how large are the scraped videos?

[aardvark]

Hi,
just a quick question - do you know how big scraped videos are going to be, for example 1000 games??
this would be using selphs scrapper.

thanks

[oxJRxo]

@aardvark

Can't tell you off the top of my head but they are around 5 mb each, give or take.
Atari snaps are bigger than the roms.

[aardvark]

thanks, i think i might have to stick with snaps until i get a bigger sdcard!

[AndrewH]

I've got about 600 games on my current setup, and here's what I've found;

• Arcade - 115 videos - 376MB
• Atari 2600 - 101 videos - 102MB
• Atari 7800 - 59 videos - 88MB
• Atari Lynx - 12 videos - 46MB
• GBA - 39 videos - 102MB
• Sega Genesis/Megadrive - 99 videos - 378MB
• NES - 69 videos - 215MB
• SNES - 97 videos - 532MB

Hope that's of some use to you.

[aardvark]

@andrewh thanks a lot, that gives me a good idea of the space i will need.

[akafox]

@aardvark Yeah that really depends on the number of games you have. So that is hard to nail down until you actually have everything scraped. Each video is a different size. For example an Atari 2600 games snap that is 30 seconds long will be much smaller than say a PSX games of 30 seconds. The videos that are scraped and converted for the pi are 30fps @ 320x240 4:3 aspect. Great for the pi and they are smaller size too! (the vidsnaps can be 640x480 @ 60fps 4:3 the pi can handle them..but the converted ones work much better!)

Honestly a one terabyte hard drive will get you most of everything the pi can handle. However a 128gb micro sd card is "perfect" and a 256gb should be more than enough..unless you want to run a LOT of psx games. (This does not include PC-ish games.) My system with games, videos and snaps fit on a 64gb card happily (and that includes daphne). Note though that i pulled out alot of arcade games (clones/mature/mahjong).