[Oxize]

Ok... great to hear it. It was surely a bug that has occured only on a specific GIT version of Frodo and that was quickly fixed by a following version. That not always easy for me to make a support on develloping versions of XBMC... mostly when nobody use exactly the same version, Thanks for the feedback.

I was changing some thumbs of 2 emulators which existed already, and somehow i got into an infinite loop again. Dunno how i did it. Adding a new program with fanart/thumbs does still work ok.
I'll let you know if i can reproduce it again

[Sgt.Stedenko]

Hi

Is it possible to scrape all fanarts instead of 3 (like in TheGameDB when you can pick first, half last)?

Friendly Regards!

[Angelscry]

Hi

Is it possible to scrape all fanarts instead of 3 (like in TheGameDB when you can pick first, half last)?

Friendly Regards!

No, not possible.

[Sgt.Stedenko]

Hi

Is it possible to scrape all fanarts instead of 3 (like in TheGameDB when you can pick first, half last)?

Friendly Regards!

No, not possible.

why not?

[Angelscry]

Hi

Is it possible to scrape all fanarts instead of 3 (like in TheGameDB when you can pick first, half last)?

Friendly Regards!

No, not possible.

why not?

Simple, Advanced Launcher (due to it's coding) do not allows to do it. Amd even if it was possible to download several fanarts at the same time to use them (for example) as extra fanarts, there is actually no maintained skins that will allows you to display them (for the program section). And so... downloading fanarts only for downloading fanarts... that's not really the goal of an application launcher.

[Oxize]

Simple, Advanced Launcher (due to it's coding) do not allows to do it. Amd even if it was possible to download several fanarts at the same time to use them (for example) as extra fanarts, there is actually no maintained skins that will allows you to display them (for the program section). And so... downloading fanarts only for downloading fanarts... that's not really the goal of an application launcher.

He better use Artwork downloader instead or manual search on Google. If i cant find any art by Gamefaq or GameDB, ill search it up manually, and put it in the media directory which i created.You can select any art after which you want.

[Astergiou]

Hello,

I use Frodo Rc2 and AdvLauncher 1.10.8 and can not scrape anything!
It tells me 0 items imported. I try it with NES, SNES, N64 roms with no results...

LOG:

5:17:08 T:1396 NOTICE: VideoInfoScanner: Finished scan. Scanning for video info took 00:16
15:17:38 T:1048 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:25:18 T:1060 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:25:18 T:1060 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn
15:25:18 T:3540 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:25:25 T:4936 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:31 T:4920 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:25:31 T:4512 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:31 T:4512 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:25:36 T:3452 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:36 T:3452 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:36 T:3452 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:36 T:3452 ERROR: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::AddSortMethod - called with an invalid handle.
15:25:40 T:4356 ERROR: Previous line repeats 4 times.
15:25:40 T:4356 WARNING: CGUITextureManager::Cleanup: Having to cleanup texture button-nofocus.png
15:25:40 T:4356 WARNING: CGUITextureManager::Cleanup: Having to cleanup texture button-focus.png
15:25:40 T:1628 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:40 T:1628 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:40 T:2060 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:40 T:2060 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:40 T:1628 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:41 T:1628 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:25:41 T:2060 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:41 T:2060 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:41 T:2060 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:25:41 T:4012 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:41 T:4012 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:26:52 T:3988 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:26:52 T:3988 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:26:53 T:4540 NOTICE: Thread CFileCache start, auto delete: false
15:26:54 T:3988 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 2 times.
15:26:54 T:3988 WARNING: XFILE::CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 22
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/frodo/pvr/win32/addons.xml.md5>
15:26:54 T:3988 WARNING: XFILE::CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 22
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: Repository XBMC.org PVR Add-ons returned no add-ons, listing may have failed
15:27:02 T:4892 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:27:02 T:4892 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:27:02 T:4892 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:27:02 T:4892 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:27:02 T:5064 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:27:02 T:5064 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:27:55 T:1700 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:27:55 T:4676 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:27:55 T:392 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:27:55 T:392 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:27:55 T:4676 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn

[Angelscry]

Hello,

I use Frodo Rc2 and AdvLauncher 1.10.8 and can not scrape anything!
It tells me 0 items imported. I try it with NES, SNES, N64 roms with no results...

LOG:

5:17:08 T:1396 NOTICE: VideoInfoScanner: Finished scan. Scanning for video info took 00:16
15:17:38 T:1048 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:25:18 T:1060 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:25:18 T:1060 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn
15:25:18 T:3540 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:25:25 T:4936 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:31 T:4920 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:31 T:4920 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:25:31 T:4512 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:31 T:4512 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:25:36 T:3452 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:36 T:3452 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:36 T:3452 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:36 T:3452 ERROR: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::AddSortMethod - called with an invalid handle.
15:25:40 T:4356 ERROR: Previous line repeats 4 times.
15:25:40 T:4356 WARNING: CGUITextureManager::Cleanup: Having to cleanup texture button-nofocus.png
15:25:40 T:4356 WARNING: CGUITextureManager::Cleanup: Having to cleanup texture button-focus.png
15:25:40 T:1628 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:40 T:1628 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:40 T:2060 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:25:40 T:2060 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:25:40 T:1628 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:41 T:1628 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:25:41 T:2060 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:41 T:2060 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:25:41 T:2060 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:25:41 T:4012 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:25:41 T:4012 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:26:52 T:3988 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:26:52 T:3988 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:26:53 T:4540 NOTICE: Thread CFileCache start, auto delete: false
15:26:54 T:3988 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 2 times.
15:26:54 T:3988 WARNING: XFILE::CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 22
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/frodo/pvr/win32/addons.xml.md5>
15:26:54 T:3988 WARNING: XFILE::CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 22
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
15:26:54 T:3988 ERROR: Repository XBMC.org PVR Add-ons returned no add-ons, listing may have failed
15:27:02 T:4892 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
15:27:02 T:4892 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
15:27:02 T:4892 NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
15:27:02 T:4892 ERROR: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""
15:27:02 T:5064 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:27:02 T:5064 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:27:55 T:1700 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:27:55 T:4676 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
15:27:55 T:392 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:27:55 T:392 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
15:27:55 T:4676 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn

Could you please post the content of your launchers.xml file? Which scrapers have you selected for data, thumbs and fanarts?

[Astergiou]

here the xml file with the N64 roms

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<launchers>
<launcher>
<id>aba860a25ac5209e13e8a30c4ad45617</id>
<name>Nintendo 64</name>
<application>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Project64/Project64 1.7.0.49/Project64.exe</application>
<args>"%rom%"</args>
<rompath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/</rompath>
<thumbpath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/thumbs/</thumbpath>
<fanartpath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/fanart/</fanartpath>
<custompath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/fanart/</custompath>
<romext>z64|zip|n64</romext>
<platform>Nintendo 64</platform>
<thumb></thumb>
<fanart></fanart>
<genre></genre>
<release></release>
<publisher></publisher>
<launcherplot></launcherplot>
<finished>false</finished>
<minimize>false</minimize>
<lnk>true</lnk>
<roms>
</roms>
</launcher>
</launchers>

My paths have spaces. Is that a problem?

---

Also the settings file

<settings>
<setting id="clean_title" value="true" />
<setting id="datas_method" value="2" />
<setting id="datas_scraper" value="TheGamesDB" />
<setting id="fanart_image_size" value="0" />
<setting id="fanarts_method" value="2" />
<setting id="fanarts_scraper" value="TheGamesDB" />
<setting id="game_region" value="0" />
<setting id="hide_finished" value="false" />
<setting id="ignore_bios" value="true" />
<setting id="ignore_title" value="false" />
<setting id="launcher_fanart_path" value="" />
<setting id="launcher_nfo_path" value="" />
<setting id="launcher_notification" value="false" />
<setting id="launcher_thumb_path" value="" />
<setting id="lirc_state" value="true" />
<setting id="media_state" value="0" />
<setting id="overwrite_fanarts" value="false" />
<setting id="overwrite_thumbs" value="false" />
<setting id="recursive_scan" value="true" />
<setting id="scrap_fanarts" value="1" />
<setting id="scrap_info" value="1" />
<setting id="scrap_thumbs" value="1" />
<setting id="select_fanarts" value="0" />
<setting id="separator" value="" />
<setting id="show_batch" value="false" />
<setting id="snap_flyer" value="0" />
<setting id="start_tempo" value="1000.000000" />
<setting id="thumb_image_size" value="0" />
<setting id="thumbs_method" value="2" />
<setting id="thumbs_scraper" value="TheGamesDB" />
<setting id="title_formating" value="true" />
</settings>

[Sgt.Stedenko]

No, not possible.

why not?

Simple, Advanced Launcher (due to it's coding) do not allows to do it. Amd even if it was possible to download several fanarts at the same time to use them (for example) as extra fanarts, there is actually no maintained skins that will allows you to display them (for the program section). And so... downloading fanarts only for downloading fanarts... that's not really the goal of an application launcher.

Thanks for your reply! But would it be possible to select more then 3 fanarts (i.e. like first, half, last, very last, this is really the last one, ok one more and its done). I just want all the fanarts because im using those as backdrops in mediabrowser

thanks for your reply!

---

Simple, Advanced Launcher (due to it's coding) do not allows to do it. Amd even if it was possible to download several fanarts at the same time to use them (for example) as extra fanarts, there is actually no maintained skins that will allows you to display them (for the program section). And so... downloading fanarts only for downloading fanarts... that's not really the goal of an application launcher.

He better use Artwork downloader instead or manual search on Google. If i cant find any art by Gamefaq or GameDB, ill search it up manually, and put it in the media directory which i created.You can select any art after which you want.

Any possibility to do it automatically? im speaking of 2000 roms and it would be a pain in the a$$ to do it manually. (and does this also works with TheGameDB?)

Friendly regards.

[Oxize]

im speaking of 2000 roms and it would be a pain in the a$$ to do it manually.

2000 roms in advanced launcher? I should use Rom Collection Browser instead for that manny roms.

[Sgt.Stedenko]

Simple, Advanced Launcher (due to it's coding) do not allows to do it. Amd even if it was possible to download several fanarts at the same time to use them (for example) as extra fanarts, there is actually no maintained skins that will allows you to display them (for the program section). And so... downloading fanarts only for downloading fanarts... that's not really the goal of an application launcher.

He better use Artwork downloader instead or manual search on Google. If i cant find any art by Gamefaq or GameDB, ill search it up manually, and put it in the media directory which i created.You can select any art after which you want.

HOw do you use artwork downloader with TheGamesDB?

---

Ok, i got another problem. When i choose to download the fanart it works only for the first one. Half and Last doesnt work, he downloads the image from "first" again. What should i do?!

[Oxize]

HOw do you use artwork downloader with TheGamesDB?

Not, its only for TV Shows and Movies.

Did you try Rom Collection Browser? If not, i think you need really add them (semi)manually

[Sgt.Stedenko]

I did try RCB but it only downloads 1 fanart. It seems now Advanced Launcher is download the last fanart instead of first. So it works now Thanks for the info!

[Angelscry]

here the xml file with the N64 roms

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<launchers>
<launcher>
<id>aba860a25ac5209e13e8a30c4ad45617</id>
<name>Nintendo 64</name>
<application>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Project64/Project64 1.7.0.49/Project64.exe</application>
<args>"%rom%"</args>
<rompath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/</rompath>
<thumbpath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/thumbs/</thumbpath>
<fanartpath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/fanart/</fanartpath>
<custompath>smb://HOMESERVER/Isos&amp;Backup (D)/Emulators/N64/Roms/fanart/</custompath>
<romext>z64|zip|n64</romext>
<platform>Nintendo 64</platform>
<thumb></thumb>
<fanart></fanart>
<genre></genre>
<release></release>
<publisher></publisher>
<launcherplot></launcherplot>
<finished>false</finished>
<minimize>false</minimize>
<lnk>true</lnk>
<roms>
</roms>
</launcher>
</launchers>

My paths have spaces. Is that a problem?

---

Also the settings file

<settings>
<setting id="clean_title" value="true" />
<setting id="datas_method" value="2" />
<setting id="datas_scraper" value="TheGamesDB" />
<setting id="fanart_image_size" value="0" />
<setting id="fanarts_method" value="2" />
<setting id="fanarts_scraper" value="TheGamesDB" />
<setting id="game_region" value="0" />
<setting id="hide_finished" value="false" />
<setting id="ignore_bios" value="true" />
<setting id="ignore_title" value="false" />
<setting id="launcher_fanart_path" value="" />
<setting id="launcher_nfo_path" value="" />
<setting id="launcher_notification" value="false" />
<setting id="launcher_thumb_path" value="" />
<setting id="lirc_state" value="true" />
<setting id="media_state" value="0" />
<setting id="overwrite_fanarts" value="false" />
<setting id="overwrite_thumbs" value="false" />
<setting id="recursive_scan" value="true" />
<setting id="scrap_fanarts" value="1" />
<setting id="scrap_info" value="1" />
<setting id="scrap_thumbs" value="1" />
<setting id="select_fanarts" value="0" />
<setting id="separator" value="" />
<setting id="show_batch" value="false" />
<setting id="snap_flyer" value="0" />
<setting id="start_tempo" value="1000.000000" />
<setting id="thumb_image_size" value="0" />
<setting id="thumbs_method" value="2" />
<setting id="thumbs_scraper" value="TheGamesDB" />
<setting id="title_formating" value="true" />
</settings>

No. Your problem is linked to the fact that Advanced Launcher do not support samba paths. Advanced Launcher do not support them because mot of the emulators to not support samba paths into their command line. To bypass this you need to locally mount network share as a network directory into Windows (to assign it a drive letter.)

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Thanks for your reply! But would it be possible to select more then 3 fanarts (i.e. like first, half, last, very last, this is really the last one, ok one more and its done). I just want all the fanarts because im using those as backdrops in mediabrowser

Heuuu... I'm not sure to understand you ask me to add a feature to an application launcher (add-on for XBMC) to scrap images from a website to use them as backdrop for another software (Mediabrowser). Why do you not ask directly Mediabrowser developers to add this feature?

Any possibility to do it automatically? im speaking of 2000 roms and it would be a pain in the a$$ to do it manually. (and does this also works with TheGameDB?)

Advanced Launcher have an option to automatically scrap item fanarts.

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Simple, Advanced Launcher (due to it's coding) do not allows to do it. Amd even if it was possible to download several fanarts at the same time to use them (for example) as extra fanarts, there is actually no maintained skins that will allows you to display them (for the program section). And so... downloading fanarts only for downloading fanarts... that's not really the goal of an application launcher.

He better use Artwork downloader instead or manual search on Google. If i cant find any art by Gamefaq or GameDB, ill search it up manually, and put it in the media directory which i created.You can select any art after which you want.

HOw do you use artwork downloader with TheGamesDB?

---

Ok, i got another problem. When i choose to download the fanart it works only for the first one. Half and Last doesnt work, he downloads the image from "first" again. What should i do?!

Are you sure the scraped database have more than 1 fanart for this item?