@dover19 pretty much

I was able to solve this by editing the theme.xml file in the hurstyblue folder.

There's an option to disable video audio in the Sound Settings.

@pjft I did it just now and I can confirm the problem is solved, OMX is working fine, same behaviour as VLC.
There's still a volume difference between each single videosnap, of course because every video has its own volume.
I don't know if it's possible but it could be great to have an general normalise audio function used to keep the volume level more or less constant between each video.

@cjax08 It is updated now.

@mitu You really need to edit the list and add video tag for every game? You can't just say "all my videos are in /roms/snes/snaps/$name.mp4 ?

@arcade123 Please try this method in fact it also uses the gamelist.xml but it's independent from any game.

sorry "flag" meaning a indicator of power supply problem, thanks I will check into this as you have advised !

@batman

I had this problem so I feel your pain. Unfortunately, the scrape sources for games on the RetroPie can pull down videos that aren't encoded in a way that EmulationStation can run properly.

To get by this I use Skyscraper to download everything and build the Gameslist.xml file.

Then I go to: https://emumovies.com and get them from there. They are encoded perfectly and work great. They are a good resource for everything really.

I would recommend creating an account, then you can use their FTP server to download everything easily. - https://emumovies.com/ftpdetails/

Once you do that copy and replace your already downloaded videos with these. I literally just did all of this during this week for my MAME collection so I know it works and it will help you out.

It would be cool if the RetroPie could use them as a Scrape source.

@pjft Thanks! I am using 8bitdo FC30s, and in all my searching, somehow never came across that thread. Will look into it! My benchmark was being able to play Mike Tyson's Punchout, although in reality I could never beat that game even when I was a kid :)

Hi all.

I spent some time this morning coming up with a better approximation based on plain observation as there's little documentation here.

I submitted a PR for it, so hopefully this should be improved shortly.

If anyone wants to take a stab at testing it, and is comfortable with compiling code (or using @meleu's script to install test branches) this is my dev branch, based on 2.6.3.

https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/tree/OMX-Volume

You may also download a binary for the Pi 3 here:

https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/releases/download/0.1-OMX/emulationstation

Place it somewhere on your pi, exit the main ES, run chmod +x emulationstation and then ./emulationstation and see how it performs at the different volume levels, especially compared to VLC.

Would love to hear your impressions. Be mindful that different videos have different volumes, as well as different hardware systems (i.e. emulators), but hopefully this performs better.

Thanks.

Thanks. I switched out of the OMX player and now it works!

@muehltime ah Attract Mode. Never thought of that. But I'm concerned about after installing and using Attract Mode, will I still be able to boot into Kodi and Rasbian Pixel and vice versa? Also, will my music still be able to be played in the Attract Mode menu ; and still have the ability mute the preview rom video snaps and system preview videos? I'll just have to make a backup of my sd card right before I install Attract Mode, and see how that works out.

@yfresh59 Great! Enjoy