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argandona · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 19

Moviemenu graphics updated with battery status, audio and brightness controls.

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

@jonny:
Yes, that would definitely work, but it would be rather slow, since in pmp_decode_open, all frame and audio buffers are allocated and filled with 0s. Doing this for ~12 vids that are visible in icon preview mode would make scrolling through the list a march through hell. I already noticed it was noticeable slowing to just use your api to get the video header loaded, as too much stuff get's allocated and checked, which isn't needed anyway. So I wrote my own short header reader.

@therock003:
Would be another option, yes. But what with people that are too lazy to create snaps for every video (I know there are, because I woulde be such a person ;)), but still want the preview icon function?

therock003 · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 96

jo2k · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 17

argandona:

Great work!

couple thoughts:
- Malloc did a wonderful job on the minimumlistic info bars while provided lots of information. And with Raphael's 50% transparent mod you could almost watch the video with them on. So the idea is maximum info in minimum form.
In that sense, I find Malloc's "+1", "X2" over respective icon very effective.
- I like the one consolidated info bar idea
- I guess presenting these info makes sense:

: Progress
: Zoom
: Brightness
: Audio
: Battery Status
: Current time
(which is what we had in the 2 bars now)
And maybe
: File name that's playing (not sure if there is difficulty to overlay text onto video, or it has to be done in png letters - or to keep the style consistent)

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

@therock003:
lol, sure, I just thought it would confuse people more by bringing yet another version modifier to the name :) as if PMPMOD 1.01 M4.01g isn't enough yet ;)

Well, I'll just call the last uploaded version PMPMOD M4.01g1 as this for now should be one first "final" GUI Mod version. (Meaning: don't expect that hardcorely frequent updates from me for the next time ;))

argandona · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 19

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

Just a little bug-fix version here, which fixes a crash when no .pmp file is in the video folder. Also there's a USB connection status now.

Update g2:
- fixed crash bug when no .pmp files in VIDEO folder
- added USB Connection Status
- Loading screen only shown before first video of a playlist

Binary
Source

Screenshots for those who don't yet know how this version looks like:

0238149 · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

hi~ i come from china.i like the mod very much! i will come there and support you usually ! good luck!

wooolF · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 146

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

I find it kinda cute ;P

wooolF · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 146

@Raphael, @argandona
Lates M4G looks awesome! Good work on puttin' it together! =)
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Guide/tutorial for converting DVD (and other normal files) to PMP at best quality possible (works for me) avoiding the usual audio stuttering and ghosting problems.

http://maxt.dk/archives/2006/02/01/dvd-to-psp/

gmk · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 6

TheKing · Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

I like the .thm approach - I like to use movie posters as the thumnail for my Mp4s and it would be great to have this for PMPs too.

pegasus · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 61

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

@pegasus:
The quality is better than anything AVC could currently possibly come up with. Read this thread http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=34917&page=2 , where I made a comparison between different AVC encodings and my XVid encode to the original source. On page 1 of that thread I also posted how I do the encoding and provided the batch file I use with mencoder and pmp_muxer. I only use 64kbit audio, since I find it good enough on the PSP as long as you don't plug a stereospeaker set. If you want 128kbit, the file gets ~10mb bigger.
For the imagequality, if you can accept a slight loss on quality, you could shrink it even more by trying a bitrate lower the 404kbit I chose for my encodings. Probably something like 360 or so.

psp360 · Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 25

Raphael hey wonderful work...when can we expect an update with the new skin and images that argandona posted? I am new here so I want to know if it's something I can do seeing that he gave us access to his files. Thanks

argandona · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 19

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

imutau · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 15

This is a great improvement. Thanks and keep up the great work. It would be great to see Argandona's visuals implimented like in the Aeon Flux pic. Also Raphael thanks for the coding so far and I like your video encode settings I've tried it with my Winmenc 5.x GUI (mencoder) and it's just about where I want it at.

jo2k · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 17

Raphael: did you try that Silent Hill Movie Trailer PMP I posted in your thread over at pspupdates? I noticed that seems time display for playback is all messed up... it's encoded in mencoder too. weird huh?

http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=1272910

pegasus · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 61

@Raphael
Tnx for answering, BTW full screen is way much better than SP or AVC hehe!

@Jo2k
I don't know what you meant but.. I assume that that the problem in silent hill trailer's playback time is the same as i encountered.. where the playbacks time is a little bit delayed, well at least 1:30 ratio.

where 30secs of time will be equal to 1sec in my pmp video, really weird! XD

I got that when i encoded using pmp simple. here's my settings

1500kbps video
128kbps sound
checked high quality mode
checked high priority mode (doesn't make any sense XD)
checked bit exact algorithm
addition of l3x3:1:c3x3:1 option. and evrtyings on default

Edit:

Here's one really weird i just played the video i just mentioned and here's what i got

Error:
"pmp_lib_open: malloc_64 failed on aud_index"
Press X

Hmm It just does'nt make any sense... well as far as i remembered the last time that i just played that file is on m4g1, and now i used m4g2

Edit 2:

Well it just the weirdest thing ever happened to me i just deleted the video are we there yet trailer.pmp which i was talking about and also the pos file... after i press start button it just always came back, the pos file with 0kb size.. well it's annoying because it shouldnt be there.........

anyone encountered this?

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

@jo2k:
I'll have a look at the trailor right now and check for the timedisplay. Is it wrong only in file list or infobar or in both? Well i'll see.

@pegasus:
The malloc_64 error looks like you've run out of memory to allocate any further buffers there. Could be due to a little memory leak I found currently, but I'm not sure since this should only have influence after lots of videos being loaded one after another, not using the playlist or after a lot of refreshs. But then again the video should play fine after you restart PMPMOD, or at last if you restart your PSP. I'll check that out asap.

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

@Raphael:

a tip: you should really free skin_texture (and any other big structure) before playing anything
i use a lot of memory in the player, there is no space for anything else (you could also decrease maximum_frame_buffers_allocation, but this can directly affect performance)

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

Thanks, I'll try that :)

I'm just still too used to PC coding style, with millions of ram and bad load/transfer speeds ;)

imutau · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 15

I like malloc's in video interface but is there a way that I can change the background to a blue rather than the biege it uses? If it's just a change to the interf.tga then that would be cool but if its a coding thing just forget I asked.

malloc · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 23

alexmae · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 22

here's a quick skin i made, i hope transparency will be implemented soon in the gui ;) text is in italian but you know which keys do what :) i hope you like it

Download -> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P8PNSLPV

therock003 · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 96

IT looks nice!

Twister · Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

After about 10 minutes into playing I'm getting the following error:

pmp_decode_get: avcodec_decode_video failed.

I tried transcoding the video again and weird enough it played for a few more second after crashing again, where as before it was crashing always on the same spot.

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

i'm always bored repeating the same stuffs over years, anyway