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toe.:
my knowledge of computers is limited.
my knowledge of coding is downright pathetic....

and yet. i have a dream. i dream of a visually appealing front end that is ever changing.
but i am otherwise to stupid to know how to accomplish this goal.

so i come to you, total strangers,  with a description of what i would like to do in the hopes that it is possible.... and that someone... some where might tell me about the process, show me the process, hold my hand through the process, walk me through the process, ...
do it for me. :-)

anyway the problem.

i have an image that i would like to use as part of my front end.
in the background of my picture there are several tv screens.
i would like a main screen to play a short video of the currently selected file from my games list, and all of the others to play videos of randomly selected games from my list ( but not the current game).

someone said to me that this is dynamic video... i dont know what that means. is this even feasible?
am i just dreaming a beautiful beautiful dream?

much/ any help would be appreciated. ridiculing laughter... eh... i could do without it.

Howard_Casto:
It's possible.. if you happen to have a 5000mhz pc or a team of highly skilled direct-x programmers lying around. 

The fe would have to be 3d... as of now only 3darcade is 3d. 

The fe would have to load several videos at once.  That in of itself takes a lot of ram and processing power. 

The fe would have to grab the frames out of each video and turn them into 3d textures.  Doing just one can take it's toll on a pc, doing 3 will cripple it, doing more is next to impossible. 

On top of all of this the fe has to actually function, and update all of these videos every time you change your selection. 


So the short of it is unless you want to hire a team of professional game programmers that deal with both 3d and video streaming, no, it can't be done. 

toe.:
poop.

okay. i cant do videos.

can i have it pull screenshots from random games and just have the foreground move?
making it random stationary pictures in the background and say a 5 second looping image in the foreground?

Howard_Casto:
Why would you do looping images?  You can do video, even 3d video, it's just you can only do one at a time.  That means your foreground video can be a video, just not the others.


While it's possible to do random images in the background no fe has this capability.  Mostly because it's a rather odd thing to do.  Why not just show pics of the other games on the list section being displayed?

gamecreature:
I know one of the FE's will let you use an animated GIF, but it might have just been wishful thinking. That would let you set up your loop.

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