What is DSVideo?
DSVideo is a video player for the Nintendo DS console. An entire movie can be compressed into around 400MB.
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Credits
- Dominic Ludlam - Architecture, Wavelet codec, UI, encoder, decoder
- Nick Ludlam - Additional graphics, website, intro video, testing and general monkeying
- Denise Wilton - User Interface theme
Additional thanks
- James Tubbritt (Sharp) - Intro video music. See fxhome for more information
Downloads
NDS Player binaries
Unzip the contents onto your DS memory card, and patch with DLDI if necessary. If you have a Supercard (Lite) or R4 homebrew card, you can use the pre-patched versions provided.
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dsvideo-1.10.zip - Includes sample video and .nds files - Released 09/01/09
Command-line encoder binaries
Unzip these, then run Start/Accessories/Command Prompt (for Windows users) or Applications/Utilities/Terminal (for Mac OS X users) or your favorite terminal application (Linux users) and use the dsvideo command-line tool provided.
- dsvideo-linux-1.10.tar.gz for GNU/Linux - Released 09/01/09
- dsvideo-mac-1.10.zip for Mac OS X (Intel) - Released 09/01/09
- dsvideo-win-1.10.zip for Windows - Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is also required - Released 09/01/09
3rd party GUI tools
GUI tools that present a graphical interface for DSVideo encoding. These depend on the command-line encoder binaries, so make sure you download them too.
- Zanzer7's DSVideo GUI for Windows
- rWatcher's DSVE-GUI v2.1.0 for Windows
- Richard Stimpson's Mac OS X Frontend
Source code
The source includes build instructions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
- dsvideo-source-1.10.tar.bz2 - Released 09/01/09
DLDI ARM7 patches
DLDI patches for DSVideo need to link to the ARM7, instead of the ARM9. We have compiled a number of patches for popular cards below. NOTE: You must also ensure that your homebrew card does not try to autopatch the DSVideo player.
Tested and working
- R4 v2 - Works for R4, M3 Simply and M3 DS Real - Original source
- EZ 5 - Original source
- M3 SD Card - Original source
- DS-X Card - Original source
- SuperCard DS One SDHC - Original source
- iTouch DS - Use the r4tf file in the player package