[SOLVED] Can't install on Raspi Bullseye 64 bit

ustix

@Darksavior omxplayer is still a problem for me, and i'm not able to install it, and emulationstation needs it. what have you done to get rid of that error?

Darksavior

@ustix The error doesn't exist on 64bit. I only got it on 32bit. You need to comment out like 3 lines from the ES installer script which I don't remember at the moment.

ustix

@Darksavior

compareVersions "$__os_debian_ver" gt 8 && depends+=(rapidjson-dev)
    isPlatform "x11" && depends+=(gnome-terminal)
   # if isPlatform "dispmanx" && ! isPlatform "osmc"; then
   #    depends+=(omxplayer)
   # fi
    getDepends "${depends[@]}"
}

I can only think of that three, maybe.

mitu

@ustix said in [SOLVED] Can't install on Raspi Bullseye 64 bit:

omxplayer is still a problem for me, and i'm not able to install it, and emulationstation needs it...

omxplayer will not run on a 64bit system, due to the lack of support from the GPU drivers/OS (there's no 32bit OMX api in the first place). It's been completely removed from the RaspiOS 'bullseye' release, since it's not compatible with the GPU drivers and will not work.

EmulationStation works without omxplayer, using the vlc libraries for video.

ustix

@mitu
Thanks for the answer, so am I right to comment out omxplayer dependency check from the installation script to proceed?
I've read somewhere that omxplayer plays ingame videos, isn't that a problem for emulationstation? (i don't really care if i can't see any ingame videos, I'm pretty good without them)
How can I change to vlc, or is it automatic? (I have seen that vlc is also a dependency, so it is used if there is no omxplayer?)

mitu

Thanks for the answer, so am I right to comment out omxplayer dependency check from the installation script to proceed?

No, the lines you commented will actually disable the omxplayer dependency on 'bullseye', so EmulationStation would build/install without dependency issues. I think the configuration menu would still show omxplayer as available to play videos, but it will not work (should work in emulationstation-dev).

I've read somewhere that omxplayer plays ingame videos, isn't that a problem for emulationstation? (i don't really care if i can't see any ingame videos, I'm pretty good without them)

omxplayer can be used for the videos shown in the gamelist, in EmulationStation, not by emulators.

How can I change to vlc, or is it automatic? (I have seen that vlc is also a dependency, so it is used if there is no omxplayer?)

vlc is the default video backend for EmulationStation, so you don't have to do anything. omxplayer is an alternate backend that is available only on RPI, but

ustix

@mitu
Thank you for your help, I've meant that I would like to disable the omxplayer dependency, because emulationstation is not installing if it is enabled. I have done that with commenting out that three lines, and it is installed without issues, I'm looking forward to try it out, but I'm at work with SSH only, so I'm only able to look at the processes, which shows that emulationstation is running now.

ustix

@Darksavior
Do I have to experiment changing the sdl2 version on 32bit bullseye too?

ustix

I noticed I get no audio and there's no option to choose hdmi audio. Get audiosettings.shfrom https://github.com/cmitu/RetroPie-Setup/tree/audio-ks
and transfer it to your pi. Replace it. The option for hdmi audio should now show up in audio settings.

Hi!
Does it matter when I copy the audiosetting.sh? Do I have to do it before installing retropie, or i can do that after that too?

Darksavior

@ustix Install retropie first and then follow my instructions that I already posted.

ustix

@Darksavior
Also I have experimented a problem about gpu_mem, when you set it to 256 (which i don't really think is reasonable for pi zero 2, but I have tried) then emulationstation is not loading, instead it is in a constant 104% cpu using state.