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

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    • akafoxA
      akafox @flagrant99
      last edited by

      @flagrant99 I see your problem now. I forgot I had used emumovies for my arcade.
      Looks like the videos themselves come from Progetto-Snaps You can run them through handbrake and that will fix them.

      Read this thread for converting.

      People want things easy...but then complain that life is boring...

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        Valhalla_Pi
        last edited by

        I have the same issue NES, SNES, Genesis and Master System all work amazing

        Images, Marquees and Videos all worked using Stephen Selphs scraper

        The images, Marquees work for MAME but the videos do not play even though they downlowed during the scrape

        WHen I turn off OMX the videos play good but they play very choppy for all the systems that worked perfect with OMX on.

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          Valhalla_Pi @pjft
          last edited by

          @pjft what do I do in Handbrake to convert them so they work with OMX turned on?

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            Valhalla_Pi @Wombat
            last edited by

            @wombat can you please share what steps I do in HandBrake to convert the files proper

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            • pjftP
              pjft @Valhalla_Pi
              last edited by

              @valhalla_pi re-encoding then in one of their MP4 presets seemed to work for me. Ultimately they just need to be encoded in a compatible format, which the majority are.

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                Valhalla_Pi @pjft
                last edited by

                @pjft thanks, just the default settings in Handbrake made them all work

                one related question, if the scrapper missed a few roms and I found the videos, renamed them put them in the images folder

                the games still dont work, when I go to the meta information for the rom the path for video is blank, do I have to manually type this in?

                obviously the roms that scrapped using Stephen Selphs scrapper filled in the path for the video file but if I mannually add does that mean I manually update that video path?

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                • akafoxA
                  akafox
                  last edited by

                  Yes you will have to manually add this info. I would suggest working through filezilla or putty (windows or linux) then download a copy of the gamelist.xml to your hard drive on your PC. Make a copy of it somewhere. Then open it in your text editor. You can add the information by hand. Test by opening it in your web browser. If no errors pop up then copy it to the ~/pi/roms/neogeo folder.

                  Or you can use the ES gui to type it in by hand there. Either way works..done it MANY times. I even have info and snaps/vids for homebrews too.

                  I made my friend's list in the info for kirby's avalanche say that "you suck at this game so you are not allowed to play it! :P" yeah I'm bad lol

                  People want things easy...but then complain that life is boring...

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                  • CharcoC
                    Charco
                    last edited by Charco

                    I've tried converting my arcade video snaps with Handbrake to no avail, is there a source in Steven Selph's Scraper with arcade video snaps that play well will OMX Player? It would be easier for me to just delete my video snaps and rescrape than to convert the ones I have.

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                    • akafoxA
                      akafox
                      last edited by akafox

                      Are you using the gui or the cli of handbrake? More on that with this thread:
                      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12590/how-to-properly-convert-video-snaps-for-emulationstation/24

                      As far as I know, no there is no other source for video snaps through the scraper. I got mine as a pack (as most do) and then converted those down. That was the only way I could get mine to work. I let the scraper build my list so all the video that were there deleted the videos the scraper brought down and converted my own down.

                      I guess you could convert the ones the scraper brings down too..it might fix them. I have still have my script somewhere I think...l I'll post it when i have the time.

                      People want things easy...but then complain that life is boring...

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                        Deltax5
                        last edited by

                        I used another scraper.

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                        • FlightRiskF
                          FlightRisk @akafox
                          last edited by

                          @akafox I do let it scrape and convert them after. Any vids from progettoemma for mame or negeo are created with a codec that doesn't run on any standard system I am aware of. Strange if the MAME screen capture is doing this. Videos won't even run on Windows 10 in any player I tried until I downloaded a codec set that had the right one in it. Remember to set the option in handbrake to always use the MP4 extension so you don't have to rename them all from M4V.

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                            mark1986
                            last edited by

                            I know this topic is quite old but I had the same issue with the latest version of es/omx/retropie so thought I would post, I ran the videos through a program call Mobile Media Convertor on Linux using the mp4 setting and the reuploaded and now they all work as expected

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                            • o0alucard0oO
                              o0alucard0o
                              last edited by o0alucard0o

                              The arcadeitalia video problem with OMX, can easily be resolved by this ffmpeg command:
                              ffmpeg -i inputFile.mp4 -pix_fmt yuv420p outputFile.mp4

                              The process is fast and looseless.

                              In this way, we can continue to use the good arcadeitalia source.

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                              • akafoxA
                                akafox
                                last edited by

                                I found that after scraping the neogeo games I could not use them in anything but my PC in my media player..so I ran then through handbrake and they worked great on my pi and in retropie for my pc and my raspberry pi (even attract mode)..but yeah I trashed the originals as they would not work

                                People want things easy...but then complain that life is boring...

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                                • ClydeC
                                  Clyde @akafox
                                  last edited by

                                  @akafox The problem is that some of those videos are in a format that the OMX player can't handle (mainly YUV 4:4:4 instead of YUV 4:2:0). But since only OMX player provides hardware accelerated video output at this time, switching it off isn't a good option for most people. Converting is a little inconvenience for a better result.

                                  By the way, there at least two scripts here to batch convert only the videos that need converting, a simple one from myself and an advanced one from @hiulit.

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                                  • DavernosD
                                    Davernos
                                    last edited by

                                    Sorry for necromancing this post. But I just noticed the "-convert_videos" flag when scraping from the command line. Is this enough to fix the YUV 4:4:4 issue? It invokes the handbrake CLI.

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