@herb_fargus I found that relying on sleep to properly time a 30 second video was getting mixed results so I modified your script a little to crop the video afterward for a more uniform recording length.

It requires that you install ffmpeg beforehand though.

#!/usr/bin/env bash system="$1" emulator="$2" rompath="$3" launch="$4" rom_file="${rompath##*/}" rom="${rom_file%.*}" mediadir="$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$system/images" tmpfile="/tmp/$rom-video.mkv" videofile="$mediadir/$rom-video.mkv" # Create videos folder in system's rom folder if [[ ! -d "$mediadir" ]]; then mkdir -p "$mediadir" dialog --msgbox "$mediadir created!" 20 60 >/dev/tty fi # Launch to record gameplay on RetroArch Systems. if [[ "$launch" =~ retroarch ]]; then eval "$launch" "--record \"$tmpfile\"" & sleep 120 killall retroarch # Crop video to 30 seconds eval "ffmpeg -y -t 30" "-i \"$tmpfile\"" "-acodec copy \"$videofile\"" & exit 1 else dialog --msgbox "Video recording is not supported for this system" 20 60 >/dev/tty fi

@TMNTturtlguy said in Folders and Marquees/Videos:

ely affecting old themes. I have not noticed as i am not running one of the older themes, but it makes me wonder what it is doing to my theme on others machines. Since i don't have the carousel implemented yet, i would suppose that it would be affected in the same way?
Does anyone know what update is causing this? Is it in the most recent update from source when the black boxes on meta data fields was corrected? or did this start happening when the carousel was imple

Yep everything is good! I never noticed it before or after a certain point as I just decided to do my PC games this week.

@matchaman

First, I want to finish my theme, and the art upload, once done... I don't know.

SSelph's scraper for windows can auto resize videos if you run -convert_videos true with handbrakecli.exe in the same folder as the scraper.

I use GameEx on my arcade PC. It works just like what you're looking for and has plenty of options for artwork. However with the video snaps, box art, titles, marquees, control panel, etc etc etc, they're all storage and memory hogs. I love it on my cab, I don't think i'd do it on my pi if it was available. That's just me though.

@senkun

Yes, i am using wifi. And it seems so, that if it finds the network at First try, everything is fine exept the emulationstation cutting the video.

And i Have allready disabled the USB ROM service, and it only got rid one of the initial two identical fail errors.

And i Will try that delay sequence. Is the value in seconds?

@madmodder123 there is a randomiser built in to the splash screen module already...