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    Skyscraper not found in directory

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    • hawkes_84H
      hawkes_84 @MrPacMan17
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      @mrpacman17 it continues. I managed to get my 6 threads after donating and it was scraping fine until it got to generating my games list. It went smooth for a bit but then crashed and i had to flash the Retropie image from scratch which was quite annoying. Once I flashed the image and copied over my roms I thought I'd give it another but now it's saying "User is allowed 6 threads, but user has set it manually, so ignoring"! Not sure what this is referring to but once again it wont scrape anything for my roms. Set what manually? Any idea what this is?

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @hawkes_84
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        @hawkes_84 Post your configuration file for Skyscraper, omitting the user and pass.

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          hawkes_84 @mitu
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          • hawkes_84H
            hawkes_84 @mitu
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            @mitu

            here you go

            IMG-20210317-WA0008.jpg

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @hawkes_84
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              @hawkes_84 You have configured only 1 thread, this is what Skyscraper is telling you - "User is allowed 6 threads, but user has set it manually, so ignoring"!

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              • hawkes_84H
                hawkes_84 @mitu
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                @mitu ah so I need to manually type in "6" for this to happen? Sorry I'm lost when it comes to all this. Will try it thanks!

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                • hawkes_84H
                  hawkes_84 @mitu
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                  @mitu thanks that seems to have worked but it won't get the videos. When scraping it gives the message "CACHE OUTPUT, Video Conversion Failed (Set Higher Verbosity N' level for more info)
                  Is this something I can tweak?

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @hawkes_84
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                    @hawkes_84 said in Skyscraper not found in directory:

                    When scraping it gives the message "CACHE OUTPUT, Video Conversion Failed (Set Higher Verbosity N' level for more info)

                    You've enabled video conversion, but the command is probably failing - do you have ffmpeg installed ? Did you copy/paste the configuration from somewhere else ? - the default configuration doesn't have this enabled.

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                    • hawkes_84H
                      hawkes_84 @mitu
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                      @mitu hmmm not to my knowledge no. I don't even know what ffmpeg is so can't imagine I've installed it from anywhere. This is a fresh Retropie burn from today too so haven't really tweaked anything except the Skyscraper config file mentioned earlier. On the Skyscraper menu I've changed the "Download Videos" option to "enabled" because I thought that might fix it. Also I've turned the OMX player thing on because I seem to remember that being the issue before (a while ago) but other than that I don't know.

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @hawkes_84
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                        @hawkes_84 If by 'tweaking' you mean you un-commented all the lines, then I think you did more than it was needed. Use the default config.ini that comes with Skyscraper and un-comment just the lines with the user/pass for ScreenScraper.

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                        • hawkes_84H
                          hawkes_84 @mitu
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                          @mitu yes in this case "tweaking" does refer to uncommenting all the lines which I read was necessary when doing this. I'll re-comment them and see what happens . Thanks!

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