Animated Screensavers

Saucerpan

@Malixx I got the screensavers to play but they often stop in the middle of the video and it returns to the emulationstation screen. some are able to play all the way through but most of them randomly stop.
also if the screensaver is played as a video preview for a game the screen goes black for a second and comes back. this keeps repeating as long as the video is being played as the preview. Its as if the pi cannot handle the resolution of the videos.

I have a raspberry pi 3 model B

cyperghost

@malixx Thanks for making a small tutorial. The way I descriped worked till ES 2.6.2
I hope ES will got it's own ScreenSaver Slideshow like the picture screensaver.

Hyruleslink

@saucerpan odd. I haven't had that problem. Perhaps your power source is too weak?

Malixx

@saucerpan Yeah I agree with @Hyruleslink, or maybe you need a fan. Maybe I should change the format to a lighter one, but I'm afraid it will look ugly!

Malixx

@cyperghost I just find an easier way to add the videos I think, I updated the post!

Hyruleslink

@malixx The DK link isn't working. It's asking for a decryption key. Any reason why you no longer will upload to YouTube?

ByteThis

@Malixx Am interested in the DK one as well, and as @Hyruleslink mentioned, I get the same error.

Malixx

@hyruleslink @ByteThis The DK link should be working now! I will upload to YouTube sometimes but it's very time consuming and I can't reupload everytime I make little changes, because I will remake some of the old ones to fit the new layout.

ByteThis

@malixx It's working now. Thanks for your hard work man ! Appreciate it.

MrJordaaany

@malixx Love your work. Keep it up :)

Malixx

UPDATE (10/07/2018):

Added Joust screensaver.
Added Star Fox screensaver.
Updated Super Metroid screensaver.
Updated Street Fighter II screensaver.

MrJordaaany

@malixx Bloody fantastic. I can't wait until Emualtionstation supports video screen savers as a default option!

Malixx

UPDATE (11/07/2018):
Tbh they were easier to make so there is a few.

Added F-Zero screensaver.
Added Metal Gear screensaver.
Added Metal Gear Solid screensaver.
Added Spyro the dragon screensaver.
Added Super Mario 64 screensaver.
Added Tomb Raider screensaver.

MrJordaaany

@malixx You are my local hero.

Malixx

UPDATE (12/07/2018):

Added The Legend of Zelda screensaver.
Added Earthworm Jim screensaver.
Added Advance Wars screensaver.
Added Tekken 3 screensaver.

lilbud

@mrjordaaany said in Animated Screensavers:

local hero

MrJordaaany

@malixx said in Animated Screensavers:

UPDATE (12/07/2018):

Added Advance Wars screensaver.

Advance Wars. Dope. More advance wars please. Particularly of the title screen for the first Advance Wars on Gameboy Advance. I think that would work well.

Malixx

@mrjordaaany Yeah I cheated, in reality it's a screensaver for the second Advance Wars, sadly I can't find any artwork of the first Advance Wars in good quality!

Malixx

UPDATE (15/07/2018):

Added Metroid screensaver.
Added Metroid 2: Return of Samus screensaver.
Added Metroid Fusion screensaver.
Added Super Smash Bros. screensaver.

SuperFromND

Noticed that the file sizes are a bit on the large side. Have you tried out Handbrake, by chance? Really helps with compressing video without losing much quality.