OMX Player screensaver not stopping when pressing start to launch game

Kalamer

I have a Pi 4B 8GB with RetroPie version 4.8, whenever I hit select on the main screen to bring up a screensaver video for a game, every time I hit start the game seems to start but the video and audio doesn't stop and the video will play on top of the game loaded. I tried to disable the use of OMX player for screensavers from the options and that makes the video go away, but the screensaver audio continues into the launched game. Any clue what might be causing it? I apologize for my lack of logs because I'm not too sure what I need get but if anyone can help let me know what you need.

I wasn't able to find anything in this forum about this certain issue.

Thanks,
Kal

Kalamer

@Kalamer still havent found a solution for this, really dont know whats causing it

GreenHawk84

@Kalamer my screen saver videos use to launch to games when I press enter way back when, but something changed, and now the input doesn't work at all.

I haven't looked farther into it since my thread here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/31996/screensaver-controls/6?_=1651512956387

mitu

Can you run EmulationStation with debug logging and upload the log ? Exit ES, then run it with emulationstation --debug, reproduce the issue and then post the log file on pastebin.com.
The log file is in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt.

I've tried the steps you mention in reproducing the error, but as far as I see omxplayer stops once the screensaver is stopped.

Do you have any additional configurations in ES - namely any external scripts tied to the ES Scripting API ?

LeedsLover1234

I have the exact same issue at the moment, I press start on the screen saver and I see the game load because I can see a little popup, the one that shows up when you are loading into a game and tells you about your controller. After that it loops the screensaver "on top" of the game until i quit the game, then i end up in my library with the game selected. I see the topic is 2 years old so idk what kind of luck I will have here haha.

sleve_mcdichael

@LeedsLover1234 said in OMX Player screensaver not stopping when pressing start to launch game:

I have the exact same issue at the moment,

...then a good start would be sharing the log that was requested of the other user who experienced the problem:

@mitu said in OMX Player screensaver not stopping when pressing start to launch game:

Can you run EmulationStation with debug logging and upload the log ? Exit ES, then run it with emulationstation --debug, reproduce the issue and then post the log file on pastebin.com.
The log file is in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt.

I've tried the steps you mention in reproducing the error, but as far as I see omxplayer stops once the screensaver is stopped.

Do you have any additional configurations in ES - namely any external scripts tied to the ES Scripting API ?

LeedsLover1234

@sleve_mcdichael Sorry but im brand new to using the retropie, so I am not sure how to get the log file, but ill try and do it now :)