different templates, so you don't have to create and maintain a completely separate theme"

              Working on that now and if you are ok with it I would happy to include your version as one of the options

              My RetroPie Themes:
              Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
              Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
              TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                Roxsteady
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                Has anyone tried this on a Pi Zero?? I would assume it would lag.

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                  alphatoanant @Roxsteady
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                  @Roxsteady, yeah from my testing it lags on a Pi Zero currently. @fieldofcows (with the help of @MWGemini) has been testing out an implementation of the video preview feature using omx player instead of vlc that is showing nice promise for heat on a Pi3. There is no guarantee that would help on Pi Zero but I am looking forward to trying it out. The Pi Zero may not end up being powerful enough though. If that turns out to be the case I am going to build a version of this theme without video support for the zero next.

                  You can follow the status of the omx player updates here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi/141 (thank you for the link and your tests @MWGemini)

                  My RetroPie Themes:
                  Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                  Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                  TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                    mattrixk @alphatoanant
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                    @alphatoanant My Io theme uses <include>s if you need some inspiration.

                    Also, just a thought, but if videos lag on Pi-zero, would it be best if the Pi-zero owners simply didn't scrape videos? Then it doesn't matter if your theme has a <view name="video"> or not?

                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                      alphatoanant @mattrixk
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                      @alphatoanant My Io theme uses <include>s if you need some inspiration.

                      That's exactly the one I am using to learn from, nice =)

                      Also, just a thought, but if videos lag on Pi-zero, would it be best if the Pi-zero owners simply didn't scrape videos? Then it doesn't matter if your theme has a <view name="video"> or not?

                      Good point. It might not be a common use case to share gamelist.xml's between a pi3 and pizero. I know for me I mostly do it for testing purposes. Not scraping for videos if using a pi-zero would work then.

                      My RetroPie Themes:
                      Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                      Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                      TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                        Dominus @alphatoanant
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                        @alphatoanant Yeah for sure. It's just numbers, I didn't really do any graphical work.

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                          Nismo @alphatoanant
                          last edited by Nismo

                          @alphatoanant Depens on how the videos are encoded.

                          I suppose the scraped videos are very high resolution for a rpi (it's known 640x480 60 fps videos are too much for the rpi), but I'm making good quality videos at low resolution and fps to safe space and don't stress the rpi. Keep in mind that scraped videos are not designed for playing in a rpi.

                          Just need somebody with a pi zero to test them.

                          Link: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8019/oldroom-theme-w-i-p-media-packs?page=1

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                            alphatoanant @Nismo
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                            @Nismo Thank you, I may be able to try these out this weekend. Currently, I am using standard quality videos from emumovies.com (the ones that are around 320x240 res)

                            My RetroPie Themes:
                            Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                            Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                            TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                              Nismo @alphatoanant
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                              @alphatoanant if pi zero can't move 320x240 videos I doubt it can move my 480x360 videos, but my videos are very little filesize and all are at 25 fps.

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                                HemiJJ
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                                Thank you so much for the awesome theme. I love the overall feel but made a few teaks to my layout and just wanted to share. Thanks again and I look forward to future themes.

                                0_1487349860395_crt1.JPG

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                                  HurricaneFan @HemiJJ
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                                  @HemiJJ What are the settings for putting the System logo on the right hand side?

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                                    HemiJJ @HurricaneFan
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                                    @HurricaneFan
                                    Modified this in the logo sections. Made a bunch of changes, but I think this was the trick.
                                    origin .5 .5
                                    pos .725 0.1
                                    maxSize 0.5 0.1

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                                      HurricaneFan @HemiJJ
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                                      @HemiJJ Thank you!

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                                        HemiJJ
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                                        OK, So I got sucked into this theme building goodness and like @alphatoanant , I went back to the building themes guides and build some from scratch, but heavily influenced by the CRT theme. I even went back and tweaked the Carbon theme to better support video tags. I have many colors built but here are a few of them in both video and basic mode.
                                        0_1487785054032_Green_Theme1.jpg
                                        0_1487785064999_Green_Theme2.jpg
                                        0_1487785079443_Green_Theme3.jpg
                                        0_1487785231326_Gray_Theme1.jpg
                                        0_1487785290269_Gray_Theme2.jpg
                                        0_1487785301573_Gray_Theme3.jpg
                                        0_1487785344325_Carbon_Video2.jpg

                                        These are first attempts and I'm not 100% sure on the rights on the background images, so I probably wont share them as full themes, but feel free to ask questions.

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                                          Nismo @HemiJJ
                                          last edited by Nismo

                                          @HemiJJ I don't see any space for marquees if somebody have them.... will be displayed on top of video (if video is on left side) or on top of gamelist (if gamelist it's on left side).

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                                            HemiJJ
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                                            Thanks @Nismo, I appreciate feedback from such a trusted source. With only personal preference in mind, I decided to not design for marquees in these themes. If I decide to spend some time cleaning up the code to a good publishing point, I will probably modify to allow for them.

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