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    Video previews not working correctly with custom game collections added.

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      Matt-Teix @mitu
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      @mitu I’ve tried recoding them with no change. They all work perfectly unless I add any custom collections to the menu (favorites, last played, Kodi, etc). With all custom menus disabled there is no issues.

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        pjft
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        I'm suspecting you're running out of video memory.

        What's your GPU memory split (I'm assuming 256), what theme are you using? If you try it with Carbon, what are the results?

        I'd get VRAM to be set at 80 and would not change that.

        Anything else you may be running - music player, etc?

        When it gets to those stages, can you ssh into the pi and run:

        • top, and see if omxplayer is indeed running or not;
        • sudo vcdbg reloc, and see how much free video memory you have. Definitely send the logs from that over.

        A copy of your /boot/config.txt file may also help.

        Thanks!

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          Matt-Teix @pjft
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          @pjft Thanks, that does seem like what’s going on. I currently am running at 80 for vram and issue is present on carbon. As for the memory split and config file, I’ll have to check those after work and report back.

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            pjft @Matt-Teix
            last edited by

            @matt-teix Thanks. If you're running Carbon, I'm a bit surprised that that's coming up.

            Do run the vcdbg command I posted and send over the results over pastebin.

            Thanks!

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              Matt-Teix @pjft
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              @pjft So ive verified my memory split is set to 256. Based on the vcdbg i am running out of memory. ive included my logs with custom collections enabled and with custom collections disabled along with my config.txt in the paste bin.

              https://pastebin.com/GRUVGK2n

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                pjft @Matt-Teix
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                @matt-teix I'm very much puzzled by all of this, but could you comment out that line with dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3dand see if it improves after rebooting? Why exactly do you have it there, out of curiosity?

                If you can send over your entire config.txt file, it may help. I'm not sure why it states that it's only using 140MB of GPU mem yet there's no more available memory, if you're using 256.

                Thanks.

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                  Matt-Teix @pjft
                  last edited by Matt-Teix

                  @pjft I’ll try and comment it out and see. Honestly I don’t know why that’s in there as that’s what was in there from setup, I haven’t played around with the config.txt on this build yet. What I supplied in the paste bin is my entire config.txt
                  Edit: commenting it out made no change
                  Edit: If i run vcgencmd get_mem gpu it only returns 160m?

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                    pjft @Matt-Teix
                    last edited by

                    @matt-teix I'm somewhat puzzled by both that line and the fact that your config.txt file only has that content, but I have a different config.txt file.

                    I suspect that the issue is related to the memory split here.

                    https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/66fskl/berryboot_config_file_is_different_from_what_i/

                    http://imgur.com/a/VOmfs

                    I don't know how to set it in BerryBoot, but that is exactly the same issue and symptom.

                    These are the key:

                    https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Memory-Split

                    I'd comment gpu_mem and uncomment the 3 other and go from there.

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                      Matt-Teix @pjft
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                      @pjft sorry i forgot about the berry boot config.txt, this is it.
                      https://pastebin.com/SijFaC9w
                      As for uncommenting the other 3 gpu settings and commenting out the gpu_mem=256, it has seemed to do the trick. Videos no longer go black with custom collections added. If i run vcgencmd get_mem gpu now i get "gpu=256m" and running sudo vcdbg reloc shows "total space allocated is 236M"

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                        pjft @Matt-Teix
                        last edited by

                        @matt-teix Perfect.

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                          Matt-Teix @pjft
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                          @pjft Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it.

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