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    Issue with Splash Screens Slideshow Exit Behavior

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      jthomas5150 @mitu
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        jthomas5150 @mitu
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        @mitu I don’t know if this helps troubleshoot with the new VLC player but when I’m logged into my RetroPie using PuTTY, and I try to test the slideshow feature, the terminal starts scrolling with a kernel error when it freezes up.

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          mitu Global Moderator
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          I cannot trigger the errors/freezing when previewing videos or images. Are you using the RetroPie image ? How did you install RetroPie on the Pi3 ?

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            jthomas5150 @mitu
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            @mitu Sorry I didn’t see your reply.

            I am using the official 4.7.1 retropie build from the GitHub site using Win32DiskImager. As stated earlier the problem didn’t arise until I had to run the update script In order to install a working updated version of Skyscraper. Anyway I can help you troubleshoot?

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              mitu Global Moderator @jthomas5150
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              I am using the official 4.7.1 retropie build from the GitHub site using Win32DiskImager.

              Are you sure ? The hostname on the image is retropie and not RetroPie-Pi3, as your screnshot shows.

              Anyway I can help you troubleshoot?

              How many videos/pictures it takes - during the preview - for vlc to freeze/lock up ? You said to 'play for a minute or so' - does this mean only videos or also pictures ?

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                jthomas5150 @mitu
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                @mitu Hey there.

                I even tested this on a fresh installation of version 4.8 downloaded directly from the Raspberry Pi Imager. After running the setup script, which automatically installs VLC, the issue persists. I did download extra splash screens. I think it downloads about 200 or so.

                During the Slideshow, it typically gets as far as the files beginning with “L” or “M” before crashing or stopping entirely. I don’t believe there’s any video splash screens downloaded with that optional pack?

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                  mitu Global Moderator @jthomas5150
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                  @jthomas5150 said in Issue with Splash Screens Slideshow Exit Behavior:

                  After running the setup script, which automatically installs VLC, the issue persists.

                  So the issue appears even before the splashscren upgrade, which introduces vlc for splashscreens ? I'm confused, since you initially said it didn't happen before the updates added to the splashscreen module.

                  During the Slideshow, it typically gets as far as the files beginning with “L” or “M” before crashing or stopping entirely.

                  OK, I'll re-test again to check, thanks for the pointer.

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                    jthomas5150 @mitu
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                    @mitu said in Issue with Splash Screens Slideshow Exit Behavior:

                    @jthomas5150 said in Issue with Splash Screens Slideshow Exit Behavior:

                    So the issue appears even before the splashscren upgrade, which introduces vlc for splashscreens ? I'm confused, since you initially said it didn't happen before the updates added to the splashscreen module.

                    Apologies if I confused you. Everything worked fine until I ran the update script causing the VLC player to be subsequently installed.

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator
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                      Ok, I re-tested by running a couple of times the preview for the entire extra repository and I could not reproduce the errors you encountered.
                      However, I found another issue - the vlc process is killed half-way through due to the excessive memory usage:

                      [1211980.183373] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/,task=vlc,pid=26358,uid=1000
                      [1211980.183476] Out of memory: Killed process 26358 (vlc) total-vm:1381076kB, anon-rss:661008kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:970kB oom_score_adj:0
                      [1211980.375027] oom_reaper: reaped process 26358 (vlc), now anon-rss:16kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
                      

                      thus the entire preview couldn't be completed to the end. The error shows up somewhere around the 20% of the images, so the preview is missing most of the images in the extra folder.

                      We'll see what we can do to placate this issue - unfortunately the upstream support is missing, so maybe we can find a workaround for this kind of issue.

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator
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                        After more testing, it turns out one of the .jpg files included in the extras folder is causing the out-of-memory error in vlc.

                        Can you remove the iteboy-retro-collage.jpg file from $HOME/RetroPie/splashscreens/retropie-extra and re-run the preview of splashscreens ?

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