can't find Steven Selph's Scraper and with Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper no video

[mitu]

What does

cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup
git status

shows ?

[stefano.sudati]

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

    modified:   scriptmodules/supplementary/scraper.sh

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

[mitu]

@stefano-sudati It seems you've modified the scraper.sh scriptmodule - why ?

[stefano.sudati]

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

git status

opsss
oK I MODIFIED 2 DAY AGO SCRAPER.SH OPS
now work :)

[stefano.sudati]

i inserted user a password

params+=(-workers "1")
params+=(-skip_check)
params+=(-ss_user "Your username")
params+=(-ss_password "Your password")

[mitu]

@stefano-sudati Don't modify the default script, it's managed by the RetroPie-Setup script and you'll encounter update issues later. If you wish to add an user/pass, I suggest you run the scraper from the command line.

Or use Skyscraper, since it has a nice configuration file and it's still updated/supported by the author.

[stefano.sudati]

https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/243

ok so sorry :(

[stefano.sudati]

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

Or use Skyscraper, since it has a nice configuration file and it's still updated/supported by the author.

yes i am using skyscraper but it has video problems.
Reading the forums I saw that the videos need to be converted to make them work but I still don't understand how.

[mitu]

yes i am using skyscraper but it has video problems.

No, it doesn't. Videos are scraped fine by Skyscraper.

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

Only certain videos - arcades - , which are incompatible with the Pi's MPEG4 hardware decoder. Nothing to do with the scraper.

[Clyde]

@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)