Talk:DragonMedia Player

Themes Table

Please don't add your themes to the table unless you actually have a release! Not a place to show off pre-release info! --DragonMinded 19:42, 6 July 2008 (PST)

Switching Music

Upon launching a specific MP3 file (sd://~NAVARR/MUSIC/Vampire_Knight_-_Still_Doll.mp3), a dump is received (file available upon request): Dump: http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1028/hpim0245wo3.jpg

8000ed28 --> 8000e45c --> 80009f64 --> 8000cc80 -->
80007cfc --> 8000af28 --> 8000b340 --> 80009190 -->
800043a4

v0.3a --Navarr 10:38, 1 July 2008 (CEST)

Probaby will need the mp3. Does it crash right when clicking on it, or after a bit of playing?

--DragonMinded 12:59, 1 July 2008 (PST)

It crashes immediately after clicking it.

--Navarr 01:31, 2 July 2008 (CEST)

Ok well I'll still need the mp3...

--DragonMinded 21:33, 1 July 2008 (PST)

mp3

--Navarr 07:21, 2 July 2008 (CEST)

It's crashing while mpg123 tries to interpret the xing header in the file. I don't know why, but I've contacted them. For now, try a different conversion of it.

--DragonMinded 23:24, 1 July 2008 (PST)

Good to see you back ;)

And sorry for my mess :( --GeekShadow 14:24, 1 July 2008 (CEST)

Large amount of files in directory

When loading a directory with a lot of files in it (247 of them, to be exact), the program crashes. --Xero 20:14, 1 July 2008 (EST)

Changed the way it does directories. Should load this now and should be faster.

--DragonMinded 21:33, 1 July 2008 (PST)

Renaming dmp folder

I finally found why DMP didn't start, I renamed the folder dmp in apps to DragonMedia Player.

Yes, if you rename the directory, it doesn't know how to find the files. Don't rename it.

--DragonMinded 21:33, 1 July 2008 (PST)

BGGraphic?

Are there any restrictions of the BGGraphic-File? I tried a 640x480 .png, without any success.

	<Application>
		<BGColor>1C1C1C</BGColor>
		<BGGraphic>background.png</BGGraphic>
	</Application>

Also, if I delete the BGColor entry, it doesn't change... any suggestions? The file exists of course... Oh, and is there any chance to change the skin at runtime? -- arn` 01:10, 3 July 2008 (GMT+1)

The restriction is I haven't added background support to the whole application yet, so it won't load one ;P Of course runtime skin changing is planned, but there are far more important things to do. It's only been out for a week.

--DragonMinded 16:19, 2 July 2008 (PST)

OK, good Point. ;x

What I've found next is, that "Color" seems to don't work for CurrentLength and CurrentPlayTime (& NowPlaying?). -- arn` 01:22, 3 July 2008 (GMT+1)

Well, new version fixed it, thanks! I've spend some hours making this:

http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/ly5wv8c/0xPREVIEW.png -- arn` 19:51, 3 July 2008 (GMT+1)

Your image host doesn't allow hotlinking...

--DragonMinded 11:06, 3 July 2008 (PST)

It doesn't? O_o Here's another one: http://img387.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0xpreviewla1.png -- arn` 20:13, 3 July 2008 (GMT+1)

Damn that looks good. Keep it polished and it might be a skin that ships default. Any way I could grab the current version?

--DragonMinded 10:42, 4 July 2008 (PST)

Possible. I want to create another one or two before releasing anything. ;) -- arn` 23:57, 5 July 2008 (GMT+1)

Bug Reports

Just add any bug you found, for better overview:

Version	Description	Fix
0.05 Alpha	Custom theme's cursor .png doesn't get displayed	change "<Filename>" to "</FileName>"
0.05 Alpha	displacement of elements (buttons etc.) background unless Position is set to '0, 0' in settings.xml	fixed in 0.06 Alpha!
0.06 Alpha	crashes when "Home" is pressed while theme uses no "Menu" image	fixed in 0.07 Alpha!
0.1 Beta	Certain .flac files cause slowdown with stuttering audio. "Demon Seed" by Nine Inch Nails is one example. (It's a free download from nin.com if you want to test it).
0.11 Alpha and lower	You can not change color of the text in the menu and the menu's button labels
0.11 Alpha and lower	fastly switching between tracks crashes DMP

I have yet to reproduce the fast track switching crash. There needs to be more description as to how to do this.

DragonMinded 08:23, 22 July 2008 (GMT+8)

Oh, and awesome work with the drivelight. -- arn` 08:30, 7 July 2008 (GMT+1)

Cursor gets displayed fine, Filename was renamed to FileName for consistency

DragonMinded 07:20, 7 July 2008 (GMT+8)

I hope it helps you, DragonMinded. And one question, is there a way to get out of the "Home-Menu"? -- arn` 18:05, 8 July 2008 (GMT+1)

Hey, when I'm changing files up and down quickly while listening to a song, I get the "dump code" or whatever it's called. Just letting you know. SL92 18:05, 8 July 2008 (GMT-3:30)

Burn in protection

Is it possible to add a dim screen (after timeout > 15min) or so OR an option/button to render the current spectrum analyser/visualization over the entire screen area? Its for those of us with cheap widescreen LCD TVs affraid of burn in. Its been ages since I coded anything but lately I'm very tempted to rip the source code apart and see what goodies I can add. --Llvanden 11:56, 16 July 2008 (CEST)

LCDs will never get burned in. --Blooper4912 23:50, 16 July 2008 (CEST)

Oh... I somehow think that had something to do with me not getting plasma instead, Still, a full screen visualization would be... novel. Although it looks like I might just be able to modify the theme file to do this? --Llvanden 10:01, 17 July 2008 (CEST)

Ideas

First, I was wondering if you could do something to scroll down and up. I think I saw some arrows for that but they don't seem to work. That would ben ice.

Second, it's been one day that it's released but for future you could implement DVD use with Waninkoko's Custom IOS so we could burn music and listen them in the wii. (LaPatateInc:LaPatateInc, July 16th)

You can already scroll up and down. Just use the trigger with the pointer on the playlist (like in the opera browser)

And yeah, maybe the usb code from MplayerWii could be used for flash drive reading?--Llvanden 20:11, 16 July 2008 (CEST)

The usb code from MplayerWii is just the libfat patches (however, calling mplayerwii open source is a bit liberal, he includes a bunch of .o files and then the wrapper code to translate mplayer to wii). I've already integrated them, but they do not work for ANY of my drives.

DragonMinded 11:50, 17 July 2008 (GMT+8)

Thanks for the info and Great work! I have just tested 0.11 Alpha with a 4GB Trancend flash drive and it works! There are a few mp3s that stutter. The first mp3 that did this is a 57 minute mp3. At first I thought it was because it was too long and eating up all of the memory. Then I loaded a 3 minute mp3 and it worked great, but then I loaded another 3 minute mp3 and it stuttered. THEN I loaded a 119 minute mp3 and it played great?? I suspect it has something to do with the way the files were encoded and I will try to get more info on the files themselves (bitrates/vbr/cbr etc) if it will help. When this stuttering happens DMP goes visibly slower and the pointer movement goes laggy and jerky itself. The stuttering itself sounds similar to an emulator on a slow CPU or with too short an audio buffer. Hope it helps. Thanks again --Llvanden 11:40, 20 July 2008 (CEST)

The stuttering mp3s are 320kbps CBR joint stereo and one of them is 256 kbps 2 channel stereo. They work flawlessly from the SD card. I assume higher bitrates read more data more frequently as well as 2 channel stereo as apposed to joint stereo? And since the wii USB code is still experimental (and slow) I assume the stuttering is caused by not being able to load faster from USB (yet). Sorry for the frequent posting, but I hope this prevents from people asking you the same thing over and over. --Llvanden 12:54, 20 July 2008 (CEST)

As for Waninkoko's Custom IOS, Somehow I get the feeling this has something to do with the exploit Busing also discovered and reported to Nintendo. I think this will get fixed with the next firmware update because this same IOS allows an unmodded wii to run illegally copied games. --Llvanden 13:00, 20 July 2008 (CEST)

Disable the Wii Light

I was using your player (don't remember which version) and I was able to disable the little wii light...But with the .11 release I can no longer do so. Can you mabey put it back again. --LOLDSFAN 18:35, 19 July 2008 (GMT-08)

This is an option in .11 as well. Nothing changed.

--DragonMinded 12:50, 20 July 2008 (PST)

How do I disable it; when I push the home button it just brings me to the Homebrew Channel? --LOLDSFAN 15:52, 20 July 2008 (GMT-08)

Where's the home menu?

Where is the Home menu in the version 0.11a, when I push the home button I was send to the HBC.

Other issue is that when I push up in the Dpad for the random opcion I gat a cod dump.

You have an incorrect install. Proper skins will show this and work properly.

--DragonMinded 12:50, 20 July 2008 (PST)

It seems that Updating the program using the Homebrew Browser is somehow giving us an incorrect install. I suspect that the skin format changed and the homebrew browser didn't catch this, but that's a total guess in the blue. In any case, my install crashes (Code Dump) in several places, including the Home Button, the Up Key, and playing certain files. I'm going to try a fresh install and see if that fixes the issues. Nice work though, the Wii Light is a really neat effect. Now it looks like I won't have to use my Wiimote with Vista anymore, if this keeps going at this rate. ^_^ --Thegamefreak0134 08:11, 21 July 2008 (CEST)

Same problem for me:

Home Button -> Exit to loader, Up Button -> Core Dump (see http://jens.nightmarestudio.de/wii/dmp-coredump.png), the same with an installation through the Homebrew Broser or a fresh installation. (I have a PAL-Wii running in 576i mode)

But still the dmp is great software, I am currently using it as my default media player :) Just missing better USB-Device support (would it be possible to chache the files to ram/sd?) and FTP-access (or similar) to play music from my NAS.

--Jens-nms 01:30, 22 July 2008 (CEST)

Hmmm...lol that's what I was talking about too... I downloaded mine with the Homebrew Browser too ^_^. --LOLDSFAN 21:56, 21 July 2008 (GMT-08)