Sites for video snaps

ExarKunIv

i have used the scraper and it does a really good job on pulling all the info for most games, but there are a few missing.

what are some good sites that others have used to get the game info and maybe snaps.
i have tried a few but nothing really pulled up or one was in a different language that i have no clue what it says. lol

BJRetro

@ExarKunIv when you say scraper not sure which one you are referencing; I used Selph scraper with screenscraper.fr as the source. That being said I also had a few games(oddly very old arcade ones) where the videos were not playing or downloaded after scraping so I went a non-expert way and just searched YouTube for “(game name) Mame arcade video snap” and found 30 sec clips set up for that purpose. Then I just used this concerting website
https://youtubemp4.to/
to make it a mp4 and all of those mp4s have played just fine. I think I have seen other people recommend emu movies for one off downloads but I didn’t feel like creating an account and the YouTube method didn’t take me much time for each one. There’s probably also some other better more expert or efficient ways that I don’t know....

mitu

@BJRetro said in Sites for video snaps:

There’s probably also some other better more expert or efficient ways that I don’t know....

Do you have a list for those titles with missing video ?

BJRetro

@mitu
Altered beast
Arch Rivals
Batman
Burgertime
Centipede
Defender
Gauntlet 2
Joust 2
Ms Pacman
Pacman Plus
Pac-Mania
Pit fighter
Q-Bert (can’t remember for this one if I added after my original scraping or not)
Rampage
Robotron 2084
Simpson’s
Superman
Turtles in Time

I think for most of these the directory shows videos supposedly having downloaded from the scraper but they were not playing in ES meanwhile a ton of games from the same screenscraper source in Selph Scraper did play.

dudleydes

@BJRetro Have you tried progetto-SNAPS?

http://www.progettosnaps.net/videosnaps/videosnaps_files.php

BJRetro

@dudleydes nope! That might be the better and more efficient way I figured existed but didn’t know about! (Have you checked if the downloaded videos work on ES? I read various posts about different codecs so some videos work and some do not and so once I found the YouTube method consistently worked I stopped there lol).

dudleydes

@BJRetro I have been using videos from that site for my arcade-only Picade build. They work fine with the default video player (VLC 2.2.6, I believe) but not OMX player.

Clyde

Yuv444 is a known problem for OMX player. There are at least two scripts to fix that for multiple videos, one by myself and one from @hiulit. May be worth a try if most scraped videos work, but some don't.