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Neo Geo and Arcade not showing video previews - Steven Selph Scraper

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    lumberg
    last edited by lumberg 8 Nov 2017, 07:49 11 Aug 2017, 06:49

    Have you updated your retropie setup script ? And Updated sselph scrapper ?

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      FlyingTomahawk @swim0311
      last edited by FlyingTomahawk 8 Nov 2017, 09:06 11 Aug 2017, 08:03

      @swim0311

      When you are inside Emulationstation and press start to show the menu at the bottom it should say what version you have.
      Another indicator is the ES loading screen, if it has a white background then you have a ES version that doesn't play videos, if it has a black background then you have the right version and the issue is somewhere else.

      Besides having the right ES version you also need a theme that is video compatible. Not all themes can show/play videos.

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        swim0311
        last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 08:35

        emulationstation v2.5.0rp

        I get video out of every system but the arcade and the neo geo. When I restart ES, the screen is black with the ES logo on it.

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          swim0311 @lumberg
          last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 08:37

          @lumberg Yes and Yes

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            gaavoid
            last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 08:51

            I had an issue with the videos I scraped from Arcade Italia. With OMX player turned on, the video would just show as black. They would work with OMX player set to off, but I ended up deleting these videos and rescraping from screen scraper. If you order the downloaded images folder by size in winscp, it will separate the videos from the images so you won't have to delete the images. (Your original image files won't be replaced if sselph's scraper already detects them in the downloaded images folders). Don't know if this is the same problem you're having though.

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              pjft
              last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 09:41

              Definitely might be encoded in a way that's not supported by OMX Player. My recommendation, if that's the case (you can easily test that by disabling OMX Player) is to re-encode them in something like HandBrake.

              I had that as well with some videos from progettoemma .

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                swim0311
                last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 14:50

                I disabled the OMX Player and now they work. Thanks for the help guys.

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                  pjft @swim0311
                  last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 14:51

                  @swim0311 Not a bother.

                  If that is the case, though, I'd recommend re-encoding the videos - OMX Player is better suited for the Pi, as it is hardware accelerated and it won't lead to overheating and such.

                  Once again, just something to bear in mind if that may become a problem for you.

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                    barrymossel
                    last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 17:02

                    @pjft said in Neo Geo and Arcade not showing video previews - Steven Selph Scraper:

                    But why do the other videos work and the ones in arcade not? I guess they are encoded the same?

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                      pjft @barrymossel
                      last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 17:38

                      @barrymossel not necessarily. Different contributors may encode differently. The same people may use different software or encodings throughout time.

                      As I said, the progettoemma snaps are a good example of having different encodings.

                      A reasonable way to test that is to get some media info app and load two files - one that runs and one that doesn't.

                      If you have VLC on your PC then open it and use the "Tools, Codec Information" option to find out what kind of data is stored.

                      They'll likely be different.

                      Mediainfo is also a good command line tool for that that may provide more details.

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                        swim0311
                        last edited by swim0311 8 Dec 2017, 00:28 11 Aug 2017, 23:25

                        So far here is all that is going on. When I turned off OMX the arcade and neo geo videos worked... but the videos became lag city. I went into the neo geo and arcade roms, deleted the images and videos. Went back into retropie and updated the script. Basic install after that. Press f4 and go into scraper. I updated the scraper. I also changed from arcadeitalia to mamedb to see if there would be a difference. Thank all for helps cuz this thing is the shit!!!

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                          swim0311
                          last edited by 12 Aug 2017, 01:07

                          Same thing still. Neo geo and arcade has video files in them; however, they will only play if I turn off OMX Player. Anyone know why this is happening?

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                            pjft @swim0311
                            last edited by 12 Aug 2017, 06:07

                            @swim0311 as I said: get a program like handbrake and bulk re encode them. It's likely that whoever encoded the arcade videos - or even the software used for it - saves them at an encoding OMX player doesn't work with.

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                              barrymossel
                              last edited by 12 Aug 2017, 06:52

                              I am going on vacation today, but if I find the time I will test those videos.

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                                gaavoid @swim0311
                                last edited by 12 Aug 2017, 07:18

                                @swim0311 The ones I download from screenscraper work fine for the most part (had to switch out a couple that I replaced from emumovies).
                                I get better results overall from screenscraper than any other source using sselph's scraper. I then rescraped from the other sources to get a few of the ones not found on screenscraper.

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                                  barrymossel
                                  last edited by 12 Aug 2017, 08:32

                                  This one doesn't work (which was scraped):
                                  Nope

                                  After I run it through Handbrake it works:
                                  Yay

                                  Only significant change is the "Planar 4:4:4 YUV" vs. "Planar 4:2:0 YUV" which apparantly is the color space. Can't seem to find anything regarding that though.

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                                    pjft
                                    last edited by pjft 8 Dec 2017, 10:09 12 Aug 2017, 09:06

                                    https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=940721&sid=6f356ce9739689d2dc4d26f6d33b9d2b#p940721

                                    "If I've interpreted that correctly, that is "High 4:4:4 Predictive Profile (Hi444PP, 244)" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC) - use avprobe or similar to confirm.
                                    Only Base, Main, and High profiles are supported."

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                                      barrymossel
                                      last edited by 12 Aug 2017, 09:25

                                      Ah ok, thanks!

                                      I guess "high 4:4:4" isn't "high profile" apparantly. Didn't find that naming really clear.

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                                        pjft @barrymossel
                                        last edited by 12 Aug 2017, 22:35

                                        @barrymossel not a bother! I spent a lot of time going through that myself, hence the answers.

                                        I should add that to a wiki page whenever I get the chance to put something together for the video stuff.

                                        Thanks for checking.

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                                          theWinterDojer @pjft
                                          last edited by 13 Aug 2017, 00:07

                                          @pjft Is OMX on by default?

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