v2.3.0: Now available on GBA!

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

Max quality (16BPP RGB565) video playing on mGBA (with ags001/GBA SP shader applied)

What's new?

• Rocket Video Player has been ported over to the GameBoy Advance, bringing over the uncompressed video quality and the existing button controls as a result!
  • To use the GBA version, place rvid.gba in the same place as Vid2RVID.exe, then convert a video to get a new .gba file containing the video. Running the rvid.gba file by itself will only display a red/orange screen.
  • As the GBA ROM size limit is 32MB (without bank switching), you may not be able to play long videos.
  • Only 8-bit mono audio is supported.
  • Colors will display differently due to how the GBA screens display colors (see the above mGBA screenshot as a reference).
  • As the GBA version does not have a menu for browsing videos, pressing B will stop the video instead.
  • Refresh rate adjustment is not available.
• DS(i): If the bottom screen is turned off after pressing SELECT, touching the screen will turn it back on.
• DS(i): FIFO is now used instead of IPC Sync for playing sound.

Bug fixes

• Re-release, DS(i): Fixed where opening a video would cause a crash.
• Fixed a possible bug which caused the top/bottom fields to be swapped in 25/50FPS videos when jumping forwards/backwards.

v2.2.0

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

What's new?

• Longer videos are now supported by reading video files split into a maximum of 4 parts!
• Added stereo audio support.
• Videos up to 72 FPS are now supported!
  • Achieved by modifying the frame/refresh rate adjustment code to support past 60hz, and moving every 3D-rendered UI graphic to be drawn directly on the bottom screen image (with both the play bar slider and video timestamp rendered by OAM).
  • Not playable on 3DS due to frameskips when going above 60hz, or DSi in DS mode due to detection of DSi/3DS in DS mode not being possible.
• 12 FPS & 24 FPS videos are now played with the screen refresh rate at 72hz in order to remove the horizontal line artifacts (and possibly reduced eyestrain).
  • Does not affect 3DS (or DSi in DS mode), where 48hz will continue to be used, and no such artifacts exist on 3DS.
• Reduced memory usage in DS mode by only loading needed 512-byte sectors of the frame offset and compressed frame size tables.
• Increased 16BPP frame buffer count (16 -> 32) for DS mode. (DSi mode has always used 32.)
• Added single-screen/GBMacro support. Activated when the top screen is turned off and the bottom screen remains turned on.
  • Macro Mode can be activated in the TWLMenu++ Settings menu.

Bug fixes

• For playing 16BPP RGB565 videos in DSi mode, NDMA is now used instead of regular DMA in order to fix possible HBlank scanline skips.
• Audio is now played after the frame is DMA-copied to the screen instead of before, fixing a possible sync issue.
• Fixed a possible bug where loading 256-color frame palettes may overwrite other data.
• Fixed crashing when closing a video which does not contain audio.

v2.1.2

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a BlocksDS bug where holding the DSi POWER button after being booted from a homebrew menu (such as TWLMenu++) would cause the console to boot into boot.nds instead of turning off the DSi.
• Fixed last vertical line being shown on the top of the screen when playing interlaced dual-screen 16BPP RGB565 videos in 4:3.

v2.1.1

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

What's new?

• The screen refresh rate is now adjusted based on the video's frame rate (using code from FastVideoDSPlayer) to remove judder! (Tested with 24 FPS and 25 FPS videos.)
• Added support for videos which play in the native DS refresh/frame rate! (Tested with the first 11 minutes of a Sonic Rush gameplay video from WorldOfLongplays.)

Bug fixes

• Fixed 25 FPS & 50 FPS videos playing at the wrong speed.
• Fixed last vertical line being shown on the top of the screen when playing 16BPP RGB565 videos in 4:3.
• Fixed brief glitched sound playing when unpausing videos containing 8-bit audio stream.

v2.1.0: TWL Christmas Release 🎄

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

🎁 What's new? 🎁

• Switched over from devkitARM/libnds to BlocksDS!
  • Load speeds have doubled.
  • Progressive scan 8BPP 60FPS videos, interlaced 16BPP 60FPS videos, and dual-screen (but interlaced) 60FPS videos are now playable (without issues)!
  • Filesize has been reduced slightly (combined with switching to THUMB code).
• Untested: Re-added support for old Rocket Video files.
  • Support for old compressed Rocket Video files is still disabled.

🎁 Bug fixes 🎁

• Fixed interlaced 16BPP RGB565 videos not playing properly.
• Fixed filling of top/bottom borders of non-4:3 interlaced videos being a pixel off.
• As a result of switching to BlocksDS:
  • Videos should no longer freeze randomly when playing back from the DSi/3DS SD card slot.
  • 16BPP RGB565 videos no longer have vertical shaking pixels on the right-side of the screen when playing back from the DSi/3DS SD card slot.

v2.0.0: Revival

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

What's new?

• Videos up to 60 FPS can now be played on DS & DS Lite systems (all without memory expansion)!
  • This has been achieved by allowing the .rvid format to support 256 (8 bits-per-pixel) on-screen colors (combined with dithering for reduced color banding).
• Dual-screen videos are now supported (at half the supported FPS)!
• Added support for playing 16 BPP videos with the RGB565 color mode!
• Added support for 8-bit audio playback.
• The bottom screen backlight can now be turned off by pressing the SELECT button.
• .rvid is no longer shown as part of the video's title.
• The video's title is now centered if it fits within the screen.
• The bar where the video title is shown now contains your set color in the system settings!
• The full play bar is now visible (complete with the slider)!
• Videos can now be jumped towards some seconds or minutes! (Scroll down to Video UI Controls for how to jump.)
• NitroFS has been removed, allowing a .cia build of this application to be made available for 3DS users!
• The logo for Rocket Video Player has a brand new look!
• Due to the many changes within the .rvid format, old versions are no longer supported.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an overlooked bug in libfat where files larger than 2GB would not be read properly.
• Fixed video/audio desync issues by removing the MaxMod library and reading the correct amount of samples per-second.

Known bugs

• 16 BPP RGB565 videos will have the horizontal lines on the right-side of the screen shimmer when playing back from the DSi or 3DS SD card slot. This does not occur when playing back from flashcards.
• Since prior versions, when playing back from the DSi or 3DS SD card slot, there's a rare chance of freezing (with corrupted colors for 8 BPP videos). Closing the console's lid and opening it back up (or pressing HOME twice on 3DS systems) will un-freeze the video.

Video UI Controls

• A or touch Play/Pause button: Play/Pause video
• L shoulder or touch the left tip of the play bar: Stop video
• D-Pad Left/Right: Jump 5 seconds (30 seconds with R shoulder held)
• D-Pad Down/Up: Jump 10 seconds (1 minute with R shoulder held)
• D-Pad Left+Down/Up+Right: Jump 15 seconds (2 minutes with R shoulder held)
• SELECT: Turn off/on bottom screen backlight (only applies to single-screen videos)
• B or touch Return: Exit video

v1.1

What's new?

• You can now play videos losslessly compressed with the LZ77 format!
  May lag, depending on how big the height of the video is.
• Interlaced videos can now be played!
  For those videos, the frame rate limit for streaming from SD card, is doubled from 24FPS to 48FPS.
• Rocket Video Player's logo is now shown on the top screen, when browsing a .rvid file.

v1.0: Initial release

Requires either nds-hb-menu or TWiLight Menu++ to use this.