@cousinsfan

and now all the names are the right names - not the romnames - meaning....did it take time to "read" the names from the xml and this took time (overnight - but probably quicker of course)??

No, it's instant. Maybe you had two different gamelist.xml's and deleted one and didn't realize the other had the correct names?

forcefilename is the only thing I can think to change...would that work?

Yes. :)

@obadiahjack

I ended up figuring out a round about solution, more details on this reddit thread for those looking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/l51c9g/playing_video_before_shutdown/

My roundabout solution:

As discussed with reddit user u/ben_theredonit, the pi4 fails to utilize the emulationstation.sh at the time of posting when shutting down. So editing emulationstation.sh, will not work to play a video before shut down. I solved the problem through a roundabout solution. I found a shutdown button that can be added via the carousel, developed by Steve Smith. Below is his video and in his YouTube description, his files:

The user Lampros in the youtube comments has a guide to install, if you find yourself getting the permission denied error, as many people in the comments have, I fixed mine by simply typing "sudo" in front of the "chmod +x" command

From there, I simply changed the 'rom' shutdown script adding the "sudo omxplayer RetroPie/roms/shutdown/shutdown.mp4" code and it worked.

Big thanks to reddit user u/ben_theredonit, who offered their help.

I hope this helps anyone that was lost as I was when trying to add a shutdown video.

@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/

@stefano-sudati said in can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video:

Reading the forums I saw that the videos need to be converted to make them work but I still don't understand how.

There are at least two scripts to convert incompatible videos:

mine (simple, but does its job) hiulit's (has more options)

This is probably what you are looking for.

https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper

It’s available as a package in, I think, ”optional”.

@roslof Thanks for the tests. The random selection might have an issue, I remember looking at it some time ago and nothing wrong popped up.

Not that I know of.

An easy way to replace the artwork location in the gamelist.xml with another / new one is the sed command (stream editor). This example changes the video directory from the relative path ./media/videos/ to the absolute path /mnt/artwork/videos/:

cp gamelist.xml gamelist.xml.backup # make a backup in case something goes wrong sed -i 's#<video>./media/#<video>/mnt/artwork/#g' gamelist.xml

The part in single quotes does the actual sed-magic:
s(earch)#[old string]#[new string]#g(lobally, i.e. all occurences)

This works for every other path, just change <video> to <image>, <marquee> etc. Omitting the artwork tag before the path will change any occurence in the file, e.g. if the whole artwork is located in another place.

Execute man sed in the command line to get the manpage (manual page) of this tool, or search the web for myriads of examples.

@shavecat You could use my script to resize all videos automatically. You'd just have to teach yourself the necessary ffmpeg options to change the resolution instead of (or in addition to) the colour encoding and add them to the ffmpeg line in my script.

@muldjord Thanks! I'll still be giving Skyscraper another go of course! There's still lots more scraping to be done.

@Gameeplayhard you can install KODI and play all the movies you want from your harddrive

@ULTRA-MAGNUSS Thanks for the thorough description. 👍

Many thanks for this, I will read through the material and then give it a go. Steve

@mitu

@mitu said in One systems sample videos aren't playing:

@bfollowell What video player option are you using in Emulationstation ? omxplayer, the HW accelerated option, has issues with some videos. If you switch off the hw accelerated video, do the videos play ok ?

I really didn't setup a player. I just put the media files in the individual ROMs folders, along with my gamelist.xml file, and the videos showed up and started playing. So, whatever player RetroPie uses by default, and however it is setup.

Actually, before I submitted this, I decided to go and check. I found OMX Player (HW Accelerated) listed under the Main Menu under Other Settings. This was off. I turned it on, and the videos for TG16 start much faster now. There is still a slight delay, but only about a second. I still have no idea why it's only this one system that exhibits this behavior, but I'm happy with it now.

Thanks a lot for the info, very helpful!

To set this up on your own build without using Motion Blue Unified follow the instructions on this thread: Game launching video loading screens

@ExarKunIv
To my knowledge, there isn’t any way to make the runcommand window appear behind either the PNG or video.

Thanks again @mitu I think I'll stick with what I've got for now then. So far all the games I've scrapped have had their videos display fine.

I hope this works for you @TwoShedsWilson I might see if I can work it into one of my builds for fun