Please test: Random Game selection/launch via Video Screensaver

pjft

@itsnitro

maybe

TMNTturtlguy

On a side topic: if you update my ES version from the repository, it should now zoom in the Video Gamelist View. We cannot zoom to the videos, as the videos don't zoom, so I had to take some creative liberties there. We'll zoom to (in order of preference if they exist):

@pjft Sorry for the delayed notes on this! I got sidetracked a bit. Very nice implementation. A few notes, but not issues:

This was something that happened originally before video broke it, but for me the zoom is just slightly to fast. It seems a little "Jerky", is it possible to slow it down just ever so slightly to make it feel smooth and not "BAM"
Exiting Roms - When exiting roms the screen/background/md_images and md_vidoes take a second to reload, so it looks odd when the zoom tries to zoom out and everything is rebuilding. What if we only zoomed to enter games, but then just faded or no effect when exiting a game? I can post a video if you would like.

I love the zoom priority! Nice touch.

pjft

@TMNTturtlguy Thanks for testing.

A few comments:

I personally don't like the zoom animation myself, so I'm not the best person to comment on improvements to it. I could try to look into that, but I'm not fond of mixing two things, as others may like the current behavior and suddenly find it "broken" for them because of bundling that with a fix for something else. Let me think about that, but if I don't change it it'd probably be best to make a second request in the forums and see how people feel about that.
As for the second bullet, I noticed that as well. It's weird, though I suspect it's related to the texture changes I did to improve the scrolling and such. Does it also happen on fade?

Thanks.

TMNTturtlguy

@pjft First bullet point, i agree i could do without the zoom all together, it was just the zoom to the middle of the screen after video preview was implemented was terrible!

Second bullet point, on fade the meta data flashes a bit, but not as bad as in the zoom feature of slide.

pjft

Hi all.

Thanks for helping with this for the last 3 months.

All this work is now merged with the main ES branch.

Some settings will have changed, so you may need to go to the options menu (which have also changed a bit) and re-set them to your liking.

No more need to stay on a separate build!

Best.

pjft

@darknior Can you please elaborate on what you're experiencing and your setup?

I'm curious as to why overscan is not an option as I don't know a lot about it.

If you're comfortable with ssh I'll send you some commands to test if possible, or changes to the build.

darknior

@pjft At least try to make the volume slider also control the video volume as well.
No need to file a bug for that - but if you don't hear anything in this in the next few weeks feel free to gently remind me here. :)
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Would love to know more and potentially test out a few different builds to see if we can at least mitigate it.

Ok excellent, if you want i can make some tests on my systems :

Old HD Plasma with HDMI 2 YUV converter
Normal HD TV with HDMI
HD Video Projector with HDMI

With and without Over scan.

darknior

@pjft Yes i know SSH and use it if it can help to make test

pjft

@darknior Thanks.

So, just for me to understand:

On each of those TVs, does it work or not with and without the captions, with and without overscan?

Also, why can't you use overscan on the plasma? Does it not support it? You'd prefer not to? I'm just curious - don't know much about it.

In the system that doesn't work with the captions, I'll ask you to login via SSH while you're in ES and try the following:

omxplayer --layer 10010 --no-osd --aspect-mode letterbox --subtitles <subtitle-path> <path to a video you have>

and

omxplayer --layer 10010 --no-osd --aspect-mode letterbox --no-ghost-box --subtitles <subtitle-path> <path to a video you have>

For a subtitle, you can just create a text file on the current path, named test.srt, with the following content:

00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:30,000
Testing subtitles!

Let me know if you need more detail here. I'm curious to see if anything changes between the two. The first command should be the one ES runs, for the most part - but if it actually works, let me know!

You can also test them without ES running, but that should work fine.

Thanks! Let's get to the bottom of this, or at least as far as we can get :)

darknior

root@retropie:~# omxplayer --layer 10010 --no-osd --aspect-mode letterbox --subtitles test.srt '/home/pi/RetroPie/medias/gba/videos/Advance Guardian Heroes (USA).mp4'
Video codec omx-h264 width 720 height 480 profile 100 fps 59.940060
Audio codec aac channels 2 samplerate 48000 bitspersample 16
Subtitle count: 1, state:  on, index: 1, delay: 0
V:PortSettingsChanged: 720x480@59.94 interlace:0 deinterlace:0 anaglyph:0 par:1.00 display:0 layer:10010 alpha:255 aspectMode:1

I have the glitch !

root@retropie:~# omxplayer --layer 10010 --no-osd --aspect-mode letterbox --no-ghost-box --subtitles tt.srt '/home/pi/RetroPie/medias/gba/videos/Advance Guardian Heroes (USA).mp4'
Video codec omx-h264 width 720 height 480 profile 100 fps 59.940060
Audio codec aac channels 2 samplerate 48000 bitspersample 16
Subtitle count: 1, state:  on, index: 1, delay: 0
V:PortSettingsChanged: 720x480@59.94 interlace:0 deinterlace:0 anaglyph:0 par:1.00 display:0 layer:10010 alpha:255 aspectMode:1

Same !

@pjft On each of those TVs, does it work or not with and without the captions, with and without overscan?

For the moment i only try on the Plasma, but i will try on others quickly.
On the Plasma it works fine without captions, glitch with captions at bottom of the screen only. Without Over scan.

@pjft Also, why can't you use overscan on the plasma? Does it not support it? You'd prefer not to? I'm just curious - don't know much about it.

Because i have the HDMI adapter to convert video to YUV. With Over scan i can't see all the image, i lost some part, more at left of the screen.

darknior

The bug. Some time the glitch gone and come back 10 15 sec after ...

I activate Overscan, and try with ES closed and it's working PERFECTLY !
I also restart the PI to go back on ES with OVERSCAN activated and there it works perfectly too.
With OVERSCAN all is working fine !

My only problem is that now i can't remove again the overscan ... i choose no in the menu but nothing append :(

pjft

@darknior Interesting.

Also, thanks for explaining - that makes sense. I was just curious what set up required overscan - I thought it was mostly for old CRTs.

You say that you set Overscan to No and you still have the glitch? Then it may be something different entirely. Or not :) But I'd love to check.

Can you send me a video of the glitch happening?

The idea behind the commands would be to try to find a setup that works for you, based on these commands: elinux.org/Omxplayer

Would you be able to test out a few options, and see if it changes anything?

Say testing -z, -d, or -rand see if it changes anything.

--lines 1 is also an option.
--display <different number, 0 or 1 for instance>

Basically anything that may change the video output and see if that helps.

Let me know if any of these makes it better or worse. :)

pjft

Oh. Removing overscan is what you don't want. You want to re-add overscan (i.e. mark it as "yes"). Then you'll get back to seeing the entire picture :)

darknior

Yes i will try these line but first i must found to remove Overscan, for the moment i can't remove it :(
I don't understand how to remove it, when i choose No in the Retropie-Config it is always there :(

pjft

@darknior Choose Yes. That's what you want. It's "on" by default.

EDIT: you will need to reset the system after that to that effect.

darknior

@pjft I want to remove Overscan, to have the Glitch and make the tests.
But i can't it is so strange bug i never see before :(

I choose no to remove i reboot and always Overscan
I go edit the config.txt

disable_overscan=1

Setting is fine to remove Overscan but Overscan tay always !
It is a silly joke :(

Like some time it mount my 1To Hard drive with videos and games without any problem, and some other i reboot 10 times and i never have my HDD :( :( :(

pjft

@darknior you're not following. The error happens when overscan is on :)

Trust me on that. Mark it yes (it should become 0) and then reboot. The glitch should come back.

It's just an unfortunate name for the option, with the negative label.

darknior

Like write in this doc : https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Overscan

My image is now croped and i can't read left menu :(
I want to add again the black borders to see all my image screen !
I try with and without Overscan and nothing change it is silly and it really boring me
I really don't understand, like when my PI don't want to auto mount my HDD !!!

And i only have the BUG with the black borders, if i can't put them back i can't do any test :( :( :(
Now i want to take my PI and throw him by the window !
1 hour left for nothing :(

pjft

@darknior let's take a moment here. We can get this back. The borders only show up if you have Overscan enabled.

If you edit the /boot/config.txt file

And set

disable_overscan=0

Or comment out the disable overscan=1 line, and reboot, you'll get the borders back.

If you don't yet, do send over your config.txt file's content via pastebin, as there are a few finer grained options we may need to add, namely the actual seeing for the size of the border, and I want to see what you have there before making any changes.

Are you booting from a USB Drive/PiDrive?

Thanks for testing and sorry for making you go through this, but we'll sort this!

pjft

Hi @darknior .

Did you manage to get your Pi back to the previous state? If not, send over the config.txt file - I want to make sure we sort that out. :)