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Thank you jonahuk I have just got a email saying that there has been new posts on here and i have just read them. I am waiting  for him to release his searching I just want it for my own build as i have a very large fruit machine build and sometimes it takes a long time to find a specific machine this would make the job so much easier. I have been looking for one for a long time (search my posts here and u will see that I asked for information on a retrofe search function along time ago)

Many thanks rob look forward to the tool if he decides to release it

It will probably be released if certain people stopped with the lies.

For the record, this is NOT a CORE project, its a personal project but some people just want to lie and spread untruths.

I'm sure he will make a post here if he decides to release it, from the videos it looks interesting and would make a nice addition to a retrofe build (with the required changes).

Regards,
JonahUK.

For system_artwork usage, name your mp4 as video.mp4 or if calling from the layout\collections folder, use the correct mode argument (mode="system" / "layout" etc)

FYI: Looks like it’s still happening. It’s only when you set settings.conf to use only one monitor but you have two connected. If you allow retrofe to use both monitors, even without a layout for the 2nd it works fine. I’ve only learnt of it now as I’ve just started using 2 monitors as I like to keep one up for browsing, but have my main monitor running retrofe.

See my post above, if you want to continue using the second monitor outside of RetroFE then set "screenNum1 = 1" to be a value higher than your max screens (something like "screenNum1 = 2" would send the output to a non-existent screen (0 is screen 1, 1 is screen 2 etc)). You can have higher than connected but not lower.

numscreens is for physical screens connected, not for how many screens you want to use.

May work, may not.

This isn't a retrofe code problem its avi video problem,
There will be a bad video in your big video build.
I've added 100+ systems since using rfe and never had a crash from a video all mp4 and all under 100mb.

I've never used avi in any build and had crashes with the newer libraries (1.18.3) yet under the old libraries (1.4) no such crashes occur.

Tested the latest version on github, still crashing.

Due to recent events, I can't help you any further, sorry.
You need to read the wiki further as it is explained on there, good luck.

@mikomi

Very similar to me and its a good way to work.
Also, using data sets and variables is an excellent way to cut down on any repetitive creation of images that use a text overlay such as those used for year and genre etc.

Some of these may need updating as they are from a while ago.