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    Video snap´s no picture?

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      BJRetro
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      I had to use screenscraper as a source instead of arcade italia to get the videos to work. There is another thread here somewhere that discusses other options for you like re-encoding your videos with the right codec I think. I think someone built a script for that.

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        Failrunner @mha
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        @mha I had no luck with this either. I deleted all my scraped data and am now just scraping images because the videos were causing ghost inputs and the fix just made me feel tired on top of the fact that it may not even work and cost money.

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          GoldManSex778
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          If you used Universal XML scraper (screenscraper.fr) then you need to enable videos or it wont add them, also if you re-scraped with UXML and it saw that there were already png's and mp4's associated with a game then it skips over them. So delete or move the gamelist.xml, every png and mp4 and rescrape

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            mha
            last edited by mha

            @GoldManSex778 said in Video snap´s no picture?:

            Universal XML scraper

            Using Selph´s scraper & screenscraper returns 1kb files only for mp4...
            If I download manually a video from screenscraper.fr & add to folder, it works fine WITHOUT omx acceleration.
            Acceleration causes problems.

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              mitu Global Moderator @mha
              last edited by mitu

              @mha said in Video snap´s no picture?:

              Acceleration causes problems.

              No, it's not - only for certain themes the video obstructs the artwork. The latest VLC version (used by default instead of the Omxplayer) is also using hardware acceleration to decode certain videos.

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                GoldManSex778 @mha
                last edited by

                Could be a firewall issue, run UXML as an administrator. Maybe check your security settings to see if its not being blocked; ad blocker?

                Do the scrapers make proper png's and game xml's?

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                  mha @GoldManSex778
                  last edited by

                  @GoldManSex778 Yes they do, but video files wit proper name & 1kb file size only.
                  So it´s not firewall.

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                    mitu Global Moderator @GoldManSex778
                    last edited by

                    @GoldManSex778 Currently UXML has some problems downloading videos (see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21423/).

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                      mitu Global Moderator @mha
                      last edited by

                      @mha See https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21423 - UXML has some problems at the moment with the ScreenScraper videos.

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                        mha @mitu
                        last edited by

                        @mitu Thanks,
                        actually the same 233 bytes video-files I get there.

                        Will stop hitting my head to wall, and wait a bit :)
                        Won´t add manually ;)

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                          mitu Global Moderator @mha
                          last edited by

                          @mha said in Video snap´s no picture?:

                          Won´t add manually ;)

                          Try using Skyscraper, it should work without fuss.

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                            mha @mitu
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                            @mitu Great, will give it a try then!

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