mala - multiple directories for a given resource like videos?

[TheShanMan]

So like I mentioned previously, I have the emu-movies videos via the [romsite name redacted] torrent. This has separate directories for horizontal games and vertical games. I'd rather not combine them into one directory because I want to be able to share with others via that torrent, and as the number of movies grows I want to be able to easily update my content by having the same structure as what's provided by the torrent.

Is there a way to provide 2 directories for videos in Mala? I've tried commas and semicolons but neither seem to work, and I couldn't find documentation stating how to do it.

[TheShanMan]

Well, 2 things I've figured out since posting... the "horizontal" folder actually contains both horizontal and vertical (there are I think 5 avi's in the vertical folder that weren't already in the horizontal folder). So that mostly eliminates the issue.

But I did find a workaround, and that is to create a new folder and create NTFS "hard links" to all the videos. I just made a batch file with a for loop to do it.

Still would be nicer if I could just list 2 directories.

[Circo]

The reason that you find vertical games in the horizontal folder is that it is a complete set in a horizontal format ie: the vertical games are letterboxed to prevent stretching.  Mala benifits from this greatly because if they are in there native vertical resolution it will stretch the video to 4:3 which doesn't look right at all.  Whereas in Gameex it requires videos to be in a basically native aspect ratio, in that case you copy the contents of the the vertical folder into the horizontal folder to replace those files so that they have the correct aspect ratio. 

You said there were about 5 games in the vertical folder that were not in the horizontal folder, if you shoot me the names of those I can correct it for the final release. 

Thanks

[TheShanMan]

Here are the ones that are ONLY in the vertical folder:

pinbo.avi
moremore.avi
kingofb.avi
helifire.avi
gunlock.avi

Let me just say that these videos are truly an awesome improvement to the whole FE experience! Thanks SOOOOOO much for making this project happen. I look forward to T-Z!

[Circo]

Ok I have fixed these and uploaded to the ftp, thanks for the heads up.