Homebrew Videos on Moonshell with BatchDPG Guide

[doubledash]

Moonshell on the other hand, will require your flash memory card (SD, MiniSD, MicroSD, etc) to be plugged into your computer before installation.

Extract the Moonshell Installation archive you just downloaded to anywhere, preferably the Desktop since you'll be getting rid of the files after. Luckily for us, Moonshell comes with a setup file just like BatchDPG to make life just that much easier! Please open setup.exe.

Once you open it, you'll be greeted with a window in which you can select a language. Since English is already ticked, just click OK and ignore the little box under it. Once you click OK, you'll be greeted with another popup. This time, select the drive in which your flash memory card is recognized as.

As you can see, there are quite a lot of options to choose from, but don't worry! I will guide you through this. First of all, hit "all clear" next to ROM image and then tick the one that represents your Slot-1/Slot-2 adapter, e.g. if you have an EZ-Flash V, tick only "EZ5S_MOON EZ Flash 5 (SD Card)" and so on. After you've done that, please tick "moonshl.ini (full) is copied" since that will give you more options if you choose to tinker around with the configuration file later. Everything else is pretty much fine on default except if you want a clock screen saver within Moonshell. If you do, please select the one you like best from the drop down list. Now that we're done setting up the installation settings, click "Setup" and wait for all the files to be copied to your flash memory card.

What happens if you skip this step?

 

[yee]

The step is unnecessary (the installation of Moonshell) if you plan on using the built-in one in your flash cart.

 

[doubledash]

The step is unnecessary (the installation of Moonshell) if you plan on using the built-in one in your flash cart.

I have an R4... so would it be so bad if i skip the step?

 

[yee]

If you have an R4, ignore the installation of Moonshell and just advance to the part on encoding DPGs.

 

[doubledash]

If you have an R4, ignore the installation of Moonshell and just advance to the part on encoding DPGs.

Alright, thanks for the help.

 

[juggernaut911]

never managed to get this to work and moonshell would just freeze when i tried to play DPG files... MediaPlay Extend however pwnd!!!

 

[ilbis]

When I try to play the video, it says "not support ext". Can anyone help me on this?

 

[phoood]

The extension must be *.dpg
Just don't simply rename the file with .dpg

Anyways, gbatmw.net is another good forum with people who are into videos for the DS.

BTW people, 256x144 is a great dimension to use wide screen movies with. Moonshell now supports fps's up to 30ish. Just make sure to replace the "auto" in FPS to the real fps. Use gspot to find the fps of the video file.

 

[Hadrian]

I had to reformat my pc last week and for some reason the steps in this guide don't work on the latest BatchDPG. I've gone through every bit of advice here and I still get the "conversion failed, open blah blah to see what went wrong" or something like that. I never got that when I first did it and theres nothing new or added to my PC when I tried it before.

BatchDPG 1.0 is the only one that converts without errors.

Help?

 

[khan]

Anyone know where I can download the latest version of EZBuilder(English)?

 

[yee]

I had to reformat my pc last week and for some reason the steps in this guide don't work on the latest BatchDPG. I've gone through every bit of advice here and I still get the "conversion failed, open blah blah to see what went wrong" or something like that. I never got that when I first did it and theres nothing new or added to my PC when I tried it before.

BatchDPG 1.0 is the only one that converts without errors.

Help?

Reinstall AVISynth, ffdshow, and .NET Framework and try again.

 

[yee]

Anyone know where I can download the latest version of EZBuilder(English)?

http://gbatmw.net/index.php?topic=5192.0

 

[rhyguy]

when i try to convert a movie, the sound goes ahead of the visual bits, and i think its because my frame rate is too slow

how do i check the framerate of an mp4?

 

[yee]

when i try to convert a movie, the sound goes ahead of the visual bits, and i think its because my frame rate is too slow

how do i check the framerate of an mp4?

Yeah, this is a known problem with Moonshell.

Try lowering the FPS a bit.

You can also try pausing for a sec and resuming.

 

[heyyouguys]

yee, the link to batchdpg is broken, just an fyi

 

[yee]

Fixed.

 

[PBC]

I've been using this guide for awhile now. Just wanted to say thanks for the great info and clean links.

 

[Pulka]

I had to reformat my pc last week and for some reason the steps in this guide don't work on the latest BatchDPG. I've gone through every bit of advice here and I still get the "conversion failed, open blah blah to see what went wrong" or something like that. I never got that when I first did it and theres nothing new or added to my PC when I tried it before.

BatchDPG 1.0 is the only one that converts without errors.

Help?

Download VLC, play the video in VLC, convert!

 

[demispike]

Hi i got an Bepipe error does somebody know what i need to do

 

[phoood]

What kind of video file is it? Are you using the latest batchdpg version. Latest versions of AVISynth, ffdshow, and .NET Framework?
etc etc. More information always helps.