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    EmulationStation Video Choppy and randomly launching games

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      ainmosni @TMNTturtlguy
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      @TMNTturtlguy Thanks, I'll try that! I love the look of your theme and the gameroom one but without the videos they both are just missing something.

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        TMNTturtlguy @ainmosni
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        @ainmosni I want to put a 75% probability that the random game launching has something to do with the wii u pro controller. I have seen tons of posts regarding wii u pro controllers have random button pressess including entering and exiting games. I would search the forum for posts regarding your controller.

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          ainmosni @TMNTturtlguy
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          @TMNTturtlguy Interesting, I'll take a look at that after I convert the videos. Weirdly enough, when I use a non-video theme, I don't have that problem.

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            TMNTturtlguy @ainmosni
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            @ainmosni well that is a good thing! i am wondering if it is a combo of memory usage and other factors that are causing it to happen. Hopefully the smaller videos will straighten everything back out.

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              ainmosni @TMNTturtlguy
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              @TMNTturtlguy Possible, I'll report back once I have some converted.

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                ainmosni @TMNTturtlguy
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                @TMNTturtlguy So, I converted all my SNES videos to 320x240@30fps and it's works gorgeously, I'm now converting the rest of my videos to the same format. Now that that works, I still get the random game launches which indeed looks like random button presses. It seems to mostly happen when I get the undervolt icon from retropie, so I just ordered a better power supply. Thanks for all the advice, it's been very helpful!

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                  TMNTturtlguy @ainmosni
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                  @ainmosni glad to hear that you have figured it out!

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                    ainmosni @TMNTturtlguy
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                    @TMNTturtlguy Yeah I was naive enough to think that scraped videos would work without postprocessing. I'm now considering looking at the scraper to see how difficult it would be to add a transcoding option. Of course that would mean adding more dependencies to it, at the very least to libav.

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                      jwcbronski
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                      I had the same problem with video previews and the WII U Pro controller. Solved it by using a Logitech bluetooth-adapter.

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                        ainmosni @TMNTturtlguy
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                        @TMNTturtlguy So I ended up writing a small patch for the sselph scraper after all, I'll just have to run the scraper from my desktop machine instead of the raspi. (And if I do that, I can also write all the files locally first so that I don't have to keep emulationstation shut down during scraping, which will be a nice side benefit). I also submitted a pull request to add this feature to the mainline scraper which people can see here.

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