.flv game preview video files not playing

[TimM]

Hello and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I am trying to get all 100 of my preview videos working using the default Hyperspin theme, and after too many hours of tinkering, I am asking for help

    * All of the .flv videos are in ...\hyperspin\media\mame\videos\

    * SOME of the videos play (example: zaxxon.flv), but many do not (example: 1942.flv).

    * When rotating the wheel to "1942" it does not play the preview video in the box to the left of the wheel (just the same black box).

    * The error "Video Preview available at..." is NOT displayed - even if I delete the 1942.flv filename from ...\hyperspin\media\mame\videos\.

    * I tried renaming a working file (zaxxon.flv) to 1942.flv, but that didn't change anything - still no video preview when selecting "1942" on the wheel.

    * I am using HyperSpin v1.5.1.

    * Issue is the same on my desktop PC (Win10 HOME v21H1 build 19043.1415) and my laptop (Win10 PRO v21H1 build 19043.1415).

    * All .flv videos play OK using VLC.

    * All rom and .flv filenames match.

 

Q1: Where does HyperSpin get it's data to match the filename of the video before playing it? At   ...\hyperspin\database\mame\mame.xml    or    ...\mame\roms\ ?

Q2: If it is a encoding/transcoding issue, why didn't the 1942.flv file play when I renamed the zaxxon.flv file to 1942.flv?

I have attached a copy of my mame.xls database, zaxxon.flv (working) and 1942.flv (not working).

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

- Tim

MAME.xml

[Spawk]

FLV is what was used over a decade ago. HS used to be very picky about the bitrate and coding of these.

ALL videos at EmuMovies are now MP4. I am guessing you are not a platinum member at EM so you can not sync the videos easily, but you can always just download the SQ manually from their site:

https://emumovies.com/files/file/2214-mame-video-snaps-pack-sq/

 

[TimM]

I started fresh with a new install of the latest MAME and HYPERSPIN. I downloaded the videos manually as suggested, but the .mp4 files still refused to play. BUT, I think I have this fixed! There were two different issues going on:

 

1) .mp4 video files would not play (I am using a Radeon HD graphics card), but converting the .mp4 files to .flv worked great! I used a batch converter

2) When I tried to edited down the default \HyperSpin\Databases\MAME\mame.xml file (remove all the unused MAME games), but I must have messed something up.

If I use the default mame.xml file without editing it, all of the .flv files I have play perfectly. I will have to look into how to pair this file down without messing up the data.

 

Thanks for your help!