PSX scraping woes

BaviaanNL

I've had nothing but trouble with PS1 scraping, if I let Emulationstation scrape, it will find the box art and description although I also want video snaps. I've downloaded the videos I need and can confirm that the PBP file and MP4 file have the same filename.

GTA as an example has the following entries on gamelist.XML

<game id="19335" source="ScreenScraper">
<path>./Grand Theft Auto (USA).img</path>
<name>Grand Theft Auto</name>
<image>./boxart/Grand Theft Auto (USA).png</image>
<marquee>./wheel/Grand Theft Auto (USA).png</marquee>
<video>./snap/Grand Theft Auto (USA).mp4</video>
<thumbnail />
<rating>0.7</rating>
<releasedate>00000000T000000</releasedate>
<developer>Rockstar Games</developer>
<publisher>Take 2 Interactive</publisher>
<genre>Race, Driving</genre>
<players>1</players>

I've triple checked, all of the locations on gamelist.xml have the correct files within them yet the only image working is box art.

Anyone have any idea why I'm having so much trouble?

reeebs

(sorry for my poor english)
maybe also the boxart isn't working, but you still see it right because of the default scraping path it did on its own.
I mean, maybe all of your 3 DIY things (image, marquee and video) are not working, but the fact that you can see the boxart lets you off the right road.
what is that "<thumbnail />" ???
maybe it invalidate the whole gamelist.xml and that's why your system uses the "other" gamelist.xml (with the correct box art)

BaviaanNL

@reeebs said in PSX scraping woes:

(sorry for my poor english)
maybe also the boxart isn't working, but you still see it right because of the default scraping path it did on its own.
I mean, maybe all of your 3 DIY things (image, marquee and video) are not working, but the fact that you can see the boxart lets you off the right road.
what is that "<thumbnail />" ???
maybe it invalidate the whole gamelist.xml and that's why your system uses the "other" gamelist.xml (with the correct box art)

Interesting you say that, I found the downloaded_images directory within .emulationstation and there was the box art files which emulation station scrapes. I deleted these images, after a reboot there is no boxart at all on GTA. I'd guess 40% of downloaded snap videos work, when I look at gamelist.xml, they are not much different to GTA, still look in the same directories with the correct file naming... very confused

reeebs

"<thumbnail />" is the opening of a tag, without its closing
maybe this thing invalidates the whole xml file, and that's why the system uses the default one

I use a gamelist.xml in each roms/system_name folder (roms/arcade roms/nes roms/snes and so on) and I noticed that when messing up with xml the system uses back its default gamelist.xml

but, once fixed "my" xml (the one in the roms/system_name folder), it started back using it right

(by the way, I also use -image.jpg and -marquee.png and -video.mp4 tags, but all my files are in one folder called "images"... so for example my tags are like

<image>./images/rom_name-image.jpg</image>
<marquee>./images/rom_name-marquee.png</marquee>
<video>./images/rom_name-video.mp4</video>

and everything works fine).

mitu

@reeebs said in PSX scraping woes:

"<thumbnail />" is the opening of a tag, without its closing

That's the shorthand for an empty xml node value and it's equivalent to<thumbnail></thumbnail>. It's not an XML structure error.

reeebs

@mitu

@mitu said in PSX scraping woes:

"<thumbnail />" is the opening of a tag, without its closing

thank you, I really didn't know it!

;-)

(I am not a coder, just trying to learn from reading code lines)

so the error is not there...

mitu

@baviaannl Which video player are you using to play the snapshots ? OMX Player has some problems to render some scraped videos (video encoding not supported), you can switch to VLC (which is the default) to see if the videos are rendered.

BaviaanNL

@mitu said in PSX scraping woes:

@baviaannl Which video player are you using to play the snapshots ? OMX Player has some problems to render some scraped videos (video encoding not supported), you can switch to VLC (which is the default) to see if the videos are rendered.

Guessing this means I'm aleady using VLC?

mitu

@baviaannl said in PSX scraping woes:

Guessing this means I'm aleady using VLC?

Yes, this means it's VLC that's playing the videos. Are you sure the filenames are correct - Linux is case sensitive so if the file ./snap/Grand Theft Auto (USA).mp4 is actually named ./snap/Grand Theft Auto (USA).MP4 it will not work

BaviaanNL

@mitu said in PSX scraping woes:

@baviaannl said in PSX scraping woes:

Guessing this means I'm aleady using VLC?

Yes, this means it's VLC that's playing the videos. Are you sure the filenames are correct - Linux is case sensitive so if the file ./snap/Grand Theft Auto (USA).mp4 is actually named ./snap/Grand Theft Auto (USA).MP4 it will not work

The file is named correctly:-

<video>./snap/Grand Theft Auto (USA).mp4</video>

I just can't figure this out, some videos work fine, others don't work at all. I've looked at entries on gamelist.xml for roms which display all the info correctly although I can't see any difference from those that don't!

mitu

@baviaannl Have you checked the video files - played them in another video player ? Maybe they're encoded differently and (even) VLC cannot play them. If it's not the gamelist, maybe it's the videos.

BaviaanNL

@mitu said in PSX scraping woes:

@baviaannl Have you checked the video files - played them in another video player ? Maybe they're encoded differently and (even) VLC cannot play them. If it's not the gamelist, maybe it's the videos.

VLC on my Mac can play these files OK, tried a few media players without any issues.