Xu4 game video snaps/previews

[marcoabm]

Hi guys, I recently bought an odroid xu4, and followed the installation tutorial on the wiki, so far so good.
After installation I copied some roms packages that I was already using on the back to Raspberry Pi / PC, but the videos are not working. I checked and did not exist the omxplayer, or option to install it by apt-get.
What would be the alternative to play the videos in the game list?

[mitu]

@marcoabm Use the built-in video player, based on VLC. omxplayer support is not available in Emulationstation unless you're running on a Raspberry Pi.

[marcoabm]

@mitu In fact, I have now seen that the audio of the videos is working, but the image is not working, so I think it may be a matter of installing the codecs, on the pc there is a metapackage called ubuntu-restricted-extras that installs these and other packages, but not I found the match in the arm version...

i get this errors:

[mitu]

How did you get the videos ? Did you scrape it or add it manually ? What video codecs are they using ?

[marcoabm]

@mitu I scraped all videos using skyscraper, and they are fully functional on retropie for pc and raspberry pi.

[mitu]

Then it must be some vlc codec/video issue - but unfortunately I don't have a XU4 to confirm or reproduce the error. Are you able to play with the standalone vlc any of the video previews downloaded ?

[marcoabm]

@mitu yes i tried to open a file and got these errors:

I think its only a matter of find the correct codec to play mpeg4/xvid/etc, but i dont know whats is that package.

[mitu]

@marcoabm Those errors more likely indicate the inability to find a video output to show the video (trying with gl, gles2, xcb). What I meant was to try starting vlc from a desktop/X11 environment and play the video(s) - this way you rule out any missing codecs/additional packages needed by vlc.

[marcoabm]

@mitu OK, now i understand, i will try and report back, thank you.

[retrodroid]

@marcoabm did you ever figure this out?