Video Preview in EmulationStation

Nismo

@fieldofcows Ok here we go with a new update. I did a lot of fixes and improvements, so i don't remember all.

Oldroom 1.5:

Fixed neo geo tv borders not in their place.
Fixed scanlines displaying on top of tv borders.
Rearrange files and paths to reduce theme size and more organized.
Tweaked scanlines.
Now you can select a few scanlines intensity, go to oldroom/art/ and rename scanlines you want to use to "scanlines.png". Rename to "noscanlines.png" if you don't like scanlines.
Now all video options are in main file oldroom.xml inside oldroom folder, you can tweak it there for all systems.
I did modifications in all themes backgrounds and added some reflections missing.
All images optimized.
Now the theme has more systems and half size (from 18mb to 5.92mb 720p version, 8.64mb 1080p version).
Added zxspectrum, sega mastersystem, sony PSX, Nintendo 64.
Added snes almost finished (i only need to do the emty 3d box here).
Added Sega CD system wip (this theme need some work).
Now oldroom theme come in two sizes, 1080p and 720p - Rpi optimized.
I don't remember XD.

WARNING:

Now this theme has more than 10 system so it can cause white screen of death, i can't test because i don't have Rpi so be careful.

@fieldofcows maybe you can test this because you are the only one at this moment that has a Rpi build of beta 6.

White screen of death info here: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes#white-screen-of-death

If you have a white screen you solve by doing some of these:

Switch your theme to any Carbon, Pixel, Eudora, Turtle-Pi, or Canela variant.
Remove some systems.
Increase your GPU/CPU split

Download

oldroom theme 1080p: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0d73b4ae5t9kbg3/Oldroom+1.5+-+1080p.zip

oldroom theme 720p (Recommended for Rpi): http://www.mediafire.com/file/bz4g76bj4axds36/Oldroom_1.5_-_720p.zip

Both of them includes fix for 800x600.

Video preview:

Enjoy!!.

fieldofcows

@Nismo That looks absolutely fantastic! I'll try it on the Pi shortly.

I've spent a while trying to reproduce your metadata problem and it doesn't matter what I do I cannot make it save absolute paths. It works correctly every time. Are you definitely using the latest version? I'm not quite sure what to do about this if I cannot reproduce it. :(

By mapping my P: drive to the root folder of ES I can get the double backslash when launching games though. That should be easy to fix.

Nismo

@fieldofcows I'll try to do some test to reproduce the problem but i'm a very bit busy with the theme.

If you fix the double backslash whould be very good for me because I can use other emulators.

One little request: set default sound when switching between systems.

There's some way that i can send to you private messages? I want to send you some files for testing.

Edit: I'll download beta 6 again, maybe i'm confused and using and old version, i was changing versions while testing bugs.

fieldofcows

@Nismo My email is roy.hopkins@ then my retropie user name dot com.

Nismo

@fieldofcows Thanks. I redownload beta 6 for testing, and seems relative paths working good now, maybe i was confused and using beta 5, sorry so much i'm so clueless.

I'm really sorry.

fieldofcows

@Nismo No worries. I've just made a change to the metadata handling to store the original path from the gamelist file along with the resolved path in order to be able to write it back out without modification. I'll keep it on standby for the time being and if you encounter any more problems with paths I can test it then commit it. It will use a bit more memory to store the extra paths but I doubt that's a problem.

Nismo

@fieldofcows Ok, thank you very much, i don't like my mistakes. I'm preparing one file to send to you later to your mail (maybe in a hour or so).

My email is jos75x so if you see some message is from me.

fieldofcows

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

set default sound when switching between system

I don't quite understand what you mean by this. Do you want to be able to define a sound that plays when you scroll through the systems on the system view? Or when you perform a system switch when viewing a system? If so, where do you want the sound to be defined?

Nismo

@fieldofcows something like this on system view:

<view name="system">
	
        <systemSound>./art/system.wav</systemSound>
</view>

I want to hear a click sound or something when switch systems in system view, i whould like when you perform a system switch when viewing a system too, but maybe that is more complicated.

Nismo

@fieldofcows mail sended, sorry for the delay.

cyrax3

even a different music for each system would be a good idea

robertybob

@cyrax3 Doesn't Recalbox do something like that?

Zigurana

It does exactly that. Background music is a themable element, wich can differ per system.

cyrax3

recalbox have this feauture...but i'm on windows and there isn't

Nismo

@cyrax3 said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

even a different music for each system would be a good idea

Yes but if you doesn't use videos, will be a chaos if you hear the background music and video snap music of each game at same time.

cyrax3

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@cyrax3 said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

even a different music for each system would be a good idea

Yes but if you doesn't use videos, will be a chaos if you hear the background music and video snap music of each game at same time.

i refer to the first menu when emulationstation launches, the system menu not the selection roms menu...good idea is navigate on system menu with backgroud music of each system (es. nes with a mario music theme, master system with sonic music theme) and when you chose a system stop the music backround and go to a selection rom menu with a video snap...i hope my english is good i'm italian

Nismo

@cyrax3 your english is better than mine...XD

Yes it's a good idea but i don't know how easy could be to code the "stop music" when change from sytem view to basic , detailed or video views.

I like too. Could be a <systemmusic> tag inside system view.

Of course you can't use this in main xml but you can use in the theme.xml for each system.

Whould be nice if it can read .ogg format for music. Great compromise between quality and space.

PD: I'm wondering if Rpi can handle all of this things, we need to test it.

fieldofcows

@Nismo I've added the option to play a sound when scrolling through the system list. As usual, I've had no time to test this so am relying on you to find issues... Hopefully there will be none :)

https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

Add this to your system view:

    <sound name="systemSound">
       <path>./art/listscroll.wav</path>
    </sound>

I wonder if I can use the existing VLC integration in ES to play audio files on the system view and on individual system lists. It's worth experimenting with. I don't see a problem playing audio and stopping it whenever a non-default video preview is playing.

Nismo

@fieldofcows Very happy to hear that!! I'll try it just now. Good work.

At the moment i finished snes and sega cd themes and i just finished dreamcast background (I love this one, take time but it's so cool), only need to move video, image, scanlines, etc... lol

Nismo

@fieldofcows it's working perfect!!! thank you.

Can you make it work when quickchange systems?

Anyway now is a lot of better feeling when swapping systems in system view. Very nice and quick commit.