Video background & video snaps

[eXo]

Question: is it possible to run a video in the background of a menu as well as have avi's instead of snaps for individual games?

If I remember correctly, I was able to do it last night just fine with my SNES console background and AVI previews running simultaenously.

Today I finished downloading my NES AVI's previews, copied them over, pointed the config snaps to the new video folder and booted up GameEx.

When I go to NES I see the movie instead of the NES logo like it should. And when I click it it takes me to my NES menu, and plays the mpg in the background just like it should. As soon as I scroll to a game with an AVI preview it kicks me to the desktop, although I can hear the avi sounds playing. If i try to return to gameEx it boots me back to teh desktop again and I have to kill the process.

The same is happening for my SNES preview files now as well - and I know for a fact they were running last night.

I am currently running GameEx 6..04 according to the download link on the main page.

Any suggestions or fixes?

edit:

Ok, I know I can run 2 videos at once since I can see the tron background running behind my MAME intro vids.

The questions now is why the NES and SNES vids are kicking me out of GameEx.

[headkaze]

You need to get the latest ffdshow daily build.

The symptoms you are experiencing is usually cause by incompatible codecs. GameEx is known to work with ffdshow.

[eXo]

fixed it right up - thank you again headkaze