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Author Topic: Request - prevent video snaps from restarting when Mala is rotated  (Read 2257 times)

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Since Loadman made an appearance, I'm going to throw this request out there in case he's working on Mala again.

I'm probably the only person with this issue, but if It would be something easy to change on the next release it would be much appreciated.

I have a rotating monitor and am using DaOldMan's startcom plugin to control it and rotate Mala.
His Plugin gives the option of rotating the layout before or after the game launches and exits.

If it is set to change the layout orientation after the game exits, I see the layout for the wrong orientation for a second or two before it switches to the correct one.
I don't like that, so I'd rather not use this option.

If set to switch before the game, it all works great.  I launch the game, the loading screen comes up, the screen physically rotates, then when I exit the game Mala already has the correct orientation loaded.

But when using video snaps, the preview video restarts after startcom switches the layout orientation.
It can be heard playing in the background while the game is launching and continues after the game has loaded.

Could this behavior of playing the video when the layout is rotated be changed in a future version?
or....
Are there any command line parameters that I can include in my startcom command that would stop the video player for that one transition?