[SOLVED] - Video Snaps not Playing

wiggy808

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Clyde

@wiggy808 @Hyuma As a word of advice, it may be suboptimal to move your discussion to a private chat, because others can't follow and thus, can't provide any additional counsel.

That said, it would be nice if you'd provide us with any insights in the matter, no matter if success or failure, since both can be educational.

wiggy808

@clyde I agree! It was more as an easier way to test somethings in a live manner. It was just today that we figured it out after some testing.

It was DEFINITELY a scraper / gamelist.xml issue!

It appears that the gamelist.xml file in the /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mastersystem was causing some issues as it conflicted with the one in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mastersystem. I deleted the one in .emulationstation and began to manually edit the one in RetroPie (Ace of Aces rom and snap file names didn't match, that was another issue caused by either the scraper or something else that I had done).

However, after making changes and rebooting, the gamelist.xml in the RetroPie directory reverted back to the original syntax it had before I made the changes. So we decided to shut down ES, edit the file, then start ES back up. This worked and the changes are persistent and the previews began to show!

Couple questions:

How did the gamelist.xml file in the .emulationstation directory get created?
Why did the gamelist.xml file in the RetroPie directory revert to the original syntax? Is shutting down ES the only / best way to change that file?
What is the best / recommended way to produce a gamelist.xml file?

mitu

@wiggy808 said in Video Snaps not Playing:

How did the gamelist.xml file in the .emulationstation directory get created?

This is where it's created by default, so it was probably created the first time you copied the ROMs in mastersystem folder and restarted Emulationstation.

Why did the gamelist.xml file in the RetroPie directory revert to the original syntax? Is shutting down ES the only / best way to change that file?

Because that's how things work - Emulationstation generates a gamelist.xml file if there are ROMs in the folder and no previous gamelist.xml file was found. The file is written by Emulationstation when it restarts/stops, so any external modifications to the file while Emulationstation is running are more likely to be overwritten.
Note that if there is a gamelist.xml file in the ROMs folder, Emulationstation will not create a new gamelist.xml file in ~/.emulationstation, but it will use that file for further edits/changes.

What is the best / recommended way to produce a gamelist.xml file?

Use a scraper - either the built-in Emulationstation scraper or another scraper which understands and produces the Emulationstation gamelist.xml format.

wiggy808

@mitu Going to put this as resolved, thanks for the explanation as well!

I don't seem to have that option...help, lol

Clyde

@wiggy808 Thanks for the summary of your solution. :)

mitu

@wiggy808 said in Video Snaps not Playing:

I don't seem to have that option...help, lol

Usually you edit the title and add/prepend Solved/Resolved.

wiggy808

@mitu Under Topic Tools, I can only Delete Topic, no option for editing title... sorry, trying but not intuitive yet.

Clyde

@wiggy808 There really is no "Edit" entry under "Tools", right above "Delete"? That would be strange.

Mind that here's no separate "Edit Title" entry, you edit the title with the whole post.

wiggy808

@clyde wish i could say so buddy. Just Delete topic, no edit. Maybe I don't have those permissions yet?
@administrators any guidance gang?

dankcushions

@wiggy808 you're clicking the wrong thing. don't click 'topic tools', click the three vertical dots to the right of the 'reply quote ^ 0 v' bit under your post.

wiggy808

@dankcushions thanks partner, but that just lets me edit that particular post, not the title...unless I'm still missing something obvious here (likely so).

wiggy808

@dankcushions omg... you meant for the first post...okay, time to go to bed, thanks for the help fellas.

Clyde

@dankcushions said in [SOLVED] - Video Snaps not Playing:

@wiggy808 you're clicking the wrong thing. don't click 'topic tools', click the three vertical dots to the right of the 'reply quote ^ 0 v' bit under your post.

Very observant! I missed that detail in @wiggy808's post. 😌

rivervilla1

Hi, I am experiencing a similar problem but I am not sure how to edit the gamelist.xml file. My n64 video snaps are downloaded but only shows box art and a screenshot and my fba videos are downloaded but show nothing, as a screensaver they only have sound. My other systems work fine.

Clyde

@rivervilla1 Hello and welcome to this forum. You should open a new topic instead of replying to one that's two years old.

DTEAM

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tylerd9000

@Hyuma I can also confirm this works. All my videos would only play audio so I did that command in bulk.