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DS Misc > iplayer

#169458 - elwing - Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:11 pm

have you seen this?
http://www.dsiplayer.com/
it's not a flash card, but it seem a nice little addon for our DS... (through I see the advantage of 3time smaller dpg video and only using a 5$ flashcard...)

#169459 - Lazy1 - Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:22 pm

Looks good but I wonder if there is a picture quality difference vs the other software players available for free.
I noticed that in darker areas of video blocks of grainy dots would appear regardless of the resolution or bit rate.

#169461 - vuurrobin - Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:42 pm

it doesn't support pirating, but it does support homebrew (dldi patching)

#169462 - spinal_cord - Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:41 am

Its expensive (for a ds flash cart), you can encode dpg for FREE and...

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Q:How about the iPlayer power consumption?
A:iPlayer can play video more than 4 hours. Test environment: Brightness 2, volume biggest with earphone, NDSL



If your going to have such low battery life, you might as well buy a PSP.
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#169463 - elwing - Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:59 am

yep, but i see the advantage of playing raw flv and divx...

#169464 - sonny_jim - Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:46 pm

I've just got one and I have to admit it's actually not too bad, the quality is pretty good (I'd even say better than DPG) and it's nice not to have to spend hours converting everything.

It played everything that I threw at it, including FLAC files and like other people have said, you've also got to give it props for not supporting piracy.

From a technical standpoint, it's quite interesting. I guess it works something like this:

Video/music data is loaded onto Media decoder chip, gets converted to a DS framebuffer friendly format and buffered on the 32MB chip inside. This then gets squirted down the SPI bus to be displayed on the screens.

I'm more interested in seeing if the hardware inside the cart is reprogrammable and whether it's possible to write to the RAM on the cart
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Would that be the internet driver for the program?

#169486 - Lazy1 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:49 pm

Just curious... Does it play flv files ripped right from youtube or other sites like it?

#169797 - canapi - Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:25 am

Lazy1 wrote:
Just curious... Does it play flv files ripped right from youtube or other sites like it?


Yes it can play flv too.

http://www.dsiplayer.us/faq.html


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