Retroarch > Video Player

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#1

I remember the very first time I read something about Retroarch, it was that Retroarch’s purpose was to be a multimedia software, not so focused on game or emulation like it is today, but for videos, music and pictures as well, etc., well at least it was the way I interpreted that.

I wonder if there’s plans to make Retroarch a multimedia software, I’ve been watching some pre wide screen videos, and as I’m getting used to use borders/overlays in consoles, I’m missing it in those videos as well, I made some quick samples as how I imagine that.

My ideas can go with the wind:

I’m watching Spider-Man 1994, I picked an overlay I’ve found in Retroarch’s overlay folder to make this one and added the glass from another overlay, there are some slight scratches in the glass too.

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#2

EDIT:

Well I just tried and it works pretty good when playing back videos, but the subtitles are not showing :frowning:

I would be cheking the options since I have been wanting to do this from a long time.

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#3

Haha, nice one man, how did you do that, it’s the FFMpeg core? Does it play AVI, MKV, MP4 etc? Now I have to figure out how to add this to Kodi.

Edit: I just tried that and it works! I had the subtitles in the same folder it didn’t show in the video though, I have to figure out how.

#4

check out the ntsc-vcr shader to go along with the ffmpeg core. :wink:

You can also just go to ‘load content’ and point to a video file and it will load it directly, since the ffmpeg core is baked into RetroArch itself (as is the imageviewer core, so you can load jpg/png/non-animated gifs, etc. directly).

#5

I’m having fun watching some stuff here, I used the crt geom to fit the overlay, but I’ll try that ntsc-vcr you mentioned.

This is all I wanted, you already knew I loved Retroarch, but this is something else!!!

How could I not know this?

Hunter, how can I load subtitles?

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#6

As long as you have the libass.dll library, it should be able to handle them automatically. I’ll look into it.

#7

Man this is awesome! I never thought about this type of video handling through RA. Beautiful :smiley:

#8

I have a libass-5.dll, the subtitles aren’t showing, apart of that I’m amazed I can play videos using shaders and overlays!

#9

Early Edition is amazing!

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#10

Haha you detected it by those credits, this is amazing!

Edit: I’m going to ask in the feature request thread to add a simple GUI for playback, pause/play, and a resume playback feature, for some reason, Kodi can’t remember where an external player stopped the video at, and then resuming via Retroarch can solve that.

#11

Hey, this is pretty damn interesting.

I normally use HyperSpin, but I might look into this Kodi thing if I can tie it itself into HyperSpin.

This might be the push I needed to chronicle all my shows Digitally on an HDD.

especially for some of those 90 shows you can’t buy, like the Drew Carey show.

#12

Where can we go and ask for this?

All we need is subtitles (.SRT) support and maybe (just maybe) a simple [PLAY - STOP - PAUSE - PREV - NEXT] GUI

:blush:

#13

Yeah, I though all subtitles in the world were srt cause everything I got comes with this extension, it shouldn’t be hard for the dev to add it though, the simple pause/play/resume features also seem easily doable by the same magic hands behind Retroarch.

Answering your post above, I’ll make a really simple guide on how to add Retroarch to Kodi soon in the Guides section, and yes Kodi under Hyperspin is just as easy to do, basically a PC Launch exe.

#14

Looking in the ‘controls’ core input remapping menu, I see that the dpad is mapped to: up = skip ahead 60 seconds down = skip back 60 seconds right = skip ahead 10 seconds left = skip back 10 seconds and the shoulder buttons do: L-shoulder = cycle audio tracks R-shoulder = cycle subtitle tracks (this doesn’t appear to be working right now…)

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#15

Nice, hotkeys would do just fine for now.

We only need to check the subtitles stuff :relieved:

#16

Hello everyone, i’m very impressed by this stuff since I want to make a smilimar project for old 4:3 videos.

I would like to add a tv overlay image on it, via retroarch, as an external player in kodi.

I’m on an android box (himedia q10), and I have manage to modify the playercorefactory.xml, but nothing happen, and worse of all, kodi crashes :zipper_mouth_face:

Can you help me please ?