Homebrew [Release] Rocket Video Player - Play videos with the ultimate in picture quality

[RocketRobz]

Original Introduction
Years after 2010 when the latest version of MoonShell released, the SD-compatible alternative to MoonShell is finally here!
Introducing the Rocket Video Player! It's the video player that plays video files with an extension called ".rvid", bringing you the ultimate in picture quality, thanks to it's lossless frame data.

Features​

DS(i) version​

• Support for videos up to 72FPS!
• Both 8 BPP (256 colors) and 16 BPP (RGB555/RGB565) videos are supported.
  • Screen color filters are not supported for 16 BPP videos.
• Support for dual-screen videos!
• Support for audio up to 32khz Stereo.
• The video UI from the "Nintendo DSi + Internet" app, with the title bar now containing the console's set color.
• Console-based file browser to search for your .rvid file.

GBA version​

• Support for videos up to 60FPS!
• Both 8 BPP (256 colors) and 16 BPP (RGB555/RGB565) videos are supported.
• Support for audio up to 32khz Mono.

Video UI Controls​

Touch controls not available in the GBA version

• A or touch Play/Pause button: Play/Pause video
• L shoulder or touch the left tip of the play bar: Stop video
• D-Pad Left/Right: Jump 5 seconds (30 seconds with R shoulder held)
• D-Pad Down/Up: Jump 10 seconds (1 minute with R shoulder held)
• D-Pad Left+Down/Up+Right: Jump 15 seconds (2 minutes with R shoulder held)
• SELECT (DS(i) version): Turn off/on bottom screen backlight (only applies to single-screen videos)
• B or touch Return: Exit video
  • GBA version: Stop video

Downloads

• Vid2RVID: Video to .rvid converter
• Rocket Video Player

Converting a video to .rvid

• Read this guide for how to convert a video to the `.rvid` format.

Credits​

DS(i) version​

• @AntonioND: BlocksDS
• devkitPro: nds-hb-menu's file browsing code
• @Gericom:
  • Frame rate + play bar adjustment code from FastVideoDSPlayer
  • NDMA code from libtwl

GBA version​

• devkitPro: libgba and sound frequency code from libnds
• pinobatch Sound sample playback code from gsmplayer-gba

 

[pman152]

This is my Pokemon S10 E01 1080p Remaster file converted to RVID playing on Rocket Video Player, it's 24000/1000 (24FPS), 256x192 (192p 4:3), just about 3GB filesize (.rvid file) and around 32k frames.
It does also have audio but the video does lag on my DSi LL (XL). It's running through TwilightMenu++ DSi Theme and doesnt have any of the Memory Expansion stuff.

 

[iCRON]

Nice. I will be testing on my DSi with R4 SDHC Gold Pro ^^

 

[Alexander1970]

After 9 years (as of this post) since the latest version of MoonShell released, the SD-compatible alternative to MoonShell is finally here!

@Robz8 Do you have a normal life at all ?
Now you can be sure that you have none left.....only until Rocket player supports 7.1 sound and 4k with 3D.

Thank you for this great Application.
Finally i can watch ALL Lord of the Ring & The Hobbit extended movies on my DSi.

Great work,my tireless and magnificient friend.

 

[KoopaMaster]

Will it be implemented as an default application in Twilight Menu ++ ?
( İt would be good )

 

[BORTZ]

Dope dude. I dont really watch video on my DS anymore, but man the days when I did were great. Its awesome to see stuff like this still being made. Cheers, OP.

 

[Sunuku]

Nice!

 

[RocketRobz]

Will it be implemented as an default application in Twilight Menu ++ ?
( İt would be good )

Yes, in the next version of TWLMenu++. It won't include the app though.

 

[RocketRobz]

Updated the VirualDub2 link to point to an earlier build.
If you're not getting the "frame0.png" filename, and instead shows more then one "0", please download the earlier build from the first post.

 

[AkitoTheHedgy]

Noice! Now I can watch my digimon while playing my ds-

Right... My Dsi is taken...

 

[AkitoTheHedgy]

???

 

[Trevor_2012]

Cool, it looks like the .DSM format DSMplay.

 

[Hiroshi_1059]

Looks nice

 

[RocketRobz]

Rocket Video Player v1.1 and Vid2RVID v1.1 are out!
You can now play losslessly compressed video (via the LZ77 format), and interlaced video as well!
With interlaced video, the frame rate limit for streaming from SD card, is doubled from 24FPS to 48FPS.

 

[AkitoTheHedgy]

y e s
thank u!

 

[banjo2]

Robz does it again, this looks great!

That conversion process looks... Scary long, though.

 

[leo82309]

Looks great on flashcard (acekard 2i) and nds-bootstrap but I'm having a weird de-sync between the video and audio as the video progresses. I'll have to try a couple more videos but it seems to become noticeable around the 2 minute mark. Other than that I can't seem to get the prompt for compression on Vid2RVID v1.1 in windows. Great little app though, looking forward to your work on it.

 

[leo82309]

To help with the conversion process, you can use ffmpeg to convert frames and audio. Hope this is helpful.

Audio (16000hz):

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ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -ac 1 -ar 16000 -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le "sound.raw.pcm"

Video to PNG:

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ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -r 24 -s 256x144 -start_number 0 frame%00d.png

My info.ini

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[RVID]
FRAMES =[frame count]
FPS = 24
V_RES = 144

 

[RocketRobz]

Looks great on flashcard (acekard 2i) and nds-bootstrap but I'm having a weird de-sync between the video and audio as the video progresses. I'll have to try a couple more videos but it seems to become noticeable around the 2 minute mark. Other than that I can't seem to get the prompt for compression on Vid2RVID v1.1 in windows. Great little app though, looking forward to your work on it.

This app isn't booted by nds-bootstrap. It's booted by whatever app that can boot modern DS(i) homebrew, which in your case, is TWiLight Menu++.

 

[leo82309]

This app isn't booted by nds-bootstrap. It's booted by whatever app that can boot modern DS(i) homebrew, which in your case, is TWiLight Menu++.

Oh really, That's nice. Didn't know TWiLight Menu could do that on 3DS. Shows me my inexperience with it.