Video snaps don't run (ES for Windows)

[FreddyBoubil]

Hi everybody,

As written in the title, I can't manage to have the video snaps running on ES, I use on Windows.

First of all I built ES for Windows following the tuto of fieldofcows, using his "old_master" branch to avoid build errors in Visual Studio.
Then I downloaded Nismo's Old Room theme and configured one platform, Atari 2600, with two games.
ES launches well, the theme is ok, everything works fine (image, marquee,...) except the videos.

I tried to put different values in the video parameter of the gamelist.xml :

• ~/.emulationstation/videos/atari2600/Carnival (USA).mp4
• C:\src\EmulationStation\Release\.emulationstation\videos\atari2600\Carnival (USA).mp4
• C:/src/EmulationStation/Release/.emulationstation/videos/atari2600/Carnival (USA).mp4

I also tried to play a .mp3 or .png, nothing happens.

In the oldroom.xml, I tried to put the parameter showSnapshotNoVideo to true, which makes the image appearing instead of the video. I supposed, regarding the name of this parameter, that ES couldn't find the video, but I don't understand why.

If anyone has some clues, some ideas, please don't hesitate :)

For info, the videos are common snaps which play very well in VLC.
I launch ES via a batch file containing :
set HOME=%~dp0
emulationstation.exe --windowed --resolution 1280 720

Thanks for your help !

[FreddyBoubil]

Hi all,

I tried other things and other themes with the same result.

Does anyone, by any chance, has a Windows version of ES with video snaps working ?

Thanks.

[FlyingTomahawk]

Try once jdrassas version.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9340/emulationstation-toolkit-theme-making-helper-update/46

[FreddyBoubil]

@FlyingTomahawk you're my hero, it works like a charm !

A big big thanks to you \o/