Open mgoulartBR opened 9 years ago
Aloshi
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9 years ago Not yet, but I have done some work on adding video support through the FFmpeg library in the video branch. There's a new <video> component that lets you place videos, but right now there's no looping at the end of videos and there's no support for loading videos by metadata yet on the detailed game list. (Also there's a bug that makes all the videos render upside down.)
mgoulartBR
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9 years ago Cool! I don't know if it's more easy but animated Gif support can help too!
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Aloshi notifications@github.com wrote:
Not yet, but I have done some work on adding video support through the FFmpeg library in the video branch https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/tree/video. There's a new
robertybob
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9 years ago @mgoulartBR Seeing as .GIFs can be a lot smaller in size, I'd think they'd take up a lot less space (which would be useful for people with huge collections of games) and require less GPU/CPU to run (which could benefit Pi users). Seeing as @Aloshi has already started a video branch I'm not suggesting he abandons it, after all the hard work he has put in to it, but your suggestion of using .GIFs is a great fall-back idea!
DerekRoth
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9 years ago To show a real preview would it be possible, as an alternative to a video, to launch the real game and load a previously created save state to get into the game (or title screen) and skip the intro ? I know performance would be very bad on big games, but for older systems it may be fast enough, what do you think ? Creating a save state is very easy and does not take much space on the filesystem.
ghost
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9 years ago The issue there Derek is it's more than video, that would effectively been opening a render window inside ES and executing the game and then the save state, which would mean the emulator would have to accept loading a save state via command line. Also, when the game doesn't have a save state you'd still be sat watching splash screens.
Video thumbnails is a fantastic idea. I already tried slipping an animated GIF in but it doesn't support them. Worth a try though!
Having the whole background play a video clip of the game, but darkened so it didn't take too much attention from the foreground elements, would also look really smooth.
Distribution would also be a nightmare, ideally some people would need to band together to collect/create clips for an entire romset and then create a torrent.
Hi!
Is it possible to make something to see a in-game video on gamelist?!