Steam video snaps.

[Orlin]

Hi there, its been a long time.

Well i just updated to upto date and i have a question about the new Steam feature.

I been added my steam games now for some time to GameEX using the old fashion way, i had all the artwork and video snaps.

Now is there away to set it up so i can include my video snaps using the new way?

Thanks and i look forward to your reply.

[Adultery]

Don't quote me on this but I think the snaps are gathered dynamically now with the DB info.

[Stu1983]

GameEx should grab these automatically from the Steam website but if you want to use your own just replace the file in

GameEx\MEDIA\STEAM\VIDEO

GameEx\MEDIA\STEAM\SNAP

You need to know the game id though, you can get this from the \GameEx\DATA\steamdata.ini or from the Steam website for each game (its in the url)

You can edit descriptions in the steamdata.ini

[Orlin]

Spot on, thanks guys.

Yeah everything is working fine, but some of the default video snaps SUCKS, so i would like to replace a few with my own ingame recorded footage.

[nullPointer]

You should be able to replace the downloaded videos with your own, but there are a couple of caveats I’ve noticed. The name needs to match (obviously), but the format must also match the original format pulled from Steam.

I was having playback issues with an flv downloaded from Steam via GameEx (we’ll call it 12345.flv). No problem I thought, I’ll just reencode it in Handbrake as an mp4. That worked great until GameEx went out to scrape Steam and realized that 12345.flv was no longer present. At that point it downloaded the flv again, and I was back to wonky playback.

If the name and the format both match, GameEx will not try to pull down the video again (even if the video itself is different).

Just something to be aware of.

[Orlin]

thanks for the heads up, i better convert them to .flv then to stop that problem.

[Adultery]

Don't quote me, but you may see a performance hit if you're using FLV (not 100% on that however).

[Tom Speirs]

Actually that's something I can fix to stop it replacing the mp4 with the flv download. You shouldn't have to do that. Its done for the next release.

[nullPointer]

Wow thanks Tom! You rock man!

[Orlin]

WOW, thanks Tom, that will save me a lot of work, plus it be a very useful update for others.

[Draco1962]

Orlin - please upgrade to 12.84 and let us know that this is resolved for you. Thanks!