Mala Preview vids help needed

[rascaluk]

Hey,

I'm putting the finishing touches to a Mame Tate vertical shooters setup and have been using Mala rather than Hyperspin for ease on this one.

Now I have my layouts etc all fine and set to vertical and everything works a treat except the preview videos in Mala whch don't rotate with the layout.

I.e. vertical scrolling games look like horizontal ones, even though the rest of the layour, snaps, marquees etc are fine.

Has anybody any ideas? I have seen other vertical layouts with the vids fine. Am I missing an option? Is it codecs etc?

help appreciated.

Paul

 

[virtvic]

Not sure about videos (I don't use them on my mala) but as a work around, could you not rotate them all (in some kind of batch job) with a video editing package?

I'm sure there's a setting in the mala.ini though - there usually is.

 

[rascaluk]

I think I've fixed it. Had a hunt around the net and it seemed to point to a codec issue. I installed (carefully) the KLite codec pack and it's working now thanks.

Paul

 

[big10p]

Only just seen this thread. Yes, you need to install a codec like KLite to get MaLa to display videos, but if the vids play choppily (sometimes framerate drops on them), disable Aero in Windows and that should fix it.