Video Preview in EmulationStation
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Found it! Added the link into my sig so that I and others can find it.
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@Nismo only the
<video>element has to be wrapped in the feature tag to maintain backwards compatibility. If you want to support non-video ES users, then you would need to use the<feature>anywhere you are using<video>. -
@jdrassa Does <feature> work on the <carousel> tag?
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Thanks @Nismo. Turns out I was using an older build* that didn't include the carousel stuff.
* It was 6 days old. Positively ancient!
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@jdrassa are you sure it just doesn't have to be wrapped on only the main XML? Eg your changes to carbon worked with just the feature flag on the main XML:
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@fieldofcows , I have a question I am hoping you can help with... Building a theme that uses the video features to take advantage of the md_marquee tags to display a screenshot. I want to be able to draw another image on top of it as a overlay mask. In detailed view the order items are draw on screen is determined by their placement within the XML... But despite having my extra image below md_marquee, it gets placed below the marquee image.
Does the video view not follow the same draw rules as the other views?
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@SuperSirLink I think that @jdrassa would be best able to answer that. I think he did a lot of work on image order and such.
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@SuperSirLink How strange I just had the same question the answer courtesy of @mattrixk was:
The built-in elements like gamelist, image, system logo, etc all have a preset z-index, but any extra images you add basically follow the order that you have them in the xml file.
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@__Scannigan__ yeah it appears to be hard set to be in top. I have seen in several theme examples that have the marquee tag below the video and in those themes the marquee overlays the video.
I tried using an image in place of a video in the video path, but it is expecting a video file and gives an error.
Would love to be able to draw an extra image to draw above the marquee.
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@Scannigan @SuperSirLink I'm not sure how long it will take to land, but I have been working on z-index feature that will allow for setting z-index of theme elements.
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well i have a problem, why emulationstation PC version edited by fieldcows for be able to videopreview when i put some of the retropie 4.2 videopreview themes like FLAT in raspberry pi with retropie 4.2 themes sees perfect but in emulationstation on PC the theme are all in bad positión video dont show in correct place, etc.
but that doesnt happen in other video themes like Old room or CRT.
i need to solve this because i made a theme using flat base but its only works fine in retropie 4.2 not in emulationstation for pc.
thanks a lot.
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@qanba you'll likely need to compile ES from source for that to work. There have been a lot of updates to the code base in the last recent months for themes in particular, so it's normal that the old ES build doesn't include them.
You'll need an updated ES build for that to work, and I'm not sure where to get one.
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@jdrassa that would be awesome!
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So opening up an old thread here... does anybody know if something changed in EmulationStation in the most recent build that sort of breaks everything modded into it for video previews? I'm using the Carbon theme, and every time I exit out of a game, all I get is a "black screen of death". It's no longer white, surprisingly. But I know it's not a full on crash because I can hear the navigation sounds (no videos) and when I press START I get the pop-up menu. Just looking for some advice.
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@hansolo77 ... It shouldn't?
I mean, loads of things changed, but nothing should have caused that.
When did you last update?
Maybe opening a new thread would be best for more exposure, but I'm slightly clueless about it at the moment.
What VRAM do you have set, and are you using the latest version of Carbon?
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I just did the "update all installed packages" earlier today.. said it would install using binaries wherever possible. I've not done anything else.
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@hansolo77 I see. Try updating emulationstation from source and see if it improves. I don't quite know what that does and don't know what's included.
When you go to the emulationstation menu, what version does it currently show?
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@hansolo77 not trying to be rude but I have been reading and responding to a lot of your posts and it looks like you have some major issues with yoursetup. When you post please be sure you are sharing your problems with details on what you have done and what has occurred and not inferring that this is the only problem and that retropie or emulationstation are to blame. We all want to help you out, but we don't want to start a wild goose chase or worry others about ES when your system is experiencing a myriad of issues. Thanks for your understanding and please do continue to post your issues for help under new posts.
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