Video Snaps

CCFox

Evening All

I have tonight tried to add video snaps to my build and I have had some success....However some of the systems video's don't work and cause my system to crash. The main culprits are Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Sega CD, and Nintendo 64.

The Atari 2600 causes a complete crash which requires a hard reset. The others I can hear the sound but no picture. I have checked the video properties of the Atari vids and they are 240p at a total bitrate of around 130kbps. And they play fine in VLC on my PC. I can see from other posts that Emulation Station uses OMX player by default. Can I install VLC on the Pi3B+ and use that to play my video snaps instead?

Or if there is another work around I could try?

Kind Regards

CCF

Tricko

@CCFox
No idea what may be the cause of the crashing as have never seen that myself, but for the videos that aren’t visible you might want to check out the converter script here, as that sounds like you have some videos in yvu444 format which don’t work in OMX player.

You could even just left it convert all the videos in the system that you see crashes as a blunt force fix perhaps, whilst of course keeping a couple of the bad files backed up somewhere as I’m sure someone will point out some hints of how to diagnose the crash a bit better to help get a long term fix! :)

mitu

Please add some info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

And they play fine in VLC on my PC. I can see from other posts that Emulation Station uses OMX player by default. Can I install VLC on the Pi3B+ and use that to play my video snaps instead?

You can toggle the usage of omxplayer from the EmulationStation settings (the Other Settings section).

Can you upload one such video that makes the EmulationStation crash ?

CCFox

@mitu & @Tricko

Thank you both for responding.

@mitu :

I am using the following:

Raspberry Pi3B+
160gb 2.5in hard drive with ROMS and images etc placed on it powered by the Pi
Aukru Aluminum Raspberry Pi Heatsink, Silver Pack of 4 (3+1)
Aukru Power Supply Adapter 5V 3A Micro USB Charger with On Off Power Switch for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B /3 B+/ Pi 2 Model B/B+ Plus
Cheap crap PS2 controller (New wired controller being delivered today....yay)
Sandisk 64gb Class 10 SD Card
Running Retropie 4.6 downloaded and preconfigured from this site. It is a fresh install.

I got the higher amperage power supply to accommodate the usb drive and other peripheral uses.

I have another PI3B+ with a IQAudio DAC HAT running Moode audio with 5V 2.5A power supply. I have a 500gb hard drive on that and it runs fine....And I use it for Hi-Res music files. It fact it sounds absolutely fabulous!

@Tricko :

I did look at the settings of OMX player as described in other posts I read but no avail but I will however look into the converter script. I have a lot of experience using ffmpeg with command line so hopefully I can get my head around this.

I will post my results later.

Kind Regards Both

CFF

mitu

I'm still curious to see a video file that makes EmulationStation/the Pi to crash. It might be a bug somewhere in EmulationStation that we can't fix without reproducing it.

CCFox

@mitu

I will upload a sample a little later....bout half hour?

Rgds

CCF

mitu

@CCFox There's no rush - whenever you can, you just mentioned transcoding them and I don't want to loose the 'opportunity'.

CCFox

@mitu

Sorry about that...Needed to have a scrape as by body was humming along to the music I was playing!

Where do I upload the file to?

Rgds

CCF

mitu

@CCFox said in Video Snaps:

Where do I upload the file to?

send.firefox.com

CCFox

@mitu

Do I need a firefox account for this?

Rgds

CCF

mitu

@CCFox No, you don't need an account.

CCFox

@mitu

Sorry but i'm not sure what to....I have tried dragging the file to the webpage but no joy.

I only see a few links at the bottom but nowhere to select a file to upload.

I am using MS Edge....Do I need to use firefox as a browser?

Rgds

CCF

CCFox

@Tricko

Do I copy the downloaded folder to my retropie setup folder and putty into the pi and run from there?

Rgds

CCF

mitu

@CCFox said in Video Snaps:

Sorry but i'm not sure what to....I have tried dragging the file to the webpage but no joy.
I only see a few links at the bottom but nowhere to select a file to upload.

There'a big button on the page that says "Select Files to upload". Doesn't it work to select the files you want to upload ?