retropie 4.2 videopreview slowdowns/crashes

ezra84

@jwcbronski This is exactly what i found too.

pjft

Thanks all.

I spent some time this morning coming up with a better approximation based on plain observation as there's little documentation here.

I submitted a PR for it, so hopefully this should be improved shortly.

If anyone wants to take a stab at testing it, and is comfortable with compiling code (or using @meleu's script to install test branches) this is my dev branch, based on 2.6.3.

https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/tree/OMX-Volume

You may also download a binary for the Pi 3 here:

https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/releases/download/0.1-OMX/emulationstation

Place it somewhere on your pi, exit the main ES, run chmod +x emulationstation and then ./emulationstation and see how it performs at the different volume levels, especially compared to VLC.

Would love to hear your impressions. Be mindful that different videos have different volumes, as well as different hardware systems (i.e. emulators), but hopefully this performs better.

Thanks.

jwcbronski

I just tested it and it works great. With ES volume at 100% and 85% the volume of VLC and OMX is nearly identical. VLC seems to be a littler louder but that doesn't really matter.

Thanks for the improvement. Now I can start using higher quality video previews.

pjft

@jwcbronski Thanks.

It was effectively a very ad hoc trial and error approach to coming up with something that would be similar, as they use drastically different volume ranges and settings.

I hope this one works best. Feel free to keep using this version of ES for the time being, and whenever this gets merged to the stable branch you can use it.

Thanks!