Solution for " White Screen of Death "
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I seem to recall mentioning it before, but I don't remember what our solution was determined to be. Are these "video" themes going to be listed in the official release (like with a -video flag next to it) so you can easily pick them from the ES THEMES menu item inside the RetroPie menu? It would certainly make things easier. If nothing else, there should be a localized list somewhere of what themes we have that support them.
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Video tag it's a good idea, but I think video support it's very new, and with a bit of time all themes will support video.
Also I'm trying to help every theme developer to make it compatible with video if they have problems with that.
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Yeah I think that was what had been decided, that it was just too much hassle to include that as a seperate option when installing themes, especially if the plan is to incorporate video eventually with them anyway. So long as NOT having videos doesn't break it lol.
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@hansolo77 That brief white screen is the normal/expected behavior. That will happen while ES is removing old/unused textures from memory and then loading in the new texture. In all my tests, Tronkyfran has the largest images (and I've customized my own version of it with even higher res images), so it tends to be the slowest to load, but even with that theme, the hiccup is barely noticeable. I think that's as good as we're ever going to get on the Pi, with it's limited memory and processing power.
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Yeah it's not a big deal at all, was just reporting it if it was something new. Thanks for all the work!
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