Video Preview 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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@giventofly said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:
@fieldofcows tell how to get the info and i will give it
tried emulationstation with --debug
the most recent crash log: http://pastebin.com/cMtd1TgE
i don't have must time to get the other error (stack smash) but in the next fewdays will give some update
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@giventofly What theme are you using?
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@fieldofcows Some way to to silence the sound on the videos snaps would be nice. Is that possible to make in the code?
Thanks for your great work!
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As far as I can see I am not the only one trying to get ES with video preview and ignored with answer of updating it. I don't want to screw my actual build with some stupid MAKE command error made by linux (resulting e.g. segmentation fault) could you share with is is this an from source update or we have to switch to some other git branch or what?
Would be grateful if it's not my second post about asking of help with having video preview working. -
@Melvin.FoX I don't have rpi, but as far I know you only need to update from source, video preview it's already in main branch.
Maybe if nobody help you it's because they didn't see your post or doesn't know how to help you. There's no reason to ignore you or anybody else. Maybe if you read the thread you can find the answer, but it's more easy to ask and wait for other people solve your problems.
I'm sure this was answered lot of times in this thread, but it's better to sit and wait.
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You can update from binary to get the latest emulation station (update all packages is the quickest way to update everything).
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@giventofly said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:
tried emulationstation with --debug
the most recent crash log: http://pastebin.com/cMtd1TgEThanks for this. Unfortunately it doesn't give much of a clue.
This info would be helpful:
- What were you doing when it crashed? Changing selection in gamelist? Launching a game?
- What video was it trying to render? What format? Dimensions?
And anything else you can think of :)
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@HurricaneFan an adapation based on the io theme.
@fieldofcows all right, will do a more intense research :)
It never crashed when lanching a game, is when i'm broswing the gamelist.
but give me some time and i will give a more in depth report
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segmentation fault, going thru the gamelist, went 1 by one, then was comparing the differences in the play between these 2 and it gave a segmentation fault.
media info: http://pastebin.com/RHjQFC6b and http://pastebin.com/CvFDhLNP
segmentation fault going from image to a videosnap, video info: http://pastebin.com/xfBPbFLz
segmentation fault watching video: http://pastebin.com/J355jj5b
ES crashed (100% cpu usage) after midview this video: http://pastebin.com/Gr4xN8SQ
crashed when changing from one game to another: ES crash log: http://pastebin.com/5KGNJwHm
video1: http://pastebin.com/Tk1JvTiw VIDEO2: http://pastebin.com/hqbfjiwPTried after that to change between the two again, no problems.
segmentation fault going from game to game when i watch a few seconds.
*** stack smashing detected ***: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation terminated
Abortedthis just happened when going thru gamelist, when changed from games that were in the gamelist.xml and ones that were not.
i'm not finding a pattern, but give me ways to give more info and i will
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