Please test: Using OMXPlayer as video renderer

Nismo

@alaindesjardins @pjft I know that @jdrassa made some changes to carbon theme to add new features and maybe he removed video support.

Anyway as far I know OMX player was experimental and will be deprecated so you need better videos adapted to your rpi.

You can try the ones I'm uploading here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8019/oldroom-theme-w-i-p-new-1-9-beta-media-packs

I'm still need to upload more systems, but that videos should play without problems.

Regards.

jdrassa

@Nismo @pjft the latest version of carbon uses the feature element to hide the video element from older versions is ES that it may break.

fnkngrv

Was there any further movement on this? Is there a new thread regarding it with the updates over the last couple months to ES? I am curious because I am working on adding video snaps to my Pi Zero W and trying to figure out optimization for temps on that board and performance hits. Thanks in advance and all the hard work being done! Kudos.

pjft

@fnkngrv yeah. This is now part of the main ES. You'll have OMX Player as an option there.

fnkngrv

@pjft said in Please test: Using OMXPlayer as video renderer:

@fnkngrv yeah. This is now part of the main ES. You'll have OMX Player as an option there.

So how do you adjust the delay for video snaps to start when moving through your gamelists? I can't seen to find any info on it and it is annoying as heck having to wait five to seven seconds scrolling thru each game.

pjft

The delay for the video to start is a theme setting. There has never been a "way" to adjust it other than that.

You'll likely want to edit the video view in the theme to add the delay. Add, to the video element,

<delay>2</delay>
<showSnapshotDelay>true</showSnapshotDelay>

The "2" is the number of seconds to wait.

fnkngrv

@pjft very interesting. I'll check it out. Thank you!

As a sidenote I think that maybe part of the issue is the fact I am on a Zero? I'm using the same theme on my Pi 3 and do not have the same issue. On my three it has a very minimal delay. Perhaps I need to drop the encoding specs on my video files.

pjft

@fnkngrv Correct. That is likely the case.

Out of curiosity, does it happen on both VLC and OMX? Just one?

fnkngrv

@pjft I had to switch to OMX from VLC because no matter how I encode the snaps the audio is choppy and the video is very slow; almost choppy and that is even at 320*240 23.9fps or 25 or 29. I have tried MP4 and divx with the same results.

pjft

@fnkngrv Correct. I am personally a fan of OMXPlayer, even though it has its limitations.

Best of luck then.

fnkngrv

@pjft said in Please test: Using OMXPlayer as video renderer:

The delay for the video to start is a theme setting. There has never been a "way" to adjust it other than that.

You'll likely want to edit the video view in the theme to add the delay. Add, to the video element,
<delay>2</delay>
<showSnapshotDelay>true</showSnapshotDelay>
The "2" is the number of seconds to wait.

So the current delay on the theme that I want is set to:

<delay>0.01</delay>
<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>

Perhaps that delay setting is too small for the Pi which is what is causing a much longer delay due to processing. I'll test and report back for others that may follow this thread.

pjft

@fnkngrv Yeah. That's 0.01 seconds :)

You'll need to set

<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>

to true, and add a number of seconds there - you may try 1 to start with.