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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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