Orlin Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Don't quote me on this but I think the snaps are gathered dynamically now with the DB info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu1983 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 GameEx should grab these automatically from the Steam website but if you want to use your own just replace the file inGameEx\MEDIA\STEAM\VIDEOGameEx\MEDIA\STEAM\SNAPYou 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlin Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullPointer Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlin Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 thanks for the heads up, i better convert them to .flv then to stop that problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Don't quote me, but you may see a performance hit if you're using FLV (not 100% on that however). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullPointer Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Wow thanks Tom! You rock man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlin Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 WOW, thanks Tom, that will save me a lot of work, plus it be a very useful update for others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Orlin - please upgrade to 12.84 and let us know that this is resolved for you. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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