Video Preview in EmulationStation

screech

@Rion said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Nice! Maybe this could be implemented into Universal XML Scraper by @screech

You can scrape your video with Universal XML Scraper,

Just open your XML "profil" in "ProfilsFiles"

And add this :

<Element Type="Video">
<Source_Type>XML_Download</Source_Type>
<Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File%</Source_Download_Path>
<Source_Download_Tag>-video</Source_Download_Tag>
<Source_Download_Ext>mp4</Source_Download_Ext>
<Source_Value>Data/jeu/medias/media_video</Source_Value>
<Target_Type>XML_Path</Target_Type>
<Target_Path_Type>%XML_Path_File%</Target_Path_Type>
<Target_Value>game/video</Target_Value>
</Element>

It will scrape video, putting them in the downloaded image directory, with a "-video" tag, and add in your gamelist.xml the path in "game/video"

Rion

@screech What if i wanted to use both Video and for example RetroPie (MIX) using both Images scraped using Universal XML Scraper and Video's.

If there is no video use Scraped image and so forth?

screech

It's a themming question ;)

As is, if you add the new element in the MIX profil, you still have the MIX + the video...
What you do with these is purelly in the theme ;)

Try to put Video over the MIX with "same size"
So when you have video, the MIX is under the video... When you have no video, you will see the MIX ;)

fieldofcows

@screech, @Rion The video component can be configured to display an image automatically if no video is available using the same dimensions as the video.

See the definition of the tag showSnapshotNoVideo in the first post here.

Nismo

@fieldofcows @Rion pixel theme with video support is already configured to display image if video not found, so you don't need to worry about editing theme.

screech

@fieldofcows and @Nismo so it's cool ^^ nothing to do except scrape ;)

(It's OK for the "path" in the XML ? It's under "game/video" ?)

Nismo

@screech You can put the videos where you want. Just to point the correct path on gamelist.xml.

For example i use ./videos and ./marquees in gamelist.xml for paths, that points inside your roms folder.

Example: <video>./videos/Super Mario Land (World) (Rev A).mp4</video>
is the forlder roms/gb/videos

So if you want your videos like me path must be: <Target_Value>./videos</Target_Value

screech

It's a small "limitation" to UXS... Download (for now) is only in 1 directory (for both picture and video).

That's Why I add a "tag" (like -image or -video to the rom name)

The "path" I talk about is the "Xpath" in XML ;) Not sure if it's under :
<game>
<video>
</video>
</game>

(and for sur don't change the target_value like ./video target_value is for the Xpath in XML file ;) not the "reel" path ;) )

The value you want to change is
<Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File%</Source_Download_Path>
But if you change it it will not work...
I need to create a
<Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File_Custom%</Source_Download_Path>
And add a <Source_Download_Path_Custom> to specify where to download them ;)

Nismo

@screech No matter that only one directory, it's no difficult to order items by type and just copy and paste in the correct folder.

ebtalk

Are there any plans to add this to the experimental packages for Pi users to install from binary and test?

Nismo

@ebtalk i'ts already added to the main retropie fork.

ebtalk

@capsaicin I was using these instructions and when I type out
sudo sed -i 's//.*emulationstation.sh//home/pi/EmulationStation/emulationstation.sh/' /usr/bin/emulationstation

The \ keeps coming up as a hashtag (#) on the screen. I've tried three different keyboards and can't get the \ to come up. / works but \ doesn't. Any ideas?

BuZz

@ebtalk change your keyboard layout - https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/25556740-changing-the-raspberry-pi-keyboard-layout

ebtalk

Thanks @Buzz that got me going. Finally have it installed.

Is there a current best method for scraping videos and marquees? I didn't see any option within Universal XML scraper.

screech

As I say previously, I haven't added the "easy" video support in UXS.

But you can simply add this in you XML Profil :

<Element Type="Video">
<Source_Type>XML_Download</Source_Type>
<Source_Download_Path>%Local_Path_File%</Source_Download_Path>
<Source_Download_Tag>-video</Source_Download_Tag>
<Source_Download_Ext>mp4</Source_Download_Ext>
<Source_Value>Data/jeu/medias/media_video</Source_Value>
<Target_Type>XML_Path</Target_Type>
<Target_Path_Type>%XML_Path_File%</Target_Path_Type>
<Target_Value>game/video</Target_Value>
</Element>

Rion

@screech I would love to see this implemented in the next release if possible 😀

ebtalk

I have all the videos downloaded and they match my game names. Is there any quick way to include the videos in my gamelist.xml file without having to do each one manually?

Nismo

@ebtalk I have a quick way to do it but on windows, so you need to copy your gamelist.xml to windows and do the process there.

Also it only works on windows 7,8 or 10.

ebtalk

@Nismo yes. I extracted the game list to a text file and put it into an excel spreadsheet.

I used a concatenation formula on excel to wrap it with the video tags.

I've been pasting them one by one into the xml file but there has to be a quicker way.

herb_fargus

@ebtalk I just created a column with each tag as the header, then saved it as a CSV, then used a CSV to XML converter to generate the gamelist XML. Still a tad manual but a quick way to hack it together.