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malloc · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 23

I created a new topic for the small mods I do on the amazing PMP Mod player (great work Jonny !!!).

I'll keep this first post updated with the new versions. And this thread will keep track of the suggestions, comments, and bug reports of the mods only.
Jonny works on the core player / decoder, so anything related to this should be discussed here : http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=4528.

Raphael added a lot of new features (skin, bugfixes etc...), you'll find the links to these new versions in this thread from page2 :)

Latest version from Raphael using Jonny's 1.02 core -> Page 5

Wraggster · Joined: 26 Aug 2005 Posts: 121

hi anychance of uploading to somewhere other than rapidshare, i can never get anything to download off there.

Some forums (like mine) have the ability to upload which makes it easy to keep all files together for releases.

Great work anyway :)
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Mr.Modem · Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 28

Here ya go Wraggster!
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=5090

Goldrusher · Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

Best thing since PSP launch and first homebrew.

Awesome !

Wraggster · Joined: 26 Aug 2005 Posts: 121

cheers thats much better :)
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Dnim · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 12

merci, =)

Neila
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miemt11 · Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 89

small interface is so good

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TestType · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Iceland

Thanks malloc, great work! Your improvements are much appreciated.
This latest version is just great, the OSD was a much, much needed addon for the player and the high speed seek was also very much needed since the player doesn't have a 'go to' feature.

Thanks again!
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permarco · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

just downladed the mod now and ... i cannot see any interface at all :(, all the other features works like charm (fast fw rew and the home button that jumps to the start of the clip). The only thing i can notice is that if i press start and then resize using the select button i got a "strange" flickering in the part of the screen that is not "covered" by the clip :O.

I really appreciate your work (jonny's and malloc's one :D), i just wanted to notice you this strange "bug", maybe because i own a jap psp?

Bye bye and thanks :D

PS sorry for my poor english :D

edit: just got a message from a friend of mine: he got the same exact problems with his JAP PSP (PSP-1000 White). Bye ;)

malloc · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 23

@permarco : did you rename the application folder ? The path to the interface file is hardcoded (for now), so the application needs to be in \PSP\GAME\PMPMOD\ (like it is in the zip file), otherwise it won't be able to find the tga file.

@weav2k4: I wasn't aware of that issue (I tried all the videos and trailers I had and didn't notice any sound drop on those). It's probably because now all the blits are done with the GU so that the interface can be displayed (the previous version was using the GU blit only with ZOOM modes, and was using a framebuffer in memory when no zoom mode was used -> which is a bit quicker). I'll see if I can do something to speed up things with the GU, or avoid using the GU if the interface is not displayed, and no ZOOM modes are used. I left the previous version online, during that time if you have any troubles with your videos, you can use the old here : http://rapidshare.de/files/10653994/pmpmod.zip.html

daurnimator · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:

Hi maloc

Thanks for putting the sources in a single package, when i get home i'll try compiling them, maybe i'll finally have some luck....

Good job

Daurnimator

permarco · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

Dnim · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 12

@malloc

does start from POSition of file rebuffer one second?
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pegasus · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 61

Hi to everyone.. Thx Malloc and Johnny for this greAT piece of software..

I have converted a full movie of National Treasure and works like a charm.. no skipping like the other guy says..

Now my problem is, can i hide the "Corrupted Data" icon because it annoys me..

Everytime i do renaming the folder to xPMPx__________________________1
and xPMPx_~1% it just removes the MENU.

You know the one you saw when you press the start button

Edit.

As i have noticed the tga file is located in PMPMOD folder and probably Malloc written it to be in there, no other folder name.

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k0nan · Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 36

I can also confirm the ticking/popping on my own 900kpbs xvid encodes, I'm going to test the earlier mods to determine whether it's only related to M3. (edit - I was previously running 1100kbps divx files with no problem, so this may be an xvid-only issue.)

malloc, great work on the mods! I think the easiest way to spot this audio issue going forward is to use jonny's SP2 trailer encode as our control sample (first time I used those words since high school chem lol). Using M3, you'll hear the ticking near the 2:00min mark where the action gets heavy (it differed slightly scene-to-scene each time I played it back as to when the ticking was audible, but it was prevalent in each try).

In the mean time, I'm going to switch back to M1 or M2 temporarily to run more divx/xvid tests, but I'll definitely miss the nice interface. Keep up the great work malloc!

LwRedStorm · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 7

Bonjour Malloc,

Many thanks for your add's on the jonny pmpmod.
Just a word to say that the interface menu is wonderful. It would be great to have a full graphical prog, with graphical files selection too.

I have noticed loke others audio problems with the M3 version with xvid ASP no b frame encoded films.

Thanks again for your excellent work.
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malloc · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 23

Ok I'll check with the jonny's SP2 trailer encode, and will try to improve
the playback speed.
The GU is slowing down the display, I'll try to use a double buffered list,
to avoid a VSync wait, but I think that it will never be as fast as the old
display function (video buffer in RAM). If I can't get the same speed, I'll
put back the old display function if no interface is displayed & no zoom
are used, but I'll still need the GU for the zoom and the interface display.

Oh, and the next update will probably have a better file selection interface ;)

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

hi malloc :)

pmp_show_thread function is time critical.
you have between 1/38 and 2/38 seconds to complete it (38 -> 44100/1152)
not too much, considering that sceDisplayWaitVblankStart can take 1/60 seconds

you can try to move this code:

malloc · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 23

Thanks Jonny, I'll try that tonight :)

LwRedStorm · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 7

@malloc
@jonny

I am sure the next version will be perfect. (i am trying like many others to make cygwin and toolchain worl :-( in order to start with psp programming and spend many hour in psp dev)

Thanks again for the time you spend for the psp scene.
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slrig · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

Hi, malloc, you and jonny both do great jobs ~!!

jo2k · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 17

Also has anyone noticed that when use "SELECT" to toggle screen ZOOM, it doesn't properly clear the background to black when going from 480x272 back to 4:3 (say, 368x272) - the stretched image is left on both left & right while content playing in the center in 4:3. Press "START" to bring out the info bars clear the background to black.

Raphael · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 646 Location: Germany

Hi there,

I just tried to compile pmpmod m3 by myself and work on some other additions on it, however I have problems getting it compile.
First it wouldn't compile libavformat, because the file ogg/ogg.h was missing, so I downloaded it from the svn and put it into the directory. So libavformat compiled but on the linking stage it would fail because it needed libogg ~ well, checked out svn and compiled libogg (after quite some reading through it, cause it's little confusing on how to compile it correctly) and did a make install. After again trying to compile pmpmod it now gives me following errors:

../libavformat.a(ogg.o): In function `ogg_write_header':
/home/Alexander/pmpmod/libavformat/ogg.c:39: undefined reference to `ogg_stream_
init'
/home/Alexander/pmpmod/libavformat/ogg.c:71: undefined reference to `ogg_stream_
packetin'
../libavformat.a(ogg.o): In function `ogg_write_packet':
/home/Alexander/pmpmod/libavformat/ogg.c:97: undefined reference to `ogg_stream_
flush'
/home/Alexander/pmpmod/libavformat/ogg.c:112: undefined reference to `ogg_stream
_packetin'
/home/Alexander/pmpmod/libavformat/ogg.c:114: undefined reference to `ogg_stream
_pageout'
../libavformat.a(ogg.o): In function `ogg_write_trailer':
/home/Alexander/pmpmod/libavformat/ogg.c:129: undefined reference to `ogg_stream
_flush'
/home/Alexander/pmpmod/libavformat/ogg.c:135: undefined reference to `ogg_stream
_clear'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [PMPMOD.elf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Alexander/pmpmod/pmpmod'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So what's the problem there? I already compiled libavformat without errors, but when compiling pmpmod it tells me this.
Any help would be appreciated.

Oh and thanks to jonny and malloc for their work in this :)

malloc · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 23

I've updated the first post with the new version (M4), it should fix all the issues previously reported :D

@Jonny : moving the code didn't help much, so I've tried different other techniques, and managed to get something as quick as the setbuffer with the GU. (But I've put back the setbuffer if the interface is not displayed & no zoom, just to be sure to have the maximum speed!)

@Raphael : did you get the correct library from SVN ? Because you shouldn't have to manualy copy over the ogg.h files if the library is correctly installed inside the pspsdk to compile.

Raphael · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 646 Location: Germany

Well, I thought I did. I checked out svn and did make and make install after running the autoinstall.sh to create the correct makefiles and configs.
I'll just try to compile your new m4 right away, if that works I'll start adding my own stuff again :)

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jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

@malloc:

the setbuffer trick was a nice discovering in the sdk jungle :)

@Raphael:

in 1.01 i've removed zlib and ogg, compiling will be less problematic

Raphael · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 646 Location: Germany

Well I finally got it to compile, after reinstalling libogg. What a mess that is if not done 100% correctly. Up to now I just added Size/Date information to the file selection screen, but I got some other ideas I want to add.

@jonny:
I already wondered why libogg was necessary, even though no ogg is used in your player :)
well, it's hard putting new formats in a codec/player, but it's also hard getting it out again ;) I'm already keen on seeingg 1.01
I also read somewhere in the other thread, that you plan a new GUI for the next version, is that correct? Will that GUI be graphicbased or just a remake of the current debugScreen GUI? If not, probably I'd give it a try to get a graphics based GUI working, even though my first attempt to get textures loaded and blitted with GU with the sdk blit example just made the program crash. Need more experience in how to correctly code for PSP, as there seem some basic differences in how to correctly allocate and free memory and also reading files from MS. Maybe I'll just take a deeper look at how malloc got the interface working.