@sleve_mcdichael

Any idea why what I have Scraped in Arcade has not show up in my favorites?

I will say if an item was Scraped to the Arcade and then moved to Favorites, the scraped info migrated to that area. Items already in my Favorites did not populate scraped info in the Arcade.

Also a deleted item in Favorites is gone. I assumed it would return to the Arcade, but it is not there. Does this mean when you delete from the Favorites, you are deleting it from the system?

@mitu
SOLVED - everything is working now. Thank you for your help.

Recap - in case it helps anyone else:

Problem: videos would not play after scraping, using Steven Selph's Scraper (optional package)

Solution - run RetroPie-Convert-Videos script by @hiulit to convert the videos using option: --to-ces "yuv420p"
https://github.com/hiulit/RetroPie-Convert-Videos

Replace the original video files with the converted video files.

My mistake: specifying the wrong option parameter for --to-ces

To test a video file will play: exit emulation station to the command line and try to run the video using omxplayer
$ omxplayer <path to video file>

Video files for testing are available here:
https://test-videos.co.uk/

I actually just did something similiar which worked perfectly. I just took an in game video clip with my phone. I installed the Pixel environment. I uploaded it to youtube. Then used youtube2mp3 to convert it to an mp4. I downloaded it to the pi via Pixel. renamed it to the game name-video.mp4. Placed it in the images folder. Then i rebooted and selected the game and edited the meta data with the file path under video. Then saved and exited. Works perfectly. Now i can do that on the other 3 games i do not have videos for and the ones that wont play and i should be golden.

@baronharkonnen said in How to add alternative scraper with no ~ symbol ( where is it):

Still looking for a solution to add a scraper here without that bloody symbol

@mitu explained.. if you see the ~ symbol replace it with /home/pi/

@maxxtc Scraped info is kept in /opt/retropie/config/all/emulationstation/gamelists (also available via file shares at \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists, each system has its own gamelist.xml that stores this info.
If you wish to remove this info, then exit Emulationstation and delete the gamelist.xml files with the wrong info. Starting Emulationstation again will re-create those files from scratch, but without any of the info you scraped.

@bifelix89
Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Asking for help without even trying to look this up or understanding what this means, results in more work for others, even if some awesome members already put work into a clear explanation, is bad (I guess)... Looking your "problem" up in the docuentations/wikis/github pages (or even on google) would have given you the right answer...

However:
This isn't an error... It just means that the scraper could not found the name of the rom (or in this case the hash of it) in the metadata/image database! This basicly means that there is no metadata/image for this game.
You might be able to "solve" this by using another database

Problem solved using No-intro roms :)
Thank you all for your comments.

@vbs I'd recommend you to take a look here:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/4690/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2

@wilkins44 if you click on releases you can download a compiled version of the program. Here is a link directly to the release.

https://github.com/mikecel79/RetroPie-Metadata-Editor/releases/tag/v0.1.15.0

Ahh, I mounted it in the mnt as another folder and just redirected the es_systems to look there for the roms. I didn't even think to do it this way. thanks for the tip bud