@RapidEdwin08 said in Emulationstation video previews on Raspberry Pi 5:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/RetroPie-Setup/master/vlc-downgrade.sh -P ~/
chmod 755 ~/vlc-downgrade.sh
~/vlc-downgrade.sh

Hi @RapidEdwin08 ,
I'm trying to go back to the old VLC version but it doesn't' work. It works in the past, but now it stop working. you can see my log here

https://pastebin.com/xmmUjQkr

It stop to work when I tried to install the older version of Dolphin.

Any Idea to fix that?

NEW EDIT: Solve with this - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=373298

Great responses here, thank you so much. Of course it does come down to personal preference but your responses are helping me determine which way I want to go, so please don't think there's no value in the discussion. :-)

I'm currently trying re-encoding some videos with Handbrake to see how that goes and if it's worth pursuing. I think I'm probably trying to have my cake and eat it (which to some degree you can do with Retropie lol), but I still have a bit of thinking to do about which way I'm gonna go ultimately.

Guys and gals here - you rock, as always. Thanks again. ;-)

@ericosman playstation.JPG
You would put what you want scraped in the 'Games/Roms file extensions' line. I have chd,m3u. I do not use bin or iso.!

Hi @laserbones , you can use ARRM to update only the metadata you want. See Wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=scrape_text_only_en
Download link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

'ss' is the internal one used by ScreenScraper. So it's not a region per-se. I am actually not sure what they use it for.

EDIT: I have pretty much all of them in my Skyscraper docs here. Skyscraper uses an internal region priority list as documented there. It will also auto-detect regions based on the filename. Also documented at that link.

It's in the Games & Front End tab, you can change the folder where the ROM files are searched and also the file extensions.

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Yup, converting to CHD solved the original problem. Now it’s nice and fast! Converting all PSX to CHD now which will take a while but be worth it in the end.

@bfollowell It's possible that the data you had already scraped was cached on your computer and that was why previously successful scrapes still appeared to scrape correctly and new scrapes did not.

@mitu That is correct. If you have enabled video scraping while gathering the resources with Skyscraper, it will show up if your theme supports it. If you also want to make use of other resources in theme, such as the wheel or boxart by itself, you need to add it to the artwork compositor. This is all documented here.

@mitu That's beyond my expertise... For another day perhaps.

Go to launchbox or game faq and see if the game has an alternate title. I know I had issues and it couldn't find Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3 until I put the full title as the name. Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Twisted Metal III won't scrape, but Twisted Metal 3 will... it doesn't take much to throw off the scraper.

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 :).

@anmag70 I'm not the one that started the topic, but can you link one the videos you mentioned ? Otherwise your guidance reads like 'use Google to find the answer'.

@sunwind Search for ARRM, this should get you started.

@che_don_john Skyscraper can use TheGamesDB since it doesn't rely on the legacy API. I don't know if SScraper has that.
I don't think there are any issues - in Skyscraper at least - with Screenscraper.fr or OpenVGDB.
If you have specific examples - ROM names and checksums - where the entries are in the scraping site, but not found by Skyscraper, then please report them also in the Skyscraper topic.

@pma7779 The configs folder is accessible through \\retropie\configs, just like the roms file share

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@sunwind Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
How did you scrape your videos - which program you used ? Can you give an example of a game with a corrupted video ? Are you using the hardware accelerated video player in Emulationstation ?