Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Homebrew legend PSPlayerMT gets update: new PSPlayer v2.0

PSPlayerMT - Image 1


PSP homebrew developer Nugi has released an update for the phenomenal video player application that he's made. PSPlayer v2.0 is actually built on (or is an update of, in a way) the phenomenal PSPlayerMT from - get this! - over two years ago now, and has ever since amassed over tens of thousands of downloads to date.

Ah, the jolly good old days of brew - see the screenshot above? It's even got the older QJ.NET watermark on it. Nice to see Nugi is still alive and kicking with his video player application! He's taken a couple of stuff from PSPlayerMT, and has brought it over to PSPlayer v2.0. Here's a list of what its features:
  • Based on FFMPEG nearly latest source(svn rev. 14728).
  • avi/mov(mp4) containers supported. No container specific limitation.
  • Video codec : Mpeg4 video(xvid etc), Mpeg4/AVC(h264) supported. (HW accel only)
  • Audio codec : AC3, MP3, AAC supported. (MP3/AAC are HW accelerated.)
  • Subtitles are supported. (smi, etc. through mplayer subreader.c and custom rendering of subtitles.)
  • Supports B-frames in H264.
  • audio 8-48kHz sampling rate supported. (linear resamling to 44kHz used in PSPlayerMT)
  • Real-time volume boosting(1-20x). Apart from system volume. (Can be used for Replay Gain. Of course by hand not automatically.)
  • Super high quality custom YUV rendering using PSP video acclerator. Precise color conversion. Deblocking in chroma channels. (from PSPlayerMT)
  • Fast avi loading by optimizing index loading.
  • Max video resolution. 480x272. (PSP HW codec library does not support higher resolution. maybe)
  • No restriction in framerate.
  • Buffering mechanism used in PSPlayerMT. (but extreamly reduced buffer size.)
  • FF/Rew supported.
  • Using internal bookmark mechanism, resuming supported.
  • Async reading of video files. Less memstick access.
  • usbhostfs, nethostfs supported. (first should be enabled using irshell. etc.)
The download includes a readme application with more details on PSPlayer's other features, its controls, and library compilation among other notes. (The English readme file is the one titled "PSPlayer-en".)

Download: PSPlayer v2.0



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