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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: KTURNER on February 14, 2017, 06:47:21 AM

Title: vlc blank on exit
Post by: KTURNER on February 14, 2017, 06:47:21 AM

When I exit vlc I get a blank screen until I hit the up or down button. Not that big of a deal but kind of annoying. I've seen something like this before but can't find it.

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: KTURNER on February 14, 2017, 11:00:39 AM

I was looking though my old post and I guess I asked this already, got distracted and forgot. Sorry :(

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: hermine.potter on February 14, 2017, 10:14:22 PM

See VLC-Movies (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=503.msg4231#msg4231)
-set key-quit in VLC
-set an Exit Hotkey in AM for your emulator-system
-set VLC as entry in ResFix of AM : start AM > press Tab key > Plug-ins > ResFix > enable : yes > Specific Emulators : name_of_your_emulator-system (see section Emulators)

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: KTURNER on February 15, 2017, 05:27:32 AM

Thanks, I'll try it tonight. I think I was missing a step.

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: KTURNER on February 15, 2017, 05:48:40 AM

>VLC-Movies
executable           C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe
args                 "[romfilename]" --fullscreen
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\media\movies
romext               .avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mkv;.mp4

modify this parameters in c:\documents and settings\your_username\application data\vlc\vlcrc

#3331     video-title-show=0
#3430     osd=0
#3322     video-on-top=1






What do you use to modify vlcrc. I used notepad and everthing is jumbled together. I use Microsoft word and changed it there and nothing changed.

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: hermine.potter on February 15, 2017, 11:40:50 PM

@kturner
get notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) (notepad, winword and word doesn't works and the config gets jumbled)
file is found in Win7 here : C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Roaming\vlc

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: KTURNER on February 16, 2017, 05:31:58 AM

Ok cool, Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: Bbuschke on March 01, 2017, 10:01:19 AM

I want to use vlc to display my live feed from my security camera. I know I can view it on pc by putting the cameras ip address in vlc but how could I get it to work in attract mode?

Title: Re: vlc blank on exit
Post by: hermine.potter on March 02, 2017, 10:05:06 PM

@Bbuschke
create .bat (windows) or .sh (linux) with this parameters and read it in an existing emulator system (like windows games):

Windows => .bat

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@echo off
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "https://static.myvideo.de/trailer/613_trailer1.mp4"
Linux => .sh

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vlc https://static.myvideo.de/trailer/613_trailer1.mp4
or

create an own emulator system with dummy files
(executable and parameters as told as above; create an empty txt-file and set .txt as rom-extension and rompath to this folder)