I used screenscrpaer.fr option to scrape videos on Emuelec 4.3 to get those beautiful preview scenes. However, after upgrading to a bigger SD to get all of the videos for the games that I had ROMS of, I then decided to copy and paste all content of ‘EEROMS’ to HD as a backup.
Lucky I did this because I managed to corrupt the SD somehow at another time.
However, when copying the EEROMS from HD back to the EEROMS partition of a new SD, all of the videos that took ages to scrape are no longer linked up. THose videos are still in their folders. I guess a Gamedata ini file carries this info and I’m not sure why this never copied across to the HD backup, but the link is now broken.
Is there a way to regenerate the ini file to link up the game video scrapes?? There’s too many to do individually, so i’m desperate for some kind of script that regenerates these files and creates the game data file automatically (like screenscraper must be doing). I don’t really want to be scraping all of the video data again from screenscraper option, so please do offer up your knowledge if you can help.
somehow the gamelist.xml got corrupted at some point as you say there is no point trying to edit it manually.
Afaik there is no automatic solution to repair it except scratching it again, as the files already exist in the destination it should be faster but not sure
Are the video files from your backup hdd (and even on your new sd card) are still readable, or are this files probally may be corrupted (trashed data)?
Check out the xml file of one of your ROM collection folders. Use Notepad++ or any other nice simple Editor (if possible with syntax highlighting) and check the saved path(s) to the linked video and image files. Are the paths / drives / filenames (upper/lowercase) are really identical with the ones on your hdd / sd-card?
At least i would try to go to one of your ROM folders. Rename the “Image” and “Videos” folders and the gamelist xml - by adding an underscore at the beginning. Now try to scrapp this ROM folders again. If competed, jsut check the paths / infos of your old (underscored) and the new generated XML. Maybe you will see any difference, so you can change/edit all your other collections - without scrapping all files again.
Last but not least…
I know screenscrapper takes really a lot of time. But you can speed this up. Just remove or rename only the gamelist XML file in each ROM folder. Dont delete the IMAGES and VIDEOS folders. The scrapper will create a new XML… if your ROM file is not in the list, it will add it to the new list. If if finds IMAGES and VIDEOS for this title still available on your drive, it does not download again this files. This will save you some time and even bandwidth. good luck
Hello, this is my first post. Thank to everyone which have or continue to contribute to this superb project.
My problem is the following.
I have a HK1 where emuelec 4.5 is stored on emmc / internal storage, with the them artflix. in this configuration, preview snap video , srcapped by the internal emuelec tool with screenscraper (with my credentials) are displayed without problem, everything is working perfectly.
I have now a new HK1 RBOX 4Gb RAM and 32 Gb ROM + an SD card 128Gb.
I have decided to stay emuelec on the external storage. It is simpler and there is less manipulations to install all.
After installation, I have copied all the content of my previous rom folder in the rom folder of my new box.
Conclusion, everything is working well like the previous box except that the snap videos preview are not displayed.
I have passed a lot of time to verify that:
the video themselves are ok (in term of encoding, size and linux right (755, for root user)
I have asked to screenscraper to retrieve all in one machine only
the gamelist file is ok, path for video seems to be ok
So if you have ideas about what is not working or something to check additionally, it could be very sympatic.
Thank a lot
Have you tried testing another theme? Is “detailed View” set for the theme?
Update to Emuelec 4.6
Perhaps you should try “ARRM”, it’s another good scraper with many functions you can use to rebuild you gamelist-files.
I had the same issue once and I think something on the sd card / Emulationstation was corrupted. I reinstalled Emuelec and copied all the rom-folders back on the sd card again. The it worked again and the Videos were shown.
