[sdsnyr94]

If I load a version of Eden (windows or Linux).. everything works. So the million dollar question is : Is Advanced Launcher not Frodo ready yet, and is there a timeframe of when it will be?

Unfortunately, I needed some of the fixes that are in the pre-frodo builds on my ION XBMCbuntu unit, and it upgraded my database... so I need to stay frodo on my Windows unit.

No Frodo support yet. Advanced Launcher will be Frodo "ready" when the RC Frodo versions of XBMC will be available. The really million dollar question is "Advanced Launcher does not work on XBMC Frodo because : Advanced Launcher is not ready or because Frodo still unstable, bugged and into development?

Well, when you have a test build you would like to try I will be more than happy to test it out. The things I would like to launch will be Mythtv-frontend (to edit commercials from recordings) , Emulators, and Steam games.

Thanks for the quick reply.

[GBBert]

Problem when i scrap image
http://pastebin.com/gagYa8SS

The addon cant find my game too!

[Angelscry]

Problem when i scrap image
http://pastebin.com/gagYa8SS

The addon cant find my game too!

Advanced Launcher is not able to save files in your selected path :

Code:

G:\\\xc3\u2030mulateurs\\Super Nintendo\\Covers\\

The problem is related to the fact that you are using the Unicode Character 'PER MILLE SIGN' (U+2030) in your path. That's not really Please use ASCII or extended ASCII characters. Which game the addon is not able to found? With which scrapper (or in which database) are your trying to found them?

[Angelscry]

Problem when i scrap image
http://pastebin.com/gagYa8SS

The addon cant find my game too!

Advanced Launcher is not able to save files in your selected path :

Code:

G:\\\xc3\u2030mulateurs\\Super Nintendo\\Covers\\

The problem is related to the fact that you are using the Unicode Character 'PER MILLE SIGN' (U+2030) in your path. That's not really Please use ASCII or extended ASCII characters. Which game the addon is not able to found? With which scrapper (or in which database) are your trying to found them?

After checking, its seems that the problem is related to something else. Advanced Launcher seems have problem to interprete É character under windows. Must be a character encoding problem. I will try to see how Can I solve this.

[GBBert]

I change my folder name to Emulateur without É and everything works great!

Thanks!

[Angelscry]

If I load a version of Eden (windows or Linux).. everything works. So the million dollar question is : Is Advanced Launcher not Frodo ready yet, and is there a timeframe of when it will be?

Unfortunately, I needed some of the fixes that are in the pre-frodo builds on my ION XBMCbuntu unit, and it upgraded my database... so I need to stay frodo on my Windows unit.

No Frodo support yet. Advanced Launcher will be Frodo "ready" when the RC Frodo versions of XBMC will be available. The really million dollar question is "Advanced Launcher does not work on XBMC Frodo because : Advanced Launcher is not ready or because Frodo still unstable, bugged and into development?

Well, when you have a test build you would like to try I will be more than happy to test it out. The things I would like to launch will be Mythtv-frontend (to edit commercials from recordings) , Emulators, and Steam games.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have investigated on your problem and it is actually a tracked Frodo bug : https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1281

[Maleficium]

Hi there,

I was trying to download the back covers of the games also but it become a difficult task to do manually for some amount of games. There's some way to tweak the GameFAQ scrapper to download the backs instead the front covers ?

Thanks for any help.

[sdsnyr94]

No Frodo support yet. Advanced Launcher will be Frodo "ready" when the RC Frodo versions of XBMC will be available. The really million dollar question is "Advanced Launcher does not work on XBMC Frodo because : Advanced Launcher is not ready or because Frodo still unstable, bugged and into development?

Well, when you have a test build you would like to try I will be more than happy to test it out. The things I would like to launch will be Mythtv-frontend (to edit commercials from recordings) , Emulators, and Steam games.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have investigated on your problem and it is actually a tracked Frodo bug : https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1281

Thanks. Looks like I will be monitoring that for a while, and if a fix gets posted I will test it.

[Angelscry]

Hi there,

I was trying to download the back covers of the games also but it become a difficult task to do manually for some amount of games. There's some way to tweak the GameFAQ scrapper to download the backs instead the front covers ?

Thanks for any help.

I could try to modify the GAMEFAQ scraper to allow to display front and back covers into the same result list. Do you want to use this covers as thumbs or fanarts?

[Angelscry]

Hi there,

I was trying to download the back covers of the games also but it become a difficult task to do manually for some amount of games. There's some way to tweak the GameFAQ scrapper to download the backs instead the front covers ?

Thanks for any help.

I could try to modify the GAMEFAQ scraper to allow to display front and back covers into the same result list. Do you want to use this covers as thumbs or fanarts?

I do not plan to add back covers support into Advanced Launcher. Actually no skins support it, that's not really the goal of Advanced Launcher to collecting/display game stuff nd is it not really into the spirit of XBMC to dislay back covers for items. If you really need use/manage back covers under XBMC you can use RCB that support it.

BTW, if you really need to scrap back covers with Advanced launcher you can manually modify the Gamefaq scraper python file : /xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/scrapers/thumbs/GameFAQs/thumbs_scraper.py and replace :

Code:

# Get Thumbnail scrapper
def _get_thumbnail(image_url):
    images = []
    try:
        search_page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.gamefaqs.com' + image_url)
        for line in search_page.readlines():
            if 'Game Box Shot' in line:
                images = re.findall('g"><a href="(.*?)"><img class="full_boxshot" src="(.*?)"', line)
                print images[0][0]
                return images[0][0]
    except:
        return ""

by :

Code:

# Get Thumbnail scrapper
def _get_thumbnail(image_url):
    images = []
    try:
        search_page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.gamefaqs.com' + image_url)
        for line in search_page.readlines():
            if 'Game Box Shot' in line:
                images = re.findall('t" /><a href="(.*?)"><img class="full_boxshot" src="(.*?)"', line)
                print images[0][0]
                return images[0][0]
    except:
        return ""

Then into the thumb selection you will still see front covers, but it will be the back cover image that will be downloaded (there is now back cover thumb preview into GameFAQ website).

[Maleficium]

Hi there,

I was trying to download the back covers of the games also but it become a difficult task to do manually for some amount of games. There's some way to tweak the GameFAQ scrapper to download the backs instead the front covers ?

Thanks for any help.

I could try to modify the GAMEFAQ scraper to allow to display front and back covers into the same result list. Do you want to use this covers as thumbs or fanarts?

I do not plan to add back covers support into Advanced Launcher. Actually no skins support it, that's not really the goal of Advanced Launcher to collecting/display game stuff nd is it not really into the spirit of XBMC to dislay back covers for items. If you really need use/manage back covers under XBMC you can use RCB that support it.

BTW, if you really need to scrap back covers with Advanced launcher you can manually modify the Gamefaq scraper python file : /xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/scrapers/thumbs/GameFAQs/thumbs_scraper.py and replace :

Code:

# Get Thumbnail scrapper
def _get_thumbnail(image_url):
    images = []
    try:
        search_page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.gamefaqs.com' + image_url)
        for line in search_page.readlines():
            if 'Game Box Shot' in line:
                images = re.findall('g"><a href="(.*?)"><img class="full_boxshot" src="(.*?)"', line)
                print images[0][0]
                return images[0][0]
    except:
        return ""

by :

Code:

# Get Thumbnail scrapper
def _get_thumbnail(image_url):
    images = []
    try:
        search_page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.gamefaqs.com' + image_url)
        for line in search_page.readlines():
            if 'Game Box Shot' in line:
                images = re.findall('t" /><a href="(.*?)"><img class="full_boxshot" src="(.*?)"', line)
                print images[0][0]
                return images[0][0]
    except:
        return ""

Then into the thumb selection you will still see front covers, but it will be the back cover image that will be downloaded (there is now back cover thumb preview into GameFAQ website).

Thank you very much Angelscry.

I understand the goal of Advanced Launcher, and I understand your point. Probably most users don't need/use the back covers either.

Thanks for the code, I'll try to use it when Advanced Launcher finish the job its doing now

[Angelscry]

Other thing you can do is to duplicate the /xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/scrapers/thumbs/GameFAQs directory and rename it like GameFAQsBack. Then you just have to edit the /xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/scrapers/thumbs/GameFAQsBack/thumbs_scraper.py file as described below. Then into Advanced launcher you will be automatically able to select between GameFAQs and GameFAQsBack thumbs scraper. The first one will download front covers and the second one will download back covers, It will be more simple for you to switch from one mode to the other.

Then in a current use create two different directory : one for front covers and the other one for back covers. Select GameFAQs scraper and define the front covers directory as thumbs directory.... Scrap.
Select GameFAQsBack scraper and define the back covers directory as thumbs directory.... then Scrap. So front and back covers will be automatically saved into different directories.

[Maleficium]

Thank you so much. I tested it and it worked.

Now was trying to make it perfect, front to Thumbs and back to FanArt. I tryed to edit fanarts_scraper.py but I didn't found the trick, any help are welcome

Thanks once again.

[Angelscry]

Thank you so much. I tested it and it worked.

Now was trying to make it perfect, front to Thumbs and back to FanArt. I tryed to edit fanarts_scraper.py but I didn't found the trick, any help are welcome

Thanks once again.

It will be completly different, because functions called to scrap thumbs and fanarts do no have the same name.

[Angelscry]

Thank you so much. I tested it and it worked.

Now was trying to make it perfect, front to Thumbs and back to FanArt. I tryed to edit fanarts_scraper.py but I didn't found the trick, any help are welcome

Thanks once again.

It will be completly different, because functions called to scrap thumbs and fanarts do no have the same name.

Ok... I have found a way. Just download this file (http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-advanced-l...covers.zip) and extract the GameFAQs_Back_Covers directory and its content into xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/scrapers/fanarts directory. Then you will have a new fanart scraper named GameFAQs_Back_Covers that will download back covers as fanarts.