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| Rudi:
I'm finishing up my DOS/Mame bartop, and thought it would be nice to have a startup movie as an option. The kicker is that the monitor is vertical. Is there a specific DOS MPEG player that can be rotated? Is there a utility that can be used to rotate the output of one program? The video controller is an old vga/super vga unit with no extra features. I don't there there is an good answer to this question, but I thought I'd ask. Additional info: CPU: 400Mhz Pentium II RAM: 128 Megs Disk: 4 Gig Emu: MAME (Dos, latest version) FE: ArcadeOS DOS: from Win98SE -Rudi |
| Pi:
--- Quote from: Rudi on June 22, 2006, 03:45:37 pm ---Is there a utility that can be used to rotate the output of one program? The video controller is an old vga/super vga unit with no extra features. --- End quote --- You can use something like VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org iirc) and rotate/resize a movie by 90 degrees. I know for sure that VirtualDub can do this. VirtualDub produces AVI files, so you can then use any of the zillions of freeware avi->mpeg converters, just Google for them. I think the tricky part would be using a DOS MPEG player, but I'm sure people from this board have already found some. Maybe it's in the Wiki. |
| Silver:
There is a protected-mode Dos program called QuickView that will play back AVI files (supports DIVX, not sure about XVID). Not sure if its free, not sure if it rotates.... |
| Rudi:
I got VirtualDub and tried it. It appears that it did create a new file that was rotated and resized so it would look good on a vertical screen. But, it can only save the output file as an AVI. The 5.1meg Mpeg input file became a 101Meg output file. Playing with various types of compression routines I got it down to 12.7Megs for the AVI. I tried using it with QuickView, but after a few minutes of waiting for the video to start I called it quits for the night and started on mapping the keys on the disassembled keyboard. Next on my list will be the AVI->Mpeg converter. Hopefully the end result will be a smaller file. Rudi |
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