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Problem with MaLa Video
« on: June 02, 2013, 02:09:18 pm »
Can somebody please explain to me how can I capture videos in mame and play them in mala?

Here is what I know and what I did so far:

I would run mame from command prompt directing it to record. For example:
mame -record mslug3.avi

I would run mslug3 and when I would exit in mame/inp folder there would be file mslug3.avi. I tried my best but I was not able to play this file with anything. I tried installing CCCP codecs, but still wouldn't play. I tried using wav format as well... no success.

I tried to play videos through mame, and that doesn't work too...

so, to summarize, here is the list of my questions:

1) Can somebody please explain to me how can I capture videos in mame and play them in mala?
2) What is the purpose of pressing Alt F11 during game play. Mame says that it "records rendered video". As far as I could notice, it doesn't do anything.

Thanks




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Re: Problem with MaLa Video
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2013, 01:30:12 am »
Take a look at this PDF download entitled "12 Things You didn't know You could do with MAME":

http://freepdfdb.com/pdf/12-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-do-with-mame-630337.html

OR

mamedev.org/misc/cax2009.pdf‎

On one of the latter pages it talks specifically about how to record games with MAME. Part of it is copied and pasted below.

MAME also supports recording in several formats
•To record an AVI/MNG/WAV:

mame <game> –aviwrite <filename>.avi

mame <game> -mngwrite <filename>.mng

mame <game> -wavwrite <filename>.wav

•To take an in-game snapshot press F12 (configurable)
You can control the size of snapshots and movies via the –
snapsize and –snapview options.
•By default, it is the native screen size


Once you get a proper video created, you simply load it up into Mala by pointing Mala to it as a startup movie.
GUI>>Start.

Your movie MUST be in a format and codec that Mala recognizes or it won't play.

Not sure about your Alt-F11 question, but I'd refer you to this site for better explanations on MAME special keys/functions:
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/MAME/Special_Keys

Best of luck.
« Last Edit: June 03, 2013, 01:34:07 am by Wade007 »
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