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Lilwolf:

btw, you don't know when they hit down.  seemed REALLY slow to me. 

don't get me wrong.  I thought it was VERY cool!... but it might get old old after a bit if your trying to get to the game 10 down...  My frontend pulls changes the menu, then updates screen shot, then updates the videos.  So you can run past some games before even loading the image.  Very nice for going where you want.  But now, after seeing this, I'm wondering if I can automatically grab the first image from a movie, and save that as an image.  So it would look like its starting the video a second before.

I LOVE how the screen changes based on 3/4 and 4/3 aspect ratio.  VERY nice!



Sinner:

I was looking for a FE with a similar option, not long ago, and I was told that MAMEWah can do this.
Does anyone know if that's right??

AlexC:

I like it, hope we can find out what it is and that it actually works as good as the video shows  :applaud:

jelwell:


--- Quote from: Sinner on April 13, 2006, 08:55:47 am ---I was looking for a FE with a similar option, not long ago, and I was told that MAMEWah can do this.
Does anyone know if that's right??

--- End quote ---

Yes. The theme I use plays videos of each game. My theme isn't set up to play videos NEARLY that large though - but MAMEWAH certainly can be setup that way. I also, personally, use a delay - showing a screenshot first then loading the video after a couple of seconds. This allows me to scroll faster without loading all the video files of games while scrolling through.

The setting is actually in mamewah.ini not in the theme's .lay file.

Look for these in mamewah.ini:
movie_preview_path                                    (movie preview folder, eg c:\mame\previews)
movie_artwork_no                          1            (1-10 which artwork # will the movie overwrite when loaded?)
...
delay_before_movie_preview  2         (seconds - I suppose if you set this to 0 they'll load as quick as that google video)

Joseph Elwell.

Cutty:

I think it's awesome that babelfish translated cabinati into cabin cruiser(??), so that's what I'm calling myself from now on.

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