There's no GUI configuration at the moment, but you can use the scripting features in Emulationstation and run a script on sleep/wake to turn off/on the display - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#scripting.

While it's not exactly the same, Emulation Station's video screensaver will play the games' videos randomly, each one for as long as you like, and it will start the current video's game if you press the Start button. Select will switch to the next random video. Any other button or joystick direction will exit the screensaver and return to the game list. A demo mode, however, would spare us the need of scraping videos (for that purpose at least), being not dependent on their length, and showing the game in the original quality. The drawback would be the time to switch between the games, because each one has to be fully started. Also, some games would be very boring to watch, because not every game has a demo mode showing its gameplay, but will just display its title screen forever without input from the player.

@mitu Alright, thank you for your help.

this should work

@Clyde crap :\

@mitu @GoldManSex778 I'm sorry for not getting back to you sooner! The information always seems accurate when you're the one typing it! 🤣🤣 The screensaver displays videos just fine - I don't have an issue with black/blank screens. It is the game information it won't display. On my 3B+ I have set "Show Game Info On Screensaver" - ALWAYS and it displays the game name and system. On Windows it does not. I should also mention that I'm using the Showcase theme on both my 3B+ and Win10.

@mitu I never tried playing them with omxplayer from command line i am sorry still new to all of this. I been working on this image from scratch for a few months now and just when i thought i was done i went and updated the script and this is what happened. The videos do play in the gamelist previews just fine. its when the screen saver kicks in is when i get the issue. This image is for an arcade1up cab and i use the screensaver option so that in can just run when i am not using it.

@Efriim For me its stuck on video that u can see on loop (not white screen with sound). In anycase i switch the screensaver to Images and it fix the problem (kinda solve). Try to find your white screen video and switch it for sure. If u find another solution will love to know

@Efriim Another reason for me to not use the auto save is that one function of my DIY cabinet is to entertain my guests, and for that the games should start normally at their title screen, not somewhere I or others left them. But in general I like it that there is such a feature. 👍

@pjft said in RetroPie Screensaver Videos Omxplayer OFF Make The PI Freeze: Using Handbrake you can batch convert them easily. MeGui also has a useful batch convert feature, but perhaps the easiest way is to use FFmpeg with a bat file. This is what I use, I copied it from some helpful person from a forum years ago; I wish I could credit them because I have used it quite a lot... @Echo Off If Not Exist "%~dp0*.mp4" Exit /B CD /D "%~dp0" If Not Exist "newfiles\" MD "newfiles" For %%A In (*.mp4) Do ffmpeg -i "%%A" -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 28 -c:a aac -b:a 96k -pix_fmt yuv420p "newfiles\%%A" pause Copy and paste that into a txt editor then save as a .bat file. You will need to put ffmpeg.exe into the same folder as the videos with the bat file, double click the bat file and the videos will be put into a "new files" folder. You can change some of the parameters: the -crf value is set at 28 which will make a small file size but low quality, if you want higher quality change the 28 to 22.

@vinz2k It depends - do you hear the audio from the video ? Do your gamelist also have empty video tags ? I think the fix should be in the 2.8.3rp version, so maybe you're experiencing another problem.

@cyperghost said in Just updated retropie -- now screensaver doesn't work: What was the version of ES before you updated? OOh, no idea what the old version was. Probably from September 2018 when I last updated. @pjft said in Just updated retropie -- now screensaver doesn't work: probably more related to your playlists and scraping that have added other video tags? Aaaaah, yes, that's a good idea!! I did do a new scrape for one system using Skyscraper rather than using the built-in scrapers. That would explain why is seems to be "looking" for a video, but not finding it -- except that one day, that one time, where it DID find it and it worked as expected. Because Skyscraper adds the <video /> tag to each game. I'll delete every instance of <video /> and see if that works. OMG, yes, it WORKS! Using my original 'dummy game' <game> <video>/home/pi/RetroPie/screensavers/screensaver_01.mp4</video> </game> put into a gamelist.xml Thanks guys!!!! Now my retro pie is complete!!! Man, why didn't I think of that in the first place?

hey mitu, thank you! could you explain me how to or give me a link to read how to do re-compiling?

(hmm…) I could've sworn that the 'enable' option was grayed out the last time I tried that.

Thank you very much, your suggestion was right. Without the nespi case everything works fine. Thank you so much. Now I have to solve another problem that I don't have in my cabinet. Don't know why the controllers swap themselves after some reboot. I don't touch anything, simply turn off, turn on and magically pad 1 becomes 2 and 2 becomes 1..... howhever, don't wanna go out of post, I'll post it in another one. Thank you again.

@berndschroed said in directly boot into screensaver: i have another idea: do you know since when the "countdown" for the slideshow screensaver starts? I think the minimum is 1 min, which you can set in the ES configuration. Maybee it would ba an option to use my own (very) long splash screen video, so that the slideshow is already on when the video ends? I don't think that would work, since the screensaver is started after ES 'works' for at least 1 min.

@mitu like home/pi/screensaver/mario.mp4...

@nicnac818 Thanks for sharing your solution.