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Title: Mamewah and Spacefractal's Movieplayer
Post by: Turnarcades on February 11, 2009, 10:03:28 pm

Just a quickie...

I'm trying to add SpaceFractal's command-line movie player to Mamewah for a simple music video player, but I can't seem to get it working. The program runs straight from the command line with no problems, however no matter what I put for the command line executable I can't get it to launch from Mamewah - it just goes says 'loading', then flickers and stays on Mamewah.

I know this happens when the emulator executable line is wrong (I'm launching this like an emulator, not as an external app), and it is obviously generating the list of movies, but I just can't get it to launch. I should be an expert by now but this one is bugging me. Can anyone with Mamewah please try this and post their .ini file please? I'm using version 1.63.

Title: Re: Mamewah and Spacefractal's Movieplayer
Post by: Minwah on February 12, 2009, 05:26:21 am

What does it say in mamewah.log?

Title: Re: Mamewah and Spacefractal's Movieplayer
Post by: Turnarcades on February 12, 2009, 06:10:05 am

Hi Min, great you are around, just didn't want to pester you directly with this one! Here's the log:

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12/02/2009 11:02:26 MAMEWAH v1.63 launched
12/02/2009 11:02:26 Cursor scheme: Windows default, Arrow: (None), Wait: (None), AppStarting: (None)
12/02/2009 11:02:26 Desktop colour: 9981440
12/02/2009 11:02:26 Wallpaper filename: C:\WINDOWS\web\wallpaper\Bliss.bmp
12/02/2009 11:02:26 Desktop display mode: 1280x800 @ 60Hz, 32bit colour
12/02/2009 11:02:26 Decimal symbol: '.'
12/02/2009 11:02:27 Games list read: 21-MP-0.lst
12/02/2009 11:02:28 Mode 800 x 600 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
12/02/2009 11:02:28 Layout selected: C:\MAMEWAH\config\21-MP\\layout.lay
12/02/2009 11:02:28 No. joystick devices attached: 0
12/02/2009 11:02:28 Ctrlr file selected: C:\MAMEWAH\config\mamewah.cfg
12/02/2009 11:02:29 Keyboard enabled
12/02/2009 11:02:33 Current drive/directory selected: C:\MP
***12/02/2009 11:02:33 Commandline run: C:\MP\movieplayer.exe "c:\MP\movies\ABBA - I Have A Dream.mpg" {flags=209}***
12/02/2009 11:02:34 Application quit: C:\MP\movieplayer.exe "c:\MP\movies\ABBA - I Have A Dream.mpg"
12/02/2009 11:02:34 Mode 800 x 600 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
12/02/2009 11:02:35 Mode 800 x 600 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
12/02/2009 11:02:40 Mode 1280 x 800 @ 60Hz, 32bit colour selected after 1 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
12/02/2009 11:02:41 MAMEWAH quit
The section I've marked with asterisks delivers a different 'flag' regardless of which safelaunch/dosbox settings I use. The above log was generated when using this as the .ini:

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### 21-MP.ini (mamewah v1.63) ###

emulator_title                            MP

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\MP\movies
rom_extension                             mpg
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      C:\MP\movieplayer.exe "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       
movie_preview_path                       
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       1
history_dat_file                         
history_dat_artwork_no                    1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                gamelist_slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                0
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
description_display                       [description]{scroll}

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Mamewah and Spacefractal's Movieplayer
Post by: Turnarcades on February 12, 2009, 10:47:58 pm

anyone?

Title: Re: Mamewah and Spacefractal's Movieplayer
Post by: Minwah on February 13, 2009, 05:09:00 am

It looks OK to me...the only thing I would suggest is to use {dosbox}{safelaunch} but I'm sure you have tried that.

I haven't used the movie player before but will give it a shot if you still have trouble...

Title: Re: Mamewah and Spacefractal's Movieplayer
Post by: Turnarcades on February 13, 2009, 09:13:09 pm

No Min, no combination of dosbox/safelaunch works. I can definitely say it's not launching 'unfocused' in the background either as if it was Mamewah would usually 'freeze out' the controls and you would hear the sound in the background of the video playing, but that's not even happening. Any chance you could have a look? It's found here:

http://www.arcademusicbox.com/index.php?item=extras (http://www.arcademusicbox.com/index.php?item=extras)