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Title: DOS / Movie / Vertical monitor
Post by: Rudi on June 22, 2006, 03:45:37 pm

I'm finishing up my DOS/Mame bartop, and thought it would be nice to have a startup movie as an option.  The kicker is that the monitor is vertical.  Is there a specific DOS MPEG player that can be rotated?  Is there a utility that can be used to rotate the output of one program?  The video controller is an old vga/super vga unit with no extra features.

I don't there there is an good answer to this question, but I thought I'd ask.

Additional info:
CPU: 400Mhz Pentium II
RAM: 128 Megs
Disk: 4 Gig
Emu: MAME (Dos, latest version)
FE: ArcadeOS
DOS: from Win98SE

-Rudi

Title: Re: DOS / Movie / Vertical monitor
Post by: Pi on June 22, 2006, 06:02:41 pm

Quote from: Rudi on June 22, 2006, 03:45:37 pm

Is there a utility that can be used to rotate the output of one program?  The video controller is an old vga/super vga unit with no extra features.

You can use something like VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org iirc) and rotate/resize a movie by 90 degrees. I know for sure that VirtualDub can do this. VirtualDub produces AVI files, so you can then use any of the zillions of freeware avi->mpeg converters, just Google for them. I think the tricky part would be using a DOS MPEG player, but I'm sure people from this board have already found some. Maybe it's in the Wiki.

Title: Re: DOS / Movie / Vertical monitor
Post by: Silver on June 24, 2006, 08:12:45 am

There is a protected-mode Dos program called QuickView that will play back AVI files (supports DIVX, not sure about XVID). Not sure if its free, not sure if it rotates....

Title: Re: DOS / Movie / Vertical monitor
Post by: Rudi on June 24, 2006, 09:39:55 am

I got VirtualDub and tried it.  It appears that it did create a new file that was rotated and resized so it would look good on a vertical screen.  But, it can only save the output file as an AVI.   The 5.1meg Mpeg input file became a 101Meg output file.  Playing with various types of compression routines I got it down to 12.7Megs for the AVI.  I tried using it with QuickView, but after a few minutes of waiting for the video to start I called it quits for the night and started on mapping the keys on the disassembled keyboard.

Next on my list will be the AVI->Mpeg converter.  Hopefully the end result will be a smaller file.

Rudi