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cnapolit / ScreenSaver

Extension for Playnite to dynamically display game content as a screen saver
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Installed ScreenSaver extension and it's not working. #66

Closed limodual closed 1 year ago

limodual commented 1 year ago

Recently installed ScreenSaver extension in Playnite 10.8, but it's not showing any screen saver and I checked the extension settings and seems everything is fine. I really wanted to try this extension please someone help me.

cnapolit commented 1 year ago

Anything in the 'extensions.log' file? It can be found in the same directory as the playnite exe files. Is Windows Media Player installed? Some .NET tools have weird dependencies on things like WMP.

limodual commented 1 year ago

I didn't found any file by that name in the Playnite directory, please can you specify the location? I already installed Windows Media Player on my PC. Also I tried to re-download .NET latest version which is 4.8.1 but still didn't helps. Sorry I didn't mentioned in my post, but in Playnite, when I right click on the game and run the preview ScreenSaver, it shows the splash screen with the clock, but it didn't showed the trailer (I already installed ExtraMetaData extension) and also ticked show Micro-video in the SplashSaver settings.

limodual commented 1 year ago

I don't actually needed to use the preview (but tested to see if that works at least). I just want the Screen saver with possibly a video. Hope you fix it somehow :)

cnapolit commented 1 year ago

Sounds like a polling issue. Try disconnecting all devices (particularly controllers, keyboards, mice). If that works, then one of your devices is faulty and sending inputs when it shouldn't.

Otherwise, I may need to add some log statements to better figure out what's happening.

limodual commented 1 year ago

Tried removing all devices but still it's not working. This time I tried going to Menu>Extensions>ScreenSaver>Start ScreenSaver, but still not worked, maybe it's not related to the devices which are not faulty (they're new).

limodual commented 1 year ago

Bro, is there any some kind of prerequisite that is needed for this extension to work apart from Windows media player and .NET Firmwork? It seems so many people got working this extension easily but mine not at all working.

limodual commented 1 year ago

Also anything update from your side?

cnapolit commented 1 year ago

One last thing you could do is restart the app and immediately checking the logs after. We might not have seen anything before if something is failing early on when the plugin is first loaded.

The next step for me, if that doesn't yield any info, would be to create a version of the plugin that has a lot more logging during input polling and when the plugin attempts to play.

As a side note, if you're using any groups, make sure the group has games in it.

limodual commented 1 year ago

Sorry for the late reply but I really don't know how to access extension logs like you mentioned before, I didn't found it in the Playnite's folder.

cnapolit commented 1 year ago

All good, I'll be going on vacation at the end of the week, so I'll have more time them to look into this issue. If you're willing, we could hop on a discord call or something around then to figure this out.

cnapolit commented 1 year ago

Since there's been no updates, I'll close this issue.

Some parting suggestions:

You mentioned the video not displaying. Ensure the settings are configured to display games, even when the video is missing. If it can't find any video files, then it won't display any games if it's set to skip them.

Ensure there are no invalid files within the extra metadata folder. an issue cropped on on the sounds plugin where it wouldn't play if it attempted to use a bad file.

If you're willing to debug further, feel free to reach out.

limodual commented 1 year ago

Hey, I decided to not to have screen saver for simplicity and keep the app light as possible and also it stutters a bit when the extension is installed. Maybe I will try it in the future when the extension get's optimized and of course when it starts to work on my PC somehow. But thanks for offering your support all along.