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    • EG500

      Skyscraper will download videos but wont generate them
      Help and Support • skycraper screenscraper videos • • EG500

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      BuZz

      @eg500 probably because you had existing gamelists in there which took priority.

    • fretman

      Is re-scraping a straight-forward process?
      Help and Support • scraper videos re-scraping setup • • fretman

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      @exarkuniv , sounds good…thanks.

    • Rydo

      Music, Video, Photo & Comic Support (Submission)
      Ideas and Development • music music player videos run command essystems.cfg • • Rydo

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      Rydo

      @dmmarti said in Music, Video, Photo & Comic Support (Submission):

      @Rydo

      Can I ask how you determined the following values?

      /dev/input/jsX 0x3C 0x3E 0x2B 0x2D 0x70 0x71 0x69 0x6F

      On a fresh RetroPie image using a wired Nintendo Switch controller, my button assignments do not match up to yours.

      My device name is:

      deviceName="BDA NSW wired controller"

      So I'm curious how you determined those hex values.

      Thanks,

      David

      The joy2key program is hard programed.
      /dev/input/jsX means it is applied to all Linux joystick.
      The hex escape codes are ansi keyboard codes for keypresses that overlay buttons in the order of 'left', 'right', 'up', 'down', 'a', 'b', 'x', 'y'

      0x3C 0x3E 0x2B 0x2D 0x70 0x71 0x69 0x6F

      I would suspect your buttons are backwards (Japanese style) so I would move the value around like this.

      0x3C 0x3E 0x2B 0x2D 0x71 0x70 0x6F 0x69

    • cousinsfan

      Scraping Woes
      Help and Support • skyscraper videos • • cousinsfan

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      muldjord

      @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

      Help with Video On Shutdown
      Help and Support • shutdown splashscreen videos • • ObadiahJack

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      @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.

    • metalox

      Videos not playing in lists and screensaver after conversion
      Help and Support • video screensav videos scraper retropi scraper video • • metalox

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      metalox

      @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

      can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video
      Help and Support • videos • • stefano.sudati

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      Clyde

      @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)
    • escc1986

      Help With : Media (images , videos , wheel )
      Help and Support • images videos wheel media png • • escc1986

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      Stuffu

      This is probably what you are looking for.

      https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper

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

    • roslof

      Looking for log/clue why ES video screensaver may get stuck w/black screen
      Help and Support • black screen emulationstaton es bugs screensaver videos • • roslof

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      roslof

      Re: Looking for log/clue why ES video screensaver may get stuck w/black screen

      Closing the thread on this. There is nothing wrong with the randomizer. While there was exactly one (1) "Little Computer People" video, there were ~100 variations of the game in the XML referencing the same video. So it's probably by design. It would seem that each game listed in XML with a valid video has the potential to play. Like throwing 100 tickets into a casino raffle drum... You're more likely to win.

      Ideally each video found should act as 1 potential. Not a big problem, but since games with multiple variants that reference the same video are more likely to play, making things seem less random than they truly are.

      Mystery solved after spending way too much time staring at random videos.

    • Arcade88

      Complete documentation of Emulationstation xml tags
      Help and Support • xml reference emultionstation ubuntu 20.04 videos • • Arcade88

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      mitu

      Not that I know of.

    • neurocrash

      Most scraped MAME videos won't play
      Help and Support • mame skyscraper videos retropie emulation • • neurocrash

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      Clyde

      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

      retropie 4.6 dont see my video-snaps help ...
      Help and Support • videos • • shavecat

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      Clyde

      @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.

    • aidy80's

      Help Understanding Scraper Commands to Add Video
      Help and Support • scraper videos • • aidy80's

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      aidy80's

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

    • Gameeplayhard

      VLC player retropie
      Help and Support • videos help and suppor • • Gameeplayhard

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      lostless

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

    • Kreecher

      Reducing Video Size - THIS WORKS
      Help and Support • videos size background musi gif to mp4 • • Kreecher

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    • ULTRA-MAGNUSS

      Splash Screen videos won't play even after modifying autostart.sh
      Help and Support • spalshscreens videos autostart.sh fi • • ULTRA-MAGNUSS

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      Clyde

      @ULTRA-MAGNUSS Thanks for the thorough description. 👍

    • theendisnye

      SkyScrapper put videos on USB drive
      Help and Support • skyscraper videos usb roms usb-stick • • theendisnye

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      theendisnye

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

    • bfollowell

      One systems sample videos aren't playing
      Help and Support • media videos blank black • • bfollowell

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      bfollowell

      @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.

    • AlphaBetaPie

      Video Previews Not Showing, Even Though I Have Them
      Help and Support • emulationstaton videos skraper • • AlphaBetaPie

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      AlphaBetaPie

      Thanks a lot for the info, very helpful!

    • Unboundclassic

      Rookervik's Launch Screens Turned Into Launch Videos
      Projects and Themes • retropie launch videos runcommand videos rookervik • • Unboundclassic

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      Unboundclassic

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