[RESOLVED] 12.77 Video Snap Issue

[celly]

I finally updated to the latest version 12.77 and everything works great. Except, the update seems to have resurrected an old issue that Tom helped me resolve awhile ago (I can't find the thread for some reason).

Here's whats going on. I use Draco's Space Invaders theme and when scrolling through the emulators, I see the system name, the system logo and a random video snap from that system playing. I have video snaps for all roms for all my emus. The problem is that a few emulators don't display any art work when scrolling through. No snap, no title, nothing. Once I select a system and get into the games list, all is well and displayed without issue. This happened a while ago and Tom sent me a different GameEx.exe to fix it and it did. Now after the 12.77 update it has returned but doing this to 4 emulators (Pokemon Mini, Radikal Bikers, Triforce and CDi).

Path to art is correct, name of art to rom is correct. Does the same thing under different themes as well. I'm a little embarrassed to bring this issue up again but, hopefully Tom can look at this problem one more time for me and see what gives.

gameexini.txt

[Draco1962]

Have you tried deleting the cache files for those emus impacted?

[celly]

Yup. I had this problem before and i did all the same steps to try and fix it myself but it still remains.

[celly]

The next step now is to delete the emulator and try then reinstall in with the setup wizard. Nothing else seems to fix the issue and I'm stumped as to what to try and do myself.

[Draco1962]

Have you updated to 12.78 and do you get the same results?

[celly]

Updated, deleted and reinstalled emulators and issue remains.

[Tom Speirs]

I wonder if the automatic download has caused this and it is basically the same issue as before. GameEx may be finding different media in your folder or a new folder as the downloader put it there and its "trying" to show that instead.

[celly]

I did disable automatic downloads. Where does it download to anyway, the configured path or somewhere else? And that didn't do anything to the issue.

[Tom Speirs]

If your paths are configured it will use them. If not it will use media\artwork downloads. It was just a thought on what the issue might be. What are the file types in your video and snap paths. Have you got some rogue files with different extensions?

[celly]

One set is all .avi snaps the others are all .mp4. Nothing too fancy or rogue. These still play within the emulator game selection list when scrolling down the rom list.

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Celly, could you see if this is resolved in the latest version please?

[celly]

I updated last night but didn't check. I'll fire it up in a bit and report back.

EDIT: Triforce emulator is the only one of my emulators that isn't showing a video snap from the emulators selection menu. I deleted the other 3 emulators all together.

[celly]

After deleting the emulator slot, reinstalling and deleting the cache so much with no change, I tried a different route and it worked. Since Triforce emulator was the only one not showing a video snap, I went into the video snap path and made three duplicate video files. There is only one game in that emulator therefore, there was only one video snap. I copied the game.mp4 snap, and renamed them 1.mp4, 2.mp4 and 3.mp4. GameEx now sees other files and plays the video snap just fine now. Just thought I'd explain my "fix" and mark this as resolved.