Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess

DTEAM

@kiro said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@DTEAM It's more than just that line I believe ... open in an xml editor and all errors should pop up.

In my original gamelist.xml file (all in one), we can see:

		<name>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games &amp; 42 Songs</name>
		<desc>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games &amp; 42 Songs (G5410)
vt1682.cpp
</desc>

In the one on Google Drive we see this:

<name>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games & 42 Songs</name>
	<desc>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games & 42 Songs (G5410)
vt1682.cpp
</desc>

Something happen during the transfer to change & to &. Same problem for other games in the list.

duglor

Great Work, all. Thank You!

Folly

@DTEAM @kiro

I tried to make some improvements to the all_in1 images :
(some are still the same)
(my google-drive link removed)
Now on google drive @DTEAM :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TWX6dY213PH424-FZO289jJ9nDMq-ypO

If you both like the improvements then they can be replaced.

@DTEAM you should keep the originals in a backup folder.

If I have the time I will try to make videos too.

DTEAM

@Folly @kiro

I uploaded your images and the good gamelist.xml file on Google drive. It should be fixed for "All in one" system. I'll double check the other files.

Folly

@DTEAM

Do you keep a backup of the original files in there too ?

DTEAM

@Folly

Yes and no. When it's tested sometime I clean the old stuff. I have a backup of the Google Drive.

Folly

@DTEAM

I think we need to keep them because if we find better editing tools we can do the editing again from the older originals.

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@Folly @kiro
I uploaded your images and the good gamelist.xml file on Google drive. It should be fixed for "All in one" system. I'll double check the other files.

@Folly @kiro
pockstat and videopac had the same problems. Now fixed on google drive! It should be fine now.

Folly

@DTEAM @kiro

I created videos for all_in1 :
(my google-drive link removed)
Now on google drive @DTEAM :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TWX6dY213PH424-FZO289jJ9nDMq-ypO

DTEAM

@Folly

Do you have an updated gamelist for those videos? If not, i'll work on that. Thanks for the videos !!

Folly

@DTEAM

No I haven't because you were busy with it.
Thanks for adding ;-)

Folly

@DTEAM

After playing a better game on lexizeus I wanted a better video for this driver.
I updated the video on google-drive.

DTEAM

@Folly
Next step for videos could be classich 😉 thanks a lot for « all in one » i know it takes a lot of time to do that!!!
I did it (for now) for the 68 games of the actual gamelist. You can test it. The result is very good.

Folly

@DTEAM

Looks really good now ;-)

Tried to do the same with classich but mame will slow down too much with using the option -aviwrite and some of these "classich" drivers.

I am looking for an other way of making these videos but it seems to be difficult.

DTEAM

@Folly
I already did the one for nstarfox

Folly

@DTEAM

I found a solution here :https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=118963&Searchpage=1&Main=9230&Words=aviwrite+&Search=true#Post118963

use -snapview native to record without artwork
or
use -snapsize 800x600 to record with artwork at lower resolution so speed is at an acceptable level.

Folly

@DTEAM

I created the first 8 and did not record the artwork with it because we do not have all.
So for uniformity I did it like this now.

Can you have a look if it's ok like this ?

Here are the files :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gubyMC_usVhNPsabmG23kYFf7aRvttQe

DTEAM

@Folly

Sure. I'll finish « all in one » monday and jump on that after. For classich Some Games already included the artworks in the rom (some sports game)

Folly

@DTEAM

I did the best I could and added the rest for classich ;-)

DTEAM

@Folly

Do you agree If I cut 2 seconds of your "all in one" videos and put a maximum at 45 sec.? I would like to erase the grey transition at the beginning of some videos (like bittboy.mp4). I'll use ffmpeg to do that with this script.

for %%a in ("*.mp4") do 01-ffmpeg -ss 00:00:02.0 -i "%%a" -c  copy -t 00:00:45.0 "newfiles\%%~na.mp4"
pause

BTW, if you want get youtube videos instead of your own. You can use this script.

for  YOUR_HTTP_VIDEO_WEB_LINK do 01-ffmpeg -i "%%a" -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 30 -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac "newfiles\%%~na.mp4"
pause

Reference : RetroPie - Convert Non-Functional videos to functional videos - Easy free batch method on Windows - also size reducer