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Hubble:

--- Quote from: loadman on November 16, 2006, 03:37:08 am ---In the short-term.. for a temp solution

Maybee you could offer a procedure as to what you did for others to follow rather than considering a Mega Upload of your sets?  :dunno

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I'd second that!

After all, your movie packs still work with MAMEWAH, and would be fine for people using that as their frontend.  I'm sure everybody's different, but I usually only keep a few dozen "best-of" games for any given console on my cab (MAME and NeoGeo being the only exceptions).  I'd rather re-encode a few dozen movies myself than have you go through all that trouble re-encoding/uploading hundreds . . .

Also, it might be better to go with a temporary solution until Swindus can let us know whether it's possible to fix this issue in MALA and how difficult it might be . . .

Meanwhile, thanks to all of you for your hard work!

Circo:
Ok here is what I did:

#1
I used Batch Video Converter http://www.anytodvd.com/ There may be a free program that works as well but I couldn't find it.  I selected "ctrl-a" an entire preview directory, and converted all of them to Xvid. 

Couple of things to remember here:
a) Make sure to set a seperate target folder.
b) Also make sure an actual Divx codec is installed with "divx logo turned off".  Otherwise for some reason Xvid will show the logo and it will be burned into all of your previews.

#2
To rename the files I used Better File Rename http://www.publicspace.net/windows/BetterFileRename/version.html Once again I tried some free ones and they didn't do the job.  Once you convert the videos they have a name like this: sample_game_(U)(new).avi

To rename, where it says Replace these Characters type "_" and under With type " " (don't type the "" but you will hit the spacebar once).  The free program I found would not replace a charater with a space.  Under that put "(new)" and replace with blank.  That should rename all of your files with the correct names. 

The whole process is relatively quick probably because the difference between formats is not that great.

After all this, the previews work in mala fine.

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