@Efriim Did not change the settings of the videoscreen saver or anything like that. its just stuck on the same video on a loop , but the network with the pi ok and everything else , just the emulation stuck on the same video on repeat (after couple of hours that it works fine the videos) ...

Can you please add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ? How are you trying to wake up the system - keyboard, controller, etc ? If you're running a screensaver, consider disabling the power saving option in ES. For the audio part, try adding audio_pwm_mode=2 to your /boot/config.txt and see if it improves the sound cutting part.

I'm looking to do the same thing for my retropie build. Would it be easiest to just make a service that's completely independent from emulationstation that handles it? e.g. make a python script that looks for inputs and performs the desired actions when no input is detected for X minutes. It might not be exactly synched with emulationstation but it would probably be close enough, and it sure sounds easier than messing with emulationstation's source code.

This would be possible if you check presence of OMXPlayer process. It's not an elegant method but it might work. But keep in mind you will loose opportunity to play video snapshots in gamelist So the better way would be an implementation into the C++ code of ES itslef. PSEUDOCODE #!/bin/bash # Run this script with root user or sudo command # Initiate GPIO x ouput # Exports pin to userspace echo x > /sys/class/gpio/export # Sets pin x as an output echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/direction while true do # Slow down the whole thing a bit sleep 5 # Suggest running oxmplayer instance omxpid=$(pgrep omxplayer) # Set GPIO x high > switch off screen [[ -n $omxpid ]] && echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/value # Set GPIO x low > switch on screen [[ -z $omxpid ]] && echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/value done

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