Retrospin - Static 16x9 - Version 1.1

[dougan78]

Nice!  Will probably include that in the 1.1 update as well, never liked the blue one.

[annunaki12]

So i have some problem with main menu theme, the trasition from theme to theme is up to 3 sec can someone help with some advice

Thanks

[dougan78]

On my setup it is about 1 second between switching menu items on the main menu and i would say around .5 on a system theme. 

Computer:
500gb SSD
i5 3rd Gen 3.4Ghz
8gb memory
Nvidia Quadro K2000 Video Card.
No virus scan.

Test disabling virus scan?  What are your specs? I will be posting an updated theme soon that features a few updates.  One of the updates is the images have been compressed to reduce size some.  For instance the Arcade classics theme is about 5 megs now is the updated one is 3.95megs instead.  Thanks for checking it out.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

A major factor here is SSD/HDD speed vs file size. Just look at your directories to see how many MBs need to be loaded, and then factor in your storage speed. Scrolling on my external HDD is much much slower than on my internal SSD. My MAME set on Aeon Nox also scrolled a lot faster after I reduced the flyers to about 500x500 pixels.

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[annunaki12]

My pc
CPU AMD 3.2GHZ
8GB Ram
AMD Radeon R9 200 series video card

Antivirus don't scan retrofe folder and retrofe is add as a game so no scan when working
The size of HDD is 3TB with 2TB empty

For systems is working ok and i use box (500x680) and cart (512x512) and i have no problem

I will try to reduce size of the artwork and add some animation

[dougan78]

Version 1.1 Update:

Ran all images through pngquant and reduced entire layout size from ~200 megs to ~92 megs.  May help with loading on slower systems.
Added additional wheel menu indexes to support an additional submenu layer.
Removed blue pointer from main menu and system themes in favor of Retrofe Pointer
added Gun Games theme
fixed letter jumping cart and box images jumping


Will need Pieter to test and update downloads section but link above should work for the time being.

See post 1 for download location.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I've updated the version in the Download section. Thanks for the update.

[dougan78]

Thank you for updating the download.  I cleaned up the thread of all download links.  I posted a new video in post 1 or you can check it out here:  https://youtu.be/VMw9F-YTMIk

I also cleaned up all download links in the thread so the only place to download this layout is from the themes section of the site.  Thanks much for hosting!

[dustind900]

This is really nice. Would you be willing to add a spot for number of players? I could always do the modification myself, but I figured I would ask anyway.

[dougan78]

This is really nice. Would you be willing to add a spot for number of players? I could always do the modification myself, but I figured I would ask anyway.

Where ya thinking?

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[dustind900]

It's your theme, so if you do decide to add it, I'm sure you'll pick the best possible place. Anywhere is good for me

[dougan78]

So I am testing my theme on linux/rpi and running into issues.

I get main menu videos fine.  But I am not getting videos per game/per system.  At first I thought it was a basemediapath thing but that wasnt it.  Maybe someone can help me.

retrofe install location: /opt/retropie/configs/all/retrofe/
 
the layout.xml uses this line for the videos: 

<!-- System Video -->
   <reloadableVideo imageType="screenshot" alpha="1" x="584" y="223" height="602" width="778" layer="6"/>

The settings.conf for the system has this for video:

media.video           = %BASE_MEDIA_PATH%\%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%\medium_artwork\video

I am testing atari 7800 and the videos are there in this path:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retrofe/collections/Atari 7800/medium_artwork/video

The videos match the game names (cAseSenSITive) and all too.  Not sure what my deal is.  If anyone has an ideal I appreciate it

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Most likely this is a pi3 video codec issue. To test that theory, simply (temporarily) use one of the non-working videos as system video, and see if it works. If it does not, it's a codec issue.

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[dougan78]

Most likely this is a pi3 video codec issue. To test that theory, simply (temporarily) use one of the non-working videos as system video, and see if it works. If it does not, it's a codec issue.

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Or vice versa, good idea

[dougan78]

Most likely this is a pi3 video codec issue. To test that theory, simply (temporarily) use one of the non-working videos as system video, and see if it works. If it does not, it's a codec issue.

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Or vice versa, good idea

So the same video on the main menu that plays fine does not play renamed as the rom name for the system.  Not sure what my deal is.  Any ideas?

Edit:  I tested with the default 16x9 and AeonNox themes/layouts as well and no videos on the system menu as well.  So maybe it is something related to the pi image I am using/test.

I dont see in the log where it(retrofe) loads the video, is there some where to find that? 

I double checked the codecs of the vids too, the main menu and system ones use the same codec:   avc1 mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC