Video slideshow has blank screen between some videos

[rasp_renegade]

Hello all. I Have random videos in the slideshow as it goes through the list, there are gaps with a blank screen. Could this be loading videos in an unsupported format or something? Also I am not entirely sure which path is used by default for the videos. Is it the path listed in ScreenSaver settings for images the one?

[mitu]

Probably there are some videos which are displayed as blanks.

Is it the path listed in ScreenSaver settings for images the one?

No, the videos in the screensaver are taken from the videos scraped for your ROMs.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@rasp_renegade said in Video slideshow has blank screen between some videos:

Hello all. I Have random videos in the slideshow as it goes through the list, there are gaps with a blank screen. Could this be loading videos in an unsupported format or something?

Probably. This seems related to your other video playback issue: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/270003

(Or at least, it was when the same thing was happening to me.)

Also I am not entirely sure which path is used by default for the videos. Is it the path listed in ScreenSaver settings for images the one?

@mitu said in Video slideshow has blank screen between some videos:

Is it the path listed in ScreenSaver settings for images the one?

No, the videos in the screensaver are taken from the videos scraped for your ROMs.

They're read from the gamelist, right? Or no?

[rasp_renegade]

@mitu
@sleve_mcdichael

So it is looking through the gamelists.xml. I found some mp4s in a directory that had unsupported videos. Good to go after removing those, Thanks!!

[mitu]

@sleve_mcdichael said in Video slideshow has blank screen between some videos:

They're read from the gamelist, right? Or no?

Yes.

After this PR will be merged, it will be possible to use a separate folder for videos, just like for images, in the screensaver.