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Buddabing:
--- Quote from: jdsabin1 on March 30, 2005, 12:37:04 am ---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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Try changing -movievideo 3 to 2. Maybe your Xvid is messed up. Maybe Silver can help on this one.
jdsabin1:
I tried changing -movievideo in my mame.ini and it didn't help as far as that strange error vdub is spitting out. I also reinstalled XVid and now my AVI is 2.47 MB so I think that part is fixed.
VDub is still broke basically. It comes up with that cryptic error box with three question marks at the end of the process and I have to okay to close it.
The amidar.avi does work, it's now in it's proper aspect (must have been xvid or your setting recommendation?), but I still see amidar.wav and vdb get deleted from the MAME dir (is it supposed to work like that). The Amidar.avi has no sound as a sidenote which is why I am asking.
Any and all input most welcome :).
2600:
Post your batch file. Does it still have the /wait command on the virtualdub line?
jdsabin1:
Here is my batch file. It's basically identical to Buddabing's suggestion in his first post (and yes, it looks like the /wait switch is still there):
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@if not exist movies mkdir movies
@if exist movies\%1.avi goto end
@if exist nvram\%1.nv goto rungame
@mame %1 -window -noartwork -resolution %2 -nothrottle -ftr 100
:rungame
time /T
@mame %1 -window -noartwork -makemovie -resolution %2 -wavwrite %1.wav -movieloops %3 -moviestartframe %4 -movieendframe %5
@if not exist %1.vdb goto end
@\virtualdub\virtualdub /s"%1.vdb" /wait /x
@del %1.wav
@del /Q moviesnp\*.png
@del %1.vdb
@move /Y %1.avi movies
time /T
:end
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2600:
Take the /wait out and you won't get the virtualdub error. Silver mentioned it somewhere around page 10 or 11 of this thread I believe. He said 1.6.4 didn't support that command or something like that.
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