Video Preview in EmulationStation

fieldofcows

@Nismo this is just fantastic. I think the fact that you've built video preview into your theme from the ground up makes it unique and special. My favourite theme!

Nismo

@fieldofcows Thank you very much for the words of encouragement but I could not have done it without your help, and your hard work.

I really appreciate so much all the hours of hard work and the enthusiasm you have put into this project.

andrea_ita

sorry..
could someone tell me.. where i have to put :

boxart files
snap video files
wheel
marquee
(i downloaed version 1.7b)

actually i have them under roms path..

i supposed... boxart to put in this path, but without results:
/configs/all/emulationstation/themes/oldroom 1080p/atari 2600
(example for atari 2600) with same name of rom.. but
i see in emulationstation only the rom list.. and a simple background.
thanks in advance

Nismo

@andrea_ita It depends on the path inside your gamelist.xml.

BTW wheel and marquee are the same thing, not different ones.

For example if you want the "videos" "marquees" and "image" folders inside your roms folder, each entry for each game inside gamelist.xml should look like this:

<game>
    <path>./Game.zip</path>
    <name>Gamename</name>
    <image>./images/Game.png</image>
    <video>./videos/Games.mp4</video>
    <marquee>./marquees/Game.png</marquee>
</game>

image is the same than boxart, you can change the name of the folder from "images" to "boxart" and replace images folder in gamelist.xml for boxart folder, but not necessary, you can only place boxart images inside "images" folder.

Example for changing the folder in gamelist:

<image>./boxart/Game.png</image>

marquees and wheel art are the same thing, you can change the name of the folder from "marquees" to "wheels" and replace marquees folder in gamelist.xml for wheels folder, but not necessary, you can only place wheel images inside "marquees" folder.

Example for changing the folder in gamelist:

<marquee>./wheels/Game.png</marquee>

I hope it's clear enough.

If you want to wait a bit for boxart and so on, i'll open a new thread soon inside themes section to post the latest oldroom theme, as well i'll upload all the neccesary art, videos, wheels and boxart used in the theme, and in very optimized file size.

But it's very time consuming to update the theme at the same time I reencode video and images... just because my theme it's like to make a new theme from scratch for each system.

andrea_ita

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@andrea_ita It depends on the path inside your gamelist.xml.

thanks a lot for your reply.
i m studing retropie but have too much to read.... ;)

where is located in emulationstation config the gamelist.xml that i have to modify for have a new gamelist?

Nismo

@fieldofcows New 1.8 version with more systems: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vs3tr3sstrxud42/oldroom_1.8_720p.zip

Amiga added
Gameboy redesigned
Gameboy color added and redesigned
Gba added
Added fba system, (this was fast and easy because the same than mame XD).
More things I don't remember...XD.

Now we have 21 systems:

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Nismo

@andrea_ita said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@andrea_ita It depends on the path inside your gamelist.xml.

thanks a lot for your reply.
i m studing retropie but have too much to read.... ;)

where is located in emulationstation config the gamelist.xml that i have to modify for have a new gamelist?

I don't use retropie, but must be in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelist/

Regards.

andrea_ita

@Nismo

correct... emulationstation.. sorry..

where is located the file gamelist.xml to modify?
or i have to input manually into file with the information?
is there a gamelist.xml file to modify? or i must change manually all the file? i hope to write well... sorry for my poor english.

Nismo

@andrea_ita I'm confused, are you using retropie for Rpi or Emulationstation for windows?

If you are using emulationstation for windows gamelist are inside .emulationstation/gamelist/(systemname)/.

The games are added to the gamelist automatically, but not the video and marquees tags, you need to add video and marquees tags manually for each game or use some scrapper or use the method I posted a few posts ago.

andrea_ita

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@andrea_ita I'm confused, are you using retropie for Rpi or Emulationstation for windows?

i use retropie 4.1 and emulationstation with raspberry pi3
i download and installed your theme v.1.7
i would like to know if there is a master file where i have to add your items above for auto scraping by emulationstation the gamelists into the "system rom path"..

Nismo

@andrea_ita I was editing my last post, read it again.

And take a look at this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6589/easy-way-to-add-video-and-marquees-tags-in-your-gamelist-for-video-support

Nismo

@andrea_ita Ok i'll try to explain it better.

I suppose you have all your games already scraped, if not, do it.
Once scraped go to home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelist/nameofthesystemfolder/gamelist.xml.
Follow the method here to add the tags to your gamelist.xml: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6589/easy-way-to-add-video-and-marquees-tags-in-your-gamelist-for-video-support or use some scraper with video and marquees tags support.
Don't forget to make a backup of your original gamelist.xml before replace it.

If you can't understand this I don't know how to explain better.

andrea_ita

thanks a lot for your patient and your support...
i try to create a file .txt like the link adobe describe.. than I rename it with ".ps1" extension, but from terminal command shell in linux, from raspberry, I don't know how excute a .ps1 file... (sorry :( )

Nismo

@andrea_ita Read the tutorial carefully, you need to do that on windows, you need to copy the gamelist.xml to windows, do the things there, and then copy back to rpi.

That code only works for windows 7, 8 or 10.

HurricaneFan

@fieldofcows @Nismo Question about the video previews. I've installed the 4.1 image of RetroPie on my raspberry pi 3. I've then upgraded all of the packages before copying over all of my NES roms. I have theme Old Room 720 1.8 installed. The videos and all the graphics display (box art, marquees) but I get a thermometer icon after the video preview plays for about 15 seconds or so. Is this an issue with video playback?

herb_fargus

@HurricaneFan no. It's an issue with you not having sufficient cooling on your pi.

HurricaneFan

@herb_fargus Its just a normal case, I've never had the heat issue before. Not even while playing games. Would re-encoding the videos differently help? or will video playback always affect it?

Nismo

@HurricaneFan I can't answer you because I don't have a Rpi, but maybe your videos are so high quality? Have your case enough cooling?

Anyway I'll upload some optimized art and videos soon, keep an eye to my posts.

herb_fargus

@HurricaneFan if you encode them at a lower resolution that may help

tronkyfran

I'm in the process of recompile videos too @Nismo, Can I ask you how are you doing that, and what is your size limit on disk?