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Silver:

--- Quote from: Rocky on January 11, 2005, 06:28:07 pm ---My only problem is that I don't know how to alter the listgen program and it's trying to make videos for roms I don't have (using .71)

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Open the listgen.ini file, and set audit roms to 1 not 0. This will create a batch that will only do videos of roms you have.


On a more general note, you will get a virtualdub error "file not found" if mame was unable to run the game.  (ie no romset, or some roms not found etc....). If you have a problem like that, run "mame romname" to see if you can play the game normally. This will help by weeding out problems that are not to do with the moviemaking process.

Buddabing, you may be able to trap the mame error returned, to skip virtualdub if there was not successful movie pass. The simplist way may be for another If exist... line on the vdb file??? Or  you may think this is overkill.



Buddabing:

--- Quote from: Rocky on January 11, 2005, 06:28:07 pm ---I just stumbled upon this thread and software.  Wow, this is great  :D

It's making a bunch of videos for me now  8)

My only problem is that I don't know how to alter the listgen program and it's trying to make videos for roms I don't have (using .71)

Anyway, good work you guys.



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Change the audit_roms flag in your listgen.ini to 1.

I'm glad you are finding this utility useful.

Regards,
Buddabing
Buddabing:

--- Quote from: Silver on January 11, 2005, 06:34:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Rocky on January 11, 2005, 06:28:07 pm ---My only problem is that I don't know how to alter the listgen program and it's trying to make videos for roms I don't have (using .71)

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Open the listgen.ini file, and set audit roms to 1 not 0. This will create a batch that will only do videos of roms you have.


On a more general note, you will get a virtualdub error "file not found" if mame was unable to run the game.  (ie no romset, or some roms not found etc....). If you have a problem like that, run "mame romname" to see if you can play the game normally. This will help by weeding out problems that are not to do with the moviemaking process.

Buddabing, you may be able to trap the mame error returned, to skip virtualdub if there was not successful movie pass. The simplist way may be for another If exist... line on the vdb file??? Or  you may think this is overkill.





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That's what I was trying to do with the dummy vdb file. If there is a del /Y %1.vdb at the beginning of batch.bat, I could put in if not exist %1.vdb goto end.

The goal is to get something that will run overnight without having to press enter all the time.

Silver:
That would work. Do you need a del /Y %1.vdb at the start if you already have one at then? So long as people are using the batch, there will not be a %1.vdb.

so If exist %1.vdb goto end, right after the mame line should jump any errors....

An alternative solution, is that that we are currently executing a script file in virtualdub, which pops up dialog boxes for errors. The alternative would be to use the "jobs" file in virtualdub - so we create a jobs file (Virtualdub.jobs) which is essentially almost exactly the same as the script, and tell virtualdub to run it: virtualdub / r /x  In this mode virtualdub will write all errors to a log instead. I'll try and see if this has any other impact.
sWampy:
Should we start looking at modifing the batch file to check the size of the video and get rid of super big ones that most likely didn't work, and super tiny ones that didn't work and have it auto retry them with different paramaters, or is that beyond the scope you wanted for this?
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