[Suggestion] Soundless video screensaver + Skip broken videos

felleg

I just discovered the screensaver option in ES, and I'm absolutely loving it! I have two small suggestions that I think shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Firstly, the ability to turn off (or fine tune in %) the volume of the screensaver videos. My situation is that I have background music playing in my RetroPie menu, and the video sound is stacked over the menu music, which ends up resulting most of the time in a jumbled mess. I'd rather have only my menu music playing, since I chose it by hand and I know it doesn't annoy me :)

Secondly, I don't know how this happened, but I have about ~2% of videos that had problems during scraping and thus simply do not work (even in VLC, for example). In the screensaver, they create a black screen and hang there indefinitely. If there was a way to skip videos that have encoding problems, I think it should be implemented. ;)

The settings I'm using for the screensaver right now:
Use OMX player: OFF
Screensaver Controls: ON (no idea what this does though)
Show Game Info on Screensaver: Start & End (wonderful feature)
Stretch Video on Screensaver: OFF

Hex

Firstly there is another setting "Audio Video enable" that handles muting of videos. That should help.

Secondly it is your job to ensure videos added are valid. If you would like a feature like this then I would suggest you to try basic development and only ask for help when thing get really difficult.

Finally this will not be on the priority list any time soon as there are major reworks in the way and a lot of devs are occupied with it.

A few threads that can help you get started:

felleg

@Hex About the first point, ok, maybe I wasn't as updated with my software as I thought I was. Updating right now to see if I can find that setting.

About my second point, I really only brought it up because I assumed it would be easy. Indeed, I was assuming that the screensaver was simply a command line call and that a parameter doing something like "skip if broken" already existed for the video player that was used. I admit, I don't know what the video player is. If you say such a thing doesn't exist, then ok, my bad again.

Thanks for the links, I'll check them out!

Hex

Usually videos are not played if broken. like vlc errors out or exits. If some videos are playing as expected then few of your videos are kaput. If all videos are black screen then one of the settings is not correct.

felleg

@Hex If that is so, then great that's exactly what I wanted to hear. Indeed, most of my videos work perfectly fine, only a mere fraction make a black screen. I guess this issue will be put on the back burner for now.

Finally about the video audio, I found it in the audio settings (I think it was there all along..!). But might be nitpicky, but I wish there was a way to enable video sounds in the ES menu, but remove it in the screensaver. Really though, at this point, the option that is already there satisfies my needs for the most part.

Thanks, Hex, you were very helpful. :)