Retropie 4.8 Retroarch inbuilt Audio/Video player

tejaswa7692

Device using: Raspberry Pi zero 1.3
Operating system: Retropie 4.8
video out display: SPI interface display (using fbcp-ili9341) via HDMI hotplug
audio out: using GPIO as audio out and feeding it directly to my diy amplifier

today i was messing around in retroarch inside of retropie 4.8 in that i discovered there's a way to play audio and videos without downloading any packages. So like any person i made a directory and placed my music in it and some of .mp4 videos in it (this will be important later). I started playing my audios and they worked fine but when I tried playing a mp4 video it crashed. I assumed the quality was too high so I converted it to 144p mp4. it still didn't work. Then i converted it to 144p.avi, doing so gave me no video out but i did have audio out
It would be greatly appreciated if someone told me which video format does it actually support.

steps to recreate:

go in settings
scroll down to retroarch and press A
go to playlist
scan a file
run it!

mitu

today i was messing around in retroarch inside of retropie 4.8 in that i discovered there's a way to play audio and videos without downloading any packages.

omxplayer and vlc are already installed in RetroPie, but of course...

.. It would be greatly appreciated if someone told me which video format does it actually support.

I think RetroArch uses the the ffmpeg library to play media - so whatever ffmpeg supports under Raspbian should work. What video codec is used by your video ?

mitu

I've actually given this a try and even with a video file understood by omxplayer there's no audio nor video on my system. It's not a Pi 0, but a Pi3, but the GPU and drivers are identical.

tejaswa7692

@mitu when i try to run a video .mp4 or .avi i get audio output but no video output could it be because im using a spi display (ili9341)

i didnt try to run a ffmpeg file i will do it right now thanks

tejaswa7692

@mitu i dont know much about codecs but i am using a 144p .avi and .mp4 file if you want i can upload it here if possible

https://file.io/Iw1t0jKNHzwR

this was the video i was trying to play

tejaswa7692

@mitu i discovered that the file i was trying to play had H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
codec

i tried playing a video from really old times whose pixel layout was the exact same as my spi display 320x240 codec of that file was Xvid this time it didnt play anything it just crashed