PMP Mod V1.02 / small mods

argandona · Post by **argandona** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:47 am

Moviemenu graphics updated with battery status, audio and brightness controls.

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:56 am

@jonny:
Yes, that would definitely work, but it would be rather slow, since in pmp_decode_open, all frame and audio buffers are allocated and filled with 0s. Doing this for ~12 vids that are visible in icon preview mode would make scrolling through the list a march through hell. I already noticed it was noticeable slowing to just use your api to get the video header loaded, as too much stuff get's allocated and checked, which isn't needed anyway. So I wrote my own short header reader.

@therock003:
Would be another option, yes. But what with people that are too lazy to create snaps for every video (I know there are, because I woulde be such a person ;)), but still want the preview icon function?

therock003 · Post by **therock003** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:04 am

Raphael wrote: @therock003:
Would be another option, yes. But what with people that are too lazy to create snaps for every video (I know there are, because I woulde be such a person ;)), but still want the preview icon function?

I just suggested it in case you don't find a solution in doing it automatically.

BTW just a suggestion,could you plz name the files you're posting with version numbers.Cause i just dump them in the desktop,and since they're named m4g or pmp-argandona i won't know which one is which!

jo2k · Post by **jo2k** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:46 am

argandona:

Great work!

couple thoughts:
- Malloc did a wonderful job on the minimumlistic info bars while provided lots of information. And with Raphael's 50% transparent mod you could almost watch the video with them on. So the idea is maximum info in minimum form.
In that sense, I find Malloc's "+1", "X2" over respective icon very effective.
- I like the one consolidated info bar idea
- I guess presenting these info makes sense:

: Progress
: Zoom
: Brightness
: Audio
: Battery Status
: Current time
(which is what we had in the 2 bars now)
And maybe
: File name that's playing (not sure if there is difficulty to overlay text onto video, or it has to be done in png letters - or to keep the style consistent)

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:53 am

@therock003:
lol, sure, I just thought it would confuse people more by bringing yet another version modifier to the name :) as if PMPMOD 1.01 M4.01g isn't enough yet ;)

Well, I'll just call the last uploaded version PMPMOD M4.01g1 as this for now should be one first "final" GUI Mod version. (Meaning: don't expect that hardcorely frequent updates from me for the next time ;))

argandona · Post by **argandona** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:20 pm

jo2k wrote:argandona:

Great work!

couple thoughts:
- Malloc did a wonderful job on the minimumlistic info bars while provided lots of information. And with Raphael's 50% transparent mod you could almost watch the video with them on. So the idea is maximum info in minimum form.
In that sense, I find Malloc's "+1", "X2" over respective icon very effective.
- I like the one consolidated info bar idea
- I guess presenting these info makes sense:

: Progress
: Zoom
: Brightness
: Audio
: Battery Status
: Current time
(which is what we had in the 2 bars now)
And maybe
: File name that's playing (not sure if there is difficulty to overlay text onto video, or it has to be done in png letters - or to keep the style consistent)

I cleaned up the graphics a little (look at the updated pic in my previous post), and added a screen mode icon (zoom). The idea is to use the space where the "x4" is, to display both audio and brightness level on the same spot, depending on wich button you're pressing.

http://files.filefront.com/PMP_Argandon ... einfo.html

This is my last update for a while, unless I get some specific request from Raphael, Malloc or Jonny.

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:52 am

Just a little bug-fix version here, which fixes a crash when no .pmp file is in the video folder. Also there's a USB connection status now.

Update g2:
- fixed crash bug when no .pmp files in VIDEO folder
- added USB Connection Status
- Loading screen only shown before first video of a playlist

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Screenshots for those who don't yet know how this version looks like:

0238149 · Post by **0238149** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:52 am

hi~ i come from china.i like the mod very much! i will come there and support you usually ! good luck!

wooolF · Post by **wooolF** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:04 am

0238149 wrote:hi~ i come from china.i like the mod very much! i will come there and support you usually ! good luck!

LMAO :D Nice engRish :D

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:06 am

I find it kinda cute ;P

wooolF · Post by **wooolF** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:17 am

@Raphael, @argandona
Lates M4G looks awesome! Good work on puttin' it together! =)

gmk · Post by **gmk** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:16 pm

Raphael wrote:
@therock003:
Would be another option, yes. But what with people that are too lazy to create snaps for every video (I know there are, because I woulde be such a person ;)), but still want the preview icon function?

Hi Raphael,

my suggestion is, you could do it like:

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if "nameoffile.thm" exist
show  "nameoffile.thm"
else 
create thumb of "nameoffile"
show "nameoffile.thm"

it´s just an idea.

TheKing · Post by **TheKing** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:18 am

I like the .thm approach - I like to use movie posters as the thumnail for my Mp4s and it would be great to have this for PMPs too.

pegasus · Post by **pegasus** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:29 am

Raphael wrote:Just a little bug-fix version here, which fixes a crash when no .pmp file is in the video folder. Also there's a USB connection status now.

Update g2:
- fixed crash bug when no .pmp files in VIDEO folder
- added USB Connection Status
- Loading screen only shown before first video of a playlist

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Source

Screenshots for those who don't yet know how this version looks like:

Greetings Raphael!

Just wanna ask, what video/sound bitrates you use in ur naruto movie and
what encoding options did you apply?
how did u get 76MB for a 24min movie?
is it in decent quality?

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:00 am

@pegasus:
The quality is better than anything AVC could currently possibly come up with. Read this thread http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=34917&page=2 , where I made a comparison between different AVC encodings and my XVid encode to the original source. On page 1 of that thread I also posted how I do the encoding and provided the batch file I use with mencoder and pmp_muxer. I only use 64kbit audio, since I find it good enough on the PSP as long as you don't plug a stereospeaker set. If you want 128kbit, the file gets ~10mb bigger.
For the imagequality, if you can accept a slight loss on quality, you could shrink it even more by trying a bitrate lower the 404kbit I chose for my encodings. Probably something like 360 or so.

psp360 · Post by **psp360** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:36 am

Raphael hey wonderful work...when can we expect an update with the new skin and images that argandona posted? I am new here so I want to know if it's something I can do seeing that he gave us access to his files. Thanks

argandona · Post by **argandona** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:44 am

psp360 wrote:Raphael hey wonderful work...when can we expect an update with the new skin and images that argandona posted? I am new here so I want to know if it's something I can do seeing that he gave us access to his files. Thanks

My skin is only a concept, PMP is still a long way from that. It's easy to cook up an idea (Took me 1 hour, I made the skin back when PMP still played avis), coding it is a whole different subject.
As Raphael said, it's going to take time before you see a full GUI implemented.

Cheers.

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:02 am

argandona wrote:
psp360 wrote:Raphael hey wonderful work...when can we expect an update with the new skin and images that argandona posted? I am new here so I want to know if it's something I can do seeing that he gave us access to his files. Thanks
it's going to take time before you see a full GUI implemented.
Cheers.

Amen :) I'll try my best though

imutau · Post by **imutau** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:35 am

This is a great improvement. Thanks and keep up the great work. It would be great to see Argandona's visuals implimented like in the Aeon Flux pic. Also Raphael thanks for the coding so far and I like your video encode settings I've tried it with my Winmenc 5.x GUI (mencoder) and it's just about where I want it at.

jo2k · Post by **jo2k** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:07 am

Raphael: did you try that Silent Hill Movie Trailer PMP I posted in your thread over at pspupdates? I noticed that seems time display for playback is all messed up... it's encoded in mencoder too. weird huh?

http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=1272910

pegasus · Post by **pegasus** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:56 am

@Raphael
Tnx for answering, BTW full screen is way much better than SP or AVC hehe!

@Jo2k
I don't know what you meant but.. I assume that that the problem in silent hill trailer's playback time is the same as i encountered.. where the playbacks time is a little bit delayed, well at least 1:30 ratio.

where 30secs of time will be equal to 1sec in my pmp video, really weird! XD

I got that when i encoded using pmp simple. here's my settings

1500kbps video
128kbps sound
checked high quality mode
checked high priority mode (doesn't make any sense XD)
checked bit exact algorithm
addition of l3x3:1:c3x3:1 option. and evrtyings on default

Edit:

Here's one really weird i just played the video i just mentioned and here's what i got

Error:
"pmp_lib_open: malloc_64 failed on aud_index"
Press X

Hmm It just does'nt make any sense... well as far as i remembered the last time that i just played that file is on m4g1, and now i used m4g2

Edit 2:

Well it just the weirdest thing ever happened to me i just deleted the video are we there yet trailer.pmp which i was talking about and also the pos file... after i press start button it just always came back, the pos file with 0kb size.. well it's annoying because it shouldnt be there.........

anyone encountered this?

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:49 am

@jo2k:
I'll have a look at the trailor right now and check for the timedisplay. Is it wrong only in file list or infobar or in both? Well i'll see.

@pegasus:
The malloc_64 error looks like you've run out of memory to allocate any further buffers there. Could be due to a little memory leak I found currently, but I'm not sure since this should only have influence after lots of videos being loaded one after another, not using the playlist or after a lot of refreshs. But then again the video should play fine after you restart PMPMOD, or at last if you restart your PSP. I'll check that out asap.

jonny · Post by **jonny** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:14 pm

@Raphael:

a tip: you should really free skin_texture (and any other big structure) before playing anything
i use a lot of memory in the player, there is no space for anything else (you could also decrease maximum_frame_buffers_allocation, but this can directly affect performance)

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:26 pm

Thanks, I'll try that :)

I'm just still too used to PC coding style, with millions of ram and bad load/transfer speeds ;)

imutau · Post by **imutau** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:22 am

I like malloc's in video interface but is there a way that I can change the background to a blue rather than the biege it uses? If it's just a change to the interf.tga then that would be cool but if its a coding thing just forget I asked.

malloc · Post by **malloc** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:12 am

imutau wrote:I like malloc's in video interface but is there a way that I can change the background to a blue rather than the biege it uses? If it's just a change to the interf.tga then that would be cool but if its a coding thing just forget I asked.

You can edit the interf.tga directly :) (You just need to pay attention to the Alpha channel : this is a 32bits TGA)

alexmae · Post by **alexmae** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:54 am

here's a quick skin i made, i hope transparency will be implemented soon in the gui ;) text is in italian but you know which keys do what :) i hope you like it

Download -> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P8PNSLPV

therock003 · Post by **therock003** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:50 am

IT looks nice!

Twister · Post by **Twister** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:45 am

After about 10 minutes into playing I'm getting the following error:

pmp_decode_get: avcodec_decode_video failed.

I tried transcoding the video again and weird enough it played for a few more second after crashing again, where as before it was crashing always on the same spot.

jonny · Post by **jonny** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:53 am

i'm always bored repeating the same stuffs over years, anyway

Getting help:

First of all, look at the "Common problems" section on my site, many problems can be addressed with the info contained in this page.
If you are totally lost, look at the "Guides" section, always on my site.

If you think you have a problem not already reported, please post in this thread.
Detailed infos are needed in order to replicate the problem.
This means software used (with exact version number) and infos about the video/audio and encoding parameters.
You can also use rapidshare.de to upload clips that show the problem (of course make sure no copyright infringement when doing this).
Use this rule: if making the report takes less then 10 minutes, you are probably going to do a not complete/useful report.

i add to this that you should try with the standard v1.01 to see if it is a general problem or if it's related to the modded versions only.

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