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    Kodi Assistance Needed!

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      71JAWS
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      I am looking for some help setting up an autoplaylist in Kodi.

      I am building a bartop cabinet for playing 80s arcade classics, in addition to the games I would like to have the option to run a playslit of 80s music videos as well. Ultimately what I would like to see is a menu item alongside the various gaming systems entitled 'Music Videos'. Selecting that Item would bring up a list of music videos

      At this point I have Kodi on the list of systems and I have managed to use Kodi to play videos but it takes several clicks to get there - any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks for your help

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      • jamesnjJ
        jamesnj
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        I did something like this a long time ago, but can't give you specifics right now.

        It sounds like you want a list of videos similar to how you see lists of games. However I imagine that you probably want the video to play and then exit back into emulation station when done.

        The way to do this is to find a media player of some kind (mplayer is one of my favorites) and then set it up in ES as a new system where the videos files are "roms", and the player simply plays a supplied file and exits when done. This requires installing the desired media player, making sure it can take over the video display just like game emulators do, setting up es_systems.cfg and other files to recognize the new system, you may want customized system graphics, etc.

        I was thinking to do something similar for my kid's system. Not impossible, but takes some work.

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          71JAWS @jamesnj
          last edited by

          @jamesnj That about sums it up - I will look into mplayer - thanks for the advice

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            71JAWS
            last edited by

            Solved!!!!!!!!!!!!

            Abandoned Kodi went with Omxplayer

            Added the following to es_systems.cfg
            <system>
            <name>videos</name>
            <fullname>Music Videos</fullname>
            <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/videos</path>
            <extension>.avi .AVI .mp4 .MP4 .mkv .MKV</extension>
            <command>omxplayer -r -o hdmi --win "319 119 959 599" %ROM%</command>
            <platform>pc</platform>
            <theme>videos</theme>
            </system>

            This plays a 640x480 video in the center of my display. Now I just have to get my hands on more 80s videos!

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            • jamesnjJ
              jamesnj
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              I'm glad it worked out!

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