Homebrew 3DS Movie Viewer displaying duplicate files

[buttercat]

Hi I just installed the 3DS Movie Viewer (cia) on my new 2dsxl and it plays some titles great so far, but I'm having 2 issues:

1. Every single moflex movie displays in duplicates in the player. It will have, for example, "Finding Nemo" then right below it a nonworking ".__Finding Nemo". This is for every single movie I have on my SD root. Is this normal or how can I delete the duplicate files?
   
   
2. Also, some of my moflex movies/shows are not showing up in the movie player... is there a limit to the # of titles you can have?

Thank you!

 

[SuperDan]

Never heard of that app does it skip ever 10 minutes or play the whole movie?

 

[buttercat]

It plays the whole movie as far as I'm seeing. The video player is a CIA file and it plays moflex formatted movies/shows only (I found my movies on 3dsiso's threads)

 

[SuperDan]

It plays the whole movie as far as I'm seeing. The video player is a CIA file and it plays moflex formatted movies/shows only (I found my movies on 3dsiso's threads)

its really cool it works fine its a shame the video file cia's downloads are big files ..but works gret must i convert the moflex. files to cia ( my 1st download was cia my 2nd was moflex )

 

[buttercat]

Great to hear! Do you get the duplicate files problem like I do?

 

[SuperDan]

Great to hear! Do you get the duplicate files problem like I do?

it my 1st try but no can i put moflex. files on my 3ds SD Card ? or must i convert them myself?

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It plays the whole movie as far as I'm seeing. The video player is a CIA file and it plays moflex formatted movies/shows only (I found my movies on 3dsiso's threads)

thats where i got mine too actually WHERE do i put them on my SD CARD ? pls help

 

[buttercat]

Yes if it's moflex just put it on the root of your SD and the movie viewer will automatically detect it. Where did you get the movie viewer? Maybe mine is outdated?

 

[SuperDan]

Yes if it's moflex just put it on the root of your SD and the movie viewer will automatically detect it. Where did you get the movie viewer? Maybe mine is outdated?

yeah i got that & installed it tried one cia movie (worked) but i noticed a MOVie Folder on 3ds sd so i put it there so just put it in my root not in folder?

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yeah i got that & installed it tried one cia movie (worked) but i noticed a MOVie Folder on 3ds sd so i put it there so just put it in my root not in folder?

oh yeah in ROOT not movie folder ! thanks

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last question is there a non 3D films for less space or simply smaller file movies ?

 

[lordkaos]

Never heard of that app does it skip ever 10 minutes or play the whole movie?

it can play a whole movie with no time or size limit, it just needs to be a .moflex file placed in the root of the SD card.

 

[SuperDan]

it can play a whole movie with no time or size limit, it just needs to be a .moflex file placed in the root of the SD card.

yes i just found this out ! im impressed ..the film sizes are big ..but i have 128 sd card and alot of gmes i will never play so i will delete some

 

[SCOTT0852]

The duplication issue is caused by using a Mac. Use Windows or Linux instead and you won't have that issue.

 

[buttercat]

I've been using mac this whole time so I will def give this a try. Thank you so much!!

 

[SuperDan]

I've been using mac this whole time so I will def give this a try. Thank you so much!!

I've been using windows 7 & added about 60 films no duplicates

 

[SCOTT0852]

I've been using windows 7 & added about 60 films no duplicates

The duplicates are caused by the odd way that OS X handles its search metadata. Instead of making an index like Windows does, it makes a metadata file right next to every file it finds. I have no clue why it needs this file, no other OS needs an entire additional file for every file to store all the information they need. These metadata files have the exact same name as the files they're based on, they just have a ._ appended to the beginning (so file.ext would have a metadata file called ._file.ext). The issue is that all of these metadata files have the exact same extension as the source file. It sees movie.moflex and ._movie.moflex, so it assumes they must both be videos as they both end in .moflex.

 

[SuperDan]

The duplicates are caused by the odd way that OS X handles its search metadata. Instead of making an index like Windows does, it makes a metadata file right next to every file it finds. I have no clue why it needs this file, no other OS needs an entire additional file for every file to store all the information they need. These metadata files have the exact same name as the files they're based on, they just have a ._ appended to the beginning (so file.ext would have a metadata file called ._file.ext). The issue is that all of these metadata files have the exact same extension as the source file. It sees movie.moflex and ._movie.moflex, so it assumes they must both be videos as they both end in .moflex.

Totally off topic sorry OP
But you seem to know you're 3DS stuff & I'm new to this system ... Has anyone made a MOD that improves the 3D... As in reducing Ghosting..?.. Made it more stable in any way ? As I really think it's cool... In some games I'm playing Zelda OTT again after about 20 years . & loving the new graphics ect and 3D .. It's just not 100% stable.. I know light and things effect it...

 

[SCOTT0852]

Has anyone made a MOD that improves the 3D... As in reducing Ghosting..?

No. That is a hardware issue, not a software issue. You can't change the hardware just by running different software.

 

[SuperDan]

No. That is a hardware issue, not a software issue. You can't change the hardware just by running different software.

Fair enough... It still works fine

 

[SuperDan]

Yes if it's moflex just put it on the root of your SD and the movie viewer will automatically detect it. Where did you get the movie viewer? Maybe mine is outdated
from Github but its a old one .... is 3dsiso the only place with moflex downloads ...? i cant find any others

 

[jjoeyf]

To fix the issue of
._ metadata files (AppleDouble files) appearing as duplicates on your 3DS, you can either use a built-in macOS command to merge/delete them or use a dedicated utility to clean the SD card before ejecting it.

Option 1: The Native "dot_clean" Command (Recommended)
macOS includes a utility specifically designed to fix this problem on non-Mac formatted drives (like FAT32 SD cards used in the 3DS).

1. Connect your SD card to your Mac.
2. Open Terminal (found in Applications > Utilities).
3. Type dot_clean -m (include the space at the end, but don't press Enter yet).
4. Drag your SD card icon from the Desktop into the Terminal window; this will automatically paste the drive's path.
5. Press Enter.
   • The -m flag tells macOS to merge the ._ metadata back into the main files (or delete them if they aren't needed), effectively removing the "duplicates" from the 3DS player.