UPDATE/SOLVED: it was not related to the music player, after all.

I had presumed that libmpg123 error meant it was related to my mpg123 background music player, but it seems that's may be not the case.

It only happen on "random video" screensaver mode, I am unable to reproduce on either "dim" or "slideshow" screensaver modes.

...and, it happens now even with the music disabled. Now mpg123 is still installed on my RPi4 but when disabled it is never brought up during autostart.sh so now is just ES(-dev), and my video files (mostly which come from ScreenScraper).

Looks libmpg123 is also used by the vlc (which I do use on ES, as I have "use OMX player for screensaver" set to "off.")

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/1554

Seems it is caused by (one or more) particular video files. I (backed up and) deleted half my gamelists (so their videos won't be played), and the error still occurred. Then I restored my backups, and deleted the other half the gamelists -- this time no error! I have narrowed it down further to a single game in my SNES playlist -- confirmed by removing all other entries so only that one plays when triggering screensaver, and then the error happens right away.

I tracked it down to a single bad video from screenscraper. Whenever the Pop'n TwinBee (SNES) video is played, the Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header error is displayed in console, in multiple, when exit EmulationStation.

This is accompanied by a visual glitch in the video playback (or freeze, depending on player) at about 0:16 seconds in, just past the halfway-mark. This also was visible on the video served from the screenscraper website.

I tagged the video in a comment on screenscraper.fr asking to re- generate their standardized video. A short time later, that request was granted and, after re-scraping that one game, the error is now resolved!

For curiosity: if you have this game, and have a video scraped prior to a few hours ago (about 2024-03-22 19:00 GMT), do you experience the same console error after playing its video on screensaver and, after re-scraping, is it also now resolved?

For people that end up seeing this in the future. I ended up using the below as my final solution for music- simple, has necessary features- just watch the install video at his website:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25125/how-to-add-background-music-in-just-5-commands/2

@r3cho Yes. Just note that background is defined three times in the carbon.xml file for various views. You will need to replace it in all three places.

@cdaters said in Custom theme background:

the systems/carousel screen

Hey, i decided on going for another approach and installing a theme, the Epic Noir theme.

Thanks anyways! :-)

Hi @dookieshooter,

Apologies for late reply. I didn't have notifications on and have been busy with other things.

@dookieshooter said in Tronkyfran Dark plus:

is it possible to get videos to play in grid view?

As far as I know it is not possible to have videos in grid view, unless any dev update has been done on the RetroPie EmulationStation Repo to add this feature to EmulationStation as the original is not maintained anymore. If you've found a way I am interested as well to incorporate this in GridView

@dookieshooter said in Tronkyfran Dark plus:

is it possible to remove the detail window ( I assume that I can just remove that from the theme The dimming of the non selected games is a little aggressive. Possible to change that behavior?

Both are Possible for 1, in the "main" Theme.xml you'll have to remove all unwanted tags/elements within the <view name="system"> </view> tags.

For the grid non selected games dimming you can adjust backgroundEdgeColor

<gridtile name="default"> <backgroundEdgeColor>000000BB</backgroundEdgeColor> </gridtile>

The 000000 is HEX code for black the BB is code for the alpha channel. You can change this to whatever you like to get another (even colored) dimming effect. See here for some more explanation on HEX with Alpha.

@buzz no, as i dont know if there is an issue with the script, or if there is a common issue with retropie settings that other run into with this using this script

@RapidEdwin08 Hell yeah! Glad to see this is still going. Thanks for the update!

@mitu Thanks a lot

@sleve_mcdichael said in 1on1 PSX Background issues:

@adambegood just so I understand...the solution was "fix the code and recompile your emulator from source" or am I reading that wrong?

Yep, change Line 35 of the scriptmodule to BUILTIN_GPU=unai and then Update from Source. Let me know if you need more detail on how to do that, I am no pro but could just about manage this!

@simpleethat said in launchingimage adding a white background to png files:

...create launching images that would display the control scheme for every game (but that's way more effort than I really feel like going through).

That's exactly what I did for Arcade titles (with a copy of PhotoShop and a PC), but it's a big time investment. I did about ten/fifteen "major" games and then figured I'd get to the rest eventually.

I'm able to "re-use" some work for games that have the same controls. (e.g. Pac-Man and Ms.Pac-Man both use the "no buttons required" image) I also tried to make the button naming generic so that I can re-use images. If the buttons for "shoot" and "jump" are in the same place then I re-use the image. So far I've done early arcade titles which simpler control schemes.

@freddyja script.zip is not avalaible, I can't use this guide.

@ExarKunIv Thank you for this post!! Agreed about the lack of volume control!

@Becciboo81 Well, RetroPie doesn't include any BGM music scripts - so you must have installed 2 scripts that play at once.

Check the usual places for startup scripts:

/etc/rc.local (you'll need to use sudo to edit this file). /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

and remove one of the BGM scripts.

@tronkyfran said in Background images, coming back, again!:

tronkyfran theme

Thank you for these. Any chance you can upload them without game images on the screens? I also noticed several missing systems due to "no emulation, no theme" and I was wondering if they are a work in progress still or if this is all done?

Thanks!

Hey guys, yes I like that one too thanks @Stuart2773 but it sounds too much like the snes classic menu as I have the original on my Nintendo build already. I do like the one @Clyde posted but only like the start of it, I might have a play and crop and loop before it all starts going crazy haha.

@mitu Ok, now i just heard that i did have sound on my previews, even when i select games! It is just veeeeery low. The screensaver sound is still on the right volume level, so do not know why they differ, but i vill try to investigate.

that's curious now.
I just altered the bluetooth connection method to "boot" (instead of background), and the nes30 pad always immediatly reconnects after pressing the power button.
I don't even have to wait a few seconds...

I'm pretty sure I tried that mode the first time as well... with very different result.

anyhow, still don't know how to figure out which firmware version is inside my 8Bitdo gamepad.