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Title: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: alecrippa on June 03, 2014, 03:20:46 am

hi all,
I'm running MaLa 1.82 with mame 1.52 on a windows 7 PC.
The layout I'm using is nanocade (fixed res. 800x600).

I downloaded the emumovies videos in .mp4 format, and installed the k-lite codecs.
I can play the videos in windows (with Movie Player) by double clicking on them, so the codecs work.

I set the video folder in MaLa to the folder with the videos but the videos do not show up.
I do see the good old snapshots, but no video..

What am I missing?

Thanks all
AC

Title: Re: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: drventure on June 03, 2014, 07:11:37 am

Turn the debug logging on, run mala and then grab the log and check to see if it says anything helpful.

Post back here, and I can take a look too.

Title: Re: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: drventure on June 03, 2014, 07:17:23 am

Also, you might load up the Layout and make sure that the VIDEO window is actually visible.

Finally, grab a plain ol' AVI, rename it to match one of your roms and see if it loads up and plays, just to be sure

Title: Re: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: alecrippa on June 03, 2014, 11:48:05 am

thanks for the info, I'll try to read the log and play a standard AVI file.
What is the "VIDEO window" you're talking about? Isn't the video supposed to appear instead of the snapshot?
Cause I don't see any difference in the layout if I tell MaLa to use the videos compared to if I don't.

Title: Re: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: drventure on June 03, 2014, 11:54:00 am

If you load up the layout in layout editor, there's several "windows" that you can either show or hide. "Video" is one of them.

You can also load up the layout.mll file into a text editor and search for "VideoVisible=". It should be set to 1, if it's 0, the video window won't be shown.

Title: Re: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: alecrippa on June 05, 2014, 03:05:37 am

So the trick is that I cannot play the videos in my layout (nanocade).
They do work in the standard layout, as well in other layouts I tried.
But can't get them to show up in the nanocade layout.

I tried to edit the .mll file and set all occurences of 'VideoVisible' to 1, but with no change.

Title: Re: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: drventure on June 05, 2014, 10:26:58 am

Mala.INI might also be controlling the display behavior of videos

Do a search through the mala.ini for any occurrence of "video"

I see a "ShowLayoutVideo" option, among several others.

If the videos show in standard layout, then you know at least that you've got the codecs installed right and the path to videos set right, so that's good. It's bound to be just a layout thing.

Title: Re: mp4 videos in mala
Post by: alecrippa on June 05, 2014, 11:55:04 am

hi,
well as mentioned it does work with the standard layout, so I guess there's nothing wrong in the mala.ini..
I'll play around some more with the layout and see what pops up.
thanks