[SCRIPT] RetroPie Convert Videos
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@hiulit
I've started to use your script and works like a charm. I've even modified it to support video scrapes attained by using Skyscraper on the retropie. I was just wondering though the following.1- When the conversion is done, the converted videos are put into the converted directory, correct? can these then be copied back to the original directory to override the bad videos to reduce space usage?
2- Also if I use the --convert-system flag and let say I already converted a set of videos but then scrape new ones. Will re-running the conversion tool reconvert all the videos or just those that had not been done? If it's all the videos is there a why to just convert specific videos.
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@furnace Hey thanks! I'm glad you find it useful :D
It would be great if you can show me what modifications you've done, so maybe I can merge it with my version. Do you have a GitHub account to create a Pull request to my repository with you changes?
Now, I'm talking without looking at the code:
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The script creates this
converted
folder so you can check if the videos are converted correctly or not. If not, they will a-failed
suffix. The ones that are converted successfully are to be copied manually to the proper folder. I didn't code it in the script just in case anything goes wrong with the conversion. -
I think it won't reconvert all the videos. Well, it depends, if you pass a
from_color
argument, the script will only search for the videos that have that particular "color encoding system". If you don't pass anyfrom_color
then yes, it will reconvert all the videos. I think.
In that latter case, I think I will try and add another option to the script to detect the "color encoding system" of the videos you want to encode.
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Thanks for the feedback.
Sorry I don't have a github account. To modify the scripts though it was fairly simple. Steven Selph's Scraper will put the videos in a folder call video within the ROM folder. Skyscraper can be set to do the same, except the path will be $home/Retropie/roms/media/videos. So all I did was change the VIDEOS_DIR to the proper path.
Also your script looks for video file names that end in "-video.mp4", I replaced that to *.mp4 because the video file names are different between the two.
I had not set the from_color parameter before, so I'll test that out. Though I had tried to take a video that was not functional with the OMX enabled and pass it to AVprobe as per you script to see the encoding and it returned yuv420p. But once I convert them they are functional. I'm thinking the conversion might change something else which enables the functionality with OMX enabled. I'll keep investigating this and let you know.
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@furnace I can try to do something to "detect" the folders. And yeah, I think I can change the
-video.mp4
for just.mp4
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@hiulit
Or just as you force the customer to set the -to-color, you could just make the user to set a variable like
-source_scraper in the config to shelp or skyscraper and based on this set the video path. Cause I doubt someone would use various scrapers for different systems. -
@furnace Yeah, something like that could work. Thanks!
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@furnace Does this answer your question?
# From color (optional) # Target only videos with this particular C.E.S. # If left blank, it will target all videos, regardless of the C.E.S. # (e.g. "yuv444p")
I haven't tried it yet, but looking at the code I found this.
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This folder you mentioned$home/Retropie/roms/media/videos
when using SkyScraper, does it contain folders for all the systems inside?$home/Retropie/roms/media/videos/megadrive $home/Retropie/roms/media/videos/nes
etc?Forget that! I've found this table explaining where all the metadata and media are stored using different scrapers :)
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#where-are-my-scraped-media-and-metadata-saved
Is this information correct? (I'm guessing it is)
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@hiulit said in [SCRIPT] RetroPie Convert Videos:
Is this information correct? (I'm guessing it is)
If you're using the scrapers through the RetroPie-Setup script, then it's correct.
Note that fi you're using the CLI parameters for folders or otherwise customize your configuration file, then the folders can be anywhere. -
@mitu Ok, thanks! I'll state that ROM folder for gamelists & media must be enabled. As well as I state the same thing when using Steven Selph's Scraper (use ROM folder for gamelists & images)
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@mitu Just out of curiosity, does the built-in EmulationStation scraper have the ability to download videos? It's been ages since I used it and maybe now it does. Thanks.
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@hiulit No, it doesn't.
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@mitu Ok, thanks! Less things to take care then :P
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Making some progress on supporting both
sselph
andskyscraper
:)ERROR: There are no systems with videos! You are using 'skyscraper' scraper. Remember to use the 'ROM folder for gamelists & media' option. Or maybe try using 'sselph'.
P.S. Which is better?
- There are no systems with videos!
- There aren't any systems with videos!
English is not my mother language :P
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@hiulit Not an native English speaker also, but maybe start with videos:
- No videos found for
system
's games/roms - No videos found in any system.
Here's an additional challenge - why look up the folder when you can read the video path from the gamelists ? This way you don't have to assume the usage of a particular scraper or a certain path.
- No videos found for
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@mitu Thanks! I'll use your examples ;)
As for reading the path directly from the
gamelist.xml
, wouldn't I have the same problem? I mean, I have to know where thegamelist.xml
is stored, and it can vary depending on what scraper is used and what options are set on where to store thegamelist.xml
on that particular scraper, right?ES will check three places for a gamelist.xml in the following order, using the first one it finds:
[SYSTEM_PATH]/gamelist.xml
~/.emulationstation/gamelists/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml
/etc/emulationstation/gamelists/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml
If you use another scraper (Steven Sselph's scraper or Lars Muldjord's `Skyscraper) you can choose whether your scraped data goes in
[SYSTEM_PATH]/gamelist.xml
(the rom folder) or~/.emulationstation/gamelists/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml
Taken from https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#scraper.
If I have to know where the
gamelist.xml
is stored then I might just tell the user to use the option to store the media "where I want it" to be :P
Or "force" the user to have thegamelist.xml
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Here it is! RetroPie Convert Videos v2.0.0
[2.0.0] - 2019-04-15
NOTE: This release contains breaking changes!
Deprecated
now is--convert-system
--convert-systems
.now is--from-color
--from-ces
.now is--to-color
--to-ces
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Added
- Support for Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper.
- New option
--scraper
to set the scraper. Available scrapers:sselph
andskyscraper
. --convert-systems
now accepts systems as (optional) arguments (e.g.--convert-systems "nes snes"
).- The script now detects the C.E.S of the video and if it is the same as the
from_ces
value, it won't convert the video. - New log system. Log files are stored in
logs/
. - Print script version with
--version
. - Added a progress bar!
Changed
- Search for all
.mp4
video files instead of just-video.mp4
so the script can work with many scrapers.
I've updated the first post with the new documentation :)
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Great progress. Btw, you commented the actual conversion line in the
convert_video
function (the one that runsavconv
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@mitu Thanks! Yeah, now it's in
utils/progress-bar.sh
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Hi all
first thank you for all the effort put in the script. I have a question: the script is still targetting Retropie host? Because I think that a lot of users have ROMs on a dedicated NAS, so it would be perfect if the script can run on a generic host.
In the end it needs to know only the ROMs root folder and little else
Bye
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