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    • azvarel
      azvarel @jackalpret last edited by

      @jackalpret

      https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/6023/carousel-in-recalbox/4

      Zodian Theme | #SNESProject

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      • jackalpret
        jackalpret Translator @azvarel last edited by

        @azvarel said in theme with video previews ?:

        @jackalpret

        https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/6023/carousel-in-recalbox/4

        thanks, but, emulationstation can add video, look at this link:
        https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/commit/25e1067794760523a331c07c1c0b23922b9644f2

        then we can use oldroom theme or modify it to use videos.

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        • acris
          acris last edited by acris

          Hello
          recalbox had own version of emulationstation.
          this option is in WIP for recalbox

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          • jackalpret
            jackalpret Translator @acris last edited by

            @acris said in theme with video previews ?:

            Hello
            recalbox had own version of emulationstation.

            thanks, yeah i known, but maybe it could be included, is only a few lines of code (and binaries of vlc and libs)

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            • acris
              acris last edited by acris

              @rockaddicted works on it and it's more complicate than it seems.

              RECALBOX IS NOT RASPBIAN 😉 but buildroot OS. 😛

              seem question : https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/4761/emulationstation-video-preview/3

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              • jackalpret
                jackalpret Translator @acris last edited by

                @acris said in theme with video previews ?:

                @rockaddicted works on it and it's more complicate than it seems.

                RECALBOX IS NOT RASPBIAN 😉 but buildroot OS. 😛

                Thanks, it seems on this commit only add a few lines and install vlc and dependencies
                But, always born a problem haha

                @rockaddicted is already working on it ? WOW !!!! AMAZINGGGGGGGGG ! F*CK YEAH !

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                • rockaddicted
                  rockaddicted @jackalpret last edited by

                  Yep indeed I have a WIP about that using ffmepg instead of vlc.
                  But no time to work on it for the moment. I'll give a look later once the 4.1 stable version released.

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                  • Substring
                    Substring @jackalpret last edited by

                    @jackalpret as you definitely have absolutely no understanding of what a few lines of code + merging this into the recalbox version of ES + adding VLC to recalbox

                    Do you know how often we've seen people just copying/pasting this code into our source code, making a pull request and when we ask them how they tested it they just answer "i have no idea of what i have done, i just copied/pasted and pushed it, i don't understand a single line of what I've added, and i don't even know how to compile", we can't accept such a contribution.

                    fieldsofcows made some very amazing job to retropie's ES, it can't be backported to recalbox by just c/c. And anyway, we'd rather not include VLC.

                    So, yes, it is a problem. You need to :

                    • manage themes evolution
                    • manage fallback to pictures if no video exists
                    • resize the video and keep its aspect ratio
                    • thouroughly test
                    • take care of memory leaks

                    Please, just don't say "it's just a few lines of code" unless you're in IT and know C++ better than us 🙂 Such a sentence is very irritating you know ...

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                    • jackalpret
                      jackalpret Translator @rockaddicted last edited by

                      @rockaddicted said in theme with video previews ?:

                      Yep indeed I have a WIP about that using ffmepg instead of vlc.
                      But no time to work on it for the moment. I'll give a look later once the 4.1 stable version released.

                      amazing ! thanks !!!

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                      • jackalpret
                        jackalpret Translator @Substring last edited by

                        @Substring said in theme with video previews ?:

                        @jackalpret as you definitely have absolutely no understanding of what a few lines of code + merging this into the recalbox version of ES + adding VLC to recalbox

                        Do you know how often we've seen people just copying/pasting this code into our source code, making a pull request and when we ask them how they tested it they just answer "i have no idea of what i have done, i just copied/pasted and pushed it, i don't understand a single line of what I've added, and i don't even know how to compile", we can't accept such a contribution.

                        fieldsofcows made some very amazing job to retropie's ES, it can't be backported to recalbox by just c/c. And anyway, we'd rather not include VLC.

                        So, yes, it is a problem. You need to :

                        • manage themes evolution
                        • manage fallback to pictures if no video exists
                        • resize the video and keep its aspect ratio
                        • thouroughly test
                        • take care of memory leaks

                        Please, just don't say "it's just a few lines of code" unless you're in IT and know C++ better than us 🙂 Such a sentence is very irritating you know ...

                        If you look again I write "as I saw on this commit" ... talking about mod for this version ...

                        I'm developer, I work with git, docker, docker-compose, jenkins, vagrant, jmeter, phpunit, protractor, php, angularjs, jquery, etc etc
                        I know sometime about development 😉

                        obviously I'm joking about "few lines of code" ... thats what my product managers said all the time hahaha

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                        • Substring
                          Substring @jackalpret last edited by

                          @jackalpret dev humor hahaha ok 😉 I'm sure you love when your manager says "just a few lines of code" 😉

                          still, VLC is not the way we want to go. And just thought about a major concern : x86 versions use X11, not framebuffer ... d**n ...

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                          • jackalpret
                            jackalpret Translator @Substring last edited by

                            @Substring said in theme with video previews ?:

                            @jackalpret dev humor hahaha ok 😉 I'm sure you love when your manager says "just a few lines of code" 😉

                            still, VLC is not the way we want to go. And just thought about a major concern : x86 versions use X11, not framebuffer ... d**n ...

                            haha yeah, or "it takes only 2 minutes..." ... XD

                            perfect, i think ffmpeg takes lower memory than vlc , because if you stay a few minutes in the same screen with the video runnning, maybe the raspi begins to burn if you dont take care about memory and processor resources ...

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                            • Substring
                              Substring @jackalpret last edited by

                              @jackalpret I have a much better trick up my sleeve in favor of ffmpeg : it handles hardware decoding of H264 on the pi 😉

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                              • jackalpret
                                jackalpret Translator @Substring last edited by

                                @Substring yeah !
                                I use ffmpeg in console to convert videos into different formats to copy to different devices to my doughter 🙂

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