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jdsabin1:
Thank you for the quick reply! I changed the setting (I believe it was romlist instead of moviebatch) in the ini. I have listgen and mame in separate sub-dirs (if that makes any difference). I downloaded and installed everything you listed in the first post.
At any rate, I reran listgen and this is the message it gave me:
I:\listgen>listgen
listxml.txt already exists
gamelist.txt already exists
listfull.txt already exists
Scanning XML game info
Failed to open catver.ini, list may be inaccurate
Failed to find nplayers.ini, list may be inaccurate
Failed to find gameplay.ini, list may be inaccurate
Processing gamelist.txt
Processing listfull.txt
Processing ssf.txt
Writing intermediate file listgen.tmp
Reading intermediate file into filter database
Filtering database into result.tmp
Renaming result.tmp to xxx.txt
Here is the contents of my listgen.ini:
rompath ..\mame\roms
mamepath ..\mame
frontend moviebatch
verbose 0
silent 0
audit_roms 0
use_clones 1
unique 0
us_version_priority 0
world_version_priority 0
strip_description 1
japan_version_priority -1
reuse_mame_data 1
output xxx.txt
force_uppercase_romnames 0
skip_final_step 1
---------------------
Thanks again!
Buddabing:
--- Quote from: jdsabin1 on March 29, 2005, 09:26:43 pm ---Thank you for the quick reply! I changed the setting (I believe it was romlist instead of moviebatch) in the ini. I have listgen and mame in separate sub-dirs (if that makes any difference). I downloaded and installed everything you listed in the first post.
At any rate, I reran listgen and this is the message it gave me:
I:\listgen>listgen
listxml.txt already exists
gamelist.txt already exists
listfull.txt already exists
Scanning XML game info
Failed to open catver.ini, list may be inaccurate
Failed to find nplayers.ini, list may be inaccurate
Failed to find gameplay.ini, list may be inaccurate
Processing gamelist.txt
Processing listfull.txt
Processing ssf.txt
Writing intermediate file listgen.tmp
Reading intermediate file into filter database
Filtering database into result.tmp
Renaming result.tmp to xxx.txt
Here is the contents of my listgen.ini:
rompath ..\mame\roms
mamepath ..\mame
frontend moviebatch
verbose 0
silent 0
audit_roms 0
use_clones 1
unique 0
us_version_priority 0
world_version_priority 0
strip_description 1
japan_version_priority -1
reuse_mame_data 1
output xxx.txt
force_uppercase_romnames 0
skip_final_step 1
---------------------
Thanks again!
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I guess I should change the defaults.......
Change skip_final_step to 0 and output to makemovies.bat and strip_description to 0.
That should do it.
jdsabin1:
I made the changes you suggested. When I ran the listgen.exe again I got a hard crash (Windows XP SP2). It did this:
I:\listgen>listgen
listxml.txt already exists
gamelist.txt already exists
listfull.txt already exists
Scanning XML game info
Processing catver.ini
Failed to find nplayers.ini, list may be inaccurate
Failed to find gameplay.ini, list may be inaccurate
Processing gamelist.txt
Processing listfull.txt
Processing ssf.txt
Writing intermediate file listgen.tmp
Reading intermediate file into filter database
Filtering database into result.tmp
Writing game list to makemovies.bat
-------------
And then the crash. Looking at the error dialogue box it tells me:
AppName: listgen.exe
AppVer: 0.0.0.0
ModName: msvcrt.dll
ModVer: 7.0.2600.2180
Offset: 000360cb
If that helps at all. :(
Buddabing:
--- Quote from: jdsabin1 on March 29, 2005, 11:22:34 pm ---I made the changes you suggested. When I ran the listgen.exe again I got a hard crash (Windows XP SP2). It did this:
I:\listgen>listgen
listxml.txt already exists
gamelist.txt already exists
listfull.txt already exists
Scanning XML game info
Processing catver.ini
Failed to find nplayers.ini, list may be inaccurate
Failed to find gameplay.ini, list may be inaccurate
Processing gamelist.txt
Processing listfull.txt
Processing ssf.txt
Writing intermediate file listgen.tmp
Reading intermediate file into filter database
Filtering database into result.tmp
Writing game list to makemovies.bat
-------------
And then the crash. Looking at the error dialogue box it tells me:
AppName: listgen.exe
AppVer: 0.0.0.0
ModName: msvcrt.dll
ModVer: 7.0.2600.2180
Offset: 000360cb
If that helps at all. :(
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Edit your filter.sql and comment out (put two dashes at the beginning of the line) the line that says ".separator '' ".
Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll change the defaults.
jdsabin1:
Not an inconvenience at all. Happy I can help. This is such a great idea!
That worked but my next hurdle is this:
I edited the makemovies.bat file to only include Amidar just to test with. I noticed when I double clicked the file and the DOS window popped up, I got the message: 'could not find I:\mame\moviesnp\ami*.png' which I assume is fine (at least it didn't appear to hold things up).
Amidar came up in a small window on my desktop and ran just fine, then it ultimately closed.
Anyway, VirtualDub kicks off and it appears to process and when it is nearly done, I get a small, UNhelpful error dialogue box (about the size of a postage stamp) that says: VirtualDub Error followed by three ?'s in the text portion of the box. I am using VirtualDub 1.6.4 (build 23174/release). That was what was on the page that your link provided so that was what I downloaded. At the same time the XVID status windows also pops up.
When I click okay to get past the VDub error I have to manually close the VDub application and the XVID box, and then everything appears to complete although I spotted an amidar.wav and vdb file I believe that then gets deleted. There was an Amidar avi file in the movies subdir that is 13.2 MB in size.
One weird thing when I try to play it in Windows Media Player (old and new versions): the video is 'squished'. The aspect just isn't accurate at all.
Thanks again for all your help. I am close now! :)
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