Want to build a new theme for PlayStation

pjft

@hansolo77 background resolution might be a problem, but a video can help.

Also, when that happens, if you ssh into the pi and run

sudo vcdbg reloc

The first few lines will tell you the video memory state. Dump that log into pastebin and send it over.

TMNTturtlguy

@hansolo77 I would definitely provide the information per @pjft request.

Here are a few thoughts that I have found when i was building the comic book theme:

In this case, which is different from the issues you had with the comic book theme you may actually need to increase your VRAM. When exiting the game or screensaver you are having trouble reloading textures, so you might need more VRAM. Try 110 or 120.
If this is only the case when exiting the screensaver, you might want to reduce the size of your video files. Reducing the file sizes with a program like handbrake could improve not just video playback but might help reduce the amount of resources ES needs to dedicate to playing them.
You might want to check the size of your image files as well. Since this theme loads backgrounds, images, video and marquees, if you have a lot of games and image/video files you might consider trying to reduce file sizes to improve performance.
Regarding the theme backgrounds, I found in all of my testing that running the backgrounds at 1080 led to a lot of issues with loading the backgrounds, crashes, and whit screens. Creating the backgrounds at 720 and then reducing the file size to under 512kb will help tremendously. You will see in my theme that most of the backgrounds are in the 300-400kb size. I know you have stated that you like the fact your images don't use the comic book pixel, but i found that the pixel dither allowed me to use the 720 background and use a program called riot to reduce the file sizes and still look nice on larger screens. All this said, the file size below 512 is more important that 720 or 1080 - however it is very hard to create this background at 1080p and reduce the file size to under 512kb and still have it look nice.

I would assume that the big things to try are VRAM to 110 or 120, Video file size, and changing the backgrounds to 720p under 512kb.

Good luck and let me know if any of these work for you.

hansolo77

Thanks guys! Something to play with at least. I'll figure it out eventually. :)