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    Screensavers not working - just black screen

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    • blonqeB
      blonqe
      last edited by blonqe

      @mitu

      After doing all the steps i still get a blank screen.

      However when going to the terminal (F4) after doing these steps I can see the following error :

      lv10: file path ""/home/pi/video.txt"" is outside system path "/home/pi/RetoPie/retropiemenu"
      lv10: Error finding/creating FileData for ""/home/pi/video.txt"", skipping

      This is repeated several times

      Edit: I've changed the path to /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/video.txt

      The error disappears from terminal now, but it still doesn't work and I get the same error in the es_log.txt stating no file exists.

      Uneven tried renaming the txt file to match the video files e.g Mario.txt but still didn't work.

      I'm so stumped :(

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @blonqe
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        @blonqe said in Screensavers not working - just black screen:

        /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/video.txt

        Did you also created the file /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/video.txt ?

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        • blonqeB
          blonqe @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu said in Screensavers not working - just black screen:

          @blonqe said in Screensavers not working - just black screen:

          /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/video.txt

          Did you also created the file /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/video.txt ?

          Yeah I also done that, sorry I forgot to say.

          I also changed that to Mario.txt when changing the patch to try and match that too

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @blonqe
            last edited by

            @blonqe Then I guess you need to add the video tag one of the real game roms you have. Modify the /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml and add a video tag with the path to the .mp4 file to one of the games in the file.

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            • blonqeB
              blonqe @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu

              You know what I'm going to say next :(

              Nothing is working, im going to try different videos, see if that's the case but can't see that being the issue.

              Hopefully a future version of retropie will let me choose a custom video path like you can on pics now.

              It's hurting my head now!

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @blonqe
                last edited by

                @blonqe Well, you can use the metadata editor in ES on a game (press Select while you're positioned on the game) and you can enter the Video path. See if that works, but you'll need a keyboard.

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                • blonqeB
                  blonqe @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu said in Screensavers not working - just black screen:

                  @blonqe Well, you can use the metadata editor in ES on a game (press Select while you're positioned on the game) and you can enter the Video path. See if that works, but you'll need a keyboard.

                  Finally I have screensavers, for some reason the only way I could get it working was to do it via es metadata edit as you suggested.

                  I left the mp4's untouched in the screensaver folder e.g /home/pi/RetroPie/screensavers/Mario.mp4

                  Selected a random game in my SNES setup (I picked top down so I know where they are in the future) and pressed select to edit metadata for game, input the file path above.

                  Restarted es and now screensavers :)

                  Thanks to everyone who helped but big thanks to @mitu for sticking with the issue throughout ;)

                  P.s the retropie gamelist.xml method must not work for all as obviously everything was in the right paths etc just didn't parse correctly, strange.

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                  • cyperghostC
                    cyperghost @blonqe
                    last edited by cyperghost

                    @blonqe @mitu
                    Thanks for digging deeper :)
                    Sadly I must admit that the way I told to install screensavers in @Malixx Animated Screensaver Thread does not work anymore!!!

                    The last funcitonal version of ES that works with this hack is ES 2.6.2, version 2.6.3 is deliverd with RetroPie 4.3 and this one does not work ..... again sorry guys!
                    It can be downloaded here: https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive

                    Sorry guys!

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                    • cyperghostC
                      cyperghost @blonqe
                      last edited by

                      @blonqe said in Screensavers not working - just black screen:

                      Hopefully a future version of retropie will let me choose a custom video path like you can on pics now.

                      That would be the masters-path!

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                        lycros @blonqe
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                        @blonqe Did you have to edit the meta data for multiple games? ie. 1 game per video or just the one?

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                          snapchris @lycros
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                          @lycros Sadly, I had to put them in all manually. Im sure you figured that out by now.

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