I though someone might get a kick out of this so I decided to post it here. I'm a graphic artist/animator/video producer for a living, so I wanted a cool opener for my MAME startup.
I use MALA, so basically you turn the power on, the computer boots, the desktop displays loading screen as wallpaper (desktop icons and start menu hidden), and then the attached movie runs (larger and less compressed obviously). The MALA splash screen is disabled, so it goes from the (fake) loading screen (desktop image) to this intro, and right into my MALA interface.
At least that's the plan. My computer is disassembled right now, and I created all of this on my Mac. I don't know PCs very well, but I did some testing with other movies before creating this, and it seemed to work OK.
I don't know how else to upload it so I zipped it for here. I also included the interface.
What do ya think?