@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.

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.

@hawkes_84 Please don't post on years old topics. Open a new topic and link the old topic if you think it contains relevant info to your issue.

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.

@cyperghost Thanks a lot for sharing, I've just done it and it worked perfectly, I would only like to know if a text at the end of the videos could be removed somehow Thanks again