Hello everyone, the new release with the much requested USB support is finally here! (Couldn't have done it without @DarkMatterCore's usb library) It's worth mentioning since it is such a big update (backend changes and FS refactor) there *may* be some issues, but the only way I can find and fix those is through you guys! However rest assured, I did run a lot of tests myself to make sure it is functioning as expected. If I waited a month, it would've been exactly 2 years since the last release .

Change-log:

• FS:
  • Added support for browsing USB devices.
  • Switched back to libc to handle FS operations.
  • Brought back support for browsing other devices such as safe, user and system.
• GUI:
  • Update to imGui v1.88.
  • Switch to imGui's new keyEvent API.
  • The two views (File Browser and Settings) can now be navigated as tabs.
  • Switched from list view to a table view using imGui's table API.
  • Sorting is no longer applied from settings, it can be done directly by clicking on the table column headers.
  • A new selector has been added to allow the user to switch to different devices such as safe, user, USB etc.
  • Settings are no longer categorized by imGui's tree system.
  • No longer uses SDL2 as a backend, but instead uses opengl v3 directly (along with egl).
• Fixes:
  • Properly delete config file if the config file version is outdated.
  • Properly free textures after exiting application.
  • Fixed scrolling via the right joystick after zooming into an image.
  • Lots of code clean up and under the hood changes that are too many to list here.

Spoiler: Screenshots

Download: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/releases

 

[blawar]

It wasn't me who made the request I already requested this in a nice way, many pages before this one and never touched this issue again for that reason. Another user requested that and I only replied saying what type of USB support ppl are expecting. Nothing more. Keep up the good work

After you explained it, I now understand what you were trying to say. I think it was the language barrier. You were answering his question, but the context was not clear because you quoted his entire post and the english was a bit awkward. Dev's often get harassed by users who want to push for their features to be implemented, I understand Joels frustration. It was nothing personal to you.

Also I'm not sure what people are expecting really, "USB Support" as in accessing usb storage devices? or USB mass storage (mount SD as a usb)

That said, NX-Shell is awesome, and its the only homebrew I run on my switch besides my own. I cant wait to see future updates during your winter break joel.

 

[Plex7]

Any word if there will be WMA support?

 

[hippy dave]

Any word if there will be WMA support?

Depends if ffmpeg supports it I guess. If it has any weird DRM then not likely.

 

[Joel16]

Ok so audio is working with the video player and is now merged into master. If someone can test the nightly that would be nice. Please test with something small, I have only tested an mp4 video which is about 30 MB and is 1280x720.
Currently doesn't pause, or exit the video player once it stops playing. You can press "B" to exit, but causes glitches on the right side of the screen sometimes. May cause hangs/crashes, so be aware of that.

I'm no weeb, but Naruto is quite the only anime I watch (updated test video with shitty audio due to camera distance -- might get flagged for copyright):


Nightly build: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/blob/gh-pages/NX-Shell.nro

 

[ReikaRin]

Ok so audio is working with the video player and is now merged into master. If someone can test the nightly that would be nice. Please test with something small, I have only tested an mp4 video which is about 30 MB and is 1280x720.
Currently doesn't pause, or exit the video player once it stops playing. You can press "B" to exit, but causes glitches on the right side of the screen sometimes. May cause hangs/crashes, so be aware of that.

I'm no weeb, but Naruto is quite the only anime I watch (updated test video with shitty audio due to camera distance -- might get flagged for copyright):


Nightly build: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/blob/gh-pages/NX-Shell.nro

tested with 300 mb mp4 video 45 minutes, working fine
will test with other video

 

[pdapanda]

Ok so audio is working with the video player and is now merged into master. If someone can test the nightly that would be nice. Please test with something small, I have only tested an mp4 video which is about 30 MB and is 1280x720.
Currently doesn't pause, or exit the video player once it stops playing. You can press "B" to exit, but causes glitches on the right side of the screen sometimes. May cause hangs/crashes, so be aware of that.

I'm no weeb, but Naruto is quite the only anime I watch (updated test video with shitty audio due to camera distance -- might get flagged for copyright):


Nightly build: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/blob/gh-pages/NX-Shell.nro

Tried it with a 24 min h264 animation，worked fine.
Can you clarify what kind of video encoding the player support? Maybe everything ffmpeg supports in theory?

 

[Joel16]

Tried it with a 24 min h264 animation，worked fine.
Can you clarify what kind of video encoding the play support? Maybe everything ffmpeg supports in theory?

Should be anything ffmpeg supports but currently NX-Shell only allows MP4 but I'll make changes after further testing.

 

[ReikaRin]

Should be anything ffmpeg supports but currently NX-Shell only allows MP4 but I'll make changes after further testing.

i have some mp4 file from streaming site that can not work

 

[fixingmytoys]

i really love this App and it works great on SX OS so having USB read and write seams like a natural fit i can ftp in to sd card and copy it off to the USB be really good for moving HB files roms etc , mind you FTPing in to USB hard would be good as well

 

[Joel16]

At the moment, only 720p mp4 videos can be played. Anything higher than 720p may cause problems.

Also maybe this one won't get flagged for copyright: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rXSrgDKvAjFfBaaqHCcdkBt11SSGMcgS (PS. It's a trailer, it is not netflix on your switch)
The sound and the quality of the video looks off, but looks and sounds a lot better in person.

 

[ReikaRin]

At the moment, only 720p mp4 videos can be played. Anything higher than 720p may cause problems.

some 720 mp4 video that i have make switch freeze when opening the file

 

[Joel16]

some 720 mp4 video that i have make switch freeze when opening the file

First update to the latest nightly build: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/blob/gh-pages/NX-Shell.nro Try those videos again, there should be a log file located in /switch/NX-Shell/debug.log

 

[ReikaRin]

there should be a log file located in /switch/NX-Shell/debug.log

updated to last nightly build, inside debug.log
"
Unsupported codec,codec id 173"

 

[Bla1ze]

@Joel16 Thanks for putting this together. I appreciate it.

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Did some testing this is a 720p mkv file was just under 1gb audio is good but weird visuals lel

1080p mkv around 600mb seems to be playing fine audio is good too

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Heres some more tests, I put pastebin links in the video descriptions with media info so you can see details about each file. When testing this time There were two which wouldn't open these were both larger than 1GB here is the media info for those https://pastebin.com/QuaJwwTU. I also noticed that if you close a video then open another one sometimes they dont play at or just play audio. This was fixed by going to the home page and then opening nx shell again.

First one is upside down sorry





Did a bit more testing if device goes into sleep mode while video is playing it becomes unresponsive. The 4th video started having audio and visual stuttering after a few minutes of playback, Same with The 3rd video which is also 1080p will test some more 720p video. Let the first video play for a while and the audio started desyncing probably around 5-10 minutes in. Audio desync on second video too after playing for around 10-15 minutes. It had no points where it skipped or anything so maybe the audio is playing a bit too fast or video a small bit to slow, that video just finished when palyback ended the system crashed lel. Sorry cant test mp4 as I dont have any

 

[bostonBC]

I must be doing something wrong...

Trying to copy System/Contents/registered to SD so i could use ChoiDuJourNX to install a new system menu but it won't let me copy anything from that folder.

Using Original FW 6.1.0 and CFW 2. 3 beta.

TIA

The debug.log shows this:

fsFsOpenFile(/New/.., FS_OPEN_READ, 1821297592) failed: 0x202
fsFsOpenFile(/New, FS_OPEN_READ, 1821297592) failed: 0x202

Repeated over an over.

But only when I use a microSD formated with exFAT. When I use a Fat32 one it produces no debug.log.

 

[Sathichot]

Thx

 

[Centergaming]

At the moment, only 720p mp4 videos can be played. Anything higher than 720p may cause problems.

Also maybe this one won't get flagged for copyright: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rXSrgDKvAjFfBaaqHCcdkBt11SSGMcgS (PS. It's a trailer, it is not netflix on your switch)
The sound and the quality of the video looks off, but looks and sounds a lot better in person.

Hi Joel16, I really appreciate the work that you've done! Thank you so much! I have one question, would a video scrubber and a play/pause button be added in the near future? Thanks.

 

[Joel16]

Hi Joel16, I really appreciate the work that you've done! Thank you so much! I have one question, would a video scrubber and a play/pause button be added in the near future? Thanks.

With all these video player homebrews coming around, I'm probably going to just remove the feature. No reason to waste my time.