Video Snaps
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Please add some info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
And they play fine in VLC on my PC. I can see from other posts that Emulation Station uses OMX player by default. Can I install VLC on the Pi3B+ and use that to play my video snaps instead?
You can toggle the usage of
omxplayerfrom the EmulationStation settings (the Other Settings section).Can you upload one such video that makes the EmulationStation crash ?
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Thank you both for responding.
@mitu :
I am using the following:
Raspberry Pi3B+
160gb 2.5in hard drive with ROMS and images etc placed on it powered by the Pi
Aukru Aluminum Raspberry Pi Heatsink, Silver Pack of 4 (3+1)
Aukru Power Supply Adapter 5V 3A Micro USB Charger with On Off Power Switch for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B /3 B+/ Pi 2 Model B/B+ Plus
Cheap crap PS2 controller (New wired controller being delivered today....yay)
Sandisk 64gb Class 10 SD Card
Running Retropie 4.6 downloaded and preconfigured from this site. It is a fresh install.I got the higher amperage power supply to accommodate the usb drive and other peripheral uses.
I have another PI3B+ with a IQAudio DAC HAT running Moode audio with 5V 2.5A power supply. I have a 500gb hard drive on that and it runs fine....And I use it for Hi-Res music files. It fact it sounds absolutely fabulous!
@Tricko :
I did look at the settings of OMX player as described in other posts I read but no avail but I will however look into the converter script. I have a lot of experience using ffmpeg with command line so hopefully I can get my head around this.
I will post my results later.
Kind Regards Both
CFF
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I'm still curious to see a video file that makes EmulationStation/the Pi to crash. It might be a bug somewhere in EmulationStation that we can't fix without reproducing it.
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@CCFox There's no rush - whenever you can, you just mentioned transcoding them and I don't want to loose the 'opportunity'.
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Sorry about that...Needed to have a scrape as by body was humming along to the music I was playing!
Where do I upload the file to?
Rgds
CCF
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@CCFox No, you don't need an account.
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Sorry but i'm not sure what to....I have tried dragging the file to the webpage but no joy.
I only see a few links at the bottom but nowhere to select a file to upload.
I am using MS Edge....Do I need to use firefox as a browser?
Rgds
CCF
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Do I copy the downloaded folder to my retropie setup folder and putty into the pi and run from there?
Rgds
CCF
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@CCFox said in Video Snaps:
Sorry but i'm not sure what to....I have tried dragging the file to the webpage but no joy.
I only see a few links at the bottom but nowhere to select a file to upload.There'a big button on the page that says "Select Files to upload". Doesn't it work to select the files you want to upload ?
Do I copy the downloaded folder to my retropie setup folder and putty into the pi and run from there?
How did you add/downloaded the videos to the Pi/RetroPie system ? Did you use a Scraper or.. ?
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@CCFox
Yes, run it locally on the Pi, it can take some time depending on how many affected videos you've got in yup444 format. -
@CCFox I get a 'link has expired' message trying to download the file. Can you upload it again ?
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@mitu said in Video Snaps:
https://send.firefox.com/download/dee9119365ed1db1/#PBNV3V9KeBZiildt0TYQtA
Sorry for the delay
Rgds
CCF
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@CCFox said in Video Snaps:
https://send.firefox.com/download/dee9119365ed1db1/#PBNV3V9KeBZiildt0TYQtA
OK, this worked.
Sorry for the delay
As I said, there's no rush. I'll take a look at the file and see if I can reproduce the crash.
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@CCFox Ok, I managed to reproduce the error, EmulationStation freezes while loading said video. However, using
omxplayerit looks fine, there's no freeze and the video plays fine. It's VLC that's not working fine.
VLC is automatically installed on RetroPie, since it's used internally by EmulationStation. If you'd like to run VLC manually, from the command line, useclvc <path/to/video/file>.Can you try toggling the 'OMXPlayer' HW accelerated player in the EmulationStation settings and see if you still get the crash ?
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Thank you for getting back and confirming the error. I have tried to toggle the OMX Player HW settings in Emulation Station testing all options and I still get the same error. This is also after a complete re install.
You also say that VLC is the problem. Why is it not working on the Pi but is on a PC?
Don't really know what to do except try and re encode the files.
Kind Regards
CCF
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