Video Preview in EmulationStation

Nismo

@tronkyfran No problem, you are wellcome.

I edited my last post, please read it.

Regards.

Furluge

@Nismo Would you happen to know what the best way to get Universal XML Scraper 2 to play nice with this theme would be, or if there is another scraper that will pull down all the images to work with this theme?

Nismo

@Furluge I said before, I'll open a thread under "projects and themes" section and I will upload there the theme and art used in it.

But I need some time to do it.

Rion

@screech Any insights into this? Is the latest version compatible with video previews using the scraper?

alphatoanant

@Rion I have used the latest version of UXS to scrape videos for testing my theme and can confirm it works well.

There is a way to manually set things up; which I plan to explore to tweak things, however out of the box now the setup wizard has a setting called "Retropie (Video)" that has worked well for me without any manual changes.

Check out: https://screencast.com/t/hpAJJ9uNjWOX

With that base when I scrape a system it downloads both an image and video and stores them in the folder I have configured to store "pictures" (which can found under the "path configuration" setting)

Let me know if it would help to record a video walkthrough - I would be glad to help

Furluge

Yeah that's what I'm using but default it doesn't quite get all the things I think oldroom is looking for. I was testing it with NES and the best I managed to do was replace the cartridge with 2d box art, though it doesn't help if there is no cart image. But I guess I'll wait for what nismo is publishing.

Furluge

@Nismo Thank you. Sorry if you said it before but this thread is a monster to try to read anything. I've been trying to dig through it for the past few days before I decided to post and ask. :)

Nismo

@Furluge No problem mate.

screech

I can do lot's of things in UXS... (and you can too ;) it's widely open ;) and configuration are barely easy to understand, even if it's undocumented ;) ).
Just ask precisely what you want. And I'll try to make it real ;) (when I have time ^^)

Furluge

@screech I know, but I can't ask because I am not quite sure what the theme wants currently. :)

HurricaneFan

@Furluge old room theme uses 3 pieces: marquee logo (also known as wheel image), video file, boxart.

Example gamelist entry:

	<game>
		<path>./10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes</path>
		<name>10-Yard Fight</name>
		<desc>The game is viewed in a top-down perspective and is vertical scrolling. The player does not select plays for either offense or defense. On offense, the player simply receives the ball upon the snap and either attempt to run with the quarterback, toss the ball to one of two running backs, or throw the ball to the one long distance receiver - basically the option offense. On defense, the player chooses one of two players to control, and the computer manipulates the others. The ball can also be punted or a field goal can be attempted.</desc>
		<image>./boxart/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</image>
		<video>./videos/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).mp4</video>
		<marquee>./marquees/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</marquee>
		<releasedate>19851018T000000</releasedate>
		<developer>Nintendo</developer>
		<publisher>Nintendo</publisher>
		<genre>Sports</genre>
		<players>2</players>
	</game>

HurricaneFan

I'm noticing my NES videos are having issues with sound, it starts the videos fine but then has a small noticeable amount of time where no sound plays. Happens over and over no matter which game I'm on. When I exit emulation station I see the following error repeatedly:

ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underpin occurred

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

hansolo77

@HurricaneFan said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

I'm noticing my NES videos are having issues with sound, it starts the videos fine but then has a small noticeable amount of time where no sound plays. Happens over and over no matter which game I'm on. When I exit emulation station I see the following error repeatedly:

ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underpin occurred

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Not sure if it'll help in your case, but I did a quick Google on that red quote and I found this. Might be helpful:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=185736

Furluge

@HurricaneFan Thank you. For the arcade sections is it the wheel logo under marquee and the the actual arcade machine marquee as the image?

Nismo

@Furluge For arcade (mame and fba at the moment) use marquee images instead of wheel art, then that image will be displayed in the marquee of arcade machine of the theme.

naxxi

hello all i'v followed all message here but i didn't find an steep by steep instruction to install and made working OdRoom, someone can give me a link or a copy - past in answer about full instruction?
Thanks in advance to all
and kiss from france

daeks

@fieldofcows Great project, I have 2 ideas/requests:

Add an option for the default media shown on detail grid - image or video - then it would be very easy to swap the media without modifying the metadata gamelist each time
is there a way to add a functionallity that shows the video only on request? I am thinking on something like press X or Y to toggle video/picture instead of the other media. Advantage would be to quickly scroll through the gamelist and only watch the video if the game is more interesting

fieldofcows

@daeks There is an option in the theme to introduce a delay before the video starts. You can also configure it to display the static image during the delay period using another theme flag. Maybe this goes some way to meeting your requirements.

Have a look at the 'showSnapshotDelay' and 'delay' options in the first post here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi

HurricaneFan

@Nismo Any chance you can add a theme for Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket and Neo Geo Pocket Color? Also, random question: How would I build a retropie menu theme. I know you said you use EmulationStation on windows. On the Pi we have a retropie section that has 13 pi options that is unthemed with old room theme.

Thanks again for all the work you've put into this. I love the look.

Nismo

@HurricaneFan Yes i'll add that systems, last system added was sega game gear but i didn't upload that build yet.

I really don't understand very well what you mean 13 options not themed, maybe for my poor english, can you upload some screenshots?

For retropie menu... ???? retropie uses ES (Emulationstation) as gui for emulators, for making a theme for ES there is a good very nice guide on the wiki, and for adding video support you need to read the latest commits, or this thread.

I don't know what you mean with retropie menu.. maybe retroarch menu?, because retropie uses ES(emulationstation) for emulator gui and retroarch for emulators...