Announcing SMS project

bix64 · Post by **bix64** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:49 pm

Hey all,

@EEUG: Very, Very nice work on pic2sms, ( you've done "my work" ;), but it's better, cause i'll gone to be mad,i think i don't take the good way...
I've test your with 10 pic (jpg) every OK.

@Jacky400: Lan Mode is ???

weltall wrote:
could be good also a disable lan or use ps2link already installed lan.

So, Weltall, if you can explain what you want...

End to finished, again some modificaton on my setup source code, i've think at work, and write in some minute now:

Here the file:
http://www.fileshack.us/files/131/SMS_Setup2.rar

Fonction:

- Acces Help Screen
- Display Setup
- Misc Option
- Reset
- PowerOff ( is HDD present )
- Save Config and Exit
- Exit Without Change

Display Setup:
- Display mode choise
- Center Screen
- Exit

Misc Option:
- Filtering Avi ( Choise (ON, OFF), and write to config OK, but not use )
- Reset IOP ( Choise (ON, OFF), and write to config OK, but not use )
- Lan Mode ( don't work for the moment )
- Exit

So, now, my wife want me to make our bag.
Bye
Bixente

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:55 pm

@jacky400: I think I won't be able to download the file in reasonable time (>24hrs already) :(. If you would make just a short clip out of it ~10-20MB...

bix64 · Post by **bix64** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:03 pm

Sorry, i forgot config.h where m_Filter_Avi and m_Reset_IOP are,GUI.c and main.c.

Now the file SMS_Setup2.rar contain it.

Bye

jacky400 · Post by **jacky400** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:07 pm

@EEUG

i cut down the original movie into 26 Mb for you :) something want to ask u ,can SMS GUI support higher resolution like 800x600 or above ? (i think it is limited by ps2 hardware )

@bix64

Just tried your second version of SMS setup,i think when the subtitle function come ,you cam add an option "Subtitle : CHoise On or Off" :)

Is it possible implement function to change the color of border of SMS GUI under SMS setup menu (now active borderis while,inactive border is red )

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:36 pm

...now the link was removed :). Just send me it (link I mean) by email then. I didn't tried SMS in VESA mode, maybe one day I'll do that (I have to fiddle with monitors etc., I'm just too lazy...

jacky400 · Post by **jacky400** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:05 am

@EEUG

Before i just tested Qcast tuner and compared the video quality with SMS, i know Qcast also used modified ffmpeg but i found their video quality output is much better.I also don't know why ,but i know if played for high resolution ,no one can compare with SMS .Haaa :)) .If you want to have a copy of qcast,i can share with u .

Jacky

weltall · Post by **weltall** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:20 am

yeah it filters, like ps2reality does after all, but this makes high resolutions unplayable :(
anyway sources from fmpeg part of qcast are available on their website...

bix64 · Post by **bix64** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:55 am

My last post and file for 3 week:

Activated Filtering Avi option, (mass, cd, dvd tested OK, hdd not tested)

Here modified browser.c
http://www.fileshack.us/files/131/Browser.rar

@EEUG: I don't know if my modif in browser.c is proper, so if you can check... Thanks a lot.

Bye

Bixente

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:33 pm

...Version 1.4 (Rev.8) is in the SVN. bix64's code is integrated etc....

bix64 · Post by **bix64** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:56 am

Hi,

Back to home.

I've test rev8 with radhostclient this night and every think ok, menu look very nice with icon. ;)
Very good work.

@EEUG:What's your station version?

Bye

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:03 pm

...SCPH-30004R...

Fighter_2014 · Post by **Fighter_2014** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:42 pm

Hello.
I would like to know if you can make a tutorial wich explains step by step how to create a CDDAF (for an unmodified PS2), because I don't understand the readme very well.

Thanks.

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:01 pm

1. Download CDXplorer.exe from SVN;
2. Launch it on Windows;
3. Drag/drop the files you want from Windows explorer to the
application (or use '+' toolbar button);
4. Save your compilation - you'll get cue/bin file pair;
5. Close the application;
6. Launch CD burning application (I use Nero);
7. Open generated cue file;
8. If you use Nero 5 then select Disk-at-once/96 option;
9. Burn it;

Good luck
Eugene

P.S. If you have a DVD burner you can also play .avi files
stored on DVD-video disks (just record short DVD/mpeg clip
on them also to get such a disks authorized by PS2);

Fighter_2014 · Post by **Fighter_2014** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:03 am

Thank you very much !

reeeky2001 · Post by **reeeky2001** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:57 am

EEUG: I've tried the afor-mention instructions, but I can get it to do anything (I have an unmodified PS2, SCHP-39001). All I get in the PS2 browser is and Audio CD with two tracks. 1 track is empty, the other one squeels.

What am I doing wrong?

dave_t · Post by **dave_t** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:50 am

@reeeky2001: You appear to be trying to to play the audio tracks without loading SMS. The disc should contain just 2 audio tracks. Track 1 is very short, track 2 contains your data. If you just try to play them as audio, then you will hear squeels. This is normal.

You need to first launch SMS.ELF (via exploit or whatever means), then once its running, press eject and put your CDDAFS CD-R in the drive. Then you'll be able to browse to the avi files. The CD won't be any use unless you put it in the PS2 while SMS is running.

The user manual contains instructions for what you are trying to do:
http://www.daveandzoe.plus.com/sms/sms_usermanual.html

Dave

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:03 am

Version 1.5 is in SVN. Merry Christmas everybody!

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:18 am

...Version 1.5 (Rev.1) is now available in SVN. My best wishes to everybody and Happy New 2006 ;).

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:58 pm

Version 1.6 is commited to SVN

m4d · Post by **m4d** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:57 pm

Nice work -- just discovered this player. As it looks very promising, I will most probably check that out today when I get home.

One question though: lately I've been playing around with MythTV -- wouldn't it be interesting if SMS could implement MythTV's 'protocol' in order to act as a frontend for it?

Just thinking out loud because that would actually be really cool...

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:46 pm

@m4d: ...yes, it can be cool. I think, that mpeg1/2 decoder must be implemented on PS2 side first (and also jpeg etc.), otherwise there's no real use of it. Feel free, however, to fiddle with SMS's code :)...

cheriff · Post by **cheriff** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:18 pm

I've had a (very!) quick look at this, and if you grab the source to mythfrontend, from memory it looks like there is ps2linux specific asm instructions, so perhaps some of the work has been already done?

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:24 pm

...I've looked at it :). Looks quite familiar. That's just "old" ffmpeg code. Most parts of it is in use in SMS (in quite a modified form)...

aalku7 · Post by **aalku7** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:56 am

EEUG, is this the place where I should expect SMS updates, changelogs, etc? or Where should I go to find them?
Thank's for doing SMS.

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:50 pm

@aalku7: ...yes, this is the place :). Refer SVN/ps2ware/trunk/SMS...

ntt2005 · Post by **ntt2005** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:02 am

Hi, I'm curious: does SMS support mpeg4 codec FMP4 anytime soon ? This is the standard recommended mpeg4 codec for mencoder in Linux. It seems to have the best quality, and I have a bunch of AVIs encoded in this codec.

ntt2005

EEUG · Post by **EEUG** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:38 pm

..."anytime soon" will be release with remote control support. Then I'm finally going to vacations, so I'll probably return to SMS coding in the autumn...

ntt2005 · Post by **ntt2005** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:54 am

Ow! remote control support would be fantastic.

BTW, I took one of my FMP4-coded avi and use the command:

mencoder in.avi -ovc copy -avc copy -ffourcc DX50 -o out.avi

which copies all the video and audio streams from in.avi to out.avi, and rename the 4CC to DX50. The resulting file out.avi is PLAYABLE by SMS. So it seems, the only thing SMS needs to do is to recognize the "FMP4" name. Since many of my DivX is stored in DVDR, it would be a pain for me to modify and reburn them.

ntt2005 · Post by **ntt2005** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:14 am

One more wish item: I have a HDTV. It would be nice if SMS supports HDTV modes besides the standard NTSC 640x448. Dominantly, all my DivX are of the size 640x480.

ntt2005 · Post by **ntt2005** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:26 pm

Hi,

I finally have my PS2 modded with the DUO 3 GT chip, so that I can launch SMS directly without ARMAX and disc swaps. However, SMS cannot read the divx files stored on DVDR anymore (sometimes SMS says "illegal disc", sometimes, it doesn't say anything, but it doesn't see any files on the DVDR neither) . Can anybody here help me ? I'll greatly appreciate it.

ntt

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