@mitu thanks for such a swift reply. I thought that might be the case...oh well!

@sleve_mcdichael

Technology hates me so things such as this are my norm. =) Thanks for the help, you presented the actual problem and I will work on the script. I found a site that has all emu movies at the correct bitrate or whatever is off.

@mitu
SOLVED - everything is working now. Thank you for your help.

Recap - in case it helps anyone else:

Problem: videos would not play after scraping, using Steven Selph's Scraper (optional package)

Solution - run RetroPie-Convert-Videos script by @hiulit to convert the videos using option: --to-ces "yuv420p"
https://github.com/hiulit/RetroPie-Convert-Videos

Replace the original video files with the converted video files.

My mistake: specifying the wrong option parameter for --to-ces

To test a video file will play: exit emulation station to the command line and try to run the video using omxplayer
$ omxplayer <path to video file>

Video files for testing are available here:
https://test-videos.co.uk/

@pjft i hear you but there must be a diferrence in the dev code
as 2.9.4 installed handles extensions ok
but dev not and its just the binary changed

I havent looked more into the ES dev as i have removed it when discovered the extension prob and needed to work on something else.
Latest weird thing happens now , is that video snaps dont play sound unless OMX HW is enabled. Videoscreensaver has no sound whatever i tried. I m using 2.9.3 at the moments as its the last ES that I can start the game from VSCR.

Im checking one at a time but everytime something fixed something else happens. I have latest OS updates, April FW
Ill post more. I ll put back 2.9.6 to do more testing on the sound things

PS i ll test more ES dev but that extensions prob displays rom counts and roms incorrectly

@Clyde said in Video Snaps Screen Saver not working with USB service:

So it shouldn't have anything to do with usbromservice, but it's good to hear that you could solve your problem.

It doesn't, and without any hint on the actual configuration (Pi mode, RPI version, etc.), we're just speculating here.

@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?

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

@tr33x0rs Development on the Windows version of ES stopped over 3 years ago.
RetroPie use their own fork from Aloshi's original and have implemented many, many changes and improvements.
Maybe this will interest you https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/13828/retropie-like-script-for-windows-7-8-and-10-retrocake

@lycros Sadly, I had to put them in all manually. Im sure you figured that out by now.

@jonnykesh
Thanks to you both for your help on this!

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

Yeah I noticed those. I just left them at the default settings. I will try to disable them.

@TMNTturtlguy Thanks - same wishes to you, especially with no power at the moment.

Yeah, I can't wait for the first bug reports to start coming up... :P

I should actually start a page in the documentation for Video Players and the Random Game Screensaver as well. That should save quite a bit.

One more thing for my to do list.