Playorama 1.0.2 no longer 'seeing' any videos except the piano-cat sample

[hdunsany]

I updated to Playorama 1.0.2 today via Play.Date sideload, which worked fine. Unfortunately, after installing the update, Playorama no longer sees any videos stored in the Data\user.XXXXX.playorama folder (where XXXXX is my UserID).

I'm testing with both a video that was working nicely under 1.0.0, and with a new video I made and converted today. Neither video clip (just a simple rotating-logo animation) has audio, so I'm just placing the .pdv files into the folder.

Any tips or suggestions on how I can get this working again?

[hdunsany]

A couple quick updates / additions to the question above:

• I also tried adding the videos to a "com.hteumeuleu.playorama" folder, but no difference in behavior
• I uninstalled "Game Data" and deleted Playorama from within the Playdate settings and then reinstalled the app before replacing the video files in the folders. No change in behavior
• I tried encoding the videos using 1bitencoder on macOS and installing them from there (including the .wav audio outputs too, both as .wav files and I tried renaming them to .pda), no difference in behavior
• The log within Playorama only ever says "No error"

That's it, not sure what else I can try here!

[hteumeuleu]

Hey there! Thanks for reporting this. I think this is due to Playdate update 1.12 which changed the name of the data folder for every game/app. So what was previously user.XXXX.playorama should now be user.XXXX.com.hteumeuleu.playorama. There is an official statement from Panic about this at the top of the sideload page on their website (which points to this FAQ).

[hdunsany]

Oooh, that makes sense, and also is something I was totally unaware of. I'll try changing the format-name of the data folder now, and (assuming it works), I'd suggest that you might update the instructions for the app to help the next confused beginner like me :-)

[hdunsany]

Update: that worked! Changing the folder name caused my videos to show up in Playorama.

One odd quirk: the version of the video I created using the online creator works fine, but the version I exported from 1bitvideo on macOS plays for maybe 1/2 second and then the whole Playdate crashes and reboots. Not sure what's up with that, but using the online converter seems to work without issue so I'm happy to proceed as-is.

Do let me know if I can be of any assistance re: the 1bitvideo behavior though, I love your app and I'm happy to help any way I can!

[hteumeuleu]

Sure, if you're able to share your pdv files directly I'd love to take a look.

[hdunsany]

Sure, I'll attach the one that seems to cause my PlayDate to insta-crash.
1bit-samurai.pdv.zip