Screensavers not working - just black screen

mitu

@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 ?

blonqe

@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

mitu

@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.

blonqe

@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!

mitu

@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.

blonqe

@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.

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!

cyperghost

@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!

lycros

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

snapchris

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