thanks for the reply i will check it out. by doing what you said, will the slideshow option show in the ES UI menu like the other image .

Spent hours and learned the hard way that you can't add it to the retropie/gamelist.xml anymore in 2.7.5
But you can add it to any other system gamelist.xml that has roms
Really needs a default folder as an option but for now just add the tag to any of your system gamelists

I don't use videos in ES because of the extreme heat
But I link 5 videos without names/paths to be discovered by the random video screensaver by simply adding it to the bottom of the nes/gamelist.xml file

<gameList> <game><video>/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/ss1.mp4</video></game> <game><video>/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/ss2.mp4</video></game> <game><video>/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/ss3.mp4</video></game> <game><video>/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/ss4.mp4</video></game> <game><video>/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/ss5.mp4</video></game> .... </gameList>

Works perfect every time and oddly don't overheat the pi while playing.

Hi!

Indeed there's no image screensaver option - at least not yet.

My main focus at the moment is getting both OMX and the screensaver merged into the master branch so that we don't have to maintain two separate branches.

After that is done I may look into that at some point, given that it's something quite a few people have asked for. Just for perspective. Unfortunately, it won't happen in the very short term, but it would be on the roadmap as soon as I sort these two items out.

OMX is already submitted, just waiting for review and approval.

Hope this sheds some light. Thanks!