Retropie freeze after skyscraper install Pi4
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Hi. I'm new to retropie and raspberry pi sbc so my apologies if this has been gone over already.
I followed retropie website to install on Pi 4, I put some roms on there, but not many, I used retropie to scrape text and image on games. Then I saw and followed ETA tutorial on putting game videos using skyscraper.
Since that, now every time I go to a game, eg snes, the video plays but then suddenly the whole retropie freezes. I have to unplug it to switch it off, which I know is not ideal.
If is quickly navigate through games and start one before preview video starts them game plays everything is fine until I change game and allow video to play, then freezes again.
I have read loads and in process of using handbrake to reduce video file size on my Windows 10 laptop.
I don't know about coding etc, I'm only following tutorial I find and there does not seem to be a definite solution to this problem.
Will just resizing the video files work or am i waiting my time and it's a different solution.
Any help please, thanks in advance. -
Not sure if resizing the video will help, if there's an error playing the video that freezes EmulationStation, it might be because of a video codec error.
Are you using the default video player in EmulationStation or did you enabled the HW accelerated video player (omxplayer) in the settings ? -
@mitu. Hi, at first the omxplayer was on, as the tutorial suggested and then after reading a long winded forum about this issue, one of the things was to turn it off. So I did but still had stay issue.
I thought it could have been a bad skyscraper install, so I also uninstalled that but same issue.
So I left it a while to register on here and it wrack my brain around it.
Then, even though I did a script update and I knew I had the latest retropie installed cos I'd only just done it from the site a couple of days ago. I decided to do it again, the script took no time at all, the main update this time took 2 hours. I rebooted and for some reason it all works fine now, no freezing. So I put the omxplayer back on and it's still fine. Haven't yet re installed skyscraper but I don't know if it now works because of that or a second update after the preview videos where on.
Either way it works now.
Thanks for commenting anyway.
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