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Necro:
Anyone know if there's a way to make the mamewah video preview not show the ugly grey/black border around videos that it generates to fill the entire image area?  Unless I set the image area that the video is playing in to exactly the right aspect ratio, some ugly borders are popping up.

This isn't really an issue with consoles...but with mame it looks horrible.
Minwah:
Are you saying Mamewah generates this grey area? It so, it shouldn't...make sure the colour of your background/artwork image box is not grey (use the Layout Designer).

If it's somehow in the video itself then I doubt much can be done.
Necro:
Hrm...ok, this is whats happening.  I set a box up to hold a snap.  It seems like instead of just playing the video and sizing down to the dimensions of the video, it's doing borders around the videos to 'fill' the rest of the box. 

Its not the video itself...if anything, it's that the video player window is being expanded somehow...

It's baffling me.
Bloodwyn:
Hmm.. On alot of the front ends, there is an option to keep aspect ratio of snaps and video.

I can't remember offhand if keeping aspect ratio in Mamewah causes a border, but I have definately seen this happen in other frontends.

Try displaying the video both keeping aspect ratio on and off.

I have seen green borders when the video codec was corrupt or old. If your videos are xvid, or divx = try using ffdshow.

Bloodwyn
Necro:
I'm actually using ffdshow and thought that might be the issue.

I'ved tried the keep_movie_preview_aspect or whatever the setting is in mamewah to both on and off and it doesn't seem to do anything.  In MaLa, the issue exists (as you said) if I say keep the aspect ratio....the issue is without it it will still look crappy...and mala won't let you turn it on for videos and off for pics.
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