[Theme] CRT

alphatoanant

@Roxsteady, yeah from my testing it lags on a Pi Zero currently. @fieldofcows (with the help of @MWGemini) has been testing out an implementation of the video preview feature using omx player instead of vlc that is showing nice promise for heat on a Pi3. There is no guarantee that would help on Pi Zero but I am looking forward to trying it out. The Pi Zero may not end up being powerful enough though. If that turns out to be the case I am going to build a version of this theme without video support for the zero next.

You can follow the status of the omx player updates here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi/141 (thank you for the link and your tests @MWGemini)

mattrixk

@alphatoanant My Io theme uses <include>s if you need some inspiration.

Also, just a thought, but if videos lag on Pi-zero, would it be best if the Pi-zero owners simply didn't scrape videos? Then it doesn't matter if your theme has a <view name="video"> or not?

alphatoanant

@alphatoanant My Io theme uses <include>s if you need some inspiration.

That's exactly the one I am using to learn from, nice =)

Also, just a thought, but if videos lag on Pi-zero, would it be best if the Pi-zero owners simply didn't scrape videos? Then it doesn't matter if your theme has a <view name="video"> or not?

Good point. It might not be a common use case to share gamelist.xml's between a pi3 and pizero. I know for me I mostly do it for testing purposes. Not scraping for videos if using a pi-zero would work then.

Dominus

@alphatoanant Yeah for sure. It's just numbers, I didn't really do any graphical work.

Nismo

@alphatoanant Depens on how the videos are encoded.

I suppose the scraped videos are very high resolution for a rpi (it's known 640x480 60 fps videos are too much for the rpi), but I'm making good quality videos at low resolution and fps to safe space and don't stress the rpi. Keep in mind that scraped videos are not designed for playing in a rpi.

Just need somebody with a pi zero to test them.

Link: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8019/oldroom-theme-w-i-p-media-packs?page=1

alphatoanant

@Nismo Thank you, I may be able to try these out this weekend. Currently, I am using standard quality videos from emumovies.com (the ones that are around 320x240 res)

Nismo

@alphatoanant if pi zero can't move 320x240 videos I doubt it can move my 480x360 videos, but my videos are very little filesize and all are at 25 fps.

HemiJJ

Thank you so much for the awesome theme. I love the overall feel but made a few teaks to my layout and just wanted to share. Thanks again and I look forward to future themes.

HurricaneFan

@HemiJJ What are the settings for putting the System logo on the right hand side?

HemiJJ

@HurricaneFan
Modified this in the logo sections. Made a bunch of changes, but I think this was the trick.
origin .5 .5
pos .725 0.1
maxSize 0.5 0.1

HurricaneFan

@HemiJJ Thank you!

HemiJJ

OK, So I got sucked into this theme building goodness and like @alphatoanant , I went back to the building themes guides and build some from scratch, but heavily influenced by the CRT theme. I even went back and tweaked the Carbon theme to better support video tags. I have many colors built but here are a few of them in both video and basic mode.

These are first attempts and I'm not 100% sure on the rights on the background images, so I probably wont share them as full themes, but feel free to ask questions.

Nismo

@HemiJJ I don't see any space for marquees if somebody have them.... will be displayed on top of video (if video is on left side) or on top of gamelist (if gamelist it's on left side).

HemiJJ

Thanks @Nismo, I appreciate feedback from such a trusted source. With only personal preference in mind, I decided to not design for marquees in these themes. If I decide to spend some time cleaning up the code to a good publishing point, I will probably modify to allow for them.

Nismo

@HemiJJ Then if you don't want to have problems, you'll need to place marquees out from the screen, to fix marquees overlays on top of other elements, because even if you don't use marquees code in your theme xml, marquees will be displayed if they exist.

HemiJJ

Thanks @Nismo

So add an image tag for md_marquee and set the pos to something like -.5 -.5?

Nismo

@HemiJJ Yes, I think that should work.

mattrixk

@Nismo Quick question: If you have a gamelist with <marquee> tags, but not <video> tags, which View will be used? Detailed or Video? If Detailed View is used, will "md_marquee" images be displayed?

HurricaneFan

@mattrixk It appears to use Detailed view if there is no video tag, and it ignores the marquee tag altogether.

With Video tags:

Another gamelist with no video tag, but has image and marquee tags:

It totally ignored my marquee and moved the image inside the box.

mattrixk

@HurricaneFan That's good to know. Cheers for that.