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Easy way to add video and marquees tags in your gamelist for video support.

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    Nismo @ebtalk
    last edited by Nismo 26 Dec 2016, 06:58

    @ebtalk It should work perfectly, seems you have an error: the given path's format is not supported.

    Maybe you doesn't edit the file the right way. Take a look again, or tray to use it in another folder.

    It cuts afer the point because the code was thinking that after the point is the extension of the file.

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      ebtalk @Nismo
      last edited by 26 Dec 2016, 07:05

      @Nismo So weird. It worked in my mastersystem folder. Then the very next folder I try it errors out. And continues to error out in any other folder I try it in. No change was made besides the mastersystem was changed to gbc.

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        Nismo @ebtalk
        last edited by Nismo 26 Dec 2016, 07:07

        @ebtalk Please can you post here the code on your videofix.ps1?

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          ebtalk
          last edited by Floob 26 Dec 2016, 07:10

          $doc = [xml] (Get-Content -raw gamelist.xml)
          
          foreach ($gameEl in $doc.DocumentElement.game) { 
            # Use -replace to extract the filename without extension from the 
            # path contained in the <path> element.
            $gameName = $gameEl.path -replace '^.*/([^.]+)\..*$', '$1'
            # Append elements 'video' and 'marquee', but only if they don't already
            # exist.
             if ($null -eq $gameEl.video) {
              $gameEl.AppendChild($doc.CreateElement('video')).InnerText = "~/.emulationstation/roms/gbc/snap/${gameName}.mp4"
            }
            if ($null -eq $gameEl.marquee) {
              $gameEl.AppendChild($doc.CreateElement('marquee')).InnerText = "~/.emulationstation/roms/gbc/marquee/${gameName}.png"
            }
          }
          
          
          $writer = [System.IO.StreamWriter] "$PWD/newFile.xml"
          $doc.Save($writer)
          $writer.Close()
          
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            Nismo @ebtalk
            last edited by Nismo 26 Dec 2016, 07:16

            @ebtalk Seems the code it's ok, i think the problem it's because the double back slash in the path you are trying to save, try to do it in another folder that not contains double back slash "//" in their path.

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              ebtalk @Nismo
              last edited by 26 Dec 2016, 07:21

              @Nismo Where is the double backslash. I don't see it in the code.

              All my roms are in folders within:

              \RETROPIE\roms\ when i'm viewing from my PC

              so there's \RETROPIE\roms\mastersystem which worked
              then \RETROPIE\roms\gbc - didn't work
              \RETROPIE\roms\atari7800 - didn't work

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                ebtalk @Nismo
                last edited by 26 Dec 2016, 07:24

                @Nismo in the following code: $writer = [System.IO.StreamWriter] "$PWD/newFile.xml"

                I took out $PWD and it worked.

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                  Nismo @ebtalk
                  last edited by Nismo 26 Dec 2016, 07:27

                  @ebtalk I told you, it's because your folder path where you are trying to save the newFile.xml conflicts.

                  The double back slash is not in the code, it's on your path. See the image with the error you send to me before.

                  Anyway your solution it's working.

                  I have edit the first post with new code so you don't need to edit path if you have videos and marquees folders inside your roms folder.

                  I also removed $PWD to avoid path errors.

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                    Nismo @ebtalk
                    last edited by Nismo 2 Nov 2017, 16:45 10 Feb 2017, 23:21

                    @ebtalk I edited the code, now the "missing characters after dot" bug it's fixed.

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                      hooperre @Nismo
                      last edited by 20 Feb 2017, 23:16

                      @Nismo Would love to add these to my repertoire and tend to do this (mostly) manually, so I appreciate this tool.

                      Do y'all have a theme that you recommend? I've never downloaded a theme from github as I'm not sure how. I've only ever done it from the RetroPie Menu.

                      4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                        alaindesjardins
                        last edited by 21 Mar 2017, 03:14

                        Where and what do I add if I want to rename the gamelist.xml to oldgamelist.xml at the end of the script and then save the newfile.xml to gamelist.xml?

                        Also, I run into a problem with all my videos and marquees being in the arcade folder instead, but all the fba games are in their respective folder (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/". I suppose I could add the full path to that script before I run it... is the correct syntax "~/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/snap/${gameName}.mp4"? Is there a better way of doing it?

                        I'm kind of new to file paths in linux and powershell scripts. Thanks!

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                          Nismo @alaindesjardins
                          last edited by 21 Mar 2017, 04:32

                          @alaindesjardins Fixed the code in first post to fix the changes you requested about renaming previous gamelist to oldgamelist and newfile it's now gamelist.xml.

                          About the path, yes, that's the way to change the path.

                          Regards.

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                            alaindesjardins
                            last edited by 31 Mar 2017, 04:37

                            I don't know if you can look at the comparison differences but It's changing the output format of the scrapers and as you can see it doesn't seem to keep things proper. I would expect it to only add the video and marquee line but it's doing much more than that.

                            I suppose I can load it up and see if it makes a difference in how it displays everything in emulation station but, is there another way of doing it so it doesn't screw up the whole formatting?

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                              alaindesjardins
                              last edited by 31 Mar 2017, 04:41

                              I would expect it to look like this if that makes sense. The lines added have a blue dot on the line number.

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                                Nismo @alaindesjardins
                                last edited by Nismo 31 Mar 2017, 04:43

                                @alaindesjardins I don't see the differences, what's the problem if the xml works ok?

                                I see the new gamelist.xml more clean...

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                                  alaindesjardins
                                  last edited by 31 Mar 2017, 04:49

                                  Yeah, I won't worry about it. My OCD targets the fact that the description is all different because the formatting it all screwed up after I run the powershell script.

                                  I'll try not to look at it, I just wish there was an easier way to append the <video> and <marquee> lines without changing the rest. Maybe I'll see if the sselph scraper can add that data in or request it be worked in. I just figured out how to scrape using sselph scraper and my own images/artwork so I was able to generate a gamelist.xml with metadata. Adding the videos and wheel art was the only thing left which your script does.

                                  Thanks!

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                                    Nismo @alaindesjardins
                                    last edited by 31 Mar 2017, 05:10

                                    @alaindesjardins I don't know a easiest way to do it. Sorry maybe it's a stupid question but what is OCD?

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                                      alaindesjardins
                                      last edited by 31 Mar 2017, 05:44

                                      Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, for me its like having a stack of money and making sure all the bills are facing the same instead of just folding them all and putting them in my wallet. I'm sure there are better examples but that's all I can come up with right now.

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                                        Nismo @alaindesjardins
                                        last edited by 31 Mar 2017, 06:22

                                        @alaindesjardins I know what is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but my native language it's not english so when I have read OCD I didn't think it was that.

                                        So now I understand you much better, and why you want that "issue" fixed.

                                        I'm sorry I can not help you.

                                        Regards.

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                                          duiz
                                          last edited by 1 Apr 2017, 23:03

                                          I'm not getting this to work unfortunately. I followed each step in the first post but powershell gives me this in return

                                          "C:\Users\duiz.emulationstation\addvideos\addvideomarquees.ps1 : File C:\Users\duiz.emulationstation\addvideos\addvide
                                          omarquees.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Exec
                                          ution_Policies at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.
                                          At line:1 char:1

                                          • C:\Users\duiz.emulationstation\addvideos\addvideomarquees.ps1
                                          •   + CategoryInfo          : SecurityError: (:) [], PSSecurityException
                                              + FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnauthorizedAccess"
                                            
                                            

                                          My ps1 file looks like this
                                          $doc = [xml] (Get-Content -raw gamelist.xml)

                                          foreach ($gameEl in $doc.DocumentElement.game) {

                                          Use -replace to extract the filename without extension from the

                                          path contained in the <path> element.

                                          $gameName = $gameEl.path -replace '^./(.)..*$', '$1'

                                          Append elements 'video' and 'marquee', but only if they don't already

                                          exist.

                                          if ($null -eq $gameEl.video) {
                                          $gameEl.AppendChild($doc.CreateElement('video')).InnerText = "./videos/${gameName}.mp4"
                                          }
                                          if ($null -eq $gameEl.marquee) {
                                          $gameEl.AppendChild($doc.CreateElement('marquee')).InnerText = "./marquees/${gameName}.png"
                                          }
                                          }
                                          rename-item gamelist.xml -newname oldgamelist.xml
                                          $writer = [System.IO.StreamWriter] "gamelist.xml"
                                          $doc.Save($writer)
                                          $writer.Close()

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