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- r3h4b - 2011-05-09

First of all: Thanks for this great plugin!

It appears the google image scraper is not working anymore as of today (worked fine yesterday). Can anyone confirm or is it something on my end?

Thanks!


- ali2k1 - 2011-05-09

You were spot on the resolution was too high for snes to start correctly.thank you


- Angelscry - 2011-05-10

r3h4b Wrote:It appears the google image scraper is not working anymore as of today (worked fine yesterday). Can anyone confirm or is it something on my end?
Google image scraper is actuallly working correctly for me. Do you still have the problem? Do you have a script error message? Are you under Windows, Linux ? Which version of XBMC are you using : Dharma, Eden? Are you using the last version of Advanced Launcher 1.3.2? Oo


- r3h4b - 2011-05-10

Angelscry Wrote:Google image scraper is actuallly working correctly for me. Do you still have the problem? Do you have a script error message? Are you under Windows, Linux ? Which version of XBMC are you using : Dharma, Eden? Are you using the last version of Advanced Launcher 1.3.2? Oo


Hi Angelscry,

Yes, I still have the problem. There's no script error/message; the Google scraper isn't finding any results anymore (while the other scrapers do). I'm under Windows 7, using XBMC 10.0 (Dharma?). I'm using the latest version of AL 1.3.2. The weird thing is, it was working mighty fine yesterday. I replaced a lot of fanart with bigger ones from Google but it just doesn't come up with any results anymore no matter what selections I use.

Thanks again.


Edit: Ok, I even did a complete re-install of XBMC and this plugin and still no dice. It's just the Google scraper. No error, just no results no matter what. It may sound stupid but is it possible Google is blocking/banning me on their end (because of the traffic generated while scraping a large romset earlier perhaps)?


- DigiTech - 2011-05-10

Angelscry Wrote:Normally there is no problem. The indicate SVN version on the WIKI page is the one that was released when I have wrote the WIKI. So, if the Dolphin devellopers have not change their command line format, it may works with SVN r7483.

Im lost here the current version of Dolphin seems to be not compatible with the parameters that you specified in your WIKI, it just cant run the rom, it just open the dolphin window and do nothing, anyone configured successfully dolphin latest version?
Thanks.


- r3h4b - 2011-05-10

DigiTech Wrote:Im lost here the current version of Dolphin seems to be not compatible with the parameters that you specified in your WIKI, it just cant run the rom, it just open the dolphin window and do nothing, anyone configured successfully dolphin latest version?
Thanks.

Currently running Dolphin-r7505 from AL without problems.
If I could only scrape Google fanart...Eek

Edit:
just use something like this:
Code:
Dolphin.exe" /e "%ROM%"



- Angelscry - 2011-05-10

r3h4b Wrote:Hi Angelscry,

Yes, I still have the problem. There's no script error/message; the Google scraper isn't finding any results anymore (while the other scrapers do). I'm under Windows 7, using XBMC 10.0 (Dharma?). I'm using the latest version of AL 1.3.2. The weird thing is, it was working mighty fine yesterday. I replaced a lot of fanart with bigger ones from Google but it just doesn't come up with any results anymore no matter what selections I use.
I'm not sure it is related but the last stable version of XBMC is actually 10.1 (http://xbmc.org/download/).

Also, if the Google scrapper has worked on your system 2 days ago and it is not working now, there is something that must have changed on your system. I have again tested this morning and XBMC+Advanced Launcher+Google Images Scrapper are working perfectly on my Linux and Windows operating systems and also using the last stable (Dharma 10.1) and GIT (saturday one) versions of XBMC.

Now stupid question (sorry), are you sure that your images requests return images using Google Images??

Could you please post here your launchers.xml and settings.xml files using pastebin service. There is maybe something worng on them that make the scrapper not working correctly. Finally, could you give me an example of a requests that give you no result.


- mandark - 2011-05-10

hi Angelscry!

i'm having the following problem after a recent upgrade of "Advanced Launcher":
if roms, which have an ampersand (&) in their title, are added during an automatic scan (from AllGames), the title is saved with "&" instead of "&". this prevents the game from launching, since the rom-name is wrong.

i'm using AL v1.3.2, XBMC v10.1 on Windows 7 x64.

do you have any ideas?


- r3h4b - 2011-05-10

Thanks for your reply, Angelscry. Appreciated.

Angelscry Wrote:I'm not sure it is related but the last stable version of XBMC is actually 10.1 (http://xbmc.org/download/).

Also, if the Google scrapper has worked on your system 2 days ago and it is not working now, there is something that must have changed on your system. I have again tested this morning and XBMC+Advanced Launcher+Google Images Scrapper are working perfectly on my Linux and Windows operating systems and also using the last stable (Dharma 10.1) and GIT (saturday one) versions of XBMC.

Yes, I've edited my post and stated that I tried it with a clean 10.1 Dharma install + latest version of your plugin. Still no workey.

Angelscry Wrote:Now stupid question (sorry), are you sure that your images requests return images using Google Images??
From my browser they do.

Angelscry Wrote:Could you please post here your launchers.xml and settings.xml files using pastebin service. There is maybe something worng on them that make the scrapper not working correctly. Finally, could you give me an example of a requests that give you no result.

Ok, I will tomorrow (waay too late for me atm), thanks in advance for your help!


- Angelscry - 2011-05-11

mandark Wrote:hi Angelscry!

i'm having the following problem after a recent upgrade of "Advanced Launcher":
if roms, which have an ampersand (&) in their title, are added during an automatic scan (from AllGames), the title is saved with "&" instead of "&". this prevents the game from launching, since the rom-name is wrong.

i'm using AL v1.3.2, XBMC v10.1 on Windows 7 x64.

do you have any ideas?
Looks like a bug. I will try to reproduce it and fix it if possible. Thank you for your feedback. Oo


Version 1.3.3 - Angelscry - 2011-05-11

Version 1.3.3: Small update for the Advanced Launcher add-on. This one fix a small bug on XML files import information/character conversion ( &amps; ).

ChangeLog:
  • Fix texts/paths/names containing "&" character



- DigiTech - 2011-05-11

r3h4b Wrote:Currently running Dolphin-r7505 from AL without problems.
If I could only scrape Google fanart...Eek

Edit:
just use something like this:
Code:
Dolphin.exe" /e "%ROM%"

Thanks r3h4b, the line you specified..
Code:
Dolphin.exe" /e "%ROM%"

It is the parameter right?


- r3h4b - 2011-05-11

DigiTech Wrote:Thanks r3h4b, the line you specified..
Code:
Dolphin.exe" /e "%ROM%"

It is the parameter right?


The parameter (arguments) should be
Code:
/e "%ROM%"

Please note that by default, the launcher won't return after launching the game from Dolphin, I use an AutoIt script for that.


- mandark - 2011-05-11

Angelscry Wrote:Version 1.3.3: Small update for the Advanced Launcher add-on. This one fix a small bug on XML files import information/character conversion ( &amps; ).

ChangeLog:
  • Fix texts/paths/names containing "&" character
yay, many thanks for the quick fix! Big Grin

i've just updated the german language file for v1.3.3. you can download it here.


- Death-Axe - 2011-05-11

Hi, got a little idea. We have external apps to make media scanning better for the movie and TV scraping.

Hows about an external app that will scan all of your stuff in, and then exports the data to the advanced launcher folder?

This way, if you have a tonne of roms, like the mame set for example; you can use xbmc without having to wait like an hour to scan your roms in. Then you can watch your shows or movies while it is scanning. Also would be easier to correct any mis scrapes.

I have no programming skills whatsoever, but maybe the talented folk here could create a collaboration project or something.

Just a thought ;-)