Video Snaps
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@CCFox
You want the --to-ces set to yuv420p, looks like you've got it at yuv444p there!EDIT: just read your post again, it also sounds like it's complaining about the format missing completely.
You could try running these individually to set them in the config file to be sure../retropie-convert-videos.sh --to-ces "yuv420p" ./retropie-convert-videos.sh --from-ces "yuv444p" -
Update
Tried to re-scrape the videos using both Stephen Selph and skyscraper.
SSelph: Didn't do anything. Every game came up as an error.
Skyscraper: Did a few then quit citing needing membership. Looked into it and you need to contribute. Didn't realise that raspberry pi gaming was becoming a closed shop. Very disappointing.
Will now try and convert but my hopes are not high.
KR
CCF
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Update Part 2
Finally got the script to run however none of the video snap converted.
each line in the log after each game was : Can't convert! Doesn't use the Color Encoding System (C.E.S set in 'from_ces': 'yuv444p'.
How do I find out what the videos were converted to?
Rgds
CCF
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Update Part 3
Left the from ces blank....now running the script....Fingers crossed.
CCF
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Can you give it one try - use Omxplayer for video, but disable the video sound from the Sound menu - see if you still get a crash.
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Regarding the scraping part of your problem. I had done some scraping for a new build yesterday using skyscraper. I found that several systems worked great, and some not at all. It wasn't a spotty performance for those systems, it scraped lots of data and made the game list fine with no errors, but didn't actually populate any of the images. NES. SNES and Megadrive were three systems that I remember as they are pretty notable. Not sure if that was part of your problem or if you saw similar behaviour. I then tried Selph scraper and it missed 100% again on those same systems.
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Just installing Mame cores at the moment but will try later. Thank you kindly for suggesting that.
Ironically I've got NES, SNES and megadrive working fine! It's Atari 2600, N64 & Sega CD that I am problems with. I am currently trying a program called Skraper and it seems to be working on Atari 2600 but it is sooooooo slow.
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Yeah someone pointed out Skraper to me, but there's no OS X version yet. Not sure if there's an old PC laptop of my wife's around that still works where I could try it.
Maybe I'll have to read up on doing some of this stuff manually. It's a shame that a lot of good work has been done on these scrapers but they end up a bit scattershot, or at least have stints where it seems like they are.
Let me know how you get on @CCFox - maybe start a new thread for Skraper if there isn't one. I've been diving into RetroPie again recently so some stuff I remember and some I'm learning all over again again.
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Strange, I literally did a scrape myself yesterday for Atarti 2600 using Skyscaper, and the screenscaper.fr source and it was pretty much 100% for everything including videos.
I've signed up for the free account on screenscraper just to get the daily 20000 limit just in case, and apart from Arcade games it's been great. And to loop back to one of your original points, it was when using arcadedb as the source for mame, neogeo etc that normally found the incompatible yuv444p format videos, whereas everything I've got from screenscraper.fr has worked without needing conversion.
I'd say give it one more go, it can take a long time to complete as given there are usage restrictions, but it's been the best scraping experience for me for sure.
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I don't think I used the screenscraper.fr source (honestly, I forget, I don't think I changed anything from default and forget what source is set default) so I could try a couple of the systems that didn't work with that screenscraper.fr source.
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After trying to convert the videos without success I decided to use a program called Skraper. I had to register with screenscraper.fr to enable to use it and it seems to be working well.
I have scraped Atari 2600 and I am currently doing the Sega CD & N64 vids. I must admit I am very impressed with the quality. In fact the images are lovely with both the boxart and screenshot combined. I might do all the other so they are consistent throughout my build.
Thank you once again for your previous help and advice.
Kind Rgds
CCF
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That's good news, and it speaks to screenscraper.fr as a great source.
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All
Another update...
Scraped quite a few systems and things are going well. Just a quick note tho...
PSX ROMS that are in .chd format will not scrape for me however .pbp will. You can use a program called CHDMAN which will convert the .chd file back to .bin/.cue files. There is a good tutorial on YouTube. Once you have scraped them as .cue files then use Notepad++ to change the .cue extension with .chd with the find & replace all command by pressing CTRL-F. Works a charm.
KR
CCF
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HELP! i am having the same issue with the video snaps crashing ES. i have retropie installed on Ubuntu and cannot use omxplayer. If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know. Thanks!
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@manwichman44 Add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Maybe you can upload such a video snap that is causing problem somewhere, so we can test it ourselves.If you're playing the video with VLC directly, does it work or crashes also ?
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