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    RetroPie Screensaver Videos Omxplayer OFF Make The PI Freeze

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    • shavecatS
      shavecat
      last edited by

      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' ...

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @shavecat
        last edited by 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.

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        • shavecatS
          shavecat @mitu
          last edited by

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

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          • shavecatS
            shavecat
            last edited by

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

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            • F
              Failrunner
              last edited by

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

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              • shavecatS
                shavecat @Failrunner
                last edited by

                @Failrunner
                Thanks , also my thinking too.

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                • pjftP
                  pjft
                  last edited by

                  Using Handbrake you can batch convert them easily.

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                  • GoldManSex778G
                    GoldManSex778 @pjft
                    last edited by

                    @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.

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