Setting up EMUMovies in GameEx

[bpc]

Hi All,

I have a bunch of video files for MAME games, but I cannot seem to get them working/visible through gameex.

I have tried pointing the video snaps mame directory in the config file to the main folder containing the movies, but no luck. The movies are in subfolders, based on alphabetical so.... c:/arcade videos/A ; c:/rcade videos/B etc

I'm sure it must be something basic I need to do....

Brendan

[fRequEnCy]

Hi All,

I have a bunch of video files for MAME games, but I cannot seem to get them working/visible through gameex.

I have tried pointing the video snaps mame directory in the config file to the main folder containing the movies, but no luck. The movies are in subfolders, based on alphabetical so.... c:/arcade videos/A ; c:/rcade videos/B etc

I'm sure it must be something basic I need to do....

Brendan

Having them in sub-folders is the problem. GameEx only support rom in folders. Not artwork! So solution would either to be, put them all in one folder. Or create hard links to them and you can keep the structure of how you have them now.

[bpc]

hmm.... so If I dumped them all into the one folder it should work.... do they need to be in a particular format... I presume the video format they are in will work (not at machine now)

Brendan

Having them in sub-folders is the problem. GameEx only support rom in folders. Not artwork! So solution would either to be, put them all in one folder. Or create hard links to them and you can keep the structure of how you have them now.

[fRequEnCy]

hmm.... so If I dumped them all into the one folder it should work.... do they need to be in a particular format... I presume the video format they are in will work (not at machine now)

Brendan

Yes it should work if you dump them all into one folder. Most frontends are like that. I think Circo broke them up into subfolders because of the magnitude of the files. I think I remember reading something about having problems with too many files in the same folder which is why they were broken up.

[Circo]

The FTP has a file limitation that made it necessary for the sub folders The download utility takes care of this problem though. As far as format, GameEx works with AVI's and FLV's so your good either way.

[fRequEnCy]

The FTP has a file limitation that made it necessary for the sub folders The download utility takes care of this problem though. As far as format, GameEx works with AVI's and FLV's so your good either way.

Thank for verifying, Circo!