Homebrew [RELEASE] BAX - Boot animations for your 3DS!

[OfficialCyDragonGMYT]

ok so i tried using a command line like this in powershell for ban9comp... .\ban9comp -i "anim.file" -f ivf -vf scale=400:240,fps=60 "anim.ivf"
and well nothing happened ban9 got stuck and Wolfvak idk if you know any command line to convert the anim and config to a rawvideo file plus if i were to compile it instead of this recompiled version what software to I use to compile it for it to compress and uncompress?

 

[Wolfvak]

ok so i tried using a command line like this in powershell for ban9comp... .\ban9comp -i "anim.file" -f ivf -vf scale=400:240,fps=60 "anim.ivf"
and well nothing happened ban9 got stuck and Wolfvak idk if you know any command line to convert the anim and config to a rawvideo file plus if i were to compile it instead of this recompiled version what software to I use to compile it for it to compress and uncompress?

That's not how ban9comp works, check out its README to figure out how to decompress a file, then you have to feed the decompressed file to ffmpeg (assuming it's compressed, otherwise just feed the file directly to ffmpeg)

 

[Itzumi]

Hecks ban9comp?

 

[Wolfvak]

Pushed a new commit to the repo, the most important bit is a new version of makebax which uses OpenCV to decode all sorts of video formats, so you should be able to convert from MP4/MKV/whatever else to BAX directly. The README on it hasn't been updated, and I've only really tested it on WSL (1803 / Ubuntu Bionic).

Unfortunately, as the commit says, OpenCV has a ton of dependencies, way more than I'm willing to link against and support, so I'll try to think of another solution for video decoding in the future. Until then if you're feeling adventurous feel free to try to compile and use it, and report any bugs or suggestions here.

 

[OfficialCyDragonGMYT]

Pushed a new commit to the repo, the most important bit is a new version of makebax which uses OpenCV to decode all sorts of video formats, so you should be able to convert from MP4/MKV/whatever else to BAX directly. The README on it hasn't been updated, and I've only really tested it on WSL (1803 / Ubuntu Bionic).

Unfortunately, as the commit says, OpenCV has a ton of dependencies, way more than I'm willing to link against and support, so I'll try to think of another solution for video decoding in the future. Until then if you're feeling adventurous feel free to try to compile and use it, and report any bugs or suggestions here.

well that's excellent, but for now people can go searching for the link that i provided for to download the folder i made up with instructions to make a bax file...

 

[Itzumi]

Pushed a new commit to the repo, the most important bit is a new version of makebax which uses OpenCV to decode all sorts of video formats, so you should be able to convert from MP4/MKV/whatever else to BAX directly. The README on it hasn't been updated, and I've only really tested it on WSL (1803 / Ubuntu Bionic).

Unfortunately, as the commit says, OpenCV has a ton of dependencies, way more than I'm willing to link against and support, so I'll try to think of another solution for video decoding in the future. Until then if you're feeling adventurous feel free to try to compile and use it, and report any bugs or suggestions here.

Ill try it out, ive delt with dependency hell before.
EDIT: Do .gif files fall under what it can convert?

 

[Wolfvak]

Do .gif files fall under what it can convert?

I just tested it and yeah, they can be converted, but the quality loss is pretty bad.
On the other hand, it also reduced the compressed size from ~8MiB to ~5MiB, so if you value file size over quality it could be used.

 

[OfficialCyDragonGMYT]

well here comes the future of us sharing our own made bax files cheers!

 

[PeeJay Bonobo]

I guess I'll start with sharing mine:



Download

EDIT: Also, I didn't even know there was an update to this that removes the need for ffmpeg, I still have the initial release.... snagging now.
EDIT2: Oh.... you didn't actually release that version.... snagged the latest released version anyway.

 

[OfficialCyDragonGMYT]

I guess I'll start with sharing mine:



Download

EDIT: Also, I didn't even know there was an update to this that removes the need for ffmpeg, I still have the initial release.... snagging now.
EDIT2: Oh.... you didn't actually release that version.... snagged the latest released version anyway.

nice and it seems your a youtuber and if you can tell by my username i am also 1 but anyways since i can't post links yet possiblity do to that newbies can't post a clean link and you have to put in dash for something... so ya when i'm lvl 2 i'll see if i can post a link...

here's my favorite bax that i made up...
https://drivedotgoogledotcom/open?id=1HO0FO5cgOIvtayfwgGeOPBaAxF3qQVO0
replace dot with . until i can post links without saying dot...

 

[Wolfvak]

EDIT: Also, I didn't even know there was an update to this that removes the need for ffmpeg, I still have the initial release.... snagging now.
EDIT2: Oh.... you didn't actually release that version.... snagged the latest released version anyway.

Yeah, I haven't released an update because I'm not really happy with the current solution for makebax, and I want to make further performance improvements to the BAX source itself.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Does it work with Luma?

 

[Itzumi]

Does it work with Luma?

Yes this does.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Yes this does.

Yay! but how do I get this to replace my existing splash screen?

 

[Itzumi]

Yay! but how do I get this to replace my existing splash screen?

make a folder called bax on the root of your sd card, then put your boot.firm inside it along with your .bax file, then put the bax boot.firm on root.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

make a folder called bax on the root of your sd card, then put your boot.firm inside it along with your .bax file, then put the bax boot.firm on root.

Okay? but why do I need to replace boot.firm on the root? Will I still be able to get into the luma config?

 

[Wolfvak]

Okay? but why do I need to replace boot.firm on the root? Will I still be able to get into the luma config?

BAX will boot Luma when it's done playing the animation. So yeah, you can still easily get into the config menu.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

BAX will boot Luma when it's done playing the animation. So yeah, you can still easily get into the config menu.

Ah, I see.

 

[LowEndC]

nice and it seems your a youtuber and if you can tell by my username i am also 1 but anyways since i can't post links yet possiblity do to that newbies can't post a clean link and you have to put in dash for something... so ya when i'm lvl 2 i'll see if i can post a link...

here's my favorite bax that i made up...
https://drivedotgoogledotcom/open?id=1HO0FO5cgOIvtayfwgGeOPBaAxF3qQVO0
replace dot with . until i can post links without saying dot...

im using your windows bax now. love it lol

 

[OfficialCyDragonGMYT]

im using your windows bax now. love it lol

ikr i loved some parts of windows XP like boot sound and loading screen but i hated that i got my win xp machine with a kinda bad processor because on it i couldn't play Wizard101 well... anyways ya enjoy and savor Win Xp.