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AtomicFe and Daphne Module Question
Kevin Mullins:
I browsed around a bit, but didn't find anything really related to my issue.
First off.... I've simply been poking around for a nicer frontend for Daphne. I really don't want this one to have a gazillion bells and whistles, just laserdisc games.
AtomicFE seems to be really simple to use, simple to configure, I installed Havocs laserdisc module and had Dragons Lair up and running pretty quickly. (sorta) The problem is that I can hear it running in the background just fine going through the motions as it should but the screen is basically blank. (more of a green screen actually)
Video files seem to be where they should be in the proper folders, but it's as if it's playing the audio files and not the video or the resolution settings are wrong or something.
No errors....just no video.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple..... any pointers?
Havok:
Looks like a codec issue. Can you play the videos outside of Daphne\Atomic? Try opening a m2v file with Media Player and see if you get the same result. If that works, then I would try and narrow down if it is an Atomic issue. Try then to see if it works with Daphne, without Atomic. Let me know how you make out, and we'll go from there...
Kevin Mullins:
Using Daphne - They all play fine.
I've been messing with it for quite some time now and was starting to wonder myself if it wasn't a missing codec. Because other than displaying the video content it seemed to work great..... error free.
But I did just now notice when I would open the .m2v files up individually with Media Player that it would briefly say "aquiring codec"..... "codec aquired" and then plays.
And it does that EVERY time I open one.
I did just recently re-do this pc, so I will try and update the codecs a bit and see if that's it and let ya know.
Thanks
Kevin Mullins:
Well... so far no luck using AtomicFE to run the m2v files.
Media Player opens them fine.
DaphneLoader opens them fine.
And I can run Daphne from a command line from RUN and it works fine.
But still when I start a game from AtomicFE.... it loads..... the audio starts.... but no video.
Could it be a resolution issue?
It seems to look like it's trying to open a "widescreen" aspect ratio and not an 800X600 like I have it set. Just curious..... I'm clueless.
Havok:
Perhaps it is a resolution issue. Try running one game in windowed mode and see if that helps - edit your config file which is located here:
C:\AtomicFE_v019\plugnplay\daphne_101.24\daphne.cfg
Look for the entries that specify the command line settings about three quarters of the way down, and remove the -fullscreen switch on one of the games, and see if it works properly then.
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