Adding videos to gamelists - videos you've already downloaded

[robertybob]

Hi @sselph , am I correct in thinking I cannot currently use the scraper to add videos, that I've already downloaded (named the same as the games), and add them to an existing gamelist.xml file? I have to start from scratch and scrape everything again?

If this is true, can you change this? I know it's possible to 'use your own images' so I'd love that, but with videos :)

[sselph]

Sorry for the delay. You can do a similar thing for videos as you do with images since it looks to see if the file exists before downloading it again. It will rewrite all the metadata from the source.

[robertybob]

Ah so there’s no way to keep the existing metadata? What are the flags I’d need to use?

[sselph]

Not with the current code.

It would be similar to images. You'd point -video_dir to the directory where the videos are. You'd set -video_suffix correctly, so if they are named exactly the same as the file then -video_suffix="". Then you'd run the scraper. The only caveat is the videos would need to have one of the following extensions {".mp4", ".mkv", ".flv", ".ogv", ".avi", ".mov", ".mpg", "m4v"} so I can find it.