ROM Hack 3DS Video Converter

[ferofax]

Any news or workaround on including subtitles? Because having subtitles is a pretty big deal, unless you wanna limit yourself to watching only English/native language films/video. No anime, no foreign films. Which makes up a vast majority of my movie collections.

IIRC, BatchDPG was able to do this without requiring a hardcoded video. Maybe you can have a look at that and figure things out?

 

[NekuSoul]

Any news or workaround on including subtitles? Because having subtitles is a pretty big deal, unless you wanna limit yourself to watching only English/native language films/video. No anime, no foreign films. Which makes up a vast majority of my movie collections.

IIRC, BatchDPG was able to do this without requiring a hardcoded video. Maybe you can have a look at that and figure things out?

Thanks for the hints. I just hope those tools work with ffmpeg. At the moment i'm stuck with the Date-thing. Maybe I will try and release a Version with subtitle-hardcoding first and then the other stuff.

 

[RupeeClock]

What I'd really like out of a 3DS Video converter is for it to take a frame from the middle of the video somewhere, and stick a few of them at the start of the video.

The 3DS camera app only displays the very first frame of the video as its preview, resulting in a number of videos all having an indistinguishable black thumbnail.

 

[NekuSoul]

That's what i'm tring to do at the moment, but it's really hard to do this without breaking things for certain types of videos...

 

[ferofax]

What I'd really like out of a 3DS Video converter is for it to take a frame from the middle of the video somewhere, and stick a few of them at the start of the video.

The 3DS camera app only displays the very first frame of the video as its preview, resulting in a number of videos all having an indistinguishable black thumbnail.

It's a cons I'm willing to live with. I have pretty much a good idea anyways of which videos are which. And I make sure clips are in order, so no confusing stuff happens.

 

[NekuSoul]

@[member='ferofax']: I took a look at BatchDPG and unforunately it uses Mencoder (which uses FFMPEG too). Since my Converter is heavily based on FFMPEG changing the converter would break everything, from the Progressbar, the Scaling ability up to the automatic Video splitting. I will try to implement it if all the tools I need are given (which should be, because it uses FFMPEG), but if I fail I will try to make a seperate version out of it just for easy Hardcoding for Videos. (I use Handbrake to do that at the moment, but it's UI is not really practical)

 

[cdxiaoff]

Conversion after subtitle?What is the reason for it?

 

[KingVamp]

How do you do this?

I got a side to side video, chosen side to side and then hit convert.
All it did was break up the video into parts without conversion.

 

[NekuSoul]

Conversion after subtitle?What is the reason for it?

I have no Idea what you're trying to say. Will answer anyway: The 3DS can't handle subtitles. The only method to do this is to burn them into the video.

How do you do this?

I got a side to side video, chosen side to side and then hit convert.
All it did was break up the video into parts without conversion.

Most likely you didn't change the Video to 3D-Side-by-Side. This can happen easily when you add your Video first and then click change the Type since the "Default"-Tab only changes settings for new Videos. Make sure you changed the Type by clicking on the Video and checking the settings under the "Selected"-Tab.

 

[KingVamp]

Most likely you didn't change the Video to 3D-Side-by-Side. This can happen easily when you add your Video first and then click change the Type since the "Default"-Tab only changes settings for new Videos. Make sure you changed the Type by clicking on the Video and checking the settings under the "Selected"-Tab.

How long does the file need to convert? What's the biggest file you ever did?
I tried ~2:00 and now :10 mins,but it just hangs on. I can't tell process since the bar gets
to the end way before it's even finish.

 

[NekuSoul]

The longest Video I ever did... let me see... 110 minutes. If your videos are longer than 90 minutes make sure you check "Use 2 Digits for splitted Videos". Since 3DS plays only files with these filenames: "AAA_1111" and the splitting mechanic changes only the last number when splitting and the first three are reserved for the episode number the maximum Video length is ~90 minutes. However the "2-Digits"-Option changes this by taking one digit from the episode and adding it to the splitting-number, allowing to convert Videos up to ~1000 minutes.
If the error continues feel free to post or PM me the content of the "log"-file. This log always contains the output from ffmpeg of the last video converted.

 

[ferofax]

@[member='ferofax']: I took a look at BatchDPG and unforunately it uses Mencoder (which uses FFMPEG too). Since my Converter is heavily based on FFMPEG changing the converter would break everything, from the Progressbar, the Scaling ability up to the automatic Video splitting. I will try to implement it if all the tools I need are given (which should be, because it uses FFMPEG), but if I fail I will try to make a seperate version out of it just for easy Hardcoding for Videos. (I use Handbrake to do that at the moment, but it's UI is not really practical)

Hmm, so basically, you might need to rewrite everything? Well, that sounds like a lot of work. I'm crossing my fingers, so I guess we'll see what happens next. I'm not really sure if it's mencoder or ffmpeg that handles the subtitling, so maybe you might not need to use mencoder.

 

[NekuSoul]

Hmm, so basically, you might need to rewrite everything? Well, that sounds like a lot of work. I'm crossing my fingers, so I guess we'll see what happens next. I'm not really sure if it's mencoder or ffmpeg that handles the subtitling, so maybe you might not need to use mencoder.

As far as I know mencoder loads up a special filter that handles subtitles. But I've found out that that most of the commands are the same as FFMPEG's ones. But so far I wasn't able to make a video with hardcoded subtitles or a video that you can play on the 3DS. This is mainly because mencoder is very bad documented. (FFMPEG's documentation was great)

 

[NekuSoul]

Since everything else would need too long I released v2.4 with the features I've implemented so far.
1. I've added a 64-Bit version of FFMPEG that will be used if a 64-Bit Windows is found. (If you really need the 5MB you can delete the unneeded Version )
2. When you launch the Converter and a update is available an Update-Window (including the changelog) will appear mystically.
Download as always at Filetrip.

 

[ferofax]

Hmm, so basically, you might need to rewrite everything? Well, that sounds like a lot of work. I'm crossing my fingers, so I guess we'll see what happens next. I'm not really sure if it's mencoder or ffmpeg that handles the subtitling, so maybe you might not need to use mencoder.

As far as I know mencoder loads up a special filter that handles subtitles. But I've found out that that most of the commands are the same as FFMPEG's ones. But so far I wasn't able to make a video with hardcoded subtitles or a video that you can play on the 3DS. This is mainly because mencoder is very bad documented. (FFMPEG's documentation was great)

Hmm, not very good signs. But I'll keep my fingers crossed, and hope you figure something out! No pressure from this side, but I suppose it wouldn't be so bad to "keep tabs on it", I have to admit though, I was kinda spoiled by the way BatchDPG was able to handle subtitles well, to the point that I was able to encode DPGs before that had really well implemented subs (you know, those heavily formatted ASS/SSA subtitles that had their own format).

I guess it was just really nice to see the final output, with it's low resolution, displaying a perfectly visible hardcoded sub that was independent of the video. In a sense, it was like seeing subtitles configured for really small screens, and you really don't see that much these days!

 

[cdxiaoff]

Specifically 2.4 change what?Another problem is that I converted a movie into 15 files but 3DSLL only read three video files what is the reason?Thank you very much for your help！

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[NekuSoul]

Specifically 2.4 change what?Another problem is that I converted a movie into 15 files but 3DSLL only read three video files what is the reason?Thank you very much for your help！

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[cdxiaoff]

谢谢 我知道了

 

[NekuSoul]

Look at what I've found: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#ass

 

[shano]

Is there any way to convert the videos and not have them split into parts if the video is over 10 minutes long?