Homebrew RELEASE pPlay: switch video player

[nWo]

Have tried it again with the latest build, this time it looks like it DOES reads the USB, but still nothing shows up on the menu after those seconds.

And finally, does this fork work with Switch firmware 11.x?

Thank you all for your work and time.

 

[DarkMatterCore]

Have tried it again with the latest build, this time it looks like it DOES reads the USB, but still nothing shows up on the menu after those seconds.

And finally, does this fork work with Switch firmware 11.x?

Thank you all for your work and time.

Please try the example test app from libusbhsfs: https://github.com/DarkMatterCore/libusbhsfs/releases/tag/v0.2.2 (it's the NRO in the GPLv2 archive).

If it works there, then it's a problem with pplay.

 

[nWo]

Okay, so it showed this:

www.i.imgur.com/PdvaFjE.jpg

I must say that all my HDD are NSTF, I wonder if being FAT32 would have a better chance?

Already connected and disconnected from my PC and safely removed, but can't seem to get them to appear : /

Anyways, I'm about to update so, I was wondering if this worked on fw 11.x?

 

[DarkMatterCore]

Okay, so it showed this:

www.i.imgur.com/PdvaFjE.jpg

I must say that all my HDD are NSTF, I wonder if being FAT32 would have a better chance?

Already connected and disconnected from my PC and safely removed, but can't seem to get them to appear : /

Anyways, I'm about to update so, I was wondering if this worked on fw 11.x?

Yes, it works under 11.x.

Please run the attached build and try all your USB HDDs once more, then exit the test application and send me the "libusbhsfs.log" file that should be located in the root directory from your SD card.

 

[nWo]

All right, here it is:

2020-12-28 00:02:24 -> usbHsFsInitialize: libusbhsfs v0.2.2 starting. Built on Dec 28 2020 - 01:49:42.
2020-12-28 00:02:24 -> usbHsFsInitialize: Build type: GPL.
2020-12-28 00:02:24 -> usbHsFsUtilsCheckRunningServiceByName: smRegisterService failed for "tx"! (0x00000815).
2020-12-28 00:02:24 -> usbHsFsInitialize: Running under SX OS: yes.
2020-12-28 00:02:25 -> usbHsFsDriveManagerThreadFuncSXOS: New status received: 2.
2020-12-28 00:02:25 -> usbHsFsDriveManagerThreadFuncSXOS: Signaling status change event.
2020-12-28 00:02:36 -> usbHsFsCloseDriveManagerThread: Signaling drive manager thread exit event...
2020-12-28 00:02:36 -> usbHsFsCloseDriveManagerThread: Thread successfully closed.
________________________________________________________________
2020-12-28 00:03:54 -> usbHsFsInitialize: libusbhsfs v0.2.2 starting. Built on Dec 28 2020 - 01:49:42.
2020-12-28 00:03:54 -> usbHsFsInitialize: Build type: GPL.
2020-12-28 00:03:54 -> usbHsFsUtilsCheckRunningServiceByName: smRegisterService failed for "tx"! (0x00000815).
2020-12-28 00:03:54 -> usbHsFsInitialize: Running under SX OS: yes.
2020-12-28 00:03:55 -> usbHsFsDriveManagerThreadFuncSXOS: New status received: 2.
2020-12-28 00:03:55 -> usbHsFsDriveManagerThreadFuncSXOS: Signaling status change event.
2020-12-28 00:04:18 -> usbHsFsCloseDriveManagerThread: Signaling drive manager thread exit event...
2020-12-28 00:04:18 -> usbHsFsCloseDriveManagerThread: Thread successfully closed.

I tried only with two HDD because I have access to the other two until tomorrow. Hope this helps in something!

 

[DarkMatterCore]

You're using SX OS. That's it. NTFS and EXT support is only available under Atmosphère.

The BOT driver from SX OS is very limited, offers no way to write raw blocks, and collides with my userland BOT driver implementation from libusbhsfs, so these features are entirely turned off and the library uses the usbfs service from SX OS instead - which yes, is limited to a single FAT partition from a single USB drive.

 

[nWo]

Oh, great damn, I see.

So, I could use one FAT partition with my setup?

I will switch to atmos now and then because I use pretty often this app, and the videos take up quite a bit of space on the SD card. Thank you for your help, I will try experimenting with the FAT HDD on SX and on Atmos and see how does this fare.

Thank you again!

 

[DarkMatterCore]

Yeah, you should be able to use a FAT partition under SX OS.

Assuming TX relies on FatFs to perform partition lookup, logical (EBR) partitions aren't supported, so only the first FAT partition from the MBR/GPT will be mounted.

 

[quicksilver501]

I've looked at the code, in between the latest version and the 2.1 (where ftp worked) there seems to have been a refactor, the ftplib library is there but has no references in the code (ie every mention of ftp in the code has been deleted). I was about to fix the input for version 2.1 but noticed somebody aleady did.

 

[Deleted User]

Works great with 1TB NTFS USB HDD and 1080p mkv‘s - thanks for this awesome homebrew!

 

[cucholix]

@ShroomKing I believe subtitles (srt) system is broken in your build too

 

[Asia81]

Works great with 1TB NTFS USB HDD and 1080p mkv‘s - thanks for this awesome homebrew!

How do you even run 1080P mkv files?
I mean, I can run them fine, but the video is almost corrupted with wrong colors, also seems to have ms ping latancy when playing.

What's the best codec and format settings to run the video in a "perfect" condition ?

 

[DarkMatterCore]

How do you even run 1080P mkv files?
I mean, I can run them fine, but the video is almost corrupted with wrong colors, also seems to have ms ping latancy when playing.

What's the best codec and format settings to run the video in a "perfect" condition ?

Try overclocking both CPU and MEM via sys-clk to 1785 and 1600 MHz, respectively.

 

[Asia81]

Try overclocking both CPU and MEM via sys-clk to 1785 and 1600 MHz, respectively.

Do you have a good guide for overclocking?
I just want to be safe and don't want to do anything wrong.

 

[Deleted User]

How do you even run 1080P mkv files?
I mean, I can run them fine, but the video is almost corrupted with wrong colors, also seems to have ms ping latancy when playing.

What's the best codec and format settings to run the video in a "perfect" condition ?

Yes, everything overclocked to max. Launching HBL via an max overclocked game - I have no issues at all (so far played couple of ~ 10GiB MKVs in 1080p with no stutter at all). For me it‘s so great (I‘m at my familys place who do not own a smart tv).

 

[ayumi0001]

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[ayumi0001]

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[ayumi0001]

Previously, 3.1 supported subtitles, but after updating, SMISrt subtitles do not appear to be supported. Also, among 1080P videos, files with high bit rate are sticky. Please check.

 

[nWo]

Can confirm that subtitles don´t work, also I had trouble playing some .avi videos, and finally yes, the HD ones are sticky and with wrong latency.

I just hope we soon could get our hands on a revised version with subtitles and .avi support.

 

[ShroomKing]

Thanks for testing.

Finally had some time to work on this and figured out why .avi's and web scrapping stopped working so here's a new build: https://github.com/ShroomKing/pplay/releases

Was trying to fix subtitles too but no idea why they're broken in the first place...

EDIT: Also not sure what to do about the latency issues, i'd have to add some sort of additional buffer for HDDs.

 

[nWo]

Can confirm that now all the video formats I have work flawlessly (mp4, avi, mpg, wma) I really hope you can figure out the subtitle thing, that's the only problem now! Other than that, it's amazing! Thank you!! @ShroomKing

 

[Jayro]

Thanks for testing.

Finally had some time to work on this and figured out why .avi's and web scrapping stopped working so here's a new build: https://github.com/ShroomKing/pplay/releases

Was trying to fix subtitles too but no idea why they're broken in the first place...

EDIT: Also not sure what to do about the latency issues, i'd have to add some sort of additional buffer for HDDs.

Wait... did this development switch into your hands, or is this just a fork? Either way, I'm just happy for updates. Just need to know which repo I should keep bookmarked.