Scraper not getting all.

ucald4amarine

Using the stephe scraper. In menu, all animation looks great. But in the screen saver, only about (at a guess) 25 percent of the games show up. The rest just remain blank on the screen. No sound. But, press the player one button, and I'm sent to whatever game was supposed to be showing. Suggestions?

mitu

@ucald4amarine Your title is misleading - the scraper gets the video, but you're reporting that video doesn't show in the screensaver. What videos are not showing up in the screensaver - are they limited to one system ?

ucald4amarine

@mitu it will play some from all systems. Games it's skipping over are all the metal slug titles, (in arcade) all the street fighters games, (also in arcade.) But seems to get most of the rest of the arcade titles. (Once again, video does play in the menu titles. ) Same thing happens in other systems. (Segal genisis, videos play in menu, but it's skipped over titles such as Sonic and knuckles, but will play Sonic 3d)

mitu

In Emulationstation, do you have the Hardware Accelerated video enabled or disabled ? Try toggling it to see if it makes a difference.

ucald4amarine

@mitu your referring to omx player? That's on.

ucald4amarine

@ucald4amarine games that don't work:
Sega
Contra
Battletoads
Doom troopers

Everything from PlayStation.

Arcade. The only thing here that works is Pac-Man, thought there was more working. But I was mistaken.

mitu

@ucald4amarine See my previous post - does toggling the omxplayer off in the ES settings makes any difference to the screensavers ?

ucald4amarine

@mitu no sir. No difference.

mitu

@ucald4amarine Check the ES log file then - ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt and see if you get any errors. What resolution are the videos ?

Clyde

@ucald4amarine In addition to @mitu's request, can you give us the output of ffprobe with one of the videos in question? Example:

ffprobe /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/images/005-video.mp4

If you can't copy the output from Retropie's console easily, you could redirect the output to a text file by adding 2> textfile.txt to the command.

ffprobe /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/images/005-video.mp4 2> textfile.txt

Then you could access that file to show us its contents.

ucald4amarine

@mitu just tried running the command. And was given the message: permission denied. (I started in emulation station, hit f4, and typed the command there.)

ucald4amarine

@Clyde can't seem to get those commands to work. An additional mystery, every time Ive started the arcade up before running the scraper, it would play a random video on startup. (Set it on random and gave it 5 vids to go through. ) Now, after running the scraper, it will only play the one video, and the sound is really bad. Dunno if it has anything to do with this. But it seems odd.

mitu

@ucald4amarine That's not a command, but a file. You're suppose to get its contents uploaded to pastebin.com, not to execute it. Copy it to your ROMs folder and then open it from your PC with Notepad and upload it to pastebin.com

cp ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt ~/RetroPie/roms

Clyde

@ucald4amarine Mitu didn't give you a command. Do you mean mine?

However, please be more elaborate about how you "can't seem to get those commands to work".

May you have mistyped them? What errors came up?

ucald4amarine

@mitu correction on my part. I thought arcade games were playing on the menu. I was wrong. Fba games were playing, but NOTHING from arcade will display. Almost like the scraper didn't collect dfeom there at all.

ucald4amarine

@mitu ahh. Sorry mitu. I'll try to find that in a bit. Kids are up and hungry.

Clyde

@ucald4amarine said in Scraper not getting all.:

Fba games were playing, but NOTHING from arcade will display. Almost like the scraper didn't collect dfeom there at all.

Are there any video files in arcade/images?

Is there a text file named gamelist.xml in arcade?

If so, are there <video> tags for the videos in the gamelist.xml file?

ucald4amarine

@Clyde I think I saw a game list file, don't remember the rest. I'll check on that asap

ucald4amarine

@Clyde On that, it just popped up with: Permission Denied. That was all.

ucald4amarine

@Clyde In answer to your question on the video files. There is indeed a game list. and an image file. The image file is full of images for the game. As far as the gamelist.xml, it is there. And the <video> tag is there as well. Ill copy and paste it below:

<marquee>./images/aburner-marquee.png</marquee>
	<video>./images/aburner-video.mp4</video>
	<cloneof>aburner2</cloneof>

Thats what your looking for correct?