Flat Theme

[lilbud]

@Nismo I even downloaded the the Oldroom theme, but video still won't play

[Nismo]

@lilbud You mean default video?

[greekmanx]

lilbud what image are you using or did you make your own? I am using motionblue v2 and the download Nismo just posted works fine

[lilbud]

@Nismo No, and I have a video set for Tetris, no video/audio will play.

@greekmanx Retropie 4.1.14

[Nismo]

@lilbud I'm sure you didn't edit your gamelist.xml to add videos and marquees tags are not??

[FlyingTomahawk]

I assume that this whole video and grid stuff is not inside any official release yet right?

[greekmanx]

lilbud I am sure you know this but 4.1.14 stock does not support video david when he did motion blue added in the code to make it work

[lilbud]

Got it working, it turns out there still was a image tag in the gamelist.

[Nismo]

@lilbud Strabge because it's working for me and for greekmanx, something it's wrong, check if the paths for the videos are correct in gamelist.xml.

The easy way is to edit gamelist.xml and the path for video:

./videos/my_video.mp4

then create the folder videos inside your roms folder, with yor roms files, and place the video inside.

[greekmanx]

lilbud you are much smarter then me you can make themes I cannot

[Nismo]

@lilbud you posted before than me... XD.

I found 2 more errors.

1- There is not default.mp4 video inside assets folder.

2- You need to replace this on Flat.xml:

<default>~/assets/default.mp4</default>

with a dot:

<default>./assets/default.mp4</default>

[Nismo]

@lilbud And maybe you want to change this:

<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>

with this:

<showSnapshotNoVideo>true</showSnapshotNoVideo>

This change it's optional...

[HurricaneFan]

@FlyingTomahawk Last official release was just 4.1 which was released in November. The Video theme stuff happened in December. So you would have to upgrade your official release to get the feature.

[Nismo]

@HurricaneFan He fixed yet, was an error on gamelist.

@lilbud said in Flat Theme:

Got it working, it turns out there still was a image tag in the gamelist.

[greekmanx]

I made a quick video to show it working and there is sound I cut it out to spare you of my wife and her friend playing Cards against humanity they are loud.

[Nismo]

@greekmanx don't forget to to this:

You need to replace this on Flat.xml:

<default>~/assets/default.mp4</default>

with a dot:

<default>./assets/default.mp4</default>

And place a default.mp4 video inside assets folder, it will play a default video for games without videos.

[greekmanx]

now just fix the marques and do the same for dark version and I am set. and if I am being a pain or sounding demanding or needy I do not mean to I appreciate you doing all you do and making this awesome theme.

[greekmanx]

@Nismo what does that do nismo? edit I just read that again ignore me it gives me default when videos don't play thanks

[Nismo]

@greekmanx Plays a default.mp4 video for games without video.

The video must be named "default.mp4" and must be inside assets folder.

[greekmanx]

@Nismo this is so I dont get the fuzz when no video is available right? I wish it would fall back to a screenshot if video wasn't available but thanks for the info and I will do that once I find a good video I want.