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| Buddabing:
--- Quote from: MPS on January 14, 2005, 11:16:46 pm ---Buddabing: Thank you very much for your hard work. I'm trying this out for the first time. Would it be possible for you or someone else with working knowledge of the Movie Maker to post a complete list of the necessary steps to make all of this work? This thread is starting to get really long, and I am having some difficulty finding the information I need. Thank you again. --- End quote --- The stuff you need to download is on the first post in this thread. You'll also need two more files: batch.bat and makemovies.bat. Here's a sample batch.bat. Cut and paste into a file and modify. @if not exist e:\mame\movies mkdir e:\mame\movies @if exist e:\mame\movies\%1.avi goto end time /T @mame %1 -window -makemovie -resolution %2 -wavwrite %1.wav @if not exist %1.vdb goto end @\virtualdub\virtualdub /s"%1.vdb" /wait /x @del %1.wav @del %1.vdb @del snap\*.png @move /Y %1.avi e:\mame\movies time /T :end The second file you need is called makemovies.bat, which calls batch.bat for each of your ROMs. Here's a sample: @call batch 005 224x256 @call batch 1941 224x384 @call batch 1943 224x256 @call batch 1944 384x224 @call batch 19xx 224x384 @call batch 2020bb 304x224 @call batch 280zzzap 256x224 @call batch 3countb 320x224 @call batch 3stooges 256x240 @call batch 3wonders 384x224 @call batch 40love 256x224 @call batch 4dwarrio 256x224 @call batch 4enraya 256x224 @call batch 4in1 224x256 You can generate your own makemovies.bat by using my ListGen utility, a link to it is in the first post of this thread. HTH, Buddabing |
| sWampy:
Does anyone else run into games that seem to never finish? If it's not something that only happens on my 2 machines, an option to set a max time passage, not just frames, so you don't waste hours sitting on a game that runs at .1 frame per second, or whatever. Silvers idea to go to a batch mode on virtual dub where it doesn't hang with dialogue boxes also seems like a good idea. Making a dummy avi file if it either mame or virtualdub fails, or some other way the batch file can auto skip these next time it's run would be nice. I sometimes have to break my batchfile to use the machine for some other purpose, and when I come back, I have to either edit the batch file to remove all the games that have failed, or reclose all the virtualdub error messages. |
| Buddabing:
--- Quote from: sWampy on January 15, 2005, 11:59:02 am ---Does anyone else run into games that seem to never finish? If it's not something that only happens on my 2 machines, an option to set a max time passage, not just frames, so you don't waste hours sitting on a game that runs at .1 frame per second, or whatever. Silvers idea to go to a batch mode on virtual dub where it doesn't hang with dialogue boxes also seems like a good idea. Making a dummy avi file if it either mame or virtualdub fails, or some other way the batch file can auto skip these next time it's run would be nice. I sometimes have to break my batchfile to use the machine for some other purpose, and when I come back, I have to either edit the batch file to remove all the games that have failed, or reclose all the virtualdub error messages. --- End quote --- Hmmmm. I don't ever get virtualdub problems anymore. Look at the sample batch.bat that I posted above. Make sure you have a line that says "if not exist %1.vdb goto end" . That should take care of the dialog boxes popping up. I've got 1000+ videos now and I've restarted the makemovies.bat several times. It runs without stopping now. |
| sWampy:
Hmm, I had missed the go to end before the virtual dub line. That should fix those, I changed mine to go to failed and had failed copy failed.txt to %1.bad and at the top skipped the ones with a %1.bad file. So it will skip all those quickly, unless a new version comes out and I want to try the bad ones again. I'm at almost 1300, and I've maybe had 20 hang in mame/take several hours, I'll try to notice the next time it happens what rom it is. But it's pretty disgusting, when you get up in the morning, look and it's made it through 3 roms since you went to bed cause it hit some chd game marked as working, but that has been running for 6 hours and still hasn't done 10000 frames or whatever and exited. I did have one this morning that did get some virtualdub error that wasn't caused by something other than not having a script, I'll make a note of what it was if that happens again. 4.8 gigs of avi's and growing. ;-) |
| big daddy:
<quote> The stuff you need to download is on the first post in this thread. You'll also need two more files: batch.bat and makemovies.bat. Here's a sample batch.bat. Cut and paste into a file and modify. @if not exist e:\mame\movies mkdir e:\mame\movies @if exist e:\mame\movies\%1.avi goto end time /T @mame %1 -window -makemovie -resolution %2 -wavwrite %1.wav @if not exist %1.vdb goto end @\virtualdub\virtualdub /s"%1.vdb" /wait /x @del %1.wav @del %1.vdb @del snap\*.png @move /Y %1.avi e:\mame\movies time /T :end The second file you need is called makemovies.bat, which calls batch.bat for each of your ROMs. Here's a sample: @call batch 005 224x256 @call batch 1941 224x384 @call batch 1943 224x256 @call batch 1944 384x224 @call batch 19xx 224x384 @call batch 2020bb 304x224 @call batch 280zzzap 256x224 @call batch 3countb 320x224 @call batch 3stooges 256x240 @call batch 3wonders 384x224 @call batch 40love 256x224 @call batch 4dwarrio 256x224 @call batch 4enraya 256x224 @call batch 4in1 224x256 You can generate your own makemovies.bat by using my ListGen utility, a link to it is in the first post of this thread. </quote> First off, thanks for the work on this...works great on the few that I've tried. For those like me that are a bit slow, you might want to add the above information to your first post...I couldn't figure things out until I read this part. Thanks again! btw - anyone know of a good movie screensaver? Be pretty neat to randomly cycle through different attract videos in full screen now that I have a pretty complete list |
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