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      Gwyllion
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      Hi there, till now, all my video previews were working well. Installed lr-mame2003 upgrading from lr-mame2000, Scrapped all the sets, images, marquees and videos and it seems some of them dont show into menu, only image.

      Making a comparation with others that are shown, no differect technical issues between files.

      RPI 3b+ plus Comic Theme , Retrorama as well. Retropie 4.4.14. Gamelist.xml are fine. Scrapped with Skraper and UXS (same result)

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        mitu Global Moderator @Gwyllion
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        @Gwyllion Turn off the OMX accelerated video player from the Emulationstation and try again - do the video show up ? If yes, then omxplayer doesn't know how to play them. This is a known problem - especially with the arcade game videos - and you'll either have to use the built-in video player or convert the videos. Search the forums for some video conversion scripts if you wish to convert your scraped videos.

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          Efriim
          last edited by

          If the OMX player doesn't fix it, or if it inverts the colors. You could try rebooting first and or updating emulationstation.
          Sometimes skyscraper download manager will put together the downloaded video improperly making skips, or invalid videos that crash. Sometimes it will not download the video at all, that might be because there are multiple system folders for arcade games, or the gamelist generation will be interrupted when there is already a video in its location.

          Do Skraper and UXS get videos from another source than screenscraper.fr?
          Could double check that the gamelist points to the correct video and folder, and try playing the video in vlc. Sometimes the videos will be a mess in VLC because they have been encoded with a different framerate, though they will play normally in ES.

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            Gwyllion
            last edited by

            Thanks @mitu @Efriim Apologies not to answer before.
            Turned off OMX and everything same with arcade game videos (some of them). Tried to convert with handbrake w/o any scrift (very easy to do...and tried some different configurations) but no luck. The only option was to download .mp4 from YouTube...and works and I dont know why.

            Its rare because the video was the same from the beginning I was made couple months ago and did work perfect, so its not a Skraper/XML problem...I think

            EmulationStaion is on the last build 2.8.3RP

            Anyway, many very thanks.

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