@mitu ok no problem.

Configure Emulationstation to use Detailed as the Gamelist View Style instead of Automatic or Video. This way there's no video added to the list.

@mitu I am using the "scraper" not the other one called "skyscraper". The source is "screenscraper", I tried the others but are worst

@Deltax5 said in retropi doesn't show video but sound works?: Looking thru the folders using WinSCP i noticed skyscraper is located at /opt/retropie/configs/all/skyscraper/ Do i just copy the the cache folder and copy it to a new image when the time comes? will that work so i don't need to scrap them. Or do i put it in the import folder? It will save time then rescraping everything. You should really read the docs on Skyscraper - especially the part about the cache.

@thelostsoul said in screenscraper.fr site not available anymore?: Does it have any impact on the scraper in RetroPie or any other scraper? Well, it did - at least for the internal ES scraper. For other scrapers, I don't think so, otherwise I image it would have been reported.

@njscorpio I am having the same issue as you, all was working fine prior updating to 4.5. However if I enable OMX player it makes no difference, in face it is worst as no videos play. This issue for me is only related to Mame preview videos. Everything else works fine. I might try downloading the mame videos again, but does anyone have any idea what the issue could be?

I think that's not supported at the moment, but I think it's a planned feature (custom platform aliases). I see you found a workaround in the mean time :).

@cwalk828 Usually this is up to the theme, the scraper just downloads the files (images/videos) and adds them to the gamelist.xml used by Emulationstation. But I don't think this is supported by Emulationstation (playing video in the bg) - if you're interested in this kind of display I think Pegasus (another front-end) might support this.

@thelostsoul said in Is there a way to manually update thegamesdb.net API in sselph scraper? Or, what else scrapes videos?: Please allow me this. @njscorpio said in Is there a way to manually update thegamesdb.net API in sselph scraper? Or, what else scrapes videos?: Skyscraper has been very effective. Love it!

@naLnoc Skyscraper or Skraper are good options, ARRM also works nicely.

@Tackskull The gamelist.xml needs to have the assignments for each and every piece of media. If its a new .xml it won't have any direction to the scraped graphics. I'm sure there must be a way for it to work, in emulationstation there is an option for local media, I don't know what that means but I always thought it was something like that. In skyscraper there are options for local media, but I don't know if it would work like that without the cached database for everything.

@mottosys Please provide more info about your system, as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Which scraper is not working ? RetroPie has a few scrapers installed now - are you talking about the Emulationstation scraper or the external scraper(s) ?

Yes. This is simply about waiting for the server to not be overloaded if not registered user. I've seen the 'V' now as well as messaging about not being a registered user. Evenings are working best in my particular time zone.

@nexusone13 The first one: i will try! Thank you :-)

I finally got it!!! As a matter of self-defense, I run a pi-hole as my DNS server. Well, after reading another post referencing turning off the firewall, it gave me the idea to bypass my pi-hole. Once I did that, it was working as it should. I know the author has abandoned this program, but I really wish he'd come back and put some better error messages in it. Line 26511 doesn't help me. "Hey, I can't get out" would have helped me a great deal and saved me a lot of time and aggravation

I’m using the later version (3.1.4). Think I’ve got it working, did a manual command and it’s doing it. I used thegamesdb.

@bleckman said in stephen selph's Scraper Error Hash not found, emptry Picture boxes: I updated but now It won't auto-log in I have to do it every time I restart the REtropie That happens a lot after updates - here you go => https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18591/asking-for-retropie-login-on-boot-after-update/15

@retronick said in Screenscraper error API closed for non-registered members: @thelostsoul I had ALLOT of trouble trying to figure this out. I tried to use /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper ss_user myusername Which seemed to work but didn't resolve it. The way I got it to work was to go to /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/skyscraper and edit the config.ini file. In that document there is a line that says #userCreds="user:password" and a line above it that I altered to just say [screenscraper]. Then I removed the hashtag symbol from both lines, added my user and password in and saved it. It solved the problem and seems to be working no trouble. Thank you - followed your insructions and now it works.