Need help with Video snaps

zwooky

I'm having issues with my video snaps playing. I can hear the audio, but don't see any video.
I have searched all over & have seen many people with this issue but haven't found a definitive solution.

I have tried to get this to work on completely new installations of Retropie 4.6 on both Raspberry Pi 4 b 8GB & a Pi 3B+ with no luck.

I have fully updated both OS's
I am using a fully updated Scraper (Steven Selph's) outside of Emulation Station. (didn't use screenscraper.fr as it doesn't work)
I have tried turning on & off hardware acceleration (OMXplayer & VLC)
I have tried on multiple themes (Carbon, Comicbook, etc.)
I have tried with multiple systems (Arcade, Neo Geo, NES)
When I SSH in and download the videos, they play on VLC on my computer.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Clyde

AFAIK, the option Harware Accelleration may actually be misnamed nowadays, because VLC also uses hardware acceleration on the Pi by now. Thus, it's possible that the problems with certain video formats may occur with both OMX and VLC.

See here and here for scripts that convert one known incompatible format (YUV 4:4:4) to a compatible one (YUV 4:2:0). Maybe your videos are in that format.

zwooky

Thanks Clyde!
I used the second link you provided & it worked perfectly!
Definitely a pain, but it works. Strange that the scrapping sites wouldn't use the correct format.
Any ideas what the best way to do these conversions on a Windows machine would be? Doing a whole bunch on the pi will take forever!

Clyde

@zwooky Glad to be of some help. Alas, I can't give you that advice for Windows, since I'm using Linux on all of my computers. But maybe someone who knows more will stumble upon this thread.

That said, you could try to search the web for something like "batch convert videos on Windows".

Ashpool

@Clyde & @zwooky my .bat-fu times are long past and I've never touched the powershell, but if it is just for the conversion on a desktop pc, and a *nix VM ain't at hand: why not use a live system from usb with a partition for some persistence storage (to keep installs/settings/changes to the system)? I on my behalve, if not using an external HDD with an Ubuntu Install on it (Bootloader placed on that HDD), am using The Universal USB Installer to setup a stick for such tasks...