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Third party applications/tools / Intro RetroFeVLC - A Fork of RetroFe with VLC Media Library (Windows Support)
« on: October 24, 2025, 10:52:08 AM »
Hi RetroFe community,
Im excited to share a personal project Ive been working on: RetroFeVLC, a fork of the awesome RetroFe frontend. This fork replaces the Gstreamer media library with VLC for improved media handling, and its built to run on Windows OS. Im grateful for the RetroFe project and its open-source spirit that made this possible.
RetroFeVLC is now released, and it has a dedicated Discord server for support and discussions. You can find more details, in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/-SRJbFsvsSY

Key addons included:

- Search: Navigate large game collections with ease
- Menu Manager: Streamlined menu customization
- MetaData-Regenerator: Automatic metadata updates
- KioskMode: Secure setups with admin password

If the RetroFe devs are open to it, Id be happy to share the RetroFeVLC code everything is available via the Discord server. Id love to get feedback from the community and contribute back if there's interest. Feel free to check out the video or join the Discord for more info!
Thanks again to the RetroFe team and this amazing community for the inspiration.
Best,
RFSVIEIRA

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General Discussion & Help / Re: SEARCH ENGINE
« on: August 07, 2025, 08:16:50 PM »
Thank you, JonahUK, for your fair and supportive words, they really mean a lot, i really appreciate you stepping in with clarity.

Just to make things clear for everyone:
This is a personal project, completely independent from any group, including CORE , COINS-OPS, etc...

I?m still actively working on the project, which includes several moving parts: custom theme design, integrated add-ons, and a heavily modified RetroFE build. Its a one-person effort, and development takes time, especially since Im learning, testing, and refining everything along the way.

For example, this past week I reworked the Search Results pop-up, which was previously pointing to an incorrect menuIndex. Fixing that meant exploring deeper layout logic and addressing new issues as they come up. Its been both a challenge and a learning experience definitely an adventure (and a bit of a brain pain 😅).

Once everything is stable and polished, I plan to release the modified RetroFE source code, in full respect of the GPL-3.0 license. Other parts of the project, such as add-ons, will be provided in a compiled form when ready everything is being prepared carefully to ensure it works well together.

Thanks again for your encouragement, and for everyone's patience. I'm looking forward to sharing the results as soon as everything is ready.


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General Discussion & Help / Re: SEARCH ENGINE
« on: August 07, 2025, 11:17:13 AM »
Hi,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and concerns. I understand where you're coming from, and I respect the work and passion many have contributed to this space over the years.

Just to clarify my position: everything I've shown so far is still a work in progress. This includes the RetroFE VLC-based version, multiple add-ons, and the custom theme design. It' s a one-person project, so naturally, things move slowly. Each change?especially removing working hardcoded(i add) elements?requires a lot of time, testing, and iteration to ensure it works well and is stable before being shared.

The video's I posted was meant to show progress and demonstrate what's being worked on. As stated, I?m fully aware of the GPL-3.0 license and take it seriously. My goal is to release everything?theme, add-ons, and modified source?together once it's ready and properly tested. Releasing half-working or unstable pieces would only hurt the effort in the long run.

I appreciate the discussion and hope people will see this for what it is: a personal project driven by passion, shared openly, and with the intention to contribute back when the time is right.

https://youtu.be/Jd3aGT8rrMI

Best regards

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General Discussion & Help / Re: SEARCH ENGINE
« on: March 08, 2025, 01:57:18 PM »
Works as an add-on is in C# so can't send PR I can share the addon if interested, I have outhers addons all in C# as all games, all favs, all last played, all real time update wen using RetroFE. If retrofe had a discord channel will be easy and probably can eveluat more as it is stop almost 1yr. RetroFE is a great FE , the SDL 2 library s already support animated GIFs and webp. Just need updates, mines are in vs2002 so isn't compatible to PR 😔

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General Discussion & Help / SEARCH ENGINE
« on: January 22, 2025, 12:54:01 PM »
I created an Search APP supporting RetroFE, if interessed to add to Base build, contact me. Regards

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Replace gstreamer with VLC - Visual Studio version
« on: October 30, 2023, 11:13:31 AM »
Yes its possible i forgot call it the function that is in the line 97-111... alredy update code, my mistake....
P.S. The red logs that could show,(to me only happens with H.264 but all plays well)  ex [H264 @ 0000485823782] no frame!,  it comes directly from FFmpeg lib(for what i read until now can't hide), however, if video plays normal  and are not causing any issues, ignor them. These messages often occur when the decoder encounters corrupt or incomplete video frames, which might happen in certain edge cases or with specific types of video streams.

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General Discussion & Help / Replace gstreamer with VLC - Visual Studio version
« on: October 21, 2023, 08:08:16 PM »
If interested look in Retrofe, Visual Studio version.
https://github.com/RFSVIEIRA/RetroFe_VS 
Doesn't have commits BCS PC issue. If like and have any doubts just pme.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: ADD 8bits GIF ANIMATIONS & MORE LAYOUT ANIMATIONS OPTIONS
« on: February 13, 2023, 03:13:28 PM »
I know...  ADDED VIDEO ..
But i managed it...
menu - always start´s auto wen selected.
then add 5 options to layout with frameloop = playLoop , playInverted , playOnce , playInvertedOnce, noPlay

I know you can make it bether, if you think is a good upgrade, it will be in Visual Studio Version Git, i alredy left here the address. As soon as i can i will update it, the source will be all there.
almost 1 year studding retrofe source.

updates during time...

0.10.31 -- Original

0 -- Updated for Visual Studio 2019 compiler

1 -- Update SDL Libs

2 -- Fix keyboard double click wen click once

3 -- Add Webp support and static Gif´s

4 -- Add Animated Gif´s support to logos (buttons)

5 -- Add play animation only if select

6 -- Add option Animated Gif´s to layout

7 -- Fix animation support layout (ex. charters)

8 -- Add Layout new arguments and framloop options for gif´s --animeimage and --frameloop"" ex.

<animeimage src="images/logo.gif" alpha="0" x="right" y="bottom" xOrigin="right" yOrigin="bottom" height="300" layer="17" frameloop="playLoop">
      <onMenuEnter menuIndex="0"><set duration=".25"><animate type="alpha" to="1"/></set></onMenuEnter>
      <onMenuExit  menuIndex="0"><set duration=".25"><animate type="alpha" to="0"/></set></onMenuExit>
</animeimage>

frameloop = playLoop , playInverted , playOnce , playInvertedOnce

9 -- Add icon to Retrofe

10 -- Add new argument to framloop="noPlay"

11 -- fix LEDBlinkyCloseOnExit which if set to yes will default to closing ledblinky when retrofe closes -- tks to jlvandusen
P.S. i problably will not support fixes or new updates.
Tks.

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General Discussion & Help / Windows 100% Visual Studio 2019 version Retrofe Compiler and his warnings
« on: October 04, 2022, 04:09:03 PM »
Hello, i manage converting/adaptation 100% to Visual Studio 2019 -- here GIT link https://github.com/RFSVIEIRA/RetroFe_VS, could be an option for none linux users test/debug it.
using the cmake to debug on windows is a big mess to me, with VS2019 i can create breakpoints to analyse it bether.
It´s for gstreamer 1.40, but i can create another for last  gstreamer.
i dont know if is possible "merge" for updates the 2 git´s, but i think no because the SDL include has diferent link source.
Alredy found that Funcion definition not found for tweenSequencingComplete line 83 Component.h, problably missing something in the Component.cpp like this
bool Component::tweenSequencingComplete()
{
return false;  // our true
}
found tht TweenProperty is unscoped as print i add
SDL.CPP
 line 469/602/736/870/1004

Arithmetic overflow: Using operator '*' on a 4 byte value and then casting the result to a 8 byte value. Cast the value to the wider type before calling operator '*' to avoid overflow (io.2).   
(double and int type´s)
RetroFe.CPP
line 431/1333/1335
the same Using operator '*' on a 4 byte value and then casting the result to a 8 byte value

well i add the full print,  for now Windows VS2019 warning(39) list, if you want take a look, i disable the C4996 warnings they are not in the list

It doesnt mess with the code, i think, is just warnings, but if is a warning something isnt 100% well

Have a nice day

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General Discussion & Help / ADD 8bits GIF ANIMATIONS & MORE LAYOUT ANIMATIONS OPTIONS -- WORKING --
« on: September 09, 2022, 10:09:18 PM »
Hello again, here i am, again talking about gif´s to retrofe :)
I found a guy that manage how to add gif to SDL2, i made some update to the code (to work) and tested in an stand alone SDL2 project  ( SDL2-2.0.14) and is playing gif animation.
isn´t perfect as  im not a programer as you alredy know.

its has option to update to layout designers

----- gif loops forward
----- gif will run from first frame to latest then stop
----- gif will loop forth and back
----- gif loops backward
----- gif will run from first frame to latest then stop(reverse)
----- animation is stopped and is reset to display the first logical frame

Problably dont need all options for start.

Dont know if you are interessed, if  yes i send you my SDL2 test project, then i can try help add it to retrofe (im slower :P) (problably test and try find the errors is my think)

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Re: APNG
« on: May 01, 2022, 09:35:38 PM »
Hi again :P
well after a litle investigation, found that GIFLIB is compatible with SDL2 and some source examples code CPP for GIF and APNG is need LIBPNG + APNG patch for libpng i add some CPP source examples.
Link https://www.filemail.com/d/splngprbbbwqnbi
Maybe someone can help DEV adaptation it.
Thanks for time

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Re: APNG
« on: April 30, 2022, 09:39:01 PM »
Hi Pieter,  thanks for answer i think is need 1st update libpng version, but i think is more than 2 lines as it needs "decode" apng to png frames then play it.
As it isn't add apng to ImageBuilder it will read only 1st frame (as png), as SDL supports png i think it will work with apng.
the option isn't only logos, as with it we can have fanart/ system/collection background img animated, all we can imagine add to the layout as it works with transparency.
I understand this one men dev and you will not have time for it at less you showed willingness to innovate and interest
Thanks

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Re: APNG
« on: April 28, 2022, 05:26:15 AM »
I understand, I don't need hire
Thanks

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Re: APNG
« on: April 28, 2022, 05:07:48 AM »
https://youtu.be/9VXUmKAn_DY
How to create apng
I understand the no interess
Thanks for time
Have nice day

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Re: APNG
« on: April 28, 2022, 04:47:39 AM »
Great, hands to work,  ;D, if I know how to do I alredy started it for sure. pinball are growing a lot and started with apng logos and they are amazing, ppl are making more every day.. Their frontend alredy suports it. If retrofe has support for it I have no doubt tht community will create a lot of them as the static logo isn't same as animated logo, I'm not talking gifs as compared to apng is 8 to 80.
Have a nice day

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