No Video playing with OMX Acceleration enabled

Alturis

Did a search for something related to this and people have had issues with no sound playing or other specific issues, but haven't seen anyone post about no video at all?

I used the Stephen Scraper to grab updated video mp4s for all the games and the videos will only play when OMX is NOT enabled. When I enabled it I only see blackness. Doesn't matter if I use the default theme or my favorite theme (Comicbook) which I understand does support video.

Edit: typos

mitu

@alturis There are at least a couple of topics about this (OMX player unable to play video content downloaded with the scraper) :

Alturis

@mitu Thank you. Got that script installed and running the conversion now. Seems odd that the Steven Selph scraper would not do this on its own though. Maybe this is a new issue where the OMX accelerator was updated and no longer supports the color format it used to?

Also, because it confused me, some additional docs for the script could include the info that it only reads the first option, not a list of options.
So you have to call it once to set the from-color in the .cfg file, then again to set the to-color in the cfg, then a third time to actually run it with either --convert-all or --convert-system.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15764/script-retropie-convert-videos

mitu

@alturis said in No Video playing with OMX Acceleration enabled:

Maybe this is a new issue where the OMX accelerator was updated and no longer supports the color format it used to?

I don't think that's the case, OMX is actually a video player specially designed for the Pi and it's not so often updated. More likely it never supported this kind of video format.
For the other questions, it's better to address them in the separate topics opened for them.

hiulit

@alturis said in No Video playing with OMX Acceleration enabled:

Also, because it confused me, some additional docs for the script could include the info that it only reads the first option, not a list of options.
So you have to call it once to set the from-color in the .cfg file, then again to set the to-color in the cfg, then a third time to actually run it with either --convert-all or --convert-system.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15764/script-retropie-convert-videos

Now I see what you meant! :D
I'll keep that in mind, but for now, if you don't want to call the script 3 times, you can edit retropie-convert-videos-settings.cfg and add from_color = "" and to_color = "". Then you can just call --convert-all or --convert-system ;)

Alturis

@hiulit Just a suggestion but if this script was written primarily to solve the 444p -> 420p problem maybe the .cfg could default to that?

hiulit

@alturis It actually was based off of a script that did just that, convert from yuv444p to yuv420p, but I wanted my script to let the users decide from which color system to which color system they wanted to convert their videos. I don't know if I like having defaults, but I'll think about it. Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it :)

hiulit

In case anyone in this thread is interested, I just released v2.1.0 of RetroPie Convert Videos.