@stefano-sudati said in can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video:

Reading the forums I saw that the videos need to be converted to make them work but I still don't understand how.

There are at least two scripts to convert incompatible videos:

mine (simple, but does its job) hiulit's (has more options)

This is probably what you are looking for.

https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper

It’s available as a package in, I think, ”optional”.

@roslof Thanks for the tests. The random selection might have an issue, I remember looking at it some time ago and nothing wrong popped up.

Not that I know of.

An easy way to replace the artwork location in the gamelist.xml with another / new one is the sed command (stream editor). This example changes the video directory from the relative path ./media/videos/ to the absolute path /mnt/artwork/videos/:

cp gamelist.xml gamelist.xml.backup # make a backup in case something goes wrong sed -i 's#<video>./media/#<video>/mnt/artwork/#g' gamelist.xml

The part in single quotes does the actual sed-magic:
s(earch)#[old string]#[new string]#g(lobally, i.e. all occurences)

This works for every other path, just change <video> to <image>, <marquee> etc. Omitting the artwork tag before the path will change any occurence in the file, e.g. if the whole artwork is located in another place.

Execute man sed in the command line to get the manpage (manual page) of this tool, or search the web for myriads of examples.

@shavecat You could use my script to resize all videos automatically. You'd just have to teach yourself the necessary ffmpeg options to change the resolution instead of (or in addition to) the colour encoding and add them to the ffmpeg line in my script.

@muldjord Thanks! I'll still be giving Skyscraper another go of course! There's still lots more scraping to be done.

@Gameeplayhard you can install KODI and play all the movies you want from your harddrive

@ULTRA-MAGNUSS Thanks for the thorough description. 👍

Many thanks for this, I will read through the material and then give it a go. Steve

@mitu

@mitu said in One systems sample videos aren't playing:

@bfollowell What video player option are you using in Emulationstation ? omxplayer, the HW accelerated option, has issues with some videos. If you switch off the hw accelerated video, do the videos play ok ?

I really didn't setup a player. I just put the media files in the individual ROMs folders, along with my gamelist.xml file, and the videos showed up and started playing. So, whatever player RetroPie uses by default, and however it is setup.

Actually, before I submitted this, I decided to go and check. I found OMX Player (HW Accelerated) listed under the Main Menu under Other Settings. This was off. I turned it on, and the videos for TG16 start much faster now. There is still a slight delay, but only about a second. I still have no idea why it's only this one system that exhibits this behavior, but I'm happy with it now.

Thanks a lot for the info, very helpful!

To set this up on your own build without using Motion Blue Unified follow the instructions on this thread: Game launching video loading screens

@ExarKunIv
To my knowledge, there isn’t any way to make the runcommand window appear behind either the PNG or video.

Thanks again @mitu I think I'll stick with what I've got for now then. So far all the games I've scrapped have had their videos display fine.

I hope this works for you @TwoShedsWilson I might see if I can work it into one of my builds for fun

@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 ?

@Hyperlord You're supposed to run skyscraper with an online scraping source to get any data. Your command line doesn't show that. So you should run it like

Syscraper -p nes -s screenscraper --videos

If you don't specify a scraping source (-s), then it will query the LocalDB, which might not have any videos scraped.

Seems like the VLC update from Raspbian broke something. Your problem seems similar to a recently reported issue here. I'm going to ask the same things to track things down

add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first run the ffmpeg command to identify which video codec/format is the video file that doesn't work.

Can you upload on of the video files with the problem somewhere (Dropbox/Google Drive/etc.) to take a look at it ?