DSwifiTV - Intro Release (build 0.003)

[wraggster]

News/release from Mywish29

DSwifiTV - Intro Release (build 0.003)

What's New:

-Main Layout
-DLDI Support
-Sound Button(Disabled at the moment)

A quick Release only gets you hopes up quicker. I really need help with this so if you are willing to participate, feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?ab25smva10b

[Homerun]

This actually a thing or is it another "Help me release" release?

EDIT: Its just a screen. Nothing else.

[simonjhall]

Oh. So what's with the rolling version number? And if it doesn't do anything, what's with the "dldi support"?

(I'm not pessimistic, it's just that I've not yet had a chance to fire up my DS today)

[Sonny_Jim]

I'm trying to remain positive about this as well but the odds are stacked against it. Like I said before, I've only ever seen speeds around 80-100kBps best case with the DS wifi hardware, and this isn't enough to do quality video streaming.

The problem lies in the fact that a video file that requires less processing to display will have a high bitrate and one that needs lots of processing will have a small bitrate. The problem is the DS has neither processing power or bandwidth to be to accommodate anything but an audio stream.

[Rebrek]

*coughcough ram expansion coughcough*

In all seriousness, I don't see why he shouldn't try. I'm not saying it will work, but why shoot him down? I mean in the end somebody will get to say I told you so. Why not wait and watch?

[TheLazy1]

With enough buffering you might be able to stream video only xvid.
Not sure though and not willing to test it out, that being said this is definitely not a project to start if you are either just starting programming or just starting with devkitARM/libnds.

[Eyedunno]

I wonder if it would be possible to pull off 128X80 12fps video (hardware scaled to fullscreen)+8kbps sound.

It would look and sound terrible, but I imagine it would at least be watchable if you're not too picky and you don't have to deal with onscreen lettering and so on.

[Sonny_Jim]

To all those who think Slot-2 RAM is the 'magic homebrew cure all bullet':

A. Not everybody has slot-2 RAM
B. It's slow. Really slow. Like 5-8 times slower than normal RAM
C. Having more RAM does not speed things up if you aren't using a swapfile

If someone does manage to pull this off, it would probably mean that a VNC type application would be a lot more usable.

[TheLazy1]

Well, if you cache slot-2 the performance hit is greatly reduced.
I do this in Mini vMac and the external ram is only 2-4 FPS slower than using main ram.

[simonjhall]

But there's no need to use slot-2 memory. 4MB should be plenty for streaming video. It's not like the video will be needed again once played...

@lazy1 - what % slower is that? I've not tried mini vmac - what framerate would you get with normal RAM?