Video Snaps transition effects: turn them off

[Zing]

@clkgames I think you already know, but, the options that can be changed are in the recalbox.conf file (you must remove the semicolon from the beginning of the line for the configuration to work):

## Videosnaps
### Delay before videosnaps start, in millisecond. Default: 2s
;emulationstation.videosnaps.delay=2000
### Video loop times. 0 = no video. 1 or more = the video loops x times before fading out
;emulationstation.videosnaps.loop=1
### Enable videosnap sound/music
;emulationstation.videosnaps.sound=1

Another issue I'd like to point out is, if you set the video snap start delay to zero and scroll very quickly throughout your game list, Emulationstation loads again and you are sent back to Main Screen.

I wouldn't call it an issue, it happens due to a hardware limitation, you are overloading the system, and forcing it to restart the Emulationstation, if it didn't, you would have to shut down forcibly (and manually).

The videos take up more storage space, and are heavier for the system to play. It is understood that whoever uses the videos uses it so that they can see an example of the game, that is, they will not scroll very quickly.
Considering that the problem is hardware limitation (and that, I believe that it is not feasible to change the hardware because of this detail), and that, you want to use snap videos, but sometimes you want to go quickly to a specific title, I recommend that you use shortcuts:

In the console selection list:

• R1: search function (https://recalbox.gitbook.io/documentation/v/francais/usage-basique/fonctionnalites/fonction-de-recherche)

In the games list:

• L or R: page up / page down
• Start-> JUMP TO LETTER

[clkgames]

@RustyMG said in Video Snaps transition effects: turn them off:

Not sure about being able to switch them off, but if you change the delay to something like 10 or 20 seconds, its effectively the same thing - they will never get a chance to play.

emulationstation.videosnaps.delay=10000

But I do want to play the video snaps, I was just wondering if it's possible to turn off the transition effect (fade in, whirling etc)

@Zing thanks, yeah I was aware of the video snap options. BTW, does enabling emulationstation.videosnaps.sound=1 change anything on version 7.1.1?

As for the "issue" thing; my apologies, wrong choice of words. It is clearly a hardware limitation as I am running Recalbox on a RPI4 with 2Gb of RAM.

[Zing]

@clkgames

RPI4 with 2Gb of RAM

An Rpi4 with 2Gb of RAM is enough to run practically all possible games in Recalbox, it is the most cost-effective Hardware today, but video snaps overload the system, it is definitely not worth changing hardware, it is better to configure the system otherwise, or, use the shortcuts I mentioned.

[LapinFou]

Oh. So, it does mean the ES reboot issue will never be fixed on RPI4 ?

[airdream]

I haven't encountered this issue on RPI3 (less ram).
So i tough it was an optimisation problem with RPI4, no?

[Zing]

@airdream Did you set the video snap start delay to zero?
If you have the same configuration and it doesn't happen in Rpi3, then I'm wrong (and you're right).
Can you please test with the delay set to zero?

[clkgames]

@Zing as for videosnap sounds: turns out setting it to either 0 or 1 makes no difference as no sound is played at all during videosnap playback.

### Enable videosnap sound/music
;emulationstation.videosnaps.sound=1

[Zing]

@clkgames

(you must remove the semicolon from the beginning of the line for the configuration to work)

[clkgames]

@Zing sorry about that example, that line does not reflect how my recalbox.conf looks like, which is :

## Videosnaps
### Delay before videosnaps start, in millisecond. Default: 2s
emulationstation.videosnaps.delay=1000
### Video loop times. 0 = no video. 1 or more = the video loops x times before fading out
emulationstation.videosnaps.loop=100
### Enable videosnap sound/music
emulationstation.videosnaps.sound=1

Again no matter if you set it to 0 or 1, no difference - no sound in either way.

John

[Zing]

@clkgames I don't use videosnaps, and I can't test it now, does anyone else have this problem?

I saw that it was previously reported:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/20111/sound-and-videosnaps

But I saw no other report than that.

[domzest]

I also have this problem, deleted the dot and comma the sound doesn't start

[Zing]

Please wait for the next version, there will be many improvements and maybe this is one of them.

[clkgames]

@Zing thanks!

[Zemus]

@zing

Hi!

With Version 7.2.2, is there a way now to control the video effects? I want to just blend in the video in a TV-Frame without the rotation-animation.

[Zing]

@zemus Sorry, but there are no new options for this.
You can view the changelog here to check out the new features:
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

And it is possible to open an issues requesting this type of Resource:
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/-/issues