Video Preview in EmulationStation

Nismo

@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.

BuZz

You can update from binary to get the latest emulation station (update all packages is the quickest way to update everything).

fieldofcows

@giventofly said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

tried emulationstation with --debug
the most recent crash log: http://pastebin.com/cMtd1TgE

Thanks 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 :)

giventofly

@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

giventofly

@fieldofcows

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/hqbfjiwP

Tried 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
Aborted

this 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

FlyingTomahawk

Tried to implement this into my theme (Futura) and every time I add any video code it breaks the theme and it shows the system the way it would when the theme.xml is missing, white background with default layout. The video does show though and play just fine just the theme gets shot.
I have the latest ES on my RPi 3 (v2.1.4RP), video and marquee tags are inside the gamelist files.
Is there anything besides the theme.xml files that I have to amend to make this work? Do I have to add something inside the main xml file (futura.xml)?

Nismo

@FlyingTomahawk if you upload your theme to mediafire, mega or something like that, I can download it and take a look at it and fix what's wrong...

FlyingTomahawk

@Nismo

Thx!
You can find my theme on github.
https://github.com/FlyingTomahawk/es-theme-futura-10px
If that doesn't work for you let me know and I'll upload it to mega.

jdrassa

@FlyingTomahawk it doesn't look like the video changes are on GitHub.

Nismo

@FlyingTomahawk Video changes aren't implemented on that github fork, but don't worry, I'll do for you. Give me 30 min.

FlyingTomahawk

Ah I see, you guys wanted my edited theme files? Ha, silly me, sorry about that.
I didn't upload them on github. Github shows only a 100% working theme not experimental stuff.
If nismo doesn't beat me to it I'll upload my modified files to mega after I get back from work. (8:26am here)

Nismo

@FlyingTomahawk I got it working right now, the problem is where to place marquees because they are on top of system logo.

Nismo

@FlyingTomahawk Ok it's done, I placed the marquees out of the screen, then you can place it wherever you want.

I'm uploading the new theme and i'll post the changes in a few minutes.

FlyingTomahawk

@Nismo

You got it working?!
And the theme didn't break?
The video is showing there where the md_image usually would be?

The marquee should be on top of the video bottom-right. Similar to this image here.

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FlyingTomahawk

@Nismo

Awesome! Getting all excited here. Why the hell do I have to be working today?!!
Please upload it to mega or paste the code in pastebin or similar.

Nismo

@FlyingTomahawk Yes, it's working, I placed marquees out of screen to let you place it wherever you like. And yes, the video is the same size than md_image, but for my liking I prefer more width and less high.

Nismo

@FlyingTomahawk Ok here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1m2r65injc2gjmm/es-theme-futura-10px-with_video_support.zip

For every system you need to edit theme.xml and replace:

<view name="system, basic, detailed">

with:

<view name="system, basic, detailed, video">

And also replace in theme.xml:

<view name="detailed">

with:

<view name="detailed, video">

For Futura.xml changes I recommend to you to compare your old file with the new one, just because a lot of changes...

Enjoy.

P.D: I'll stay here a few minutes so you can test and tell my how it works for you.

FlyingTomahawk

@Nismo

Thank you very much for taking the time to look into this and getting it done. I will adjust the size and position later.

So how does this video stuff work? What would happen if a video would be not available?

FlyingTomahawk

@Nismo

I am at work, can't test anything right now. But I'll let you know how it goes.

Nismo

@FlyingTomahawk Ok no problem, here it's time to go to bed (1:10 AM), just try it when you can and comment, for me it's working.

Regards.