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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 28, 2011, 11:49:25 pm ---I ran into a couple of snags...
I was able to do the wahcade -d thing...at first I got 3 issues and I was able to resolve 2 of those.
1)PIL module not found error.....something about rotated images not supported
2)control.ini missing in /emulators/mame/ ....easy fix
3)directory not found /home/roms/avi...easy fix
So I copied the controls.ini file and moved all my .avi's to the appropriate directory. Nothing to talk about though...no improvement.
--- Quote ---Checkout both the stable and development wahcade:
# first get bzr
sudo emerge -av bzr
# get devel
bzr branch lp:~waynemou/wahcade/devel
# get stable
bzr branch lp:wahcade
Then you can apply the patch attached here to these for the changes in config options groovymame uses...
cd wahcade && cat ../wahcade.diff |patch -p0
Then run the normal install script in the wahcade directory. I'm guessing the devel version isn't the one to use, but the main one might be with the fix mentioned earlier in this thread, possibly will help. If not, at least with this patch you can recompile wahcade, and possibly try the other main one that's available (99preX), but with that there's still a fix that needs to be done for it...
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I was able to download the three branches, but I'm at a roadblock now. I downloaded the wahcade.diff file but wasn't sure what directory to copy it to. Also, I typed the your command verbatim and I got a directory or file not found error. (cd wahcade && cat ../wahcade.diff |patch -p0) Since I didn't get any further, I didn't attempt the install script.....
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You'll need to download, and unzip the patch 'unzip wahcade.zip', then copy it to the directory of wahcade and reference it with the patch command. I was just assuming it was one directory below the wahcade directory you were compiling with that command using ../ but it could be anywhere in the file system. The PIL images not supported doesn't matter, so don't worry about that. If able to patch each of those, and run ./install for them, might get better results hopefully in one or another of them.
bitbytebit:
Here's the newest wahcade 1.0pre1 zipped up, just unzip it and enter the wahcade directory it makes. After that just type sudo ./install and it should install on the system, see if that works better.
http://mario.groovy.org/GroovyArcade/wahcade.zip
dmarcum99:
after much testing I still could not get any of the multimedia features to work.
I unzipped the file and ran the ./install in the newly created wahcade directory and it installed fine. When I ran wahcade-setup from the same directory, I expected to see the setup program at the program defaults, but it had my previous settings from the livecd install directory (/.wahcade). So I don't know if that has anything to do with not getting anything to play.... :dunno I rebooted, started from the terminal, and still no go.
the arcade ambience file is almost 90mb and .mp3 format...would this make a difference?
my video files are in 640x480 .avi format - these should be fine, right?
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 29, 2011, 11:43:18 pm ---after much testing I still could not get any of the multimedia features to work.
I unzipped the file and ran the ./install in the newly created wahcade directory and it installed fine. When I ran wahcade-setup from the same directory, I expected to see the setup program at the program defaults, but it had my previous settings from the livecd install directory (/.wahcade). So I don't know if that has anything to do with not getting anything to play.... :dunno I rebooted, started from the terminal, and still no go.
the arcade ambience file is almost 90mb and .mp3 format...would this make a difference?
my video files are in 640x480 .avi format - these should be fine, right?
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Yeah the config files are fine, they should be the same. I think the author of wahcade is reworking the whole way the media stuff functions, says that in the repository comments, guessing it's either broken right now or some other library is missing.
We can try the development version too, see what that does. Not sure, I do know it's got a bit more changes with the media stuff, it could be fixed there, but of course it also could be quite more broken since it's a development branch, we'll have to see.
I'm not sure about the file size, it could be, actually all I ever did was to have wahcade play my mp3 files like a jukebox randomly. So the other media stuff I never tested actually, it could still be a work in progress for all I know.
bitbytebit:
Here's the development wahcade patched, see how it works, zip file will extract to ./devel...
http://mario.groovy.org/GroovyArcade/wahcade_devel.zip