RetroPie Screensaver Videos Omxplayer OFF Make The PI Freeze

shavecat

If its ON the Omxplayer for the screensaver videos it dosent get freeze and work just fine...
But a lot of the videos just dont load there are sometimes just black screen for 30sec' ...

mitu

@shavecat This is a known issue - certain videos are not played by OMX player. Search the forums, there are quite a few topics with scripts to convert the videos to a format that OMX understands.

shavecat

@mitu
Yes i think i got this...
but i have so many videos CRAZY idea to fix all of them... will take hours :\

shavecat

Anyway easy to do it ?
Or safe like for sure it will work ?

Failrunner

Delete the vids and write it off. Not worth it.

shavecat

@Failrunner
Thanks , also my thinking too.

pjft

Using Handbrake you can batch convert them easily.

GoldManSex778

@pjft said in RetroPie Screensaver Videos Omxplayer OFF Make The PI Freeze:

Using Handbrake you can batch convert them easily.

MeGui also has a useful batch convert feature, but perhaps the easiest way is to use FFmpeg with a bat file. This is what I use, I copied it from some helpful person from a forum years ago; I wish I could credit them because I have used it quite a lot...

@Echo Off
If Not Exist "%~dp0*.mp4" Exit /B
CD /D "%~dp0"
If Not Exist "newfiles\" MD "newfiles"
For %%A In (*.mp4) Do ffmpeg -i "%%A" -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 28 -c:a aac -b:a 96k -pix_fmt yuv420p "newfiles\%%A"
pause

Copy and paste that into a txt editor then save as a .bat file. You will need to put ffmpeg.exe into the same folder as the videos with the bat file, double click the bat file and the videos will be put into a "new files" folder.

You can change some of the parameters: the -crf value is set at 28 which will make a small file size but low quality, if you want higher quality change the 28 to 22.