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(Menu) Video preview for games / video files #10148

Open inactive123 opened 4 years ago

inactive123 commented 4 years ago

Video preview for games / video files¶ Description¶ The RetroArch frontend can currently display a screenshot of a video file (actually taken from the media file) or an archived screenshot / box art of a game inside the menu beside the medgame / video ia entry.

This project idea would implement a video preview feature. For this the frontend needs to be extended to preview a video file, or be able to display a pre-recorded gameplay video of the game in case instead of a screenshot.

For this we would need to write a new widget that displays a video (using the ffmpeg core) and a way to connect a game entry and a pre-recorded video file (like screenshots / box arts are currently distributed).

Further readings:

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/tree/master/menu/widgets

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/tree/master/cores/libretro-ffmpeg

Needed knowledge:

C, Video decoding

RobLoach commented 4 years ago

This would be great to have. Had a few requests to have the thumbnail transition into a video preview if a video file is present.

tomillr commented 2 years ago

Any news on this?

hizzlekizzle commented 2 years ago

no movement on it, no.

LibretroAdmin commented 2 years ago

PRs welcome. This would be a big undertaking.