Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs

Nismo

@Hubz That's because you need to wait for SNES media to be uploaded...

donkeykong

@Hubz Try downloading super famicom or snes boxart from https://screenscraper.fr/ these should fit like a charm. I think this is also the media source Nismo is using for his media collection. But keep in mind, that screenscraper does not have a complete boxart collection for most systems. This is why Nismo is creating new arwork for many many games, to achieve a complete media collection.

A Former User

@donkeykong Its kinda confusing to use because it's in french, so any alternatives?

robertybob

Will this theme be on GitHub in the future?

Nismo

@itsnitro The alternative it's to wait for my next upload.

@robertybob I hope so.

robertybob

@Nismo Great! I'm planning to finally get around to giving my theme Video support; is there somewhere with an easy guide to make a theme Video-compatible? It seems that https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme hasn't been updated with this information yet.

Nismo

@robertybob Most of the info it's here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi

And remember, any "extra" tagged images will be displayed on top of the video so get ride of background "extra" tag.

If you need help simply point me to your github project so I can download it and test, or upload your theme to some downloading server.

robertybob

@Nismo Thank you very much :) Is there a Windows build available which has the video stuff built-in?

Nismo

@robertybob Here it is: https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

But this build doesn't have support for subfolders inside roms folder, and maxSize on videos, so keep that in mind.

Regards.

deathr0w

Hope this is added to the Pi ES theme section soon because I'm not sure how to install it lol

robertybob

@Nismo

I've made a start on it:
https://github.com/robertybob/es-theme-space-video

Would you mind having a quick look through it to see if I've made any mistakes?

Note:
I personally don't use marquees so I've tried to hide them off the screen, but I don't know if I've done that successfully.

Nismo

@robertybob I'll take a look as soon as possible, maybe tomorrow.

herb_fargus

@robertybob btw you shouldn't have to create an entirely new theme for just adding video view to your space theme

robertybob

@herb_fargus
Yeah I know, I just wanted to make sure I didn't mess anything up in the original (for example I haven't included backwards compatibility yet). When it's complete I'll just overwrite everything in the original repo and delete the new one :)

robertybob

@Nismo Awesome, thanks! Feel free to open an Issue ticket so we don't need to post here :)

Nismo

@robertybob The theme seems it's working ok.

But I think it's better to use 4:3 aspect ratio for videos instead of 16:9, the image (screenshot or 3dbox) if no video it's too much stretched.

Alternatively if you want, you can use the new maxSize option for videos, so it keeps aspect ratio for videos. I think "maxSize" tag fits better than "size" in this particular theme.

Unfortunately, my windows build doesn't support the new maxSize tag for videos so I can't test it.

Marquees are not displaying and since that's the intention, it's ok.

Regards.

robertybob

@Nismo said in Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs:

Alternatively if you want, you can use the new maxSize option for videos, so it keeps aspect ratio for videos. I think "maxSize" tag fits better than "size" in this particular theme.

Unfortunately, my windows build doesn't support the new maxSize tag for videos so I can't test it.

Thanks for having a look at it! Do I simply replace "size" with "max size" or do I need to also adjust the numbers too?

My Windows build also doesn't support max size so I'll have to ask someone else if it works ok :)

I'm a bit confused by the <feature> tag for Videos which ensures backwards compatibility, have you experience of using that?

herb_fargus

@robertybob

Here is what it looks like with maxSize

https://snag.gy/KRwCnT.jpg

I submitted a Pull request so you can see the changes i made to add maxSize and make it backward compatible:

https://github.com/robertybob/es-theme-space-video/pull/2

mattrixk

@Nismo, @robertybob: @jdrassa has created a Windows build that is pretty much up to date with the newest version of RetroPie.

https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/tag/2.1.5-110-win

You can read the thread here.

jdrassa

@robertybob said in Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs:

I'm a bit confused by the <feature> tag for Videos which ensures backwards compatibility, have you experience of using that?

Here is an example from carbon of how the feature element is being used. You just need to wrap the <view> where the <video> element is defined and it will be hidden from older versions of ES.

<feature supported="video">
	<view name="video">
		<video name="md_video">
		...
		</video>
		<image name="md_marquee">
		...
		</image>
	</view>
</feature>