Homebrew WIP PlayerNX - Finally, a (PoC) homebrew video player!

[XorTroll]

PlayerNX - (PoC) video player for homebrew!

Hi guys!
Many of you have asked me a lot of times to try making a video player. After managing to build the ffmpeg experimental pacman package, i've been working the entire day on a video player.

Plays the MP4 placed at "sdmc:/media/video.mp4". It should automatically stop playback for any found errors, so crashes should not occur.

Audio is still not working (I need to fix some stuff and learn how to use audout service on libnx properly)
The playback is a bit laggy, but it still shows up ok.
Enjoy playing videos from anytime, anywhere!

GitHub repository: https://github.com/XorTroll/PlayerNX
Releases page on GitHub: https://github.com/XorTroll/PlayerNX/releases

Supported video formats: MP4, AVI, FLV, MKV, WMV, 3GP, WEBM

Also, you can pause/resume or stop playback, or even fast forward!
The controls are explained in the NRO.

I also plan to embed this player to NSPower!

 

[Asia81]

inb4 anyone watching hentai in the bed

 

[CoolerSugar955]

So hentai then?

 

[Wolfy]

inb4 anyone watching hentai in the bed

Too late, it has already begun...

 

[Asia81]

Too late, it has already begun...

Meh

 

[CoolerSugar955]

inb4 anyone watching hentai in the bed

Fuck you beat me to it

 

[APartOfMe]

Woo! This is awesome!

 

[Wolfy]

Meh

Why meh? Time for rejoicing! Or at least another homebrew that I probably won't use since I barely touch my Switch anymore XD

 

[Asia81]

Anyways, it work fine and video quality is very good (except fps).
A bit laggy and no sounds, but as you said, it's an early development.
Good luck with improvements.

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@Cyan I'm sure you can stick it in the news main page, this is something everyone is waiting for.

 

[Deleted-442439]

Amazing progress, this opens up the door for a lot of things such as a Youtube app

 

[HtheB]

What codecs, bitrates, resolutions are supported?
Need more information...

 

[Deleted User]

i can only say one thing.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[XorTroll]

What codecs, bitrates, resolutions are supported?
Need more information...

For the moment a Mp4 file is hardcoded, but check all formats which ffmpeg supports (which are A LOT)

 

[HtheB]

For the moment a Mp4 file is hardcoded, but check all formats which ffmpeg supports (which are A LOT)

I hope that you do realize that the 'mp4' extension itself has nothing to do with codecs, bitrates and resolutions.....

 

[ShadowOne333]

Important thing is...
Is it waifu free?

 

[hippy dave]

Can you work with NX Shell dev, to open a selected file passed as an argument? Just a suggestion to save you writing a file browser.

 

[Zer0w]

And then you have Nintendo adding Toad icons, thanks for making this.

 

[XorTroll]

Can you work with NX Shell dev, to open a selected file passed as an argument? Just a suggestion to save you writing a file browser.

@Joel16 already has plans related to ffmpeg (tagging him because afaik he was planning to add video support to NXShell)

 

[Cyan]

@Cyan I'm sure you can stick it in the news main page, this is something everyone is waiting for.

I'm bad to write a portal news, I'll let native english speaker and reporters doing it.
@Chary

For a portal news it's too bad there's no sound, but it's a new homebrew release announcement. it merits to keep an eye on it for future updates.

 

[RepeatingDigits]

I think mkv would be a better format than mp4, but for a PoC not bad.