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Mame Video snaps
« on: May 12, 2008, 10:13:34 pm »
Anyone know how to make em?  Im a arogant bastard and i would like to do some of my own, like me showin off my killer skillls :laugh2: 

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Re: Mame Video snaps
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2008, 10:28:03 pm »
Why not just download Circo's or CDBrown's sets? Much easier.

Anyway, there was a long thread detailing my work on the creation of the MAME videos. What I did was modify the MAME source to take each frame and save it to a png image. Then I took CRCs of each image and determined when a sequence of frames matched. This usually indicates a loop in the attract mode. Next, I created a VirtualDub script which told VirtualDub what frames to code into the video, which codec to use, and what audio source to use. Lastly, I wrote a batch process so that all this would happen without user involvement. Creating a set of videos would take upwards of a week.

CDBrown extended my work my trimming the attract loop to a title screen and some demo footage.

I don't even keep a copy of the original videos around anymore, I just have the CDBrown videos.
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