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    • alphatoanantA
      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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      • DominusD
        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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          • alphatoanantA
            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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                • HurricaneFanH
                  HurricaneFan @HemiJJ
                  last edited by

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

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                    HemiJJ @HurricaneFan
                    last edited by

                    @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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                    • HurricaneFanH
                      HurricaneFan @HemiJJ
                      last edited by

                      @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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                              Nismo @HemiJJ
                              last edited by Nismo

                              @HemiJJ Then if you don't want to have problems, you'll need to place marquees out from the screen, to fix marquees overlays on top of other elements, because even if you don't use marquees code in your theme xml, marquees will be displayed if they exist.

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                                HemiJJ
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                                Thanks @Nismo

                                So add an image tag for md_marquee and set the pos to something like -.5 -.5?

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                                  Nismo @HemiJJ
                                  last edited by Nismo

                                  @HemiJJ Yes, I think that should work.

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                                  • mattrixkM
                                    mattrixk @Nismo
                                    last edited by

                                    @Nismo Quick question: If you have a gamelist with <marquee> tags, but not <video> tags, which View will be used? Detailed or Video? If Detailed View is used, will "md_marquee" images be displayed?

                                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                    • HurricaneFanH
                                      HurricaneFan @mattrixk
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                                      @mattrixk It appears to use Detailed view if there is no video tag, and it ignores the marquee tag altogether.

                                      With Video tags:
                                      0_1487805588744_snapshot-with-videos.png

                                      Another gamelist with no video tag, but has image and marquee tags:
                                      0_1487805640354_snapshot.png

                                      It totally ignored my marquee and moved the image inside the box.

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                                      • mattrixkM
                                        mattrixk @HurricaneFan
                                        last edited by

                                        @HurricaneFan That's good to know. Cheers for that.

                                        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                        • mattrixkM
                                          mattrixk
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                                          Another question for whoever want to answer:

                                          What does anyone put in the <marquee> tag? Do you scrape logos? Screenshots? Box art? Or a MIX image of any/all of the above?

                                          The way I have my new theme set up, I have screenshots scraped into the <image> tag so the <video> will use them when <showSnapshotNoVideo> or <showSnapshotDelay> are set to "true", and I have a MIX image with logo, boxart and cartridge scraped into the <marquee> tag to show around the Video.

                                          This looks great with my MIX marquee, but if someone has a different marquee, it might not look that good.

                                          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                          • HurricaneFanH
                                            HurricaneFan @mattrixk
                                            last edited by HurricaneFan

                                            @mattrixk In my setup, marquees are the logo and image is the boxart. I've spent the better part of several weeks collecting logos, boxart and videos for every rom I have. Looks awesome once it is done but took me a really long time.

                                            My understanding was the marquee would be like the wheel image in attract mode which was just the game logo.

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