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    • leew
      leew @leew last edited by

      @poppadum a little more info as i have been messing about with this for a couple of hours without success and have noticed a few things that i am not sure are correct.
      *my display is 1920x360 and i have set this up correctly
      *when the system boots the Recalbox intro video runs full screen on the marquee display
      *The dynquee picture displays on the marquee for a very short time and then shows a recalbox picture with the 4 pacmen
      *the pictures that should display on the marquee are shown on the main screen on and off.

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      • poppadum
        poppadum @leew last edited by

        @leew said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

        *the pictures that should display on the marquee are shown on the main screen on and off.

        On a Pi, both displays share the same framebuffer so usually the dynquee display is briefly visible on the main screen when an emulator launches or exits. A bit annoying, but we can't do much about it.

        *my display is 1920x360 and i have set this up correctly

        OK, that's good; just to double check, if you run the commandfbset it should confirm that the framebuffer is indeed set to 1920x360.

        still has black bars top and bottom of the screen

        What size of the images are you using for your marquee? 1920x360 is a common size so I suggest you start from an existing set (see e.g. the Super Pixelcade set).

        To check how your images display on the marquee, stop dynquee with
        /etc/init.d/S32dynquee stop
        then try displaying one of your marquee images with e.g.
        fbv2 /recalbox/share/dynquee/media/mame/1942.jpg (replace with a path to a marquee image).

        You can experiment with the --enlarge and --ignore-aspect options, but personally I just resize all my marquee images to be 360 pixels high (my marquee is also 1920x360).

        *The dynquee picture displays on the marquee for a very short time and then shows a recalbox picture with the 4 pacmen

        I'm not 100% sure why that is. Make sure that in your /etc/recalbox.conf (section J) you have
        system.secondminitft.enabled=0
        or the line commented out.

        You could also try disabling the intro video with
        system.splash.length=0
        (section A)

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        • leew
          leew @poppadum last edited by

          @poppadum Thanks for the very detailed response and the time you have taken out of your free time to respond to me. Firstly i am a very inexperienced on the software side, but i love to learn. Unfortunately that might generate a lot more questions. I hope you don't mind and let me know if i become a pain.

          I didn't know i needed to add any images, it just seemed to be working out of the box so to speak. I will look at the guide and see if i can add some images with the correct size and see if that works.

          i don't have a lot of free time this week so there might be a delay getting back to you with questions or to let you know it is working 😉

          Thanks again and thanks for putting this project out there for everyone to use.

          Lee

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          • poppadum
            poppadum @leew last edited by

            @leew said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

            @poppadum Thanks for the very detailed response and the time you have taken out of your free time to respond to me. Firstly i am a very inexperienced on the software side, but i love to learn. Unfortunately that might generate a lot more questions. I hope you don't mind and let me know if i become a pain.

            No problem at all - I'll try my best to help.

            I didn't know i needed to add any images, it just seemed to be working out of the box so to speak. I will look at the guide and see if i can add some images with the correct size and see if that works.

            It can use scraped images as a last resort, but I always intended to use images sized roughly to my marquee screen, so I just assumed everybody else would do too.

            The are some docs in English (no other languages yet but I'm happy to add them if anyone wants to translate): see the README and probably the config guide.

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            • leew
              leew @poppadum last edited by

              @poppadum
              I have uploaded some images with the correct aspect and i still see black bars top and bottom. with a very o

              running the command fbset comes back with this
              df44f1a9-d880-4d69-9a38-3778de851445-image.png

              Not sure where to go from here?? Any help greatly received.

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              • leew
                leew @leew last edited by

                @poppadum ok so some more playing

                by un hashing this line i got the resolution to show 1920x360 but it now pushes the image to the top of the screen
                framebuffer_resolution_cmd = /usr/sbin/fbset -g ${global:marquee_width} ${global:marquee_height} ${global:marquee_width} ${global:marquee_height} 16

                3923460a-380d-4f14-9744-b3b296ad427b-image.png

                this is how a 1920x360 image is showing
                4771fe0b-f54a-4256-9cd5-60bb29f6c74b-image.png

                frustration is that the start up video is running full screen on this screen.

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                • poppadum
                  poppadum @leew last edited by

                  @leew said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

                  @poppadum ok so some more playing

                  by un hashing this line i got the resolution to show 1920x360 but it now pushes the image to the top of the screen
                  framebuffer_resolution_cmd = /usr/sbin/fbset -g ${global:marquee_width} ${global:marquee_height} ${global:marquee_width} ${global:marquee_height} 16

                  3923460a-380d-4f14-9744-b3b296ad427b-image.png

                  That looks good - I get exactly the same output.

                  this is how a 1920x360 image is showing
                  4771fe0b-f54a-4256-9cd5-60bb29f6c74b-image.png

                  Bizarre: that looks like it's taking up exactly one-third of the height which is what it would do if it thought the resolution was 1920x1080.

                  Could you try stopping dynquee with
                  /etc/init.d/S32dynquee stop
                  double check your framebuffer resolution with fbset
                  then manually displaying that image with
                  fbv2 path/to/your/image

                  You could also try with another 1920x360 image such as:
                  https://virginia.byf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pexels-photo-358483-1920x360.jpg

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                  • leew
                    leew @poppadum last edited by

                    @poppadum Thanks for your help on this. it seems to be an issue with the driver board for the screen. purchased another board and this seems to fix the image size issue but has created a white line down the middle of the screen. It seems i have two faulty boards! Have emailed the manufacturer to see if they can help.

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                    • daniel6984
                      daniel6984 last edited by daniel6984

                      @poppadum bonjour,

                      Sur la version 9.1 de recalbox , il y a la possibilité d'afficher des systèmes virtuels par genre en passant par les paramètres avancés\systèmes virtuels\systèmes virtuels par genre.

                      Quand je choisis par exemple le systèmes virtuels shoot em up, il apparait bien sur le menu de navigation mais j'arrive pas a afficher le marquée, comment dois-je renommé l'image .logo.png pour qu'il apparaissent ?
                      Merci par avance.
                      Cordialement

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                      • poppadum
                        poppadum @daniel6984 last edited by

                        @daniel6984 said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

                        @poppadum Quand je choisis par exemple le systèmes virtuels shoot em up, il apparait bien sur le menu de navigation mais j'arrive pas a afficher le marquée, comment dois-je renommé l'image .logo.png pour qu'il apparaissent ?

                        Il faut nommer les fichiers <SystemId>.<quelque-chose>.png/.jpg
                        par exemple: actionshootemup.01.png

                        Liste des SystemIds pour les systèmes virtuels:

                        favorites
                        lightgun
                        multiplayer
                        action
                        actionplatformer
                        actionplatformshooter
                        actionfirstpersonshooter
                        actionshootemup
                        actionshootwithgun
                        actionfighting
                        actionbeatemup
                        actionstealth
                        actionbattleroyale
                        actionrythm
                        adventure
                        adventuretext
                        adventuregraphics
                        adventurevisualnovels
                        adventureinteractivemovie
                        adventurerealtime3d
                        adventuresurvivalhorror
                        rpg
                        rpgaction
                        rpgmmo
                        rpgdungeoncrawler
                        rpgtactical
                        rpgjapanese
                        rpgfirstpersonpartybased
                        simulation
                        simulationbuildandmanagement
                        simulationlife
                        simulationfishandhunt
                        simulationvehicle
                        simulationscifi
                        strategy
                        strategy4x
                        strategyartillery
                        strategyautobattler
                        strategymoba
                        strategyrts
                        strategytbs
                        strategytowerdefense
                        strategywargame
                        sports
                        sportracing
                        sportsimulation
                        sportcompetitive
                        sportfight
                        pinball
                        board
                        casual
                        digitalcard
                        puzzleandlogic
                        party
                        trivia
                        casino
                        compilation
                        demoscene
                        educative
                        
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                        • daniel6984
                          daniel6984 last edited by

                          @poppadum said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

                          actionshootemup

                          Merci infiniment 👍 je comprend pourquoi ça ne s'affichai pas , je mettais action-shootemup a la place de actionshootemup 🙄

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                          • daniel6984
                            daniel6984 @daniel6984 last edited by

                            @POPPADUM Bonjour,

                            J'ai une question pour un ami, il a un rpi4 avec un RGB DUAL qui ce branche via les GPIO, il est brancher en péritel sur une petite télévision crt 14 pouces d'une résolution de 320x240 fréquence 15khz, il a voulu tester les marquees sur un écran lcd brancher en hdmi , mais les images apparaisse que sur la télévision crt, avez une astuce pour faire apparaitre les images marquee sur le lcd ?
                            Je vous remercie

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                            • poppadum
                              poppadum @daniel6984 last edited by

                              @daniel6984 said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

                              il a un rpi4 avec un RGB DUAL qui ce branche via les GPIO... il a voulu tester les marquees sur un écran lcd brancher en hdmi, mais les images apparaisse que sur la télévision crt

                              Pour le raspberry pi 4, les deux écrans HDMI partagent le framebuffer, mais il semble qu'avec un RGB Dual le framebuffer ne s'affiche que sur le CRT.

                              Pour Recalbox PC dynquee utilise mpv --screen=2 pour afficher les images sur l'écran 2. Pourrait-il tester si cela fonctionne avec:

                              mpv --screen=2 --loop <image.png>
                              
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                              • daniel6984
                                daniel6984 @poppadum last edited by

                                @poppadum Bonjour,
                                merci beaucoup de nous avoir repondu.
                                Nous voulons tester la ligne que tu nous a donnée, nous somme que sur rpi4 , dans le .ini , ou faut-il insérer la ligne mpv --screen=2 --loop <image.png> ?
                                Merci encor pour ton aide

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                                • poppadum
                                  poppadum @daniel6984 last edited by

                                  @daniel6984 Pour tester c'est plus facile d'accéder au cli et d'entrer

                                  mpv --screen=2 --loop /recalbox/share/dynquee/media/startup/startup.01.png
                                  

                                  Ou modifiez dynquee.ini lignes 169-170:

                                  viewer = /usr/bin/mpv
                                  viewer_opts = --screen=2 --loop {file}
                                  
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                                  • daniel6984
                                    daniel6984 @poppadum last edited by

                                    @poppadum Bonjour
                                    Merci beaucoup pour l'aide 👍 😊 ,
                                    ont a essayer par le .ini, ont a bien l'image du startup sur l'écran lcd mais plus d'image sur le CRT et aucun mouvement d'image n'apparait quand ont va de droite a gauche, l'image startup reste fixe.

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                                    • poppadum
                                      poppadum @daniel6984 last edited by

                                      @daniel6984 said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

                                      aucun mouvement d'image n'apparait quand ont va de droite a gauche, l'image startup reste fixe

                                      🤦 J'ai oublié qu'il faut aussi modifier (dynquee.ini ligne 174):

                                      terminate_viewer = yes
                                      

                                      mais plus d'image sur le CRT

                                      Tu vois rien sur le CRT, ni les images de marquee ni les jeux?

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                                      • daniel6984
                                        daniel6984 @poppadum last edited by daniel6984

                                        @poppadum Bonjour,
                                        Avec la ligne terminate_viewer = yes, il y a bien l'image des marquees que sur le crt pendant le chargement du jeux, mais rien sur l'écran lcd

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                                        • Tuko
                                          Tuko @leew last edited by Tuko

                                          @leew

                                          Hi, I also had the same problem.
                                          It seems that the ultra wide screen is not really 1920 x 360. I solved it by setting it to 1920 x 1080 by editing lines 14, 15 and 170

                                          13  # marquee resolution: change to suit your marquee screen
                                          14  marquee_width = 1920
                                          15  marquee_height = 1080
                                          
                                          168   # path to image viewer executable & options
                                          169   viewer = /usr/bin/fbv2
                                          170   viewer_opts = --noinfo --enlarge --ignore-aspect {file}
                                          

                                          Let me know if you solve at least partially

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                                          • poppadum
                                            poppadum @daniel6984 last edited by

                                            @daniel6984 said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

                                            Avec la ligne terminate_viewer = yes, il y a bien l'image des marquees que sur le crt pendant le chargement du jeux, mais rien sur l'écran lcd

                                            Hmm 🤔

                                            Et aussi rien sur l'écran lcd avec

                                            viewer = /usr/bin/mpv
                                            viewer_opts = --screen=1 --loop {file}
                                            

                                            ?

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