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Buddabing:

--- Quote from: donnyj on January 21, 2005, 02:09:39 am ---Ok, I thought I was smarter than this but I guess I'm not
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Buddabing:
Hello,

I made a small change to ListGen. I added the -showusage flag which will dump out the list of options and their meanings just like MAME does. I also made the default front end moviebatch and the default output makemovies.bat.

Hopefully this will help out people attempting to make movies.

donnyj:
The included .ini file is still set at output.txt and plaintext


--- Quote from: Buddabing on January 21, 2005, 10:23:20 am ---Hello,

I made a small change to ListGen. I added the -showusage flag which will dump out the list of options and their meanings just like MAME does. I also made the default front end moviebatch and the default output makemovies.bat.

Hopefully this will help out people attempting to make movies.


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donnyj:
Thank you VERY much for your kind reply  :)

The problem with ALL the snaps came with the line in your .bat file from the first post "@del snap\*.png"

One possible suggestion, allow saving the pngs with zero compression, should be a bit faster

Is there an easy way to launch mame and virtualdub in the background?

Thanks for such a great project!!!!



--- Quote from: Buddabing on January 21, 2005, 09:51:36 am ---
--- Quote from: donnyj on January 21, 2005, 02:09:39 am ---The first thing to do is to check and make sure ListGen knows where MAME is. Edit your listgen.ini and make sure that the rompath and mamepath variables are set correctly. If your MAME executable is not named "mame.exe", then put a line with the correct name:

mamename mamepp.exe

or whatever your MAME executable is named. Also, by default, the output is named "output.txt", not "makemovies.bat". So change that line too. Make sure the "frontend" parameter is set to "moviebatch". That may be your problem right there.  :)

Gameplay.ini is not strictly necessary unless you want to filter with it. It is bundled with the Kymaera front end. You'll need to copy it whereever your ListGen is.

The program shouldn't delete all your snapshots, it will, however, delete the snapshots with the first three chararacters of the name matching your rom name.

SQL=<S>tructured <Q>uery <L>anguage. It's a widely-used way of interacting with databases. The filter.sql contains several examples of different filters. If you want to play with the filters, just uncomment out the one you want to use and comment out everything else by putting two dashes -- at the beginning of the line.

HTH,
Buddabing



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Buddabing:

--- Quote ---Is there an easy way to launch mame and virtualdub in the background?

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Yes. Silver worked out a method.

In your batch.bat, use this to launch MAME in the background:
@start /min /wait mame %1 -window -makemovie resolution %2 -wavwrite %1.wav

For VirtualDub:
@start /min /wait \virtualdub\virtualdub /s"%1.vdb" /wait /x

I removed the del snap\*.png from the batch.bat. Thank you for that correction.

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