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Gameplay previews "cut-off" while playing in Mamewah??? **SOLVED**

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jacenwon:
Alrighty... so i ran into the preview bug with mamewah already, and was able to "search the forums" my way out of that mess. Now i'm stuck with this odd cutting off of the picture when the preview movies play within mamewah. anybody else have this issue?

here's a screenshot of my issue + my mame.ini & mamewah.ini text:



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mame.ini

### mame.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

emulator_title                            M.A.M.E.

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\mame\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           c:\mame\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      c:\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       c:\mame\previews;c:\mame\titles
movie_preview_path                        c:\mame\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                         
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

### 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

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mamewah.ini


### mamewah.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

### (Global) Screen-Saver Settings ###
delay                                     300
slide_duration                            3

### Audio Settings ###
enable_sounds                             1
sound_volume                              100
music_path                               
enable_music                              1
music_volume                              100

### Movie Settings ###
intro_movie_file                         
exit_movie_file                           
keep_movie_preview_aspect                 game_aspect
delay_before_movie_preview                1
music_movie_mix                           mute_movies
movie_volume                              75

### Misc Settings ###
emulator_root_path                       
auto_setup_emulators                      0
theme                                     
wrap_list                                 0
remember_current_game                     1
keep_image_aspect                         1
refresh_images                            0
delay_before_history_dat                  2
safe_mode                                 1
show_cursor                               0
keyboard_led_states                       -,-,-
lcd_com_port                              1
lcd_settings                             
exit_action                               choice
maxlogsize                                100000

### External Application Settings ###
startup_app_commandlines                 
exit_app_commandlines                     
exit_and_run_app_commandlines             

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_group                             
current_emulator                          mame
locked                                    0

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the way i have the layout setup, the movie preview should use the ENTIRE black area to the right, but if you look closely, the whole lower portion of the movie isn't viewable. even on the verticle previews the movie plays dead in the center of the designated area, and the lower portion is ALWAYS cuttoff.

i did notice that when i play the movies through windows media player, outside of mamewah of course, the same thing happens - only the upper portion of the movie is visable. HOWEVER, when i use "divx player", the movie plays perfect.

any ideas as to why this is actin' foolish???

all help is greatly appreciated!

jace

jacenwon:
in hopes to help resolve this issue, here's a small video clip of it in action:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/z6k5r5cH9O4&rel=1[/youtube]

thanks in advance, folks!

jace

crummy:
Maybe I don't understand the issue... but it seems that the video is filling as far left and right as it can. Filling up and down would stretch the video (which doesn't happen). Right?

Or is actual content being cut off?

jacenwon:
the video is filling left to right PERFECTLY - as far left to right as i designate when building the layout.

it's the lower content that's being cutoff on every video, no matter how large i allow the artwork area to be.

i originally thought it just may be the video files wanting to run at it's full resolution... so i made the artwork area as large as i could, and it only stretched the video to be larger, and STILL cutoff the lower portion of the video :(

This also happens with my intro/outro movie, as well as the screensaver when it involves any video. so yeah, the thing just doesn't like video for some stupid reason :(

jacenwon:
a fella from another message board had suggested this:

"Could be a video format issue, although you could try changing keep_movie_preview_aspect to 'no' in the mamewah.ini"

this was my response:

i thought it may be the mamewah.ini settings at first, or perhaps just a faulty/corrupt file within mamewah. so i went and ran not only the emumovie preview clips, but random movie clips from an external drive OUTSIDE of mamewah with my 2 main movie players on the mame machine: windows media player & divx player... here's the results:

divx player played the movie files absolutely PERFECT, while windows media player cut the video off like mamewah did.

that being said, it's obvious the movie files don't like windows media player. (which i'm sure happens to be the default movie player within mamewah - terrific) is there anyway to change the default movie player within mamewah to use my divx player??? i'm pretty sure that'll solve my issue... does it sound like it?

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