Personal video as screensaver

[flame922]

Hello everyone,
is it possible to launch a video that I uploaded myself in my recalbox.
My arcade terminal will be in a company and I'd like it to be able to launch a showreel video of my company when it's not in use.
Thanks for responses

[poppadum]

@flame922 You may be able to achieve that using the script mechanism: see Scripts on EmulationStation events in the wiki.

The sleep event is triggered when the screensaver kicks in, so how about creating a script named e.g. /recalbox/share/userscripts/playvideo[sleep].sh which launches your video.

On RasPi you can play videos with:
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -c:v rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb565le -f fbdev /dev/fb0 -re -i $file

or on PC:
/usr/bin/mpv --quiet --alpha=blend --loop $file

[DerDenny1982]

Editiere die /recalbox/share/screenshots/gamelist.xml wie folgt

<gameList>
<game source="Recalbox" timestamp="0">
<video>video.mp4</video>
<ratio>auto</ratio>
<name>Dennys Spielepalast</name>
<path>video.mp4</path>
</game>
</gameList>

Dann die Datei video.mp4 in den Ordner /recalbox/share/screenshots

Dann den Bildschirmschoner aktivieren und fertig.

[flame922]

@DerDenny1982 not working for me. Or i don't understand exactly what is the way. in my /recalbox/share/screenshots/. i don't have gamelist.xml .

PLEASE HELP ME

[poppadum]

@flame922 I think /recalbox/share/screenshots/gamelist.xml is created the first time you save a screenshot.

Have you tried just creating the file with the contents @DerDenny1982 suggests?

[DerDenny1982]

@flame922 My folder (/recalbox/share/screenshots/) was empty.Then I have created a video file (video.mp4) and uploaded it to the folder with the gamelist.xml file. Restart the system and choose the Gameplay Screensaver. Sorry for my bad English.