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- Goga777 - 2011-02-27

with -kioskmode "http://www.xbmc.org" Opera started

But Opera filled only 70-80% percent of my TV square screen

How to fill it all 100% TV screen ?

- Angelscry - 2011-02-27

Goga777 Wrote:with -kioskmode "http://www.xbmc.org" Opera started

But Opera filled only 70-80% percent of my TV square screen

How to fill it all 100% TV screen ?
I don't know. If you start opera in kiokmode only using command line (not from XBMC) does it appear 100% fullscreen or only 70-80%?

- Goga777 - 2011-02-27

not

Opera will appear in the same (70-80%) TV square

may be it is due to missing window manager in my debian ?

xbmc started as standalone -

xbmc --standalone

- Angelscry - 2011-02-27

Goga777 Wrote:not

Opera will appear in the same (70-80%) TV square

may be it is due to missing window manager in my debian ?

xbmc started as standalone -

xbmc --standalone
Ok... so it is not related to Advanced Launcher. I think it could be due to resolution differences between, XBMC and Opera (under Xorg).

First thing you can try into Advanced Launcher is to edit the Opera Launcher and into Advanced Modification activate/deactivate the Toggle XBMC Fullscreen option and see if it has a positive effect. This option is normally allows XBMC to switch between to different fullscreen resolution.

If it is not working... Second thing you can try is to check into XBMC into System/Video Output option is the selected resolution is the same than your Xorg default resolution (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). If not that's mean that XBMC and Opera are not into the same resolution and that explain that Opera is not fullscreen.

Last thing you can try is to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and only indicate one resolution (the same than XBMC). Like this you will force Xorg (and so Opera) to display into the same resolution than XBMC and you may normally not have this problem.

- Goga777 - 2011-02-27

Angelscry Wrote:Ok... so it is not related to Advanced Launcher. I think it could be due to resolution differences between, XBMC and Opera (under Xorg).

First thing you can try into Advanced Launcher is to edit the Opera Launcher and into Advanced Modification activate/deactivate the Toggle XBMC Fullscreen option and see if it has a positive effect. This option is normally allows XBMC to switch between to different fullscreen resolution.

such options didn't help me

Quote:If it is not working... Second thing you can try is to check into XBMC into System/Video Output option is the selected resolution is the same than your Xorg default resolution (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). If not that's mean that XBMC and Opera are not into the same resolution and that explain that Opera is not fullscreen.


seems is ok.

xorg and xbmc is using mode "1920x1080_50"

Quote:(II) Feb 27 20:10:38 NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1920x1080_50"

Quote:Modes "1920x1080_50" "1920x1080_24_0" "1920x1080_30" "1920x1080_60

Quote:Last thing you can try is to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and only indicate one resolution (the same than XBMC). Like this you will force Xorg (and so Opera) to display into the same resolution than XBMC and you may normally not have this problem.

I corrected xorg.conf

Quote:Modes "1920x1080_50"

and it didn't help

btw - my TV set is indicated 1080p mode when xbmc and Opera was launched - seems ok

additional info with -kioskmode the hot combination Alt-F4 doesnt work. I could not close the Opera with such way

- Angelscry - 2011-02-27

Goga777 Wrote:btw - my TV set is indicated 1080p mode when xbmc and Opera was launched - seems ok

additional info with -kioskmode the hot combination Alt-F4 doesnt work. I could not close the Opera with such way
Alt+F4 is normally active when using Opera kiosk mode. No

- Goga777 - 2011-02-27

in my case - opposite

If I don't use -kioskmode - the Alt-А4 is working well

- Angelscry - 2011-02-27

Goga777 Wrote:in my case - opposite

If I don't use -kioskmode - the Alt-А4 is working well
Here is the Opera kiosk mode info : http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/
At the end of the page you have ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight command line arguments. Maybe by indicating your screen resolution into the command line using these argument will solve your problem.

For the blocked Alt+F4... mainly that the goal of the kiosk mode : fullscreen interface and no possibility to do anything else. Maybe instead of starting into kiosk mode it is better to simply start into fullscreen:
Code:
opera -fullscreen "%rom%"


- Goga777 - 2011-02-27

with

Code:
-kioskmode -ScreenWidth 1920 -ScreenHeight 1080

opera doesn't start at all - I don't know why


yes, with

Quote:opera -fullscreen "%rom%"

alt-f4 works well

- KiSUAN - 2011-02-27

Angelscry Wrote:Ok, so I think the more simple will be to to add another tag for the trailers. Because the actual LitsItem.Trailer vallue is assigned to the extrafanartpath, I will have to make some modifications.
  • add a <trailer></trailer> tag for launcher and roms.
  • assign this tag to the LitsItem.Trailer value.
  • assign the <extrafanartpath> tag to another LitsItem.Trailer value (need to found which one).
  • add option to locally select the video file to store into <trailer> tag.
I will try to work on this for the next days.

If you are able to make a scraper for trailers and make aveilable the full path with name and extension, that would let you reproduce anything downloaded as far as I seen. Geting the extension is critical because if you can't, you have to specify what type in the action button and it would be limited to 1 type, so you should limit the type of files someone is able to download from youtube from the scraper at the same time so there isn't room for "errors".

About the path, It could be stored along with any of the available paths, thumb, fanart or extrafanrt, as it doesn't create conflicts with multimage or anything and you avoid having to set more paths/folders, I don't see how adding a trailer specific path would help with anything.

If you are not planning on adding trailer scraper, I think it's the same if you leave it as it is, not because I use it that way, because there's no need to add it, you already can code through extrafanart or whatever to get a trailer.

Scraping - skimshady - 2011-03-02

Thank you for a very nice app!

Im hooked, and I have asked the skin maker of Aeon NOX to support fanart and gameplot in ALA, since NOX is my favourite skin for TV Shows and Movies. Fingers crossed!

However, I'm having problems with scraping thumbs for Atari 2600 and for SNES. Maybe 20% of thumbs are found. The file naming is generally ok I think.

Is there anyway I could increase my success ratio when scraping? Maybe I could scrape from all sources at the same time; mobygames, gamefaq, allgames and google? Is it possible?

And is it possible to do scraping in the background, so i could watch a movie at the same time?

I have found that Z26 and SSNES are best for emulating these two consoles in Windows, after trying out a lot of alternatives and reading up. As they are emulating exact, they are rich in CLI features and have no GUI frontend except for XBMC.


Again, thank you very much for this app Smile

- Angelscry - 2011-03-02

bthusby Wrote:However, I'm having problems with scraping thumbs for Atari 2600 and for SNES. Maybe 20% of thumbs are found. The file naming is generally ok I think.

Is there anyway I could increase my success ratio when scraping? Maybe I could scrape from all sources at the same time; mobygames, gamefaq, allgames and google? Is it possible?
No, it is not possible to scrap data from different sources at the same time. I will not add this kind of feature for several reasons:
  • first, most of the time a game is not found because it not have a right filename. So using several source will not solve the problem at all.
  • second, some sources, like Allgame or gamefaqs return the first approching result. So have a result do not mean that you have the right result. There is always mistake. So it could happen that for a same game you will have different results depending the source you are using... In this case... which result will be taken into account by Advanced Launcher? Only the user can make the difference.
  • Finally, some rare games are not referenced by any source. In this case scraping from different sources will take time for nothing.
There is no "miracle" way to scrap all the data. You will always have mistake, wrong results or missing data.

I could give you some hints :
  • Use semi-automatic scraping method. It will take more time than the automatic one, but your results will be more accurate.
  • Use allgame database for game data. For me, it have the more complete database.
  • For thumbs or fanarts use gamefaq or mobygames.
But it will not be perfect. Then you will have to edit the wrong, no found item using other scraper. For images, using Google scraper is most of the time the definitve and ultimate way to found them.

Quote:And is it possible to do scraping in the background, so i could watch a movie at the same time?
No unfortunately it is not possible. If you want to what a movie, you have to quit Advanced Launcher and so... it will not be able to scan and save data.

Quote:I have found that Z26 and SSNES are best for emulating these two consoles in Windows, after trying out a lot of alternatives and reading up. As they are emulating exact, they are rich in CLI features and have no GUI frontend except for XBMC.
Maye you can share you launchers configurations here with others. It will help a lot of people. I will be able to test them and add the information to the dedicated wiki pages : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=Main_Page

- skimshady - 2011-03-03

Angelscry Wrote:Maye you can share you launchers configurations here with others. It will help a lot of people. I will be able to test them and add the information to the dedicated wiki pages : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=Main_Page

Yes I will do that. Im not perfectly happy yet with my setup.

When I scrape using Google, often there is some good thumbs showing up, but they will not work when i choose them. Are there limitations in ALA regarding file types, file size etc?
And also I found better matches when i put in e.g. "atari" in my searches in addition to just the name of an atari-game. Also a lot of the thumbs for games remained empty, i prefer just putting in something remotely related to the name instead (and often funny), and then I can manually fix later.

Maybe this could be incorporated into the scraping algorithm?

- Angelscry - 2011-03-03

bthusby Wrote:When I scrape using Google, often there is some good thumbs showing up, but they will not work when i choose them. Are there limitations in ALA regarding file types, file size etc?
What happen sometime with the Google Images search engine is that Google is referencing images that are not anymore on the referenced web pages. And so when Advanced Launcher want to download these images... it can not.

bthusby Wrote:And also I found better matches when i put in e.g. "atari" in my searches in addition to just the name of an atari-game. Also a lot of the thumbs for games remained empty, i prefer just putting in something remotely related to the name instead (and often funny), and then I can manually fix later.

Maybe this could be incorporated into the scraping algorithm?
Yes, I know this fact. By adding the game system to the google image search you will have better specific result... I will try to see how I can improve this... without limiting the flexibility. Thank you. Wink

- Mannebrother - 2011-03-03

Hello, i use to play my emulators fine but it seems to have changed after the recent updates. I am running project64 and znes through advanced launcher.

win 7
geforce 210

(not necessary information maybe cause it use to run just fine)

well over to the problems.

1. When starting project64 from xbmc it gives me following:
Graphical error
Direct3D failed to initialize
Error code 88760868
D3DERR_DEVICELOST

i press ok

following message comes

"The default or selected video plugin is missing or invalid.
Check that you have at least one compatible plugin file in your plugin folder."

(it does work like a charm if going in manually through project64 so seems to be related to advanced launcher. (also it did work before and i have done nothing to it what i can recall))
What can be wrong?

The other problem i seem to have is that when i try to start an emulator and XBMC minimizes just like before but with one change, when i navigate through the game i continue to still navigate in XBMC at the same time, this is not how it use to be. Smile
and is fairly annoying starting 50 or so of other applications Tongue