Video snaps look odd in themes

[DBrown67]

I was missing quite a lot of video snaps on my cabinet so yesterday I downloaded the full .mp4 Mame collection for 0.202 version from Progetto Snaps:

http://www.progettosnaps.net/videosnaps/

When I installed them I set up a new videos folder and renamed the old one to keep them as a back up.

All these mp4 videos work but some of them look strange. They look very narrow and thin, their aspect ratio is all wrong and don't fit the theme windows properly. All I've done is the above... new set of videos in same directory. Not touched any themes or databases.

Games like Frogger, Amidar, Moon Cresta to name a few well known games are all affected. If I play them in Windows Media Player they look perfectly fine though.

Now i could just trawl through and see what's affected and bring in the relevant video from my back up. So it's fixable. But that would be a right pain.

[Creezz67]

i assume you downloaded the Hyperspin set at the bottom and not the first mp4 set ?

The first set may have issues, the Hyperspin set should work ok

[DBrown67]

Yeah I downloaded the correct set.

I did find another thread a while back with the same issue and they messed about changing the theme.xml.  I really cannot be arsed messing with this stuff any more. If one file type plays fine with a theme why shouldn't another file type play fine even when it does in WinMP?

Anyway, I merged my .mp4 and .flv video files into one large video folder. I found the .flv files take precedence so all the old one play as they did... and new ones I was missing are catered for with .mp4. If any of those don't play nice then I can try converting them to .flv.