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can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video

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    stefano.sudati
    last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 08:03

    Hi
    after the latest 4.7 update I can't find Steven Selph's Scraper anymore.
    Was it eliminated by retropie?
    So I tried Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper and I have to say it works great !!
    But there is a problem, I download everything (arcade example using acadedb) but when I go to the games it shows me the screenshots but not the videos.
    I checked in ftp and there is everything and also in the gamelist.xml file everything is right but the videos are not seen.

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      mitu Global Moderator @stefano.sudati
      last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 09:42

      @stefano-sudati said in can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video:

      Was it eliminated by retropie?

      No, it's still included, it's in the same section as Skyscraper (optional).

      So I tried Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper and I have to say it works great !!
      [..]
      I checked in ftp and there is everything and also in the gamelist.xml file everything is right but the videos are not seen.

      If the video tags are populated in the gamelist.xml, then make sure EmulationStation's Gamelist View Style is set to either 'automatic' or 'video'. By default it's set to 'automatic', which should show the videos, if the theme supports it.

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        stefano.sudati
        last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:02

        opt.JPG image url)

        I do not find it

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          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:12

          acdf0a71-a4aa-4aba-8424-99bd89859150-image.png

          What does

          cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup
          git status

          shows ?

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            stefano.sudati
            last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:30

            On branch master
            Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

            Changes not staged for commit:
            (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
            (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

                modified:   scriptmodules/supplementary/scraper.sh
            

            no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

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              mitu Global Moderator @stefano.sudati
              last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:41

              @stefano-sudati It seems you've modified the scraper.sh scriptmodule - why ?

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                stefano.sudati
                last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:42

                @mitu said in can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video:

                git status

                opsss
                oK I MODIFIED 2 DAY AGO SCRAPER.SH OPS
                now work :)

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                  stefano.sudati
                  last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:44

                  i inserted user a password

                  params+=(-workers "1")
                  params+=(-skip_check)
                  params+=(-ss_user "Your username")
                  params+=(-ss_password "Your password")

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                    mitu Global Moderator @stefano.sudati
                    last edited by mitu 11 May 2020, 10:46 5 Nov 2020, 10:45

                    @stefano-sudati Don't modify the default script, it's managed by the RetroPie-Setup script and you'll encounter update issues later. If you wish to add an user/pass, I suggest you run the scraper from the command line.

                    Or use Skyscraper, since it has a nice configuration file and it's still updated/supported by the author.

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                      stefano.sudati
                      last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:51

                      https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/243

                      ok so sorry :(

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                        stefano.sudati
                        last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:54

                        @mitu said in can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video:

                        Or use Skyscraper, since it has a nice configuration file and it's still updated/supported by the author.

                        yes i am using skyscraper but it has video problems.
                        Reading the forums I saw that the videos need to be converted to make them work but I still don't understand how.

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                          mitu Global Moderator @stefano.sudati
                          last edited by 5 Nov 2020, 10:58

                          yes i am using skyscraper but it has video problems.

                          No, it doesn't. Videos are scraped fine by Skyscraper.

                          Reading the forums I saw that the videos need to be converted to make them work but I still don't understand how.

                          Only certain videos - arcades - , which are incompatible with the Pi's MPEG4 hardware decoder. Nothing to do with the scraper.

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                            Clyde @stefano.sudati
                            last edited by 6 Nov 2020, 06:58

                            @stefano-sudati said in can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video:

                            Reading the forums I saw that the videos need to be converted to make them work but I still don't understand how.

                            There are at least two scripts to convert incompatible videos:

                            • mine (simple, but does its job)
                            • hiulit's (has more options)
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