Thanks a lot for the info, very helpful!

@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

@sunwind Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. How did you scrape your videos - which program you used ? Can you give an example of a game with a corrupted video ? Are you using the hardware accelerated video player in Emulationstation ?

@Hyperlord You're supposed to run skyscraper with an online scraping source to get any data. Your command line doesn't show that. So you should run it like Syscraper -p nes -s screenscraper --videos If you don't specify a scraping source (-s), then it will query the LocalDB, which might not have any videos scraped.

Seems like the VLC update from Raspbian broke something. Your problem seems similar to a recently reported issue here. I'm going to ask the same things to track things down add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first run the ffmpeg command to identify which video codec/format is the video file that doesn't work. Can you upload on of the video files with the problem somewhere (Dropbox/Google Drive/etc.) to take a look at it ?

@dml1783 Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your topic. What is the source of the video snaps ? Did you use a scraper to download them or added them yourself ? Run from a command line ffmpeg -i <path_to_video_file_with_errors> and paste here the output to see what codec/video format is the video file.

@ANDRELLVS Thanks for adding an explanation to your tutorial about what the batch file actually does.

@mitu Thanks! I was about ready to download a fresh image just to see if onstart would be there

Just for completeness, there is one more script to convert the petulant videos: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15764/script-retropie-convert-videos

I'm glad it worked out!

@herb_fargus I agree with @AndersHP, if it's weekly, a quick mention about the MAME ROW game would be cool. Also, I think it would be nice to mention the most interesting stuff discussed on the forums in the previous week.

@shavecat Yeah Mame, SNES, and Genesis would be awesome! Separately, is there any way to make these play when you select a system in Emulation Station? The launching image video is awesome for ROMs but I am thinking as an alternative it would be cool if we could find a way for the video to play when you click on a system in a theme before going to the game list for that system. So if you are on the main list of systems on a theme and click NES, for instance, the short NES video would play and then go to all the NES games. People always amaze me on these forums of what they figure out how to do so who knows!

@nicnac818 Thanks for sharing your solution.

@johnny5126 What was the complete scraper command you used?

rescrapped all with Screenscraper instead of Arcadeitalia Switched on OMX eveything ok except some mame which I re encoded. thanks everybody.

@matchaman So is audio_pwm_mode=0 the complete solution? Or is there another step related to tweaking OMX player?

@rocco42 we don't really offer support here for other images as we don't possibly know versions or conflicting software that may be installed there. That being said you will want to turn off OMX Player for that to happen, if that version supports it. Other issues will likely occur.