@RapidEdwin08 said in Emulationstation video previews on Raspberry Pi 5:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/RetroPie-Setup/master/vlc-downgrade.sh -P ~/
chmod 755 ~/vlc-downgrade.sh
~/vlc-downgrade.sh

Hi @RapidEdwin08 ,
I'm trying to go back to the old VLC version but it doesn't' work. It works in the past, but now it stop working. you can see my log here

https://pastebin.com/xmmUjQkr

It stop to work when I tried to install the older version of Dolphin.

Any Idea to fix that?

NEW EDIT: Solve with this - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=373298

Thank you!

Cheers

@sleve_mcdichael

Thank you very much that is it!!!! Off one place, on for the other. Now to make a new backup.

Put this in your /usr/local/bin folder and make it executable with chmod +x <filename>. Run it from your video folder. Your video files will not be overwritten. New files are saved to ./converted; to use them, you must move or copy one level up to replace the original files. Repeat for each system.

You may need to install ffmpeg first with sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg.

#! /bin/bash # Script provided by Clyde mkdir -p converted # create the folder "converted" if it doesn't exist for f in *.mp4 # process all videos in the current directory do echo "$(pwd)/$f" # show the processed file's name c=$(ffprobe "$f" 2>&1 | grep -c yuv444p) # (-c)ount no. of "444p" if [ "$c" -gt 0 ] # if 444p is present, then # convert to 420p ffmpeg -i "$f" -y -pix_fmt yuv420p -strict experimental converted/"$f" fi done

@Clyde Thanks - managed to create an image backup so I'm happy now :)

But unfortunately I still haven't resolved this audio issue; do you have any pointers? From memory I don't think I've ever used OMXPlayer for video previous in the past, but as of recently if I don't use it then videos take ageeeees to load, so I have to use it, it would seem. But I can't for the life of me figure out why the audio won't work! As mentioned before, I'm trying to get this working through HDMI.

Both issues have been reported in the forums. For the 1. issue, you can use omxplayer instead of vlc (it's a VLC issue), for 2. there's an issue opened upstream (RetroArch), but there's no solution besides disabling the new style notifications (Menu Widgets).

Me to!

@Clyde Thanks Clyde I'll have a look. Cheers for the heads up.

Thanks @mitu @Efriim Apologies not to answer before.
Turned off OMX and everything same with arcade game videos (some of them). Tried to convert with handbrake w/o any scrift (very easy to do...and tried some different configurations) but no luck. The only option was to download .mp4 from YouTube...and works and I dont know why.

Its rare because the video was the same from the beginning I was made couple months ago and did work perfect, so its not a Skraper/XML problem...I think

EmulationStaion is on the last build 2.8.3RP

Anyway, many very thanks.

@kavin_steele Thanks for sharing your solution for others who might have the same problem.

@mitu Tested, confirmed working with Universal XML scraper

@mitu Now that sounds familiar. Will give it a try later today. Thanks alot.

@mitu That worked. Thank you!

Another nice feature would be to cycle different pictures, like screenshot / flyer / cabinet.

@slimbrick That's most likely some video codec that's not understood by omxplayer. It's also a common problem, there are a few topics on how to re-encode those videos to be compatible with omxplayer.

@brimby said in Video snaps became "blue-tinted" all of a sudden:

This is probably going to sound insane because I can't find anyone else having this issue

There have been at least 3 posts about this in the last few days. It's a known issue from the latest raspbian update

Downgrade vlc or switch to omxplayer

@the_engineeer please post your sistem information as requested in the "read-me-first" topic referenced at the top of the forum.

i updated and my snaps turned blue... omxplayer is not an option for me because it forces the video to be infront of the background...