Intro movie in Mamewah

[ojelela]

Hi
As soon I think that I'm out the wood's something else comes up.
I did search but nobody seems to had same problem. The intro movie that I'm using plays in WMP no problem but when I start Mamewah will skip way to many frames, and doesn't looks nice.
Just wandering i there any setting that  I'm not aware of in Mamewah or in Codex that can be adjusted, so it wont skip any frames.
The movie that I'm using is in AVI, not sure of the name, it is one when lightning hits MAME

Thanks

[ojelela]

Anyone pleeease............................

[cdbrown]

What is the details of the avi - right click on the file, select properties and then the summary tab.  Perhaps something in there may help.

[ojelela]

just downloaded this avi from somewhere, and properties are:

[Sensei]

I too have that intro movie.
(which by the way is an awesome intro movie to load before MameWah comes up....tres cool).

I use FFDshow filters to decode avi's.  They normally work just fine for playing almost all movie files. And I can watch that intro movie just fine....when Windows is already booted.

But....

I have shelled MameWah and before MameWah comes up it plays the intro movie. 
And yes...the movie can stutter and freeze.  Sometimes it plays just fine and looks awesome (clean, clear and fullscreen).  But often it freezes at a specific point in the movie and then MameWah comes up.

I think its not so much a movie problem (corrupt movie or a problem with codecs or filters....though I do suppose that's a possibility).
I think it's simply (for me at least) that it's set to run while the OS is still booting components of the system.
It seems that there is just too many things the computer is doing at that moment for the movie file to run smoothly.

I suppose that turning off components that Windows is loading would help.  There are a lot of postings around and lots of articles on the net concerning turning off components in Windows to speed booting and increase performance.

I personally have ceased to care too much.  While it looks cool when it runs smoothly I have become averse to mucking around too much more with my system.
I find the more I try to improve the system the more headaches I make for myself.

That being said....looking at your avi file information....
You may want to download the FFDShow filters for decoding movie files
http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Getting%2Bffdshow


Just my $0.02 worth.
Good luck.