The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Dervacumen on November 15, 2007, 03:27:35 pm
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I am building a single player (or alternating 2 player) bartop. I have my MAME game list set up and working (but it launches games really slow - that's another issue). I have 50 games installed.
I want to create a second "emulator" list that will launch videos that I've ripped to my hard drive. The video names will be a game list, and the snap will be either the cover art or something for each video. I want to be able to select a video, hit "1" and have it start playing full screen. I think this seems pretty straightforward, but has anyone done it, and if so, what was your experience?
I found the thread about launching PC shortcuts and think this is the key. I think I saw -somewhere- a good movie player that can be operated with a joystick and buttons (for selecting menus, etc.)
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I think you should be able to do that with mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html). Mplayer can be run from the command line, so any front end which can use customized command line options should be able to run it.
That's what I did for my Khameleon demo (http://cpmaker.mameprojects.com/files/khdemo_full.zip). I set up the rom extension as .avi, and the command line to add the image path to the rom name and "-loop 0 -x 640 -y 480" at the end.
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I created a arcade cab freindly movie player (ESC = Directly Exit) in the past:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53951.0
I remember I have included the source code (in Blitz+), so fell free to change it if you have that language.
I do not know how it works with mala, since I only have tested it with mamewah.