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

[XorTroll]

@Chary thanks a lot for posting the release in the front page!

 

[ccprodigy]

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

Agreed. Love the PoC though. Can’t wait to see future updates for this. Makes me wanna finish my project.

 

[XorTroll]

As curiosity, I'm testing different formats now: mkv works as good as mp4!

 

[PRAGMA]

Please remember lads, not all .mp4 files are H.264/x264, im assuming this player only supports x264. So please remember, x265/HEVC/H.265 videos can be in .mp4 container.

 

[XorTroll]

Current status of working/failing formats:
- Working: MP4, MKV, WMV, 3GP, FLV
- Partially (some files worked, others didn't): AVI, WEBM
- Not supported: H264 codec (we would need libx264 which isn't still ported for switch)

This means that they CAN BE SUPPORTED - current beta release only supports loading MP4 files!
Don't worry, I'll add support for all the other files on the next release, plus a menu to select videos from "media" folder!

 

[Dionicio3]

Man I can't wait to play commun-

I mean very important movies

 

[NANASHI89]

Is there a music player for Switch?

 

[Dionicio3]

Is there a music player for Switch?

I believe @Joel16's NX-Shell supports audio playback

 

[XorTroll]

Is there a music player for Switch?

I made it too, check for NXPlay

 

[Nerdtendo]

inb4 anyone watching hentai in the bed

Barely made it

 

[chrisrlink]

inb4 anyone watching hentai in the bed

hell i was going to say something similar when i read this

 

[DKB]

watching hentai with this thanks

 

[GhostLatte]

Hentai? I'm going to be grinding through Ken Burns documentaries.

 

[Bellebite2000]

Current status of working/failing formats:
- Working: MP4, MKV, WMV, 3GP, FLV
- Partially (some files worked, others didn't): AVI, WEBM
- Not supported: H264 codec (we would need libx264 which isn't still ported for switch)

This means that they CAN BE SUPPORTED - current beta release only supports loading MP4 files!
Don't worry, I'll add support for all the other files on the next release, plus a menu to select videos from "media" folder!

Excellent work! Keep it up!

 

[fringle]

Was just looking for something like this last night. Can’t wait for it to be in a more usable state. Will keep any eye on this. Many thanks to the developer!

 

[sj33]

This is a great first release! Though there can't be many .mp4 files which don't use at least H264.

 

[Nincompoopdo]

Switch has hardware h.265 (HEVC) decoder, is it possible to implement it?

 

[LightyKD]

I appreciate the work placed into this but why not just port KODI over with a theme that fits the Switch? Isn't that player open source?

 

[sj33]

I appreciate the work placed into this but why not just port KODI over with a theme that fits the Switch? Isn't that player open source?

So is FFMPEG. Porting over FFMPEG is much simpler than porting a huge application like Kodi. Kodi uses FFMPEG anyway.

 

[LightyKD]

So is FFMPEG. Porting over FFMPEG is much simpler than porting a huge application like Kodi. Kodi uses FFMPEG anyway.

Ah, gotcha!