New Comic Book Theme!

fatelvis1

i may be being an idiot but I still cannot get the videos to show. what line do i need to add to the gamelist .xml file to enable this? at the moment the box art is displayed twice.

DarkWolf

@fatelvis1 the video tag stores the path to the video file

TMNTturtlguy

@fatelvis1 you need to add the following to your game list:

<video > path to your video.mp4</video>

Please forgive my code entry as I am entering it from my phone. You need to put this in the game list and put the path to the location of your video. If no videos are available then yes, the image will show twice in both locations.

TMNTturtlguy

@DarkWolf not in this case, the video tag in the theme directs to the meta data image I the game list. You need to have the video path called out for each game in your game list.

fatelvis1

@TMNTturtlguy Thank you all, there was a slight typing error in the xml. Videos on one system complete 31 more systems to go. This could be a long night

DarkWolf

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TMNTturtlguy

@fatelvis1 are you using notepad ++, just use find and replace, you can select the incorrect part, and then replace all with the correct part.

beamquaker

Hi I installed the comic theme and it looks great. I actually learnt a little about command line to install it using the git clone method. Hopefully this theme will be added to the official retropie themes . Thanks for all your hard work .

ortsac

@backstander said in New Comic Book Theme!:

mic-Book.git

I just need to ask, where can I find videos to add for each game?

DarkWolf

@ortsac You could use the Universal XML Scraper. It downloads game art/box art/wheels/screenshots/videos, whatever you like and creates a xml too. I would recommend creating a account on ScreenScraper.fr, as this allows you to use 2 threads to download the stuff you want

Triquick

@DarkWolf Are there any other scrapers that do video now?

DarkWolf

@Triquick The scraper from @sselph scrapes images using the ScreenScraper database.. but I don't know if it also scrapes videos..

So I'm sorry, but I don't know of other scrapers than UXS..
Btw: UXS works perfect and relatively fast... It is able to connects to your pi via network and scrape the data directly on your pi

sselph

@DarkWolf It doesn't support video yet. https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/146 Is the issue for adding video support which I'm working on when I have time.

DarkWolf

@sselph Thanks for the information, defenitily waiting for that feature :)
I understand that it sometimes sucks running a pc for scraping roms on the pi

Triquick

@DarkWolf Thanks for the info. That pretty much answers my second follow up question. Will have to give it a look now since finding video was why I held off on moving to a video supported theme.

DarkWolf

@Triquick
As you can see, ScreenScraper.fr offers a huge database with a lot of metadata/images/videos:

chrisdodgen

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I scrolled quite far and read a lot of this thread...

Is this released? If so, is there a link to the latest? And if so, you ought to do like @ruckage and add a little tag on your name that links out to the latest build, so it's available in every comment.

If it's not released, can't wait.

DarkWolf

@DarkWolf said in New Comic Book Theme!:

@edmaul69 Found the link in post 43, there you go:

https://github.com/TMNTturtleguy/ComicBook

@chrisdodgen there you go ;-)

chrisdodgen

Perfect, thanks.

Is there an ongoing effort to create custom "comic pages" for each system? (I notice most seem to use a default page...)

I've been doing this for the Futura theme, and when I finish up my work there in a few days, I would be happy to pitch in on this one too.

TMNTturtlguy

@chrisdodgen Thanks for the effort but I am just finishing up the last of the pages right now. We will have all of the systems covered. I am preparing an update for everyone tonight and will hopefully release some images today/tomorrow. I decided it was more beneficial for my time and users to not keep making small updates, but instead just complete as much as possible and release one big update. More to come very soon!