@toto2000 said in Adding codec to Retropie for snap videos that do not play: But : this is not a long term solution. Why do all these videos play well on Batocera/Recalbox/Regamebox/+ other images, and not with Retropie??? I tried, they do work with these distribs. Mostly because they're not using omxplayer or the hardware accelerated MPEG4 decoder present on the Pi. EmulationStation has the option to use either vlc (via libvlc) or omxplayer to render the snapshot videos. If the video's codec is not supported by the MPEG4 hardware decoder, the video will not play with omxplayer. The problem is that vlc has been patched - since 2018 - to use the same MPEG4 hardware acceleration via the mmal API. While this visibly improved the performance of video snapshots in EmulationStation, it also brought back the same issues - among others - that playing certain MPEG4 with omxplayer had. So the choice is to either have slow (and CPU intensive) video decoding via libvlc (as alternative to omxplayer, which is HW accelerated) or convert the videos to a (PI) compatible MPEG4 codec.

I solved my own problem! I modified the EmulationStation startup script to toggle back and forth between horizontal and vertical mode on a restart. So, now I can rotate my monitor, restart EmulationStation, and my menus match the orientation. Here is the updated file: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh #!/bin/sh esdir="$(dirname $0)" while true; do rm -f /tmp/es-restart /tmp/es-sysrestart /tmp/es-shutdown "$esdir/emulationstation" "$@" $rotate ret=$? if [ -f /tmp/es-restart ]; then if [ -z "$rotate" ] then rotate=”--screenrotate 1” else rotate=”” fi continue fi if [ -f /tmp/es-sysrestart ]; then rm -f /tmp/es-sysrestart sudo reboot break fi if [ -f /tmp/es-shutdown ]; then rm -f /tmp/es-shutdown sudo poweroff break fi break done exit $ret

@paffley Yes it's been a while. This need some testing now, as I need input from users and theme designers before it is too late to be changed.

@Riverstorm no worries. 😊

Ok, I understand the process here, what I don't agree with is the fact that saving the configuration implies overwrite it as a whole, instead of just update changed values and leave unchanged ones as they were. This make SplashScreen and others unreliable, as they can be easily removed by mistake with just changing a single setting through the UI. Just my two cents. Anyway, thank you for the --nosplashscreen flag advice.

@elbitxo our preference is to not support third party images in any capacity. please respect the rules of this forum going forward, and do not seek further support until you are running our image. for the record, on standard retropie updating should not damage an existing theme, but as per https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/, you must take a backup before updating.

@mitu That fixed my problem - thanks for your help. I've just made a donation to Retropie because it's my favourite community project and your help, although a bit tart, was faster and more useful than any paid support I've ever received.

@JRX88 @mitu Thank you both! Been looking this for a while.

Naspronia script is the newest mode of ading BGM on retropie, there is no official script for this, oddly enough.

@mitu That's what I thought as well, and that's why I found it really strange.

I took the command from the retropie.desktop application which was gnome-terminal --hidemenubar -e emulationstation Now it works smooth. Thanks!

@Clyde I just added some small changed the the RetroPie scriptmodule, the hard work was done upstream, by the AttractMode developer.

Run with debug enabled and post the logs: emulationstation --debug

@mitu I see, so that is pointing at a ES theme section. Thanks for the clarification!

@mitu I was running a normal XOrg session before (which is the default on PopOS), but running emulationstation in a Wayland session worked! Unfortunately, Wayland is pretty unstable in PopOS, but maybe it will work just for running retropie. In case anyone runs into the same issue, you have to enable Wayland as described here and it will work.

@Lino79 up

So EmulationStation runs Runcommand.sh internally? It doesn't have to be called by an sh file? What about just dosbox? I have no problems executing the sh files with that in emulationstation or cli. Only reason I use lr-dosbox is because I can't seem to control the volume of my monitor's speakers directly.

@mooray are you trying to run it from the desktop? You need to exit back to the terminal to use RetroPie. Or use our premade image.