Video Preview in EmulationStation

Rion

@Nismo @fieldofcows How hard would this be to implement for other themes for example to Pixels by @Rookervik ?

I mean you don't have to change much just an option to replace the picture with an video if that exists and if not just show the screenshot/boxart?

Or are there more underlying changes that have to be made?

Nismo

@Rion i'ts not difficult.

You can show video and image at same time if you want, that's what i do in my theme, but instead use an screenshot for image i use boxart.

Maybe if @Rookervik give me permission i can take a look at the theme and adapt it for video support.

Or maybe he want to do it himself... who knows.

Nismo

@fieldofcows

Ultra fast update:

Fixed gbc system_art image was not in 720p for 720p version..
Fixed gbc system_art image was not in optimized for 1080p version.

Download 720p (recommended for Rpi): http://www.mediafire.com/file/j91ai4widytm076/oldroom_1.7b_720p.zip

Download 1080p: http://www.mediafire.com/file/er1q5xuyhqecqjp/oldroom_1.7b_1080p.zip

Enjoy.

Nismo

@Rion i have the pixel theme working with video support right now... XD

Rion

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@Rion i have the pixel theme working with video support right now... XD

Sweet!

Nismo

@Rion @fieldofcows Under permission of @Rookervik here you have:

Pixel theme with video support: http://www.mediafire.com/file/39l5qlnz137c2ap/pixel_video.zip

Also posted in the original thread.

Enjoy!

Nismo

Pixel theme with video support:

capsaicin

Hello,

I wrote a small test script. To create gamelist.xml for Video ES. Download 3D box art, marquee and videos from http://screenscraper.fr

All systems of oldrom theme, are supported and FinalBurn Alpha.

It still has many bugs. If anyone is interested ...
Https://github.com/capsaicincapsicum/videoes_scraper

GtBFilms

@Nismo Pixel Video theme works pretty well, but for some reason I get a blue tinge on the videos - they are the same videos used in the oldroom theme, where they look okay and don't have the blue tinge.

Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

vs

Nismo

@GtBFilms strange it doesn't happen to me, i'll take a look at this.

fieldofcows

@GtBFilms said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Pixel Video theme works pretty well, but for some reason I get a blue tinge on the videos

That's interesting. It might be a bug in the video playback. I'll check. What are you running it on? RPi, Windows or Linux?

Rion

@capsaicin said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Hello,

I wrote a small test script. To create gamelist.xml for Video ES. Download 3D box art, marquee and videos from http://screenscraper.fr

All systems of oldrom theme, are supported and FinalBurn Alpha.

It still has many bugs. If anyone is interested ...
Https://github.com/capsaicincapsicum/videoes_scraper

Nice! Maybe this could be implemented into Universal XML Scraper by @screech

GtBFilms

@fieldofcows Hi, I'm running on an rpi3. Might be to do with the video encoding, I'll try some others.

fieldofcows

@GtBFilms It is indeed a bug that only shows on the RPi - a problem with the opacity of the video. Well caught! I've got a fix which I will commit shortly.

GtBFilms

@fieldofcows Excellent, Thanks!

screech

@Rion said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Nice! Maybe this could be implemented into Universal XML Scraper by @screech

You can scrape your video with Universal XML Scraper,

Just open your XML "profil" in "ProfilsFiles"

And add this :

<Element Type="Video">
<Source_Type>XML_Download</Source_Type>
<Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File%</Source_Download_Path>
<Source_Download_Tag>-video</Source_Download_Tag>
<Source_Download_Ext>mp4</Source_Download_Ext>
<Source_Value>Data/jeu/medias/media_video</Source_Value>
<Target_Type>XML_Path</Target_Type>
<Target_Path_Type>%XML_Path_File%</Target_Path_Type>
<Target_Value>game/video</Target_Value>
</Element>

It will scrape video, putting them in the downloaded image directory, with a "-video" tag, and add in your gamelist.xml the path in "game/video"

Rion

@screech What if i wanted to use both Video and for example RetroPie (MIX) using both Images scraped using Universal XML Scraper and Video's.

If there is no video use Scraped image and so forth?

screech

It's a themming question ;)

As is, if you add the new element in the MIX profil, you still have the MIX + the video...
What you do with these is purelly in the theme ;)

Try to put Video over the MIX with "same size"
So when you have video, the MIX is under the video... When you have no video, you will see the MIX ;)

fieldofcows

@screech, @Rion The video component can be configured to display an image automatically if no video is available using the same dimensions as the video.

See the definition of the tag showSnapshotNoVideo in the first post here.

Nismo

@fieldofcows @Rion pixel theme with video support is already configured to display image if video not found, so you don't need to worry about editing theme.