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    • pjftP
      pjft @sirhenrythe5th
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      @sirhenrythe5th well, slightly tangentially off-track, but would you have videos in your gamelists?

      Would I be able to interest you in helping test out an upcoming release that uses OMX Player for screensaver purposes?

      I'm trying to determine whether there is at least a way to systematically ensure that this doesn't happen on the screensaver. Let me know if that's the case, and I'm happy to provide more detail.

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10719/help-testing-random-video-screensaver-on-main-branch

      Let me know.

      Basically, it's to test whether it works well at the moment, for you, with the option to show game info ON and OFF. Likely "ON" won't work, as it's similar to -b, but want to check that since you were affected by it!

      Let me know if you'd rather have me provide you with two separate builds to test - though, as I said, this will only work if you do have videos on your gamelists.

      Thanks!

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      • sirhenrythe5thS
        sirhenrythe5th @pjft
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        @pjft thank you very much for your offer!

        I seem to be one of those users that spends more time in setting everything up than playing games 😊.
        In fact i just finished my setup last friday and backuped my "master - image".
        I took one year of tweaking and optimizing dozends of little things.

        Concerning Themes & Videos: there are a lot of great themes out there and I tried most of them.
        But i have to damit: i like "Carbon no Metadata" the most.
        So i did not think about Videos in the gamelist till now.
        Therefore i spent months for fetching images for every game in my list
        I was never satisfied with the scrapers and because i also use ScummVM and MS Dos in Retropie a lot of games werent recognized at all.
        Now i have great and also some unusal pictures in my gamelist.

        So on the one handside i am very happy with it, but on the other handside i need a new mission 😂.

        I thought about background music as the next step, but why not Videos in the gamelist? 😉

        I will think about it and keep you informed!

        Have a nice weekend and kind regards from europe.

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        • pjftP
          pjft @sirhenrythe5th
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          @sirhenrythe5th A new mission is always positive :)

          I hear @sselph 's scraper recently added support for video scraping, so that would be a good start.

          Also, if you're on Windows, Universal XML Scraper by @screech I believe also has video scraping support, though I'm not on Windows so I haven't used it myself and can't confirm.

          I believe EmuMovies is a good source for most videos, and if you decide to go premium they have a program (Windows only) that does some sort of matching of your roms to the videos and downloads those only.

          So yeah, plenty of options. Let us know how it goes, and greetings from Europe as well! Happy Sunday :)

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          • N.A.R.E.K.96N
            N.A.R.E.K.96
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            this is great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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              thadialator
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              I registered just to say thank you so much! I just started venturing with EmulationStation and this immediately became my go to theme. Now that you have this splash screen I may never change it. :-)

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              • TMNTturtlguyT
                TMNTturtlguy @thadialator
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                @thadialator glad you are enjoying it! Thank you

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                  A Former User
                  last edited by

                  The splashscreen is working really nice but is there any way to skip it by pressing a button on my PS3 controller? Thank you

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                  • pjftP
                    pjft
                    last edited by

                    I don't believe so. The video will need to run until the end, unless someone has put together a script that kills OMX Player (which is used to show the video) on the press of the button.

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                      VGMonkey
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                      Thank you,. This is also my go to theme and splash screen.
                      Only thing I would change it for is early TMNT theme. Which to be honest is rattling around my head but I will not try untill I have my set up all ready.

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                      • TMNTturtlguyT
                        TMNTturtlguy @VGMonkey
                        last edited by

                        @VGMonkey Great, thanks for the kind words. What do you mean change it for is early TMNT theme? Thanks

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                          PedroPod
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                          @TMNTturtlguy I'm late to the party, but I've just installed this and your comic book theme and I just wanted to say they're brilliant. I'm just wondering will you be making a 4:3 ratio version of the video? I ask because I see from your other posts that you have a 4:3 setup, and the comic book theme has a 4:3 version? No problem if not. Thanks again!

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                          • TMNTturtlguyT
                            TMNTturtlguy @PedroPod
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                            @pedropod thanks for the kind words! The video splash screen should play on your 4:3 format. It just will have black bars at the top and bottom. I have no plans to recreate this in 4:3 format. I have been extremely busy with work and family the last month and have had no time for development. My next goal is to release launching screens, and I want to start a new theme for a TMNT bartop I built. Let me know if you can get the splash screen to run on your 4:3.

                            Thanks

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                              PedroPod @TMNTturtlguy
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                              @tmntturtlguy It is working but it doesn't fully cover the "loading..." text which can be seen as the system boots up, and then before the video has finished playing it finishes loading and you can see the top and bottom of your theme while the video is still playing. Not to worry, I might have a go at adding in black bars to make the video 4:3 so it covers these things. Once again, brilliant work on both the theme and the video :)

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                              • TMNTturtlguyT
                                TMNTturtlguy @PedroPod
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                                @pedropod thanks for reporting back. I have not actually loaded this on my 4:3 as I have a personalized splash screen for my stand up arcade which is where my 4:3 monitor is. When I get time I will see if I can easily modify this without recreating the entire video.

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                                • TMNTturtlguyT
                                  TMNTturtlguy @TMNTturtlguy
                                  last edited by TMNTturtlguy

                                  I have a solution I can post tonight

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                                  • TMNTturtlguyT
                                    TMNTturtlguy
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                                    @PedroPod I have created two 4:3 versions of the splash video. The first is name 4-3 and has black bars at the top and bottom. The second is named 4:3 full and I simply zoomed the video to be full screen but kept the aspect ratio, this means that the left and right sides of the video are cut off, but i think it still works. Both look good in my opinion so it is user preference. let me know if this works better for you.

                                    Link: ComicBook Splashscreen 4:3 Version

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                                      PedroPod @TMNTturtlguy
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                                      @tmntturtlguy They're perfect, thanks so much, I really appreciate you doing that, and so quickly as well. Now my little arcade cabinet is perfect!

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                                      • ByteThisB
                                        ByteThis
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                                        @TMNTturtlguy thanks man!! I have the Comic Book theme installed and this splash compliments it! Kudos bro!

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                                          elcaverao
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                                          Thanks for sharing! One question, how do I add this in ES for windows?

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                                          • TMNTturtlguyT
                                            TMNTturtlguy @elcaverao
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                                            @elcaverao I am not sure as I do not run a windows setup, but i assume it is about the same process.

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